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Oct. 31, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 31, 2014, Friday, Hour #2
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You know, Mary Landrew, in addition to saying, well, you know, it's hard, hard, hard for women to present ourselves in the South.
And it's so much racist down here and so forth.
You know those comments, but she wasn't through.
You know what she added.
But you know, the people trust me.
I believe really.
So is that a is that a good thing she's trusted by such racist and sexist insulted people.
Live from a Southern Command in Sunny, South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Hour number two, open line Friday, most listened to radio talk show in America, hosted by the most listened to radio talk show host in America.
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So let's look.
I have here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
A piece written by Stuart Rothenburg that is published in Roll Call.
Stuart Rothenberg is considered one of the imminent personages of the Inside the Beltway political class.
When Stuart Rothenburg speaks, it's sort of like the old days of E. F. Hutton.
Oh, really, and people pay a little closer attention.
And Stuart Rothenberg has posted a piece at the roll call website that says Obama's midterm loss record could make history.
President Barack Obama is about to do what no president has done in the past 50 years.
He is about to have two horrible, terrible, awful midterm elections in a row.
In fact, Obama is likely to have the worst midterm numbers of any two-term president going back to Democrat Harry Truman.
Truman lost a total of 83 house seats during his two midterms.
He lost 55 seats in 1946, 28 seats in 1950.
Eisenhower lost a combined 66 House seats in the 1954 and 1958 midterms.
Now in 2010, Obama and the Democrats lost 63 House seats.
They lost 700 Democrat seats across the country.
700 elective office seats, state and local, national, they lost.
63 of those were in the House of Representatives.
Democrats are expected to lose another five and maybe 12 seats in the House of Representatives, maybe more next Tuesday, which would put Obama's midterm total of house losses in the 68 to 75 seat range.
Now, most recent presidents have at least one disastrous midterm, and then another midterm that was not terrible.
The Republicans lost 30 house seats in 2002.
George W. Bush.
They gained uh uh I'm sorry, 2006, they lost 30, but they actually gained eight seats in his first midterm in 2002.
And you know, I will I will never forget that one.
You know why?
Tim Russert, Tim Russert and I were uh fairly close.
I was a guest on Meet the Press a lot, and uh he'd bring his son Luke down here for golf lessons, PGA National, and on occasion, we'd have dinner at Shula's Steakhouse.
And Tim was a uh, I mean, he was a hard boiled Democrat, but he was he wouldn't, he wouldn't fit in with with what's going on now.
He was, you know, he died right around the the time MSNBC really began to tack extreme lunatic.
And I don't know for certain, I think he was troubled by it, but he was the Washington Bureau chief.
He was not the head of the news division.
But he and he invited me to do election coverage on NBC in 2002 with he and Tom Brokow.
And it was it was not to embarrass me.
They they weren't expecting uh a Republican win, but but at the time they they wanted the most articulate conservative analysis that they could get.
And folks, you should have been there.
Now you have to remember what it what had preceded this.
I always like to remind people of things.
This is fairly recent.
I mean, it's 12 years ago.
2002 followed 9-11.
2002 was right before we went to Iraq in 2003.
2002 was right after the Wellstone Memorial.
Do you remember the Wellstone Memorial?
The Wellstone Memorial, I think was the first precursor of what the Democrat Party has become.
Paul Wellstone, Senator Minnesota, died in a plane crash.
And the Democrats held a memorial for him, and it was he he died a month before the election.
They held a memorial for him, and they hijacked and they turned it into a blatant.
It was essentially, it was not a funeral, it was a memorial, but they were it had the solemn air of a funeral, and they hijacked this thing and they turned it into the most reprehensible political event.
And at that time, the country was repulsed by this stuff.
And at that time we were heartened that the country was repulsed by this stuff.
They no longer are the country apparently well, I don't know.
I may be speaking too soon.
We would hope so, but uh without getting into great detail.
Republican colleagues of Paul Wellstone were forced to walk out.
They attended the Wellstone Memorial because they thought it was a memorial to honor Wellstone.
And the Republicans have always been obsessed with showing they can cross the aisle and work with Democrats and be bipartisan.
They were booed, they were heckled, they were insulted by not only people sitting in the stands at the event, they were insulted by Democrat speakers from the podium who questioned their true intentions in being there.
Questioned their integrity, their honesty, said they really didn't love Wellstone, didn't really like Wellstone.
That's why that's not why they were there.
And they were shamed into leaving.
Well, not shamed, it became a security thing.
I remember Trent Lott getting up, shaking, walking out of there.
And that's when Tom Harkin stood up and did one of the most partisan speeches I've ever heard at what was a quasi funeral, and had the place rocking.
I mean, the just it was a typical lunatic, radical extremist audience.
Oh, yeah, it was a get out the vote effort.
It was a do it for Paul!
Do it for Paul!
Yay!
The man that just died in a plane crash, and they made it look like the only thing Paul Wellstone cared about was beating Republicans.
Anyway, the midterms come along, and by the way, there was one other seminal event leading up to those midterms, and that is that Democrats at first had voted against the use of force authorization to go to war in Iraq, which took a year and a half.
We didn't just decide to go to war in Iraq like we just decided to go to war with ISIS.
Bush spent a year and a half drumming up support at the UN, uh his coalition of nations And support from the people of this country.
Speeches all over this country took a year and a half, almost two years to put it together.
And the first time it was voted on, the Democrats voted against it.
And then public opinion came out, and it was totally for what Bush wanted to do.
The Democrats asked for a second vote on the use of force authorization, and Bush, rather than first of I think many mistakes, rather than saying, no, you guys own it.
You voted opposed to it, you're going to stick to opposed to it.
He let them have their second vote because he wanted the appearance to be that the United States was unified behind the effort in the war on terror.
And I remember thinking they're not unified with you, Mr. President.
They simply scared of public opinion.
And lo and behold, they came in, they all voted for it, and Mrs. Clinton's still paying the price for it, by the way.
That she got Obama did not vote.
Well, he wasn't able to, but he had on his campaign trail, he said if he had been there, he would have voted against it.
But Hillary is one of those, and John Forbes Carey, who served in Vietnam, he also voted for the use of force after they both voted against it the first time.
And it's been used against Hillary ever since.
Well, in in the midst of all this came the 2002 midterms.
And they got sh you don't, the sitting party never picks up seats in a midterm election.
So rare.
And it happened.
Bush picked up the Republicans picked up eight seats.
And I remember that night.
The studios at NBC are right where Fox News' studios are, now the same building, whatever that building is across the street from the Capitol.
And you should have the attitude of all the NBC producers, directors, makeup people, the employee, they were just in stunned.
Disbelief.
And that was the night that Tim Russert had asked me to come in and do occasional.
I wasn't on full time.
They brought me in and other people.
I think I was on camera three times.
And what you Russert was fine with it.
I mean, he was he was a consummate probe.
You can even see Brokaw was not quite understanding what had happened.
This is so rare that the sitting party gains seats.
And I'll just I'll I'll never forget that because it was it was it was it was it was kind of fun.
They they had me in a in an office building watching the returns, preparing whatever remarks I was gonna make while watching the coverage, they come get me say you're on in five, I'd go down and make up.
It was like a tomb in there.
And of course, my analysis was I wasn't surprised at all, and I explained exactly why it had happened, and I cited the Wellstone Memorial, and I cited all these things.
And it you can just see all these people, there were flummoxed.
They had no idea.
The Wellstone Memorial, they thought was a huge upper, a big positive.
Well, I'm telling you what they're doing.
Mary Landrew and Chuck Wrangle and all these other guys, they are redoing the Wellstone Memorial in this campaign.
It's exactly what they're doing.
It's they're that out of touch, they are that lost.
And so Stuart Rothenberg says this could be so bad.
Obama could set a record for the total number of House seats lost for two-term Democrat presidents in midterm elections.
That's how bad.
And when we're close enough now that the polling data that a guy like Rothenburg would rely on, probably pretty close to being accurate, at least as accurate as they can uh they can make it.
But on the other hand, you remember yesterday on this program, I had a story from the New York Times by Nate Cohn, COHN.
And that story was how the polls always undercount and undersample Democrats.
Remember that story from yesterday.
It was a designed get out the vote piece.
It was a piece in the New York Times that was supposed to be written as an upper for Democrat readers.
Hey, hey, we're gonna win.
Hey, just show up and vote.
Hey, it's not nearly as bad as the polling data says because the polls aren't properly counting Democrats.
First time I've ever heard in my life.
Where polls undersample Democrats.
Well, the guy is back today with another story.
Early voting numbers look good for Democrats.
Democrat efforts to turn out the young and non-white voters who sat out the 2010 midterm elections appear to be paying off.
In several Senate battleground states, more than 20% of the nearly three million votes already tabulated in Georgia, North Carolina, Colorado, and Iowa have come from people who did not vote in the last midterm election.
He admits later on in the story that despite that, that the early voting lead that he cites here is not enough to overcome the overall Republican lead.
But don't forget what we had to open the program with, the AP.
The story is now out, by the way.
It was not out when I first told you about it when the program opened.
According to the latest data from the Associated Press's election research team, Republicans have a 10 percentage point lead in ballots cast in early voting.
Independents have cast about 25% of the total.
In Florida, for example, the early vote total already exceeds the total early vote in 2010.
Meaning the turnout is likely going to be even higher.
The turnout's going to be even angrier.
The turnout's going to be even more passionate next week than it was in 2010.
And 2010 was over the top.
And here's this lone guy at the New York Times writing his case, saying, hey, you know what?
The early voting Democrats are leading it.
Hey, Democrats are undersampled in the polling data.
So there's there's abject panic setting in.
Karen Tumulty, a week before the elections, had a piece in the Washington Post titled, Can Democrats Hold the Senate by Running Away from Obama and their own records.
Wait till you hear this.
Gotta take a break.
Don't go away.
So I checked the email during the break.
No, I have not forgotten to respond to the caller Tom from Dayton.
I have a feeling there will be some other calls today about the new book.
So I will, when I when I take those calls, I'll answer Tom and Dayton about how did I record the audio of the new book without getting a lump in my throat at Dexter, Michigan?
Oh, I thought they know how I'm in confused with somebody.
Maybe another caller.
Anyway.
Karen Tumulty's piece in the Washington Post.
Can Democrats hold the Senate by running away from Obama and their own record?
Now, her point here is that these Democrat senators ought to be ashamed.
How dare they?
They made Obama's agenda possible.
They voted for it.
Her article singles out Colorado Senator Mark Udall, who claims he's the last person the White House wants to see, but he voted with Obama 99% of the time.
Mark Begitch, Alaska.
He claims to be a thorn in Obama's butt.
But he voted for Obama policies 98% of the time.
But the Democrat that is most scorned in Karen Tumulty's Washington Post piece is Alison Grimes of Kentucky, who still will not admit that she voted for Obama, even though she was a Democrat state delegate in both presidential elections.
Here's the bottom line.
This is the this is the condition of the situation in which the Democrats find themselves.
They're all trying to run away from Obama.
But they and they're trying to hide, but they can't.
Obama wants them and you to know that these Democrats voted with him.
He's out there saying, hey, I understand what they got to do, but hey, they all voted for my policies.
They voted for me.
They're with me.
They're my buddies.
He's throwing Them overboard.
They're trying to separate themselves from him, and he's reminding everybody, no, well, I mean, what we've done here wouldn't have been possible without these people supporting me.
So the point is, all these Democrats running away from Obama.
This is the point.
They are just as responsible as he is for this mess.
They are just as responsible as Obama is for the mess that's Obama care for the job situation, 92 million is not working, food stamps out of control, immigration, open borders, every damn one of these Democrat incumbents is as responsible as Obama.
And he doesn't appreciate them treating him like he's yesterday's garbage.
And he's right about one thing.
You vote Democrat, you vote Obama.
You voted Democrat, you voted for Obama.
And he resents these people trying to run away from it.
And I have to admit he's got a point.
Okay, back to the phones we go with his open line Friday.
We're going to go to Al in Fort Myers, Florida.
Great to have you, sir, and I appreciate your patience.
I really glad you waited.
Hi.
Hi.
Can you hear me?
Yeah, I hear fine.
Okay.
Good.
Can you hear me?
I can hear you fine, sir.
And I wanted to thank you for all you do and for giving birth to an alternative media.
I don't know where we would be without yourself and Fox and the other people who take the other side of the story for us.
Well, thank you very much, sir.
I appreciate that.
Um I wanted to comment on the Chicago activists unchanged the other unchained that were on Rebel Pundit the other day.
Here were four fairly intelligent, articulate men going off on a lack of good, if not the damage done to the major cities in this country by neoliberalism.
Hal, hang on just a second.
I need to I need to tell people what you're referring to for those who weren't here.
There's a website called RebelPundit.com, and they found four former Democrat Party activists, African American community organizer types.
Many of them had uh served prison time.
And they went on a four-minute, well, it was actually longer, it was a it was it was edited on a four-minute rant, and we played it in four separate one-minute segments.
And these guys just took the Democrats apart, and they properly, it was amazing, they they properly correctly blame the Democrat Party for everything that's gone wrong in the country, and particularly the mess that's been made of the African American population and uh population and community, and they pulled no punches.
And and it was not prompted, it was not really you could tell it was off the cuff, they were speaking extemporaneously.
Uh and it was um I'm maybe we can resurrect those bites for later on in the program because it is worth hearing again.
There hasn't been any talk in the drive-by media, it never made the drive-bys, but it's all over social media, and that's what Al here is is calling the talk of.
Okay, I'm sorry for the eruption, but I wanted people to understand what you were talking about.
Understood.
They were pointing out that their chosen Democrat leaders live very well, but nothing good has happened to their communities or to them.
These people are palpably disillusioned.
And it occurred to me that the great society is going on 50 years old.
It'll be 50 in the spring of next year.
And I thought, this sounds like a midlife crisis.
They wake up one day and they realize that they've gotten everything they dreamed of.
Uh a black liberal Democrat president, a Democrat Senate.
They had two years of a Democrat House, a pretty liberal judiciary, and a liberal fawning mainstream media.
And what did it get them?
Nothing.
They're worse off than they were when Obama took office.
Worst unemployment participation rate in decades.
And it reminds me of the old Chinese curse.
May you get what you wish for.
And what the Great Society in 50 years and trillions of dollars of great society programs have delivered is lives of perpetual mediocrity and disenchantment and dissatisfaction.
And the upshot is that no one who depends upon government for their daily support is ever going to know the satisfaction and mental security that comes with one's own earned success and achievement.
And I think those guys present a greater threat to the Liberal Democrat Party than the Republicans do.
Well, that's unbelievable.
Let me bring some historical perspective to this.
While these four guys were indeed more passionate and more spot on, and I would say more pointed, they're by no means the first to come along and do this.
And so far they're doing it in a vacuum.
They this is not to criticize them, but the point is, I would venture to say that 97% of the black population has no idea what you and I are talking about.
If they were listening, would not know what to talk.
They haven't seen it.
They probably haven't heard about it.
And the odds are they won't.
Now, I'm not trying to pour cold water on this, because I actually think you've got a great point.
But it's also got its own negative connotation at the same time.
Here we have 50 years of the Great Society, and everybody who benefits from it, the Great Society is what?
A series of benefits.
Government benefits.
Cradle to grave, government benefits, and yet everybody is miserable.
They're not happy.
Liberals are never happy, no matter what they demand and what they get.
If they get everything they demand, it's never enough.
They always want more.
They're never satisfied.
They're never upbeat and positive and inspirational.
They're always pessimistic, downcast, angry, radical, extreme.
So you would think, and I know your point here, okay, 50 years, Great Society, celebration, big party next spring.
We're going to have the 50th anniversary of the Great Society, which was supposed to end poverty.
It was supposed to end discrimination.
It was supposed to end the income inequality divide.
It was supposed to end the existence of the lower middle class.
It was supposed to raise all the boats, and of course it's done just the opposite.
In every attempted effort it's made, it has gone worse.
And you would think at some point that people would awaken and realize, hey, this isn't working.
Except that it is for the people in charge of it.
It's working gangbusters for the Democrat Party.
Maybe not this particular election cycle, but it's working for them.
And here's the long-term real, real bad thing about this.
While you can sit there and say, wow, 50 years and it hasn't worked and they're miserable.
Okay, these four guys that you're talking about, they have awakened and they've seen the light.
Well, what about all the others?
After 50 years of this, what is their alternative?
Because they have been in this state of total dependence.
Their parents, maybe their grandparents, now them, if it's taken away, what do they do?
They haven't been trained to do anything other than this.
Their life objective is to make sure Democrats stay in power.
Because even though they may not be miserable, the other side represents all of it being taken away.
That's what they're told.
In addition to maybe them being miserable and unhappy and not realizing all of these benefits, the alternative is somebody's going to take it away from them, and then they've got nothing.
And because of what the Democrat Party policies have done, these people are not prepared to go out and provide for themselves.
It doesn't even appear they want to.
It doesn't appear there's, you know, you can compare these people in a way.
I'll never forget when the when the uh Berlin Wall came down.
A great conservative, late Paul Weirick, first thing he did was organize a team of freedom fighters, if you will, to head off to Moscow and do what he could with average ordinary Russian citizens in helping them deal with this newfound freedom, because it was strange to them.
They had never experienced it.
Most of them had been wards of the state or prisoners of the state, and in one day it was all gone.
And there were Democrats in this country running around saying, well, you know, freedom's not for everybody.
Some people are going to be much worse off because they're not going to know what to do, and they're not going to know how to provide for themselves.
And they're not going to know how to take care of themselves, which is exactly what the Democrat Party wants.
So you have a similar situation here.
Yeah, 50 years you would think somebody'd see the light, you'd see the tipping point at some point would have been reached, and you would think that they would demand something else.
And they do.
Sadly, what they're demanding is more, not something different.
And that's because there has been something else take place all these 50 years that these government handouts and welfare benefits and whatever have been offered.
The education system has been screwed up royally to the point that if it were taken away, they're not prepared to go out and fend for themselves.
That's the real damage the welfare state does to people.
The real damage, that's why I've always I've tried to characterize liberalism as dehumanizing.
Liberalism really destroys people.
It makes them dependent on crumbs.
And while it's doing that, it keeps them ignorant on self-reliance.
Self-reliance, rugged individualism, all those things are put down.
Well, these people in the welfare state, what do they see?
They see the Democrat Party that's supporting them attacking the rich, attacking the successful, blaming the rich, blaming the successful successful for the plight of the welfare state.
And they believe it.
Most of them hear it and believe it, and they join the chorus of anger, some cases hatred.
And the Democrats are prepared to do it all over again for Hillary Clinton.
They're gonna that her campaign is going to be the same exact thing: bashing Wall Street, bashing the rich, blaming the rich for the plight of the middle class, blaming the rich and Wall Street and whoever the Republicans for the plight of African Americans and Hispanics.
So it's a real anomaly.
You've got 50 years of the great society, which is an abject failure in the land of prosperity, the wealthiest country in the history of human history, the wealthiest country ever to exist.
People born in this country, many people born in this country are among its poorest citizens.
Because they have depended on the Democrat Party all their lives.
And the Democrat Party has seen to it that they're not prepared for self-reliance.
And they have been taught, they've been trained to disrespect achievement.
They've been taught, they've been taught trained condition to suspect it, and to blame those people for their plight.
And the way that manifests itself, if we could just take the money away from the rich, then these people would finally be okay.
And of course it doesn't work that way.
What the liberals and the Democrats are trying to do is never worked.
So they have all these people effectively in an economic prison.
And after 50 years of this prison, these people have no ability.
If they were let out today what to do.
And that's the real crying shame.
What these policies do to the little guy, the supposed beneficiary of all this compassion.
Where is the compassion in all of this great welfare state that the Democrat Party has built?
Where is the compassion?
And even after 50 years of it, and after 22 trillion dollars, do you realize that's Robert Rector's latest numbers in the Heritage Foundation?
Twenty-two trillion dollars in the last, well, since 1964.
Twenty-two trillion dollars has been redistributed.
And we don't have anything to show for it in terms of improvement.
And especially in terms of percentages, the number of people in poverty still is the same as the day the war on poverty began.
That's why we conservatives hate this stuff.
This is not how you make a great country.
This is not how you create prosperity.
This is not how you teach people to get the most out of the one life that they all that we all get.
These people are told that their one life is best spent voting for and supporting the Democrat Party.
That's their life.
And if something gets in the way of that, if the Democrats lose, then their life is going to be over and it's going to be horrible, and you don't want to even contemplate it, they're told.
It worked for a while with the seasoned citizen population.
It's interesting, it doesn't work there anymore.
Democrats used to constantly run around telling old people, if you if if you these Republicans, they want to take away your Social Security.
They want to take away your house.
They want to kick you out of your house, and they want to every campaign, every two years, every four years, that was a Democrat message to the seasoned citizen.
And all of a sudden it stopped working.
Now the reason it stopped working is because a number of those people said, wait a minute, we've been hearing this fifty years and I'm still in my house.
And a lot of these fifty years, the Republicans won elections.
It's fifty years I still have my Medicare.
I still have my social security.
They're not taking it away.
So they began to suspect the Democrats.
But that's not happening with people in the welfare state.
We'll be back.
And it's back to the phones we go on open line Friday this Dimitri, Burlington, Kentucky.
I'm glad you called Dimitri.
Great to have you with us today.
Hello.
Hi hi, Rush.
Um my I've been reading the the books to the kids, and we just went I took uh my oldest daughter and her younger sister to Washington, D.C. and we were we've been reading the books while there.
But uh my oldest wanted to uh to make a request a few of that's all right.
Oh, sure, by all means.
I can ask anything.
Here she is, it's Emily.
Um hello, Rush.
Um it's good to be on.
Um I'm 11 years old, and um I've got a request for you, but uh first I'd like to tell you a couple of things.
Um my dad has been reading your books to my sisters and I, and we just got the new one on Tuesday.
Really excited.
Um we love the books because um they teach us about the history and at the same time uh the lives of the kids who are in there.
Um like you like the characters.
You like the characters in the books.
Yeah, I I love them.
Yeah, I love liberty liberty.
Yeah.
Yeah, everybody loves Liberty.
Yes.
Liberty's cool.
Getting a big head now, but everybody loves it.
Yep.
Well, um, we just got home from Washington, uh, DC this morning.
Um, and it was fun to uh know about uh the founding fathers of America when we went to uh museums and we got to share with our friends on what we knew and to learn more about them.
Well that's great.
That's great that you're getting to do this.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And my uh question is is should you make um animated movies out of the books?
Well, you know, it's it uh uh Emily, it's interesting that you ask that question because when I get questions like this, are you gonna do it in a book?
Are you gonna do it it's uh sometimes I can't divulge the future and commit to things because I don't know that we're actually gonna do them.
But in this case, I can tell you that that my wife Catherine is is burning with desire to create uh animated versions of these books.
And it's something that we really, really want to do.
I can't say for sure that we will anything can happen, and I don't know a time frame.
Uh so I I I don't want to tell you yes for sure and have you be disappointed, but you can be confident that it's something we really, really want to do and have already begun looking into.
It's it would be another way for the uh readers, people to enjoy the message of the book and spread the word, so to speak.
So I'm glad you like it.
I really appreciate it.
Thank you very much.
I don't know where the time is going.
I can't believe we only got one hour left on Open Line Friday.
Fastest three hours in media.
We'll get right to it, my friends.
Hang in there.
Be right back.
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