Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, starting to get interesting.
Now it's all starting to effervesce.
Now it's all starting to percolate.
Now is when we can actually trust what we're being told.
Well, I don't want to go that far.
But we can we can be a little bit more confident in believing what we're told now than say a month ago, two months ago, or three months ago even.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
The Democrats are making absolute fools of themselves.
The Democrat Party with Charlie Rango, Mary Landrew, Paul Bagala the forehead.
They are all telling us so much about where their heads are, where their minds are.
They are stuck in an America 50 years ago in an attempt to avoid an election disaster.
Everybody talks about how cool the Democrats are.
Everybody talks about how hip the Democrats are.
The Democrats have turned their playbook back to 1963 in order to try to scare minority voters to the polls on Tuesday.
Great to have you with us, my friends.
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Open line Friday, pretty much whatever you want to talk about.
Fine and dandy.
Okay, my friends.
Let's just take a look at the latest we have on some of the polling data that sums things up.
And as I've been saying, this is when the polling units out there have to be concerned about their credibility, and therefore they have to be concerned that what their polls say is accurate, is close to what the actual result is going to be.
They don't care about that a month ago.
They don't care about it too much, and they certainly don't care about all of this calendar year up to this point.
They don't care about it because they use the polls to make public opinion to shape it.
But now we are getting what they think is actually going to happen.
We're getting a reflection.
The AP has a story coming.
It's not out yet, but I want to alert you to it.
The AB will be sometime this afternoon.
According to the latest data from AP's election research team, and this is according to sources that I trust.
According to the latest data from AP's election research team, Republicans have a 10% point lead in early voting ballots cast so far.
Independents have cast about 25% of the early vote total to date.
In Florida, the early vote already exceeds the total early vote of 2010.
And it is the 2010 turnout that we compare the 2014 turnout to, not 2012.
You compare midterm turnout to midterm turnout, presidential turnout to presidential turnout.
So again, the AP coming soon, later this afternoon, from their own election research team.
Republicans have a 10 percentage point lead in ballots cast.
Independents have cast about 25% of the vote total so far.
And in Florida, early vote is already exceeding the total early vote of 2010.
And everywhere you look in the drive-by media today, you just see the word panic.
It's either printed or not printed, but panic is all over the headline.
It's all over the story.
New York Times up shot.
71% likelihood the Republicans win the Senate.
That is up four percentage points since Thursday.
The Washington Post's election lab forecasts the Republicans will see a net gain of seven Senate seats.
The forecast projects a 95% chance Republicans will take the Senate up three points from Thursday.
Nate Silver's 538 blog gives the Republicans a 68.5% chance of winning the Senate, up over four points from Thursday.
So you can see, even if you want to dispute the actual raw numbers, you can look at the trend and see which way the trend is going.
So let's review here.
New York Times Upshot.
That's the name of a sanction in the website newspaper.
71% chance the Republicans win the Senate up four points on Thursday.
Election Lab of the Washington Post, 95% chance Republicans take the Senate.
That's up from 92% on Thursday.
Nate Silver, 538 blog, 68.5%.
And coming later from the AP.
Republicans have a 10% lead in ballots cast so far.
That has got to stun the Democrat Party.
That just has to have them bamboozled.
Early voting, that's something they own.
They own early voting, like they own they think the Hispanic vote.
And like they think they own the black vote.
And this is just a little aside about the Republican Senate candidate in Iowa, Joni Ernst.
For the longest time, I have been suggesting not just me, but a lot of us have been suggesting that the Republican Party would be well advised to avoid, avoid drive-by media.
They're not their friends.
They're not there to make them look good.
They're not even there to be fair with them.
Such as, what sense does it make to do a candidate debate moderated by a bunch of drive-bys?
Doesn't make any sense at all.
There's no upside to it.
And people have said over the years, and I used to be one of them.
Well, but you know you have to show you can overcome adversity.
They've shown that.
We've been saying this for 25 years.
They've shown they can overcome adversity.
After 25 years, we've learned it's a no-win situation.
You know, George Stephanopoulos is responsible for the war on women with one stupid, silly, irrelevant question to Mitt Romney about contraception that nobody was even talking about.
It was not a factor in anybody's campaign.
And here comes Stephanopoulos asking, and Romney was bamboozled, had no idea what to say.
It was not even a subject, and Stephanopoulos kept pushing and pushing and pushing, and finally Romney gave an answer.
And whatever the answer was, it didn't matter.
Because then Stephanopoulos could run with it, say Romney has said X, putting contraception out there, and they were allowed to create the war on women.
That's how it happened.
Stephanopoulos has come from the Clinton's war room.
Supposedly an objective journalist.
Give me a break.
Cut me some slack.
And now he's going to be, he did he moderated a debate with Scott Brown and Gene Shaheen or his schedule to or did, I forget which.
Scott Russia, I'm a little concerned.
You ought to be concerned.
Anyway, appearing on America's Newsroom yesterday, Iowa Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst defended her decision not to sit down with the Des Moines Register Editorial Board.
And that was a move that uh Hillary Clinton slammed as disqualifying in Iowa.
Well, she's moved ahead in the polls in Iowa.
They made it very clear in a number of editorials they would not be supporting me.
It's better for me to be on the road visiting with Iowans than to sit in front of an editorial board that wasn't going to endorse me.
That's what Joni Ernst is exactly right.
She's not going to persuade them.
She's not going to change their minds.
She's not going to convince them she's not some three-horn devil.
She's not going to convince them that they ought to endorse her.
It is a total waste of her time.
Meeting with the Detroit Register Editorial Board is no different than walking in having conversation with the Democrat National Committee.
What do you think's going to happen?
It's a total waste of time.
So I applaud that move.
Stuart Rothenberg.
No, no, no, no, I'm going to get to it.
Snerdley's all excited for me to get to Mary Lander, and it's coming up.
Let me let me well, I'll just let me repeat something I said during the show open because the open line Friday uh musical theme was playing.
I'm still a little hoarse.
I don't know if you can hear me over the theme.
I couldn't hear myself over it.
So let me just repeat something.
Here we have the hip, the modern, the cool Democrat Party.
They have had to turn their playbook back 1963 in a last ditch, panic-filled effort to get out the black vote.
Charlie Wrangell says that Republicans still believe in slavery, still treat people in in the black community as though they are slaves.
I I I watched specifically cable news networks this morning for Democrat analysts, and they're all acting embarrassed as hell.
There's no way they can defend it.
Even the most strident, ardent, racist leftist would not even try to defend Wrangle.
Wrangle is living in the past.
He doesn't know anything but that.
He's not cool.
He's not hip.
He doesn't live in the moment.
He can't relate to things that have happened in America.
He cannot get the black vote other than to pretend it's still 1963.
In his case, 1863.
Narry Landrew.
Insulting, pathetic, incompetent.
The current governor is a woman.
The previous governor was a woman.
Bobby Gendal, dark-skinned Indian American immigrant, and yet Louisiana doesn't like people of color.
And Louisiana doesn't like women, even though they've elected Mary Landrew.
And that's why they don't like Obama.
And that's why he can't go to Louisiana.
It's because people in the South just don't like black people.
She just got to be honest.
They just don't like black people in the South.
And they don't, and they don't like opening women in the South.
They just don't.
Even though she's been elected, what is this, her third term?
Kathleen Blanco got elected governor.
She is living in the past.
They're clueless, folks.
These Democrats are not these invincible cool hip in with it people that the low information crowd idolizes and it's just one of the biggest myths in the world.
These people are actually.
They're out of ammunition.
They cannot, they cannot offer one reason why you should vote for them.
Yeah, right there on top of the iPads.
That'd be great.
Just put them right there on top of the iPads and uh I'll I'll just hurry for the show to end so I can go see what you got there.
That's great.
Thanks, but just right there on top of the iPads.
That's cool.
I just had a delivery.
Don't sweat it.
Everything's fine.
Haven't lost my place.
What was I saying?
I know I was talking about Landrew.
I'm joking here.
These people are totally stuck in a politics that's 50 years old.
And the fur furthermore, as Wrangell describes Republicans, he's actually describing Democrats.
Landrew talking about how the South is unfriendly to blacks.
It was Democrats in the in the South unfriendly to blacks.
It was Democrats bullconning these guys with the fire hoses and beating people upside the head and so forth.
It is just, it's it's it's breathtaking to watch this.
They're showing their idiocy.
They're it it's it's so bad that you don't even have Democrat analysts on television trying to defend this.
Stuck 50 years ago.
And I just I think uh you you you you look at this and you wonder so many things.
How in the world have these people continued to get elected all of these years when they've got nothing to offer.
They haven't done anything for their constituents.
They've made their lives worse, they've busted up their families talking about minorities here.
And now, who knows?
We may be at a seminal moment.
I don't want to, I don't want to uh grasp it, well, not grasp it straws.
I don't I don't want to maybe grasp at something that isn't there.
But man, is this a teachable moment?
Is this a teachable?
I mean, even the most strident, extreme radical black leftists do not think that we live still in the era of slavery.
Most of them, no way did they think there hasn't been any progress.
What Wrangle and Landrew are trying to say is that there hasn't been a shreds bit of progress.
All of this after the first African American president elected in this country, and they still run around and say this.
Can I remind you, ladies and gentlemen, what I predicted on this program on February 22nd, 2008?
February, this is like seven, eight months, not ten months before the election of 2008.
If Obama gets elected president, wouldn't it be good to just get this done, Russia, and we can end the civil rights squabbles that were having?
It wouldn't do that.
Folks, it wouldn't do that.
It might even exacerbate them.
The race industry can't wait for this.
Any criticism of Obama, the first black president, is going to be met with charges of racism by the likes of the Reverend Jackson and Sharpton.
It will make their race business all that much more prominent.
It will operate on the premise that half of this country is seething.
Can't believe this has happened, and they're gonna fix this somehow.
Cannot believe there's a black man in the White House and a black woman in the residence.
That'll be the theme that the race business operates on.
It'll be full of presumptuousness and projection, but it'll propel it.
Where are we now, folks?
Is this not exactly what has happened?
Here we are a few days, just a precious few days before a midterm election in Barack Hussein O's sixth year as president and his party is running an entire campaign on race in which the opposing party still believes in slavery.
In every state, in every campaign, these pathetic, embarrassing, brain-dead, mindless Democrats are out crying racism.
And I knew that's the point of playing the soundbite.
This was easily predictable.
The racist business was not going to tolerate that, and there's no way the race industry ever goes away.
Too much money in it, too many, too much power.
It's the reason that Sharpton and Jackson have seats at the table of power in the Democrat Party.
But even besides that, it was easily predictable.
So here we are, six weeks, six years after the election, the first black president and the Democrat Party wants you to believe it's worse than ever.
Hey, folks, it's not just Mary Landrew.
My nickname for her is Cute Little Baby Fat, because she still looks like she got some baby fat.
It's not just Mary Landry, it's not just Charlie Wrangle.
Spike Lee is out.
He was on the Fusion TV network website.
The soundbite coming up, I don't have time to just play all these bites right now.
Just give you a little heads up.
Post-racial America is BS.
Wendy Davis in Texas running an ad says that Greg Abbott does not want blacks to vote.
The forehead, Paul Begala on CNN today, said Democrats are in trouble in states where they hunt Democrats down with dogs.
30, 40 year old playbook pages.
and Being utilized by the Democrat Party.
They've got nothing else.
I hope all of you remember something.
I hope every last one of you remember something.
So many people back in 2008 voted for one reason.
They voted for the first African American president not caring about his politics.
Not interested in his ideology.
The only thing that mattered to them.
They hate the fact that there is racism in the country.
They're sick and tired of being called racists.
They're sick and tired of the racial divide.
They want everybody to get over it.
And they thought voting for the first black man to run for office president.
If he won, we could finally erase it and move on and move forward.
I think people voted for Obama with the best of intentions.
And a lot of people voted for Obama, hoping that it would send a signal that this country isn't the way the Democrat Party describes it.
And look what's happened.
It's gotten worse.
I hope people will realize symbolism over substance loses.
It's open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
There's thrill and a delight to have you here.
All right, let's go to the audio sound bites, and we will start.
This is Spike Lee yesterday on the Fusion TV network.
They posted a video of uh America with Jorge Ramos.
Or Ramos, Jorge Ramos, uh, interviewing Spike Lee and Jorge Ramos said, What do you tell your kids about race in America?
Now, this is a guy that's filthy rich because he's made movies.
He's got courtside seats to the New York Knicks.
And he's running around talking about racism and he's and and post-raceness and post-race that.
I'll tell you what we have here, folks.
What we're seeing is post-racial racism.
This was supposed to be a post-racist America.
A post-partisan America, meaning Obama was going to end partisanship.
Remember all that?
Obama was going to end racism.
The election of the first black president, that alone, no matter what else he did, no matter what he believed in, just his election was going to end racism once and for all.
People actually hoped that.
People actually believed that.
All it's done is get worse.
We are in a post-racial racism, almost all of it coming from the left.
Almost all of the racism in this country coming from the Democrat Party.
Almost every single racist comment, racial aspect of every story, sexist, racial, whatever it is, it's all coming from the Democrat Party.
By admission, the Republicans aren't saying anything.
And I have to tell you, I think this is one of the reasons why the Democrats are so discombobulated.
The Republicans have, whether you agree with the strategic or not.
The Republicans have instituted omerta silence.
They are not saying anything about anything.
They are not articulating their own agenda.
They're not criticizing Obama's, other than within the context of campaigns, and that's really not so much about Obama directly.
The Republicans are dealing with the candidates they oppose.
And the Democrats have nothing.
There aren't any silly statements Republicans have made to focus on that they can amplify and say, see, America, this is who these Republicans are.
They're at a loss, they're in panic city.
And all they know to do is go back in time 50 years.
People get in trouble are the people who forget they're black.
You just can't think, well, I'm Bill successful, then I've just reached another realm.
I'm in the so-called post-what's the term again?
Racial.
Yeah, that bullshit because now we have a black African-American president that race no longer matters.
There are times, even today is hard for me to catch a cab sometimes in New York City.
There are a lot of people who believe that when our president put his hand on Abraham Lincoln's Bible and took the oath that hocus polcus abacadabra.
Poof.
We're going to post Racial world.
That's exactly right.
That's exactly what people thought was going to happen.
That's what many people, many white people hoped and prayed would happen.
Yeah, Spike Lee complaining again.
But here's the thing.
It was the Republicans.
I'm convinced a lot of Republicans voted for Obama in 2008, hoping and praying that it would be the end to all this silly racism everywhere you turn business.
I believe the American people want to unify on them.
I mean the Americans want to put this behind us.
We've dealt with it and move on.
Rather than have our politics and our daily culture dominated by it, and the only reason it is is because the Democrat Party can say or see or do nothing else.
Spike, hire a driver if you can't find a cab.
What are you doing taking cabs anyway?
Don't you know call Uber?
Get with it.
I thought you're a hip Democrat.
Ever heard of Uber?
Get an Uber account.
Put it on your phone.
Call them up.
They'll be there in five seconds after you order the car.
Who does he think he is?
Danny Glover.
Okay, so that's Spike Lee.
So we find ourselves now in a post-racial racist America.
And here is Mary cute baby fat Landru.
To be very, very honest with you, in the South has not always been the friendliest place for African Americans.
It's been a difficult time for the president to present himself in a very positive light as a leader.
It's not always been a good place for women to be able to present ourselves.
It's more of a conservative place.
So we've had to work a little bit harder on that.
So she just calls the entire South racist and sexist.
She doesn't even live there anymore.
Do you know that?
The latest controversy with her is she didn't have a house there or doesn't live in it.
She lives in Washington.
Couldn't find her own address in New Orleans if she had to.
She's forgotten it.
But even beyond that.
People are greeting this with jokes, laughter.
Nobody's taking this seriously because this is embarrassing.
You don't even have any Democrats out trying to defend this.
The governor of Louisiana, Bobby Gendal, is dark-skinned Eastern Indian.
Kathleen Blanco, a woman, former governor.
There isn't a mayor of New Orleans who isn't black in the last who knows how many terms.
The president of the United States is black.
And Mary Landrieu blames Democrat problems on Southern hostility toward blacks and women.
You know why Barack Obama is in trouble in Louisiana?
Because of Barack Obama and because of his policy.
Ever heard of the Keystone Pipeline?
Louisiana can't get by without oil.
Louisiana is an oil economy.
Barack Obama has done his best to make sure that oil flowing to Louisiana from the would-be Keystone pipeline isn't happening.
There are policy reasons why Barack Obama is opposed everywhere, not just in the South.
But what a thing to say.
What an absolutely desperate, crazy, literally lunatic thing to say in 2014.
You know, it's hard for women, good, not a good place for women to present ourselves either.
Well, how many times have you been elected?
How many times did you win elections down there, Mary?
How is this possible with you in the U.S. Senate and Barack Obama and the white?
How is all this racism and sexism even possible?
Folks, not only are these people not hip and cool and all that, they're not even smart.
They can't even improvise.
And what they're really penalized by, their own policies are abject failures.
Look at it this way.
First black president.
Major, major, major step in American history.
One of the biggest historical events ever.
After six years, the country is in bad shape.
I mean, it's in in worse shape than maybe in most people's lifetimes.
You don't think that has an impact on people's view of Barack Obama, the Democrat Party?
Democrat Party policies matter.
Democrat Party policies are damaging people.
Democrat Party policies are damaging the United States, damaging health care, damaging jobs, damaging the economy.
We have no immigration law being enforced for all intents and purposes.
We've got 92 million Americans not working.
We've got people losing income.
They're not seeing incomes rise.
We have people because of Obama's health care policy being converted from part-time to full-time to part-time work.
It makes every bit of sense in the world that people would oppose this man.
Black, white, green from Mars, it doesn't matter.
Common sense says.
You don't want any more of what Barack Obama, the Democrat Party are offering.
And because the Democrats cannot tout anything they've done.
There isn't one Democrat Party policy that any Democrat could run around and say, you want more of this?
Because I got it for you, because nobody wants more of it.
The only thing they can do, play the race card, the war on women card.
But they can't even do that well now.
Because they have to go back 50 years, they have to try to create a mental image of an America that no longer exists.
And they're the smart ones.
They are the compassionate ones.
They are the tolerant ones.
These people are embarrassing.
They're embarrassing to their own analysts.
All right, here is an ad being run for this empty suit in Texas, Wendy Davis.
It's a radio ad attacking the Republican gubernatorial candidate, Attorney General Greg Abbott is in a wheelchair.
Don't forget, here is that ad.
Have you heard about this guy running for governor?
The Republican Greg Abbott?
Well, listen up, because Greg Abbott is bad news.
As attorney general, Greg Abbott tried to overturn the voting rights act.
Take a guess about who Abbott doesn't want to vote.
Oh, see, so now the Republican attorney general and an inguberatorial candidate, he didn't want blacks to vote.
Yeah.
He didn't want black people to vote.
I'll tell you what's an embarrassing thing is how many African American voters still get sucked into this and believe this.
These are worse than abject lies.
You know, this goes to character assassination, character destruction.
I mean, this is absolutely it is, but it's baseless.
Greg Abbott doesn't want black people to vote.
The point is, none of it's working.
That's the bright side.
According to all the early voting data, none of it is working.
And that's you know, try to put yourself in their shoes.
First African American, first African American president.
I mean, Messiah, utopia.
It's here.
And the guy's bungled everything.
He has not given the Democrat Party a good name here.
He's not given socialism a good name.
This guy has practically destroyed everything he believes in.
I mean, from the standpoint of popular consumption out, as far as he's concerned, I think he's been overwhelmingly successful.
I think he's doing exactly what he intended to do.
Most people don't look at it that way.
They look at him as just the latest Democrat to get elected and things aren't going well, so it's time to vote for the Republicans.
The man's been very successful with his agenda, in my opinion.
But most people, as I say, I'm just going to look and see him as failure.
I'd kind of be upset too if I were Democrat, African American.
Oh my God, finally we got a Messiah, and he turns out to be an incompetent joke.
Everything we thought we believed in has been implemented, and nobody's happy.
Everybody's mad, nothing works.
There is no fairness.
There is no equality.
Not everybody's gotten rich, and the rich are still rich.
We haven't been able to make them poor.
We haven't been able to take everything away from them.
Damn, I'd be pissed off too.
Here's the forehead.
Paul Bagala, CNN's new day today.
Allison Camarata said, the New York Times in an op-ed calls this the best general election in a decade because there are a dozen super close Senate races and a dozen super close governor races.
What's going to happen on Tuesday, forehead?
I understand Why the Democrats are in trouble.
First off the map, we're running in states where they hunt Democrats down with dogs.
I mean, my goodness, the president lost in Arkansas by 24 points.
Lost Louisiana by 17 points.
He lost Alaska by 14.
Where do they hunt Democrats with dogs?
In no state are Democrats hunted with dogs.
Now, you can go back in time and you can find when Democrats hunted African Americans with dogs, but you can't find Democrats being hunted by dogs.
It's Open Line Friday, and always try to take a first call or maybe even two in the first hour.
and And we're going to do that.
We're going to start in Dayton, Ohio.
This is David.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
I just wanted to make a comment about something that I've seen in a lot of my liberal friends and also in Democratic campaigns about their strategy of getting people to vote for them.
And I think it applies to playing the rice card.
And that is they they feel like if they just put out there that if they're concerned about an issue, they bring up an issue and say they're concerned about it.
And then that's their policy without really even bringing up any real or specific solutions to the problem.
They just I kind of can see a slogan like, oh, there's a race issue in the South.
Vote Democrat, you know, without without really even offering any real solution.
That's a good point.
We have discussed this on previous occasions, and and I have a a description for it, what you just described, and that is getting credit for being a good liberal by simply identifying a problem.
And then people think you care.
You got a conservative and a liberal walking down the street and they encounter a homeless guy.
And the Liberal goes, Oh, look at that so sad.
Oh my God, what is our country coming to?
And the conservative says, you know what?
Maybe the guy needs to go find a job.
Maybe we need we need to help this guy.
Oh, easy for you to say typical Republican cold heartedness.
Why can't you just have a little sympathy?
Don't you see the man?
He's living in a shopping gun.
Yeah, and it repulses me, and I want to get him into something more productive.
You hate Phil this OB.
The Democrat simply gets credit for seeing it.
I'm a good person.
I saw a homeless guy and felt bad.
I'm a good person.
I know that blacks are mistreated sometimes.
And that's it.
You don't have that's why I've always said that liberalism is the most gutless choice you can make.
It's the easiest.
You have to do anything.
You never have to solve anything.
All you have to do is say you see it.
And then people automatically assume you care.
And maybe even then, you know what you do?
You go to a nice $10,000 a plate dinner for the hungry.
Yeah.
And then it shows you really care when you go to a $10,000 a plate fundraiser, gorge yourself on five-star food and adult beverages for the hungry.
Well, who are still outside begging to get into the hotel and eat with you.
Maybe you'll give them a doggy bag on the way out.
Tom in Dexter, Michigan, you're next, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello.
I got an inside baseball question regarding the Rush Revere book.
Yes, sir.
You successfully elicited a visceral emotional response with Cam and his evolution as he gets through that book.
You put a lump in my throat.
And then as a writer, I know that's an extremely hard thing to do without being trickly.
How do you get through the audio books?
You know, I assume that this is an emotional thing for you to do this and tie.
Wait a minute, you're not cracked when you become a audio book.
I I need to stop you here because you have just offered a very sincere, wonderful, profound compliment to me.
And it deserves more than the 30 seconds I have left to answer.
And it also presumes that well, it doesn't presume, but for you to understand his compliment, you have to have read the latest book.
Yeah.
And since it only came out Tuesday, I don't know how many have read it yet.
But look, we won't we'll spoil it.
Well, no, I can't.
That's this is I I but I can get I can get close.
I at least want to tell people what you mean.
But I uh I mean that's just a that's a profound compliment you have given me.
Uh he got a lump in his throat reading the uh evolution of one of our characters learning something about his father is about as much as I can say right now.
And he's asked me, how did I get through reading that in the audio version without getting a lump in my throat?
And now I have to delay because of the constraints of time the answer.
But I appreciate the call, Tom.
Don't don't don't give up.
I'll have the answer later on in the program.
So Mary Landrew trashes the state that has sent her to the Senate, trashes the people she represents, and she thinks that this is going to help.