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Oct. 27, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
31:46
October 27, 2014, Monday, Hour #3
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All right.
Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton's out there campaigning for Allison is it Lunder Allison Grimes.
What is her Lundergan?
It's her middle name.
Whatever it is.
Anyway, Clinton's out there campaigning for her.
You know what he just said?
Nobody can tell me.
That it's not a senator's job to create jobs.
Nobody can tell me the senator's job is not to create jobs.
Everybody knows that's what senators do.
Senators are elected to create jobs.
And Allison, what's her name?
Who am I in here for?
Grimes, right?
She's going to create jobs.
So obviously piggybacking on Hillary, claiming that small business and corporations, everybody knows they don't create the jobs.
She didn't say who does.
Because again, it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
All they're doing, this is what's dangerous.
This is what they did for five years during the Iraq War.
They are feeding the insane hatred that exists in this country.
They're creating that hatred and then they're feeding it.
And that's what this is.
This is pure hatred.
When you run around and say that the, you know, even Karl Marx knew who created jobs.
He just hated him.
But even Carl frigging Marx knew who created jobs.
Sololinsky knew.
That's why he hated him.
Sololinsky knew who created jobs.
But the Clintons are out there now with a new one.
The job creators are actually not the job creators.
No, no, no, no.
And again, they know that they're lying.
They know what they're saying is not true.
But this is dangerous, folks, feeding this hatred.
I don't blame anybody for not knowing how to deal with it, how to counter it.
They're lying and they're feeding, they're creating hatred in their voters.
They're creating hatred in small people.
And then they feed it.
Nobody can tell me that a senator's job is not to create jobs.
How many did Hillary create when she was in the Senate?
How many jobs did Hillary Clinton create?
And how did she do it?
By raising the minimum wage?
I mean, how did she create jobs, Bill?
How does it really happen?
Do you guys want to walk us through the process here?
See, that is to get sidetracked.
When you accept the premise of their argument and start talking to them, that's when you lose it.
Because they don't even believe this.
The danger here is what they are doing to average Americans.
Most of their voters, misinformed from the get-go, by definition, uninformed at worse, wandering around just mad all the time.
And these people come along and feed the rage, feed the anger, and create this volatility in the American population.
It's totally unnecessary.
Wall Street's evil.
Wall Street's horrible.
That's where all their money is, though.
The Clinton Global Initiative, where do you think it puts its money?
I guarantee you, it's not in a private vault at the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor in Little Rock.
But I think it's time to stop dealing with these people on the specifics of what they say.
Anybody can refute this claim that businesses don't create jobs.
To start arguing that is to miss what this is about.
These people need to be called out on what they're really doing.
And what they're doing is a disservice to people.
This is the party that supposedly cares about the downtrodden.
This is a party that cares about the little guy.
They are making little people.
They are making people little and they're keeping them small.
They are fueling an irrational rage and hatred for the country.
They are fueling an irrational hatred and rage for successful people of achievement.
They are even stigmatizing people who seek to achieve.
They are attempting to criminalize people who have different policy beliefs than they do, such as in conservatives.
That's what really needs to be addressed here.
Because this is utterly irresponsible what they're doing.
I've never known.
I never said their job wasn't to create jobs.
I mean, this is insane.
The danger is that there are all these people out there eating it up, loving it, believing it, thinking it's cool, thinking it's right on, dude.
The only thing these poor people can do is food stamps, welfare, turn to the government, hope the government will help them get by because the rest of the world's so unfair and mean and the rest of the world's targeting them.
The system that has produced the greatest prosperity humanity has ever known being torn down right before our eyes so that the Democrat Party can, in their dreams, replace it with themselves.
The Democrat Party wants most Americans to look at it as the greatest success story the human race has ever known.
And the truth is, it is the exact opposite.
I don't know if it distresses me.
Lundergan, right, Allison Lundergan Grimes.
It distresses me.
Look at what happened.
Look at what happened in Wisconsin with Scott Walker.
Here is a guy.
They're doing everything they can to destroy him, and all he's done is save that state.
And all he has done is rebuild that state from ground up.
But they're not stopping until they have effectively destroyed him.
The re-election campaign now, two or three recalls he had to survive.
Jury is rigged, game is rigged.
They get judges on their side with rulings that are punitive to the Walker side in terms of what's legal and what isn't in their pursuit of him.
And I don't see the Republican Party anywhere in there defending the guy.
And I think Scott Walker ought to be one of their highest-touted success stories.
I really do.
I hope and pray Scott Walker wins.
I hope, you know, and let me address something here.
This reminds me.
We had a call last week from a woman who said, you know, you're really, you're going to hurt Russia.
You're way too critical of the Republican Party.
The Republicans are only hope.
And I know what she meant.
She was afraid that I would cost people not to not vote Democrat, but to sit home and not vote.
And that's not my objective, obviously.
The best thing that could happen in this election is if everybody voted against the Democrat incumbents.
There's no question.
I can dream and wish that the Republican Party had a stated alternative which spelled out what they were going to do to fix this, but that's not there.
But that doesn't mean I don't want people not to vote in the election.
And it certainly doesn't mean that I don't want the Democrats to lose.
Do.
This is crucial.
This is just the first of many that hopefully the Democrats will lose.
That has to happen.
No two ways about it.
It's not even a lesser of two evils thing.
There is no alternative to it.
No matter what the Republican Party is or isn't at the moment.
You can try to teach them a lesson all you want, but if you succeed, you're just going to get more destruction of the country as the Democrats win and win and win.
And you're not going to show anybody, you're not going to teach them a lesson.
I think that has been adequately demonstrated.
Now, as I mentioned earlier, ladies and gentlemen, oh, oh, one more thing.
This is an exciting day for Catherine and me because tomorrow, finally, it'll be October 28th, and finally, our new book, Rush Revere, and the American Revolution, finally goes on sale.
After setting all kinds of records for pre-order, it finally will be in your hands beginning tomorrow.
The third in the Rush Revere time Travel Adventures with Exceptional American series, Rush Revere and the American Revolution.
We're so excited about this.
It's timed to be released near Veterans Day.
We have so much profound and in awe respect for the U.S. military.
The book is dedicated to them.
And intertwined in the American history portions of the story is a modern-day story about families and how they deal with deployment and how the children of military families deal with it.
Now, it's a very tough thing.
And we're really excited about this.
We can't wait for people to read this.
We think it's going to resonate with everybody, but we really, really want it to resonate with the military people for whom we have so much awe and a building ongoing respect for everything they do and have done.
And just a little, the story is about one of the students at the school where Rush Revere substitute teaches.
And he's one of the time travelers.
And in this story, his father, this character's name is Cam, and his father is deployed to Afghanistan.
And Cam, he knows enough to know that his father's off defending the country, but he just doesn't understand why for so long and why his dad has to go.
And he learns all kinds of lessons.
And his time travels back to actual events in the fight in the American Revolution.
And it has brought tears to some people's eyes who have read very rare and very exclusive advanced manuscripts and copies of it.
So we're really excited for people to actually have it in their hands.
We think that's the best, and the other two were not slouches.
You hope each one is better than the previous one.
We think that this one is.
So we're all excited about that too.
But at the beginning of the program, I mentioned that we have a bunch of stories in the stack today about the media spinning already for the election.
I mentioned an AP story.
And this story was not actually a story.
This was an advisory sent to producers and editors of AP clients, like the people you don't know about in the newsrooms, the assignment editors, the management people.
GOP Advantage Advisory.
The AP here is warning that in early voting, it looks like the Republicans have an advantage.
And this has never happened before.
Oh, no.
And there's a little fright contained here.
And what they conclude in this advisory is that the early advantage Republicans have is gerrymandering.
Yes, because in the 2010 census, the Republicans were able to redraw districts, congressional districts, which give them an unfair, well, they don't say unfair, but that's what they imply, advantage in the elections next week, November.
And the advisory is out that early voting has started.
Election day is drawing near, and the Republican Party is going to have a built-in advantage.
Now, the point of this is to tell these editors and producers, hey, no matter what you do, it looks like the Republicans might win.
Here's why.
So that after the election, if the Republicans do win, they can say it had nothing to do with Republican policy.
It had nothing to do with Obama.
Look at this.
The Republicans kept the House because of gerrymandering.
That's the purpose of the story, is to set the table for the media to report the Republican victory as being owing to something that it's not.
Gerrymandering.
Senate races obviously are not gerrymandered because there are no districts.
They run and are elected in states.
So what would the media say about that if Republicans win the Senate?
They can't say gerrymandering was the reason for that.
So what are they going to say?
And I don't know yet, but they'll do something.
It'll be something that the Democrats had to defend more seats.
The Republicans had a money advantage.
Gee, Obama, yeah.
Obama was a drag on the ticket, which was unfair, of course.
But in no way will, if there is a Republican victory, and even if a huge one, in no way is the media going to report it as a Republican triumph.
It's going to be gerrymandering or vagaries of election law or some degree of the Democrats just screwed up or had an impossible burden or what have you.
And that's what I mean by the spin going on.
Now, here's one from thehill.com.
Millennial voters, a new worry for Democrats.
Disenchantment among millennial voters is the latest worry for Democrats fighting to hold their Senate majority.
Plagued by unemployment and an overall economy anxiety that has seen many take jobs beneath their qualifications, comma.
The generation of 18 to 34 year olds feels a sense of disappointment in the Democrat Party that it helped boost in previous elections, according to political observers.
Jim Menley, Democrat strategist and former spokesman for dingy Harry Reid of Nevada, said that the promise of hope and change in millennials invested has hit a brick wall.
As in reality, the brick wall is reality.
Jim Manley said that this in turn has made young voters very cynical about the political process and less likely to vote than they have.
So you see, the millennials have lost faith in the process.
The millennials have lost faith in the country.
The millennials have lost, but not lost faith in Obama.
You see, the millennials may not vote because they're just fed up with the process.
Everybody stinks, you see.
All these politicians made all of these glorious promises, and none of them have come true.
And so the millennials are just fed up with the system.
This story setting the stage for anybody but the Democrats being blamed for what is looking like a Democrat defeat.
And the Hill goes to great pains here.
You read down the middle of the piece, great pains to say that the millennials aren't ever going to vote Republican.
They're just going to stay home.
If they don't vote Democrat, they're not voting.
They hate the Republicans.
They're just so disenchanted with the system.
But if they don't vote, it's very bad for the Democrats.
And so that's the point of that story.
I'll tell you what, if old Bill Clinton can out there and go out there and say, I don't think anybody can tell me that it isn't a senator's job to create jobs.
If it's a senator's job to create jobs, then just how badly have they been doing the past six years?
I mean, if it's a job of senators to create jobs this past six years, a clear indication we got the wrong people in the job.
But that's merely a point to refute what Clinton said.
Again, Hillary doesn't believe what she said.
Bill doesn't believe what he's saying.
Elizabeth Warren probably doesn't believe what she's saying.
Most of these people at that level of the Democrat Party know exactly what they're saying and why and how to pander and all that.
Now, I'm not saying they're not uber leftists, but they don't really want to run private sector out of business other than the insurance agency.
If they think they can take it over and secure their power, the insurance, you don't have to produce anything.
You don't need any factories for it.
You don't need a product.
You don't need any designers or any of that.
You're just a big pot of money you collect.
And if you have the power to require everybody to have it, you don't even have to have a sales force.
But they would never want to take over GM.
Yes, they did.
That's the point.
And look at it.
How many recalls have they had?
Let's see.
Oh, Wall Street Journal.
Janet Hook.
Republicans have expanded their advantage in the final days of the midterm campaign and now hold an 11-point lead among likely voters on the question of which party should control Congress, according to a new NBC Wall Street Journal poll.
Some 52% of likely voters in the survey said they wanted the election to produce a Republican-led Congress.
41% favored Democrat control.
A week earlier, it was only a five-point lead for the Republicans, but they've extended it now.
It's an 11-point lead.
Now, if the Republicans are gaining momentum with voters leading up to Election Day, what do you think might be causing this?
No, no, seriously.
What would be causing this momentum?
Assuming the polls are accurate, assuming the Republicans are only just now pulling ahead and haven't had this lead all along, what would explain this momentum?
Here's Brett Fairbank, Iowa.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Thank you for waiting.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
I got to thank you for doing the history books because when it comes to Ms. Warren and Mr. Obama's you didn't build that speeches, history can tear that down.
Their history is only going back a certain amount of years when it fits what they want to do.
But if you were to go back just a little bit further in history, there were roads before there were automobiles.
These roads were generally graded by the people.
Farming is an industry.
My grandfather was a farmer.
He graded the roads he needed to get to market.
Right.
Schools at that time were one-room schoolhouses.
The landowners in a four-mile section were the ones that hired, they built the school.
They hired the school teacher to educate their children.
They picked the curriculum.
It wasn't until the government stepped in and said, you're not going to do that anymore.
We know better than you.
And all students are going to go by our state curriculum and took them schools away.
These are the schools that educated the greatest generation.
There was industry then.
And the government wasn't involved in any of the aspects, including fire.
On our farm, we still have a fire tank.
We haven't used it in years because we have a volunteer fire department that has better equipment, though.
But back in the day, each farmer had one of these tanks.
When the fire whistle went off, he threw the tank in the back of his pickup, he filled it full of water, and he went to the fire.
Government wasn't involved in this.
And your history books will help educate people of what life was like before the government got involved in it.
And I'd like to thank you for that.
Well, you're more than welcome.
And I appreciate that.
And your observations are right on the money.
But, you know, we live in a time.
And as I was listening to you, you know what I was thinking?
In addition to reminding myself that you're right, all of what you said is true.
I was thinking how, like, if I happened to see you say on, I don't know, pick a TV show, how you would be laughed at, mocked, ridiculed for being out of it.
Come on, that's way better.
None of that relates to life today.
You're obviously a guy that doesn't like change.
You're a guy that doesn't like modernity.
You're a guy that can't deal with the way it is.
You just hate God.
I'm just imagining the reaction you would get.
It was like we had a 27-year-old caller earlier who described, and I really, folks, I was not just, I was not just trying to be nice to you.
I really believe this.
It wasn't that long ago where his story would have been touted and used as a role model for other people.
His story of hard work, self-reliance, getting together with his brother to build a landscape business that they dreamed of and they wanted and succeeded eventually with it and how they hope to have it grow.
He would have been an example to other people or what they could do and how it is possible to do something like that in this country.
Today, he is not a role model.
In some minds, he's a fool.
In other people's minds, he's a threat Because he didn't include the government in his list of things that he and his brother did to succeed.
And it's truly disappointing.
I'm not kidding.
You look today at who political people walk before us as examples.
And they're all victims of something.
And they all overcame some institutional horror that's part of America.
They overcame racism.
They overcame sexism.
They overcame homophobia.
They overcame bigotry.
They overcame hatred or whatever.
And the role models that we get today are generally people who have been championed by government in one way or another or who have been, shall we say, chosen by government.
And your story here, this was just what people had to do back in those days.
If they wanted to get someplace, they had to build a road.
If they wanted to put out a fire, they had to have a community fire department with rules and regulations.
Wanted to educate their kids, they set up one-room schoolhouses.
My grandfather attended one.
All of this rings true.
It's just what people did.
It's what they had to do.
Point is they did it themselves.
They didn't sit around.
They weren't waiting for some action in a distant capital to tell them how to do it and then come supervise them, do it, and then regulate their doing it.
They just did it.
It's what needed to be done.
I had a story last week.
I had a story Friday, and I didn't get to it for a whole host of reasons.
You might have seen this.
There's a survey.
It's a UK story.
Their equivalent of the Home Depot did a survey, and they have found that the number of do-it-yourselfers, men, do-it-yourself, fix things up around the house, the numbers of men do it are plummeting.
And, of course, naturally they're worried about their business depends on do-it-yourselfers.
So they're constantly surveying the market to find out, you know, how big their market is or if it's shrinking and how to reverse that or whatever.
And some people were drawing some conclusions to this.
And one of the conclusions drawn was that this is not a good sign that the number of do-it-yourselfers is shrinking means that something else is growing.
And that is a generation of men who are incapable of do-it-yourself, fix this, fix that, whatever it might be.
And as such, it has a long-term negative impact on the image of men.
And indeed, as men have become, what is the term here?
What was the term years ago to describe men who had that's it?
Pajama boy, metro sexual had beauty appointments and all this.
And as men's image transferred or transformed to that, the do-it-yourselfers began to decline in number.
Not that they're depending on government.
That's not the point here.
That's unrelated to that.
But it does channel and record changing societal Traditions and so forth.
I was now I'm a do-it-yourselfer on some things, but others I wouldn't touch.
Like, I'm not going to fix the roof.
I used to live next to one of these guys, and I'll tell you something.
I'll tell you the flat out truth, my little shack in Overland Park, Kansas, I lived in, the guy lived next door.
That's all he did.
He replaced the roof 365, shingle by shingle.
He was replacing the roof.
Then he fixed the carburetor in the car.
Then he cleaned the oil stain from the garage.
Then he'd mow the yard every day after this guy's doing something.
And half the guys in the neighborhood are drinking beer with him doing it.
But this guy was considered to be by many the acknowledged leader of his group of friends and his household and all that because he was the fixer-upper guy.
Now, I didn't do any of that.
I wasn't interested in it.
Other than I could hook anybody's stereo up.
I still can.
I'm the go-to guy if anybody has an iPhone, iPad, computer questioner, operational problem.
I'm a do-it-yourselfer on certain things, but I've never been a repair guy.
Well, not totally.
I remember next door never broke a window.
And I said, don't worry about it.
His kid broke a window in Aaron.
They said, don't worry about it.
I'll call somebody him.
No, no, no, no.
No, he came and replaced it himself because he didn't want the money.
He wanted to pay what I would charge him for calling.
So he fixed it himself.
And he says, these kinds of things are dwindling away now.
And it has to do with the rise of metrosexuals and the role men are playing.
I thought it was fascinating.
And you listen to these stories about what people, not just men, but men and women had to do back before the government was in everything.
And they did it.
They did it out of necessity.
They did it.
And they didn't complain about it.
It was just what you had to do.
And in a way, it's because they had to learn how to do it.
They did learn and they did it.
There was no other choice.
But that kind of self-reliance is now mocked.
The reaction: oh, yeah, well, may work for you, but what about, what about old Zeke over in Canada?
There's always, well, easy for you to say.
Even if you say to a homeless, well, you know what?
If you're home, maybe you think about getting a job.
Oh, easy for you to say.
What if we all said to hell with getting a job?
I mean, well, if you did it yourself, they couldn't tell you how to do it.
That's true.
But today, everything's regulated.
It's getting harder to do it yourself legally.
If anybody finds out that you've broken the laws, who knows when you do?
Why House Republicans alienate Hispanics?
This is a piece at the New York Times.
Why House Republicans alienate Hispanics?
You know what the answer is?
It's because they don't need them.
Political analysts keep urging the Republican Party to do more to appeal to Hispanic voters, yet the party's congressional leaders show little sign of doing so, blocking immigration overhaul.
This is a crock, by the way.
The Republican Party's gone out of its way to let people know that it don't be fooled by this.
This is the New York Times.
Why House Republicans alienate Hispanics?
They don't need them.
Somebody tell that to the House Republicans because they certainly are that.
I'll save this.
We need to delve into this in more time, more depth tomorrow.
Also for tomorrow, ladies and gentlemen, from the Washington Post, could non-citizens decide the November election?
An actual story.
Washington Post.
And they're hopeful.
Could non-citizens decide the November election?
Not troubled by that at all.
That and much more tomorrow.
Thanks for being with us today.
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