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Nov. 7, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 7, 2014, Friday, Hour #3
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Making the most of every moment, not wasting a precious second, saying more in five minutes than most hosts say in an entire day.
I'm Rush Limbaugh, the guy you never get tired of listening to on the radio.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
That's right, my friends.
Open line Friday.
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So the Washington Post.
You know, a lot of people.
We are at Friday now.
Newspapers today went to bed last night, so you have a bunch of uh reporters, editors, producers, and they're just it's just now hitting them.
Tuesday night and Wednesday were denial.
Tuesday night and Wednesday, the media was trying to find any explanation.
They could use, they could sell, that would diminish the Republican results of Tuesday night.
Diminish the outcome, diminish the impact.
And the more they tried to come up with ways to make it look like something it's not, the more depressed they got.
Washington Post, 2014 election wasn't close.
Not even the toss-ups.
Say what you want about this is Aaron Blake writing.
Say what you want about the American people on Tuesday.
They were decisive.
Very decisive.
In fact, of the 435 House and 36 Senate races, only about 9% of them were decided by even single digits.
Let me repeat something.
Twenty-nine, and soon to be 30 after Mary Baby Fat Landrew goes down in December.
Twenty-nine Democrat senators who voted for Obamacare in 2010 are gone.
Some of them, three of them died in office.
Senator Daniel in no way.
Robert Sheets Bird.
I couldn't remember Bird the last time.
So this Daniel in no way.
Sheetsbird.
And there's an oh Frank Lautenberg in New Jersey.
Those three died.
Five or six retired.
And the rest were defeated.
But no matter how you slice it, 29 Democrats who voted for Obamacare are gone.
Sayonara.
83 House districts, 15 states, decided by single digits.
20% of all House districts, 30% of the states.
I mean, it wasn't even close.
Everywhere else it was double digits.
And yet, let's remember something.
The polls and the news channels all told us that every election was too close to call.
Why is that?
Could it be the polls purposely lied to us?
Why would they do that?
I you know near the election, these polls want to get their results as close to accurate as they can for their credibility.
But I think this was so important.
I think they were willing to make it up as they went along.
It didn't matter where we got in terms of proximity to the election.
Because it was a skunk.
It was a massive route.
It was a landslide, and yet all of these races they said were too close to call.
And even election night when the returns are coming in.
Doesn't matter what network you looked at, too close to call.
And the spread was 15 or 20 points.
Still too close to call.
We don't have enough precincts then.
Nobody could believe what was happening.
What happened was so far and away beyond what anybody's expectation.
Even people expecting a Republican wave had no idea how big this was.
And look, I'm going to say it again.
The Republicans weren't on the ballot in a national ideological sense.
Of course, Republicans were on the ballot, but each race was its own race.
Each race had its own set of issues.
Obamacare was dominant in most of them, and repealing it and getting rid of it.
But the Republican Party was moot.
They didn't, they didn't announce an agenda.
They didn't do a contract with America type campaign where they said here's what we're going to do if we win.
They purposely shut up.
Profound what happened here.
There can be only one take.
This was totally anti-Obama.
Stop Obama.
Do not do any more of this.
And the Washington Post story says, and you know what?
It's not gerrymandering either.
The recent round reduced the number of single-digit presidential districts, but only to 74, far more than the 33 House districts that are being decided by single digits this year.
But the news media has told us for the last two years the Republicans only had an advantage because of gerrymandering.
Remember that?
But now they say not, that can't even explain it.
Even many Senate races that were supposed to be toss-ups, Mitch McConnell, Pat Roberts, and Arkansas, they wound up being double-digit.
Yeah, how did that happen?
McConnell won by 16%.
And remember, he was going to lose to Allison Lundergan Grimes.
And Pat Roberts, well, he was going to lose because he was Pat Roberts and bald.
And he ends up winning double digits.
How does this happen?
In Arkansas, every member of the Arkansas delegation to the House of Representatives is a Republican.
Despite all the endorsements from Slick Willie and Hillary.
Stephen Moore writing at National Review Online, winners, losers, and lessons learned.
The magnitude of the GOP's title wave in Tuesday's election is just now coming into focus.
Just as in 1994's landslide election, it gave Newt to Gingrich and the Republicans control of the House.
For the first time in a half century, the media are underplaying the route, and they are portraying the 2014 midterm as a temper tantrum on the part of the electorate.
NBC said that it was a bad night to be an incumbent.
No, it was a miserable night to be a Democrat.
Only one major Republican lost, and that was Governor Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania.
You know why?
It wasn't even about politics.
You know why Corbett lost?
Take a stab, Brian.
Pennsylvania, Governor Pennsylvania.
Why did this guy lose?
I'll give you one name, Sandusky.
The Penn State scandal, and the perceived way he dealt with it is what did Tom Corbett in.
Only two Republicans in the House lost.
And there was poor one Williams all night on Fox, steadfastly maintaining it was just an anti-incumbent mood, but it wasn't.
It was an anti-Democrat incumbent mood.
Republicans also grabbed hundreds of state legislative seats.
They now control more seats in state capitals than at any time since the 1920s.
And just as it was in 2010, down ticket is where Republicans really blew out the Democrats.
And why was it so severe?
Well, the exit polling tells a lot of the story.
Are you ready?
59% majority feels dissatisfied or angry with Obama.
Forty-one percent are satisfied with his regime's performance.
A third of all voters said opposition to Obama was a reason for their vote in House races.
Only 20% expressed support for Obama in their choice of a candidate.
Stop Obama.
Opposition to Obama and the Democrat Party.
Stephen Moore Writes that it was a huge victory for the supply side agenda.
The tax issue was a major factor in many states.
All the GOP tax-cutting governors, Brownbeck Scott won in many states with Democratic tax raisers, Maryland, Massachusetts, Illinois, Republicans won.
Liberals had said this election to be a referendum on taxes.
And it was.
People are fed up with them.
The big winners among the governors who want to be president were John Kasich of Ohio, who won in a blowout 60%.
Scott Walker of Wisconsin, who won with surprising ease.
Three times Scott Walker ran for governor in Wisconsin in four years.
The Democrat machine, both elements of the Democrat Party, two elements.
You got the usual the Pelosi, Reed, Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin, you know, the usual union corrupt thug bunch, and then you've got the these community organizer type progressives that make up the Democrat coalition today.
And they're quite different.
The progressive bunch, this uh the the real radical leftists of the Democrat Party, like Obama, they don't really live and breathe with elections won or lost.
I mean, they'll take a win, but losing an election does not stop them.
They're agitators, they're community organizers.
They dig deep down into the culture and get in there and upheaval it and rot it out and all sorts of things.
They don't care whether they win or they care, but they don't, they're not set back when they lose.
Obama's not set back here.
It's not going to change anything he's going to do.
It ain't going to change anything his buddies at Acorn are going to do.
He ain't going to change anything his buddy Jeremiah Wright or Bill Ayers and these people are going to do.
They're going to keep doing what they can to transform this country into something it wasn't founded to be because they don't like it.
Winning elections helps them, but if they lose them, they don't shut themselves down.
The Reed Pelosi people, they don't want to be in a minority.
They'll quit, they'll do something else, like Henry Waxman.
Joe Manchin is probably going to change parties.
My guess is that he would change parties.
There's you look at things and it would make there was an open seat in West Virginia.
Republicans won by 25 or 30 points or some such thing.
It would make no sense.
No, it would make total sense if he did change parties.
Scott Walker had to run against this Democrat coalition, the thugs, the corrupt people, and these new progressives, three times in four years.
Couple of recall elections and a straight re-election campaign, and won every one, three times in four years, and they threw everything.
They tried to destroy his career, his reputation, his life, ditto his family.
And he won by a comfortable margin.
And everybody was telling us before the day, before the election, that it was very close.
He might lose.
This election was misrepresented practically every which way possible in the days and weeks leading up to it.
One of the huge losers was this wacko environmentalist nutcase on the Democrats said Tom Steyer, billionaire hedge fund manager.
He spent almost up to a hundred million dollars on people like Allison, Lundergan Grimes, and other candidates who were going to just wipe out the coal industry.
That was his objective.
Wipe out the coal industry.
And he lost big.
Joe Manchin, that's right, uh, an open Senate seat in Virginia went to the Republicans by more than 25 points.
So it would uh make total sense for him to change parties.
Let's hit the audio sound bites very quickly here.
And let's take a look at the left, and this is once again to go back to my take on it, as it being the public standing up and saying no more to Obama.
One of the things that always happens after Republican Victory.
Doesn't matter if it was 2000, the midterms of 2002, 1994, doesn't matter.
There are predictable behavior patterns the left engages in.
One of them is to immediately take out for talk radio.
So last night on Bloomberg TV's all due respect, co-host Mark Halperin, speaking with co-host John Heileman about the impact of talk radio on the post-election agenda of the Republican Party.
And Mark Halperin said, you know, the history of the Republican Party of late has been defined by congressional leaders being afraid of talk radio and Fox.
Will the establishment, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, first and foremost, be able to withstand the pressure from that kind of cacophony, which will only build as compromise with the president comes?
Now that question is as loaded and factually incorrect.
You know who the Republican leaders are afraid of?
Guys like Mark Halprin and John Hylaman.
The Republican leadership is scared to death of the media.
And wishes the media would love them.
The Republican leadership is scared to death of the charge of racism if they dare criticize Obama.
The Republican leadership has been made to believe apparently that they they don't have a prayer of winning elections unless they support amnesty.
They're not afraid of talk radio.
They may not like it, but they're not afraid of us.
They're not afraid of Fox News.
This is absurd.
If they're afraid of anybody, it's the left-wing media.
And this is not even arguable.
But nevertheless, that was the question asked.
So the question here, and note the premise.
Note the premise of the question.
Will McConnell and Boehner be able to withstand the pressure from talk radio as they begin to compromise with Obama?
As though these guys think compromising with Obama is a fait accompli.
It's gonna happen.
And then talk radio and Fox News are gonna start having a cacophonous fit.
And will Boehner and McConnell be able to withstand it?
I'm a big fan of history, and there's no evidence in the historical record to suggest that they will or can't.
These guys, individually and collectively, have been the biggest and one of the most pernicious forces in our politics for a long time.
And there's some counterparts of theirs on the left, but they are a very, very loud voice.
And they have repeatedly over the last 20 years and in only growing strength, they have put pressure on, destructive pressure on Republican leaders and establishmentarians who want to get things done.
The pressure has been intense, and they have almost always, almost always capitulated the leaders.
Fox hasn't been around 20 years.
Yet they started in 97.
I gotta take a break here, though, folks, so sit tight.
Did you hear that, folks?
So I L. Rushbo, the most pernicious force in politics for a long time.
That's right.
Because these Republicans, they really want to work with the Democrats, they want to work with them so bad just to get things done, and then here comes talk radio.
For 20 years making it impossible to do.
And then Halprin, Mark Halperin, who's not a bad guy.
They just these guys, I just I'm amazed at how wrong people are who are so close to this.
Anyway, just what he said.
Boehner and McConnell, as much as Dick Cheney is not afraid of a flying monkeys.
They're not.
And they have disdain for them privately.
They say it all the time to people.
And when McConnell yesterday said, we're not gonna have a debt ceiling crisis, we're not gonna have government shutdowns, that sent a loud message.
These guys and gals can attack Boehner and McConnell all they want.
I don't think that they personally will be intimidated.
Of course they're not intimidated.
Where's the evidence that they're intimidated?
Nobody's trying to intimidate them.
And this, by the way, Mark, this government shutdown business, not gonna have a debt ceiling crisis, not gonna have a government sh- they're talking to you.
They're telling you there's not gonna be a government shutdown.
They don't want you writing that they want to do a government shutdown.
They don't want you writing stuff they're not planning on doing.
They're not worried about what people like me say.
And Dick Cheney, you really want to go there, Dick Cheney?
Privately disdains talk.
I can produce, I don't know how many people to tell you the exact opposite on that one.
You're the people that destroy them on the government shutdown.
You're the ones that mischaracterize all that.
The government shutdown and what was the uh the debt ceiling crisis?
You're the guys that run around, go out and find a jelly stone park sleigh right operator and tell everybody how horrible his life is gonna be because of three-week government shutdown.
They're not afraid of us.
That's just they might not be particularly crazy about us from time to time, but they're not afraid of a debt.
These guys aren't afraid.
If they're intimidated by anybody, it's people in the drive-by media who love to call them racists or bigots, or accuse them of hating women and conducting a war on women when no such thing is taking place and ever has.
Anyway, this is uh I don't know.
I love this stuff.
This the week after a victorious election is always ripe.
It's it's so much a teachable moment.
And now I've got to take another brief pause here because this is the fastest three hours in media.
We're just zipping through things here.
So since it's open line Friday, we're gonna try to focus on uh more phone calls in our remaining busy broadcast time here.
So sit tight and stay glued to where you are.
We'll be back before you know it.
Here's Jim in Pittsburgh as we head back to the phones open line Friday.
Thank you, sir, for calling.
Hi, Russ, it's good to speak to you.
Uh longtime listener.
Uh I got a I got a question for you.
I how this goes back to Quentin with uh burn them at the church, uh, Charlie Wrangle the other day, Lanton Raven, even Obama when he was at the United Nations said about Ferguson and that why are they allowed to use all the racial remarks, you know, comments and remarks that they make.
Why couldn't one of the Republicans propose a bill to stop all these people that if they were in public office like that, that they should not be allowed.
Obama says, yeah, we got racial tensions in the United States.
Well, I believe that our government's the biggest part of the whole problem because they're always making these remarks like Charlie Wrangle did.
Why can't somebody come up with something that doesn't allow them to say what they say?
Well, because of the First Amendment.
And if you if you uh if you did that, then where would you stop?
Because what is as irritating to you when somebody charges racism, somebody uh somebody else might say, Well, we've got to make them shut up about homosexuality next.
Then we're gonna make them shut up about guns, and then we're gonna make them shut up about abortion.
Now, I know what you're asking.
Charlie Wrangle's outlying.
Charlie Wrangle is out saying that the Republican Party wants to return to slavery.
And you know it's outrageously untrue.
You know it's defamatory.
You know that it is ruinously untrue.
And you don't think he should be saying it.
You don't think he should be allowed to say it.
What you what you want really is for the American people to realize he's an idiot.
Because you can't, in politics, especially, there just there isn't any remedy for that.
Uh not in a legal sense.
There's nothing you can do.
It's a frustrating thing.
And he's saying it furthermore about public figures.
It's even harder to stop.
Uh so it's it's uh, I mean, there we say legal remedies.
I mean, if the Republican Party wanted to sue the guy or threaten to sue him, but that opens cans of worms that you know people don't want to go down.
Uh and the dangerous thing is that Charlie Wrangle has some people that vote for him that believe it.
It's totally irresponsible.
And it is a weapon that the Democrat Party uses.
They use it on women, they use it on African Americans, use it on Hispanics.
They use it about every minority that they want to make a giant collective of victims.
And your frustration lies in the fact that you don't know how To stop it.
And you don't know how to convince people that the Democrats are lying.
But making it illegal just isn't going to happen because once that starts, so you don't even want to go there.
The uh the remedy is that those people end up being publicly humiliated, losing elections, but I didn't get to shut them up even.
And Wrangell doesn't lose.
I mean, he's got he's done this guy done far worse things than accused the Republican Party of uh wishing there were slavery.
This guy's a genuine lawbreaker.
He's broken tax law, he has violated uh the the rules of membership in the House of Representatives, what he can do with uh with with official funds and so forth.
It's well, you see.
The problem is he's he's allowed to get away with it because everybody feels sorry for him.
Yeah, really isn't any more complicated than that.
And not when I say everybody, I mean the left, the media.
But I appreciate the call.
Understand your frustration thoroughly.
Nico in uh Thousand Oaks, California.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Rush, my favorite patriot.
Well, it's great to have you here, Nico.
Oh my goodness, I've been listening to you uh since I came to this country from South Africa, and uh it's just uh I I cannot help but listen to you all the time.
Thank you.
But the the highlight of what your, let's say your doctrine is the Lumbar theorem.
And I'll tell you why that was so special to me.
It struck home for me, explaining why Obama is acting like a titular head of state, you know, one where there's a parliament and they have the real judicial uh uh sovereignty, instead of like an executive president that the United States has.
Our president rolls up his sleeves and he gets things done, but the titular head of state just sits there and he blames other people and he makes policy and sounds good.
It allowed me to correctly connect the dots of what I discovered is absolutely mind-blowing.
Now, South Africa was given over to communists without a shot being fired.
You know, the underlying ethical and reasonable that a party had to go, notwithstanding, they managed to do that without firing a shot.
You're talking about the ANC.
I see, absolutely, yeah.
They're all cart-carrying communist uh uh uh members of the.
He's talking about Nelson Mandela's party, folks, the African National Congress.
Right.
Okay.
Now, when we came to the United States, I recognized the same language.
Hey, these guys are talking about handing over, but not all that, you know, very subtly.
And I compiled what I call the immense hypothesis.
Now, I mentioned uh you may know his Latin for unlimited and power.
Um the immense hypothesis, and you can Google that.
I fill up the whole front page, by the way.
Now, in this basic uh the basic essence of this hypothesis is that back in 2002, Vladimir Putin recruited Obama as an operative for the sole purpose of removing the United States as the only obstacle to world dominance.
Now, at first when I tell people this, they say, oh, come on, you know, give me upright.
But uh just a few points that that that made me stop and rethink this of which the Lumbar theorem make the thing made this thing click in place.
People like George Soros, they do not invest in frivolous ventures, and he invested a lot of time, money, and prestige in Obama when he was a nobody.
Why would he have done that?
John Podesta, why would he have cared whether he was a rising star in the activist genre?
And and Putin, of course, uh uh I understand that uh Sololinsky's dad was a police officer in Moscow during the Soviet era.
And of course, then they that's an arm of the KTB.
And so Putin must have known about Sololinsky, and he asked John Podesta, hey, who is this rising star up there in in in in uh in Illinois?
They said, Oh, you gotta you gotta see this guy.
So he was untouchable.
He was he was a uh Obama was untouchable precisely because he was new.
He had no record, he had no college transcripts, but he was black and therefore immune to any criticism whatsoever, carried with him the hope and dream that we can end racism in America.
Uh George Soros, uh you mention him.
He's uh his alliance with Putin, but it's obvious George Soros is very unhappy with this country as founded.
He's part of that crowd, and has been actively working to undermine people that want to preserve the country as founded.
He has invested and supported people who want to transform the country, as does Obama.
I don't know about this about the Putin uh link or or any of that.
I don't think it's needed in order to make the case here.
But but the limbaugh, I really appreciate, you know, you you uh if you understood the limbaugh theorem, I appreciate that.
Limbaugh theorem, folks, was uh, you know, I like everybody else, I struggled to understand in 200 12.
How in the world did Obama get re-elected?
The economy was a disaster.
And just we just saw it in this election.
The exit polls said that the economy was the number one issue.
People wanted what's happening stopped.
And it always is.
Well, why didn't it matter in 2012?
It was just as bad then as it is now.
And it was on the on the beginning edges of it, but my God, unemployment was skyrocketing.
People were getting fired, losing income.
And I devised the limbaugh theorem to explain how it is that Obama is not held accountable for his policies.
The limbaugh theorem explains how Obama is not seen as responsible for his policies.
It's because of the way he conducts himself.
He's always on the campaign trail.
He's always speaking out against what's happening in Washington, even the stuff he's causing.
And he's always complaining with everybody else with how it needs to be fixed, and he's blaming pa faceless powerful forces for undermining, and he's working hard, the stimulus and so forth.
And it was it worked, it was a psychological ploy as well as visual, because he was cast in, even though it's a powerful president with his fingerprints on everything he's seen as not having anything to do with anything.
He was never seen as governing.
He was always seen as campaigning and opposing.
It was a brilliant structure.
And it's uh it is a time-honored tactic of parliamentarian presidents and leaders who are always granted the luxury of unaccountability.
It's always some underlinger, some other powerful force that's actually making what happens happen, and the president, in this case Obama, was struggling along with everybody trying to stop it.
It was a brilliant construct.
Anyway, I appreciate the call, Nico very much, uh, and your and your very, very timely compliments.
I profoundly appreciate that.
We'll be back, my friends.
Don't go away.
You would not believe, and I've got the stories in a stack here.
You would not believe how mad the left is at white women in Texas for defeating Wendy Davis.
One of them is Jenny Cuttner at Ceylon.
White women didn't just fail Wendy Davis, they failed the rest of Texas too.
I tell you, these the feminizes are fit to be tired.
A tide of you, of you babes in Texas.
Look at this from Redstate.com.
Feminists declare war on Texas white women.
And now CNN's doing a story on women's bodies are now a battleground.
See how they never I mean they lose, they've just been humiliated, they've had it called, and they just double down on it.
They're so ticked off at you for not understanding.
You white women in Texas, and really you white women everywhere.
They're so mad at you, they're just gonna keep pounding you until you get it.
Just amazing.
I love it when it's demonstrated how far outside the mainstream leftists really are, when they think they are the mainstream.
I love it when it is demonstrated how kooky and fringe they really are.
And this election did that.
There's been a document dump.
Reuters says the number of troops in Iraq is going to skyrocket up.
Of course, this news was not released before the election, obviously.
And I thought Wendy Davis lost because of Ebola.
That's what she said.
Anyway, have a great weekend, folks.
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