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Nov. 17, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 17, 2014, Monday, Hour #3
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Carl Rove.
And again, I I'm not trying to pick any fights.
I don't I that's not my point here.
I'm not, I'm not.
That does not thrill me.
I I don't, I I've never been one of these broadcasting feud people.
I I remember when I started this program, Snerdly will remember this.
Back in um 1988, and we started with 56 small radio stations who just took the program, they didn't even know what it was.
They they they taking a program that preceded it, and they just took it because it was the easy thing to do.
Little did they know what was about to happen to them.
And then it became time to branch out and start getting major market affiliations, and and we got one in uh in Los Angeles, KFI, and immediately it was suggested to me, you know, you need to start a rivalry with one of the local hosts there.
And I said, why?
Well, you know, that really gets get people fired up.
I said, I don't even know the guy.
I've never heard the guy.
Doesn't matter.
Doesn't matter.
You know, you insult him, he'll insult you back against his big feud.
I said, what's the point of this?
Are we are we not on the same radio station?
Why in the world would I be ripping somebody on the same radio station?
What is the business model for that?
Why should I be telling the audience what a rot gut somebody on the same station is?
Well, it's just it's just cool, man, these rivalries.
I said, not if they're fake and contrived.
I'm not, that's not, I'm not interested in that.
So my point is there have been these constant pressures made, brought up on uh your host here to engage in these time-honored techniques, and I don't do techniques like that.
So if if I pick somebody here that says something that I want to react to, it's not I'm not trying to pick a fight with anybody, and I'm not trying to get into a knockdown drag out, it's just it makes me think of something.
So we just had the soundbite for Carl Rove and Britt Hume, in which they were lamenting the government shutdown a year ago.
And they were talking about how no matter what happens, no matter who's really to blame for it, the Republicans always get the blame.
And yet, after getting blame for the government shutdown 10 months ago, the Republicans just came back here and won a landslide election.
And Carl Rove said, yeah, yeah, but but at the time of the government shutdown, there were like 18% of the people who approved of the Republicans and 59% of the people who disapproved of the Republican, and it took us a year to build it back.
And that comment intrigues me.
It took the Republicans a year to build back the Republican reputation after being blamed for the government shutdown last December.
So, how to say this?
Is the Republican reputation built back?
Thank you.
I don't know that it is, but if it is, what did they do to build back the Republican reputation?
And that takes us to the election ten days ago.
What did the Republican Party run on?
I'm talking about National Republican Party identity, political identity.
What did they run on?
Now, I know that individual Republican candidates, and this is quite noteworthy.
Practically every one of them, every victorious Republican candidate in the Senate ran opposing Obamacare.
And practically every victorious Republican also ran against executive amnesty.
They ran against it.
And they implied running against it.
They were going to stop it.
That's part and parcel of mentioning it in the campaign.
You oppose it, it must mean you're going to fight it.
Okay, if you get elected, there's a mandate there.
Now the national Republican identity was what?
Nothing.
The national Republican strategy was silence.
Their strategy was the Democrats in Obama are committing suicide, political suicide, and we are going to stand aside and not distract from it.
So we at the national level are not going to criticize Obama, and we're not going to mention any policies, because these people at the at the national Republican level, and in, I guess a certain quadrants or sectors of the Republican consultancy really do believe that the Republican Party is hated and despised.
They believe that the media has done lasting damage.
And the only way to deal with that lasting damage is to not say anything.
Because if they say anything, then the media will call them names and further establish the brand as Republicans as a bunch of, you know, the real racist sexists.
So they didn't say anything.
However, there was an implied, if you take the message of the individual candidates, the Republican Party set themselves up as the bulwark.
They were going to stop.
The American people were fed up.
The polling data indicated it.
The Democrat candidacies indicated it.
They wanted nothing to do with Obama.
It's no mystery.
The American people are fed up with the Obama agenda.
They don't want any more of it.
The only way that voters in this country can express that and say do something about it is to elect the other party.
There is a concurrent expectation in voting for the other party that the other party's going to stand up and stop it.
And the Republicans encouraged that line of thinking.
Therefore, the Republicans allowed it to be thought that they were going to stop Obama.
That's a no-brainer.
The American people, the voters that people showed up are fed up with what the direction the country's going, and they don't want any more of it.
Six years and they've seen the light.
They vote Republicans.
There's only one message that you can take.
And it isn't the voters want Republicans to help Obama by compromising with him so that Washington works again so that his agenda happens smoothly.
That's not what they wanted.
They didn't elect Republicans to go into town and make Washington work once again.
Washington's out of control.
They want Washington stopped.
I do not know how anybody can conclude otherwise.
Obama even complained about them doing nothing.
They were the party of no.
They were the party of gridlock.
They were doing, and they won.
With the media calling them the party of no, with the media calling them the party of gridlock, they win in a landslide.
What other message can there be than they were elected to stop this?
That's what they ran on.
They won.
Now the rubber meets the road.
Now it is time to stop Obama's abuse of power.
And now all of a sudden they insist that if they do that, that they're going to be blamed and impugned and criticized.
And so they can't.
That it would be political suicide to stop Obama because somehow that equals a government shutdown.
I I still look I I I know, but I don't the idea, we're losing control of the language here.
Net neutrality is not net neutrality, affordable care act's not affordable care act, nothing affordable about it, but nothing neutral about net neutrality, and opposing Obama's agenda item by item is not a government shutdown.
It doesn't matter, Mr. Limbaugh, the media will call it that.
And when the media calls it a government shutdown, then it's a government shutdown.
Okay.
So now we are going to assume the American people are just as stupid as Gruber thinks they are.
We can't do the right thing because the American people aren't smart enough to support us and see that we're doing, even though we're going to be doing what they elected us to do.
This is very frustrating for me.
Because to me it seems not only a win-win, it seems like real reputation building is at hand by stopping Obama, since that's what the message in the election is.
So the story is, though, that the government shut down ten months ago, destroyed the Republican reputation.
It took them a year to build it back.
Doing what?
Help me out, H.R. What what what happened in the ensuing 10 months after December 2013 that got the Republican reputation back?
What'd they do?
I don't know what we did.
I I I don't know that the re I don't know the reputation came back.
I mean, Republicans are still as hated and revived in the media as they always have been, and yet they won.
How does this happen?
How does a party so hated and despised and impugned win the landslide that it won?
Well, Mr. Limbault, that's very simple to explain.
See, the voters are simply tired of the party in power and simply want the other guys to be given a chance.
Oh, so there's no real message here.
It's just the voters are tired.
And just what?
So they've they voted for the people they hated, they voted for the people they don't like, they voted for the racist, sexists, big and homophobes, just because they're tired of Obama.
Is that the message?
So then we're left to ask why.
Why don't they want to stop this?
They were elected to stop it.
They know that polling data is polling data, they live and die by polling data.
Majority don't support Obamacare, in fact, support the repeal.
55% majority, 60 in some polls, and likewise numbers in amnesty, executive action amnesty.
What what what where's the danger here?
And as always the danger lurks in what the media will say.
And you see, ladies, what the media says affects donors.
Dirty little secret.
What the media says affects donors.
Media says Republicans are racist, sexist, big, and homophones and donors.
I can't be seen giving to racist sexist bigots.
I can't be seen propping up racist sexism.
So the Republicans, in order to keep the donor dollars coming, have to limit that kind of characterization about themselves.
And the way to limit that kind of characterization is to not stop the implementation of all this stuff they were stopped, or elected to stop.
So to me, I I don't know.
I I I just again politics isn't my business.
And it's easy to sit from outside and say what you would do if you were there, when it's probably not easy.
But what we have, let's take a look at this.
What we have the exec forget it's Obama, we get the president, the executive, which is who is totally abusing and usurping the power of the Congress.
If if if the party won't what about, okay, we're members of Congress, and we're not gonna stand for that.
We're not gonna sit here and let the executive trample our constitutional power.
What about that?
Okay, maybe you don't want to go to Republicans aren't gonna stop Obama.
What about Congress standing up for itself?
I'll tell you what I I actually think, and I've I've heard some people advance this idea, and I don't think it's all that out there.
I don't think it is inconceivable that you could get enough Democrats to join you in the Senate to override an Obama veto of a repeal of Obamacare.
Based on what happened to these Democrats in this election, it's it's a long shot, but I don't think it would be impossible to come up with 67 votes in the Senate to repeal, to over to override an Obama veto.
It's a long shot, admittedly.
But this stuff is certainly worth trying for.
This is what they were elected to do, and if they're not going to do it, Republican versus Democrat, why not Congress versus the executive?
You've got an executive trampling all over Congressional power.
Now, now, hopefully there's another explanation here, and it's not a good one.
But maybe it is that there really isn't that much opposition in Congress to what Obama wants to do when you get right down to it.
You hope and pray that's not the answer to this.
You hope and pray that's not the explanation for it.
God, that would be bad.
That the reason they don't really want to stop Obama is because, hey, you know what?
We kind of like the cheap labor that ammunition with and we kind of like the chance to go for those new voters ourselves.
And hey, we'd kind of like to make some inroads with the Hispanics, and hey.
But I mean, if Congress isn't going to defend its fundamental power, its constitutional power, forget Republican versus Obama, just about Congress standing up for itself.
I mean, if you're not going to fight for that, because of what the media might say about you, then what are you going to fight to defend?
The public does not support what Obama's going to do.
The public wants no part of the Obama agenda.
It's abundantly clear the public doesn't want any more of this.
And the idea that that public would punish the people they elected to stop it, somehow just doesn't jibe with me.
What am I missing?
Ha, Harry U, welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh and the EIB network.
No, I don't dislike Carl Rove's snurly.
He says, boy, you must really have a problem.
No.
Carl Rove has been overwhelmingly nice to me over the over the course, particularly the Bush uh presidency years.
I have nothing personal with Carl Rove whatsoever.
There are just some things I don't understand.
And I have my own thoughts on and express them.
But as I say, I'm picking fights here.
That's uh leave that to other people.
I I'm it's not a broadcast technique here.
Anyway, I have a soundbite from Gruber and an observation about Gruber.
This we found this June 13th, 2012, PBS frontline.
Producer Mark Kirk or Michael Kirk is interviewing Gruber.
And during the interview, Gruber says the following about Obama and Gruber's contribution to health care reform.
Now remember Obama in Brisbane, Australia said that he didn't even know who Gruber was.
And he just found out about this.
And he's outraged by it.
He's going to get to the bottom of it when he gets home, and this idea that some advisor that nobody ever heard of could dictate the way the regime thinks about things is silly.
Here's Gruber talking about how he and Obama work together.
Then he gets elected, and to his credit, he gets a lot of people, including myself telling him, look, you cannot make this work without the mandate.
He says, okay, let's do the mandate.
And his advisors say this might not be the right thing to do.
And he says, you know, this is what the experts are telling me needs to be done.
Let's make this happen.
Gruber is saying Obama deferred to him.
This guy has an out-of-control ego.
Gruber is saying this is frontline in 2012, so two years ago, two and a half.
He's saying that he's the one that Obama deferred to.
It was his idea.
We got to do the mandate, Mr. President.
Well, I don't know.
I don't want to do.
Well, yes, you do.
You have to do the mandate.
And you know what?
Obama said this is what the experts are telling me needs to be done, so let's make this.
So Gruber telling everybody here that Obama deferred to him.
Listened to him.
And I just got a note from a friend who said there's a there's a mischaracterization of Gruber going on out there.
He said, he's not bragging.
Gruber's not out there applauding and yucking and laughing.
You've got to understand who Gruber is.
Gruber is a professor.
All of these audio clips from video, where you see and hear Gruber talking to his economics buddies, laughing and applauding how they had to lie to the people because the people are so stupid, and they ran this great con and whatever.
He said, the thing you've got to remember, Gruber is a professor.
He is teaching here.
Gruber in all of these sound bites is telling everybody else how to do this.
He's not bragging how he did it, or not just bragging.
That he is instructing.
He's telling other people how they can get this done in their own walks of life.
So he is encouraging this kind of thing for everybody else and using it as a teachable moment for like-minded people as him.
All right, folks, welcome back.
Get this.
A groom in Saudi Arabia.
Have you heard about this story?
A Saudi Arabian groom has divorced his bride on their wedding night after seeing her face for the first time.
Yet what happened was the uh the the couple got married.
She's wearing a veil.
It was uh arranged marriage, and after the ceremony, the photographer shows up and tells her it's time to lift the veil and smile for the photo.
And when she did, the groom recoiled in disgust and said, You are not the girl I had imagined.
I'm sorry, but I divorce you.
I mean, it didn't even the wedding night, it was the ceremony.
I mean, immediately after the he divorced his wife immediately because he had never.
Oh, men can do whatever they want, Saudi Arabia.
Yeah.
You can you can divorce Yeah.
He didn't like her looks, he didn't know what she looked like, and what he saw what was there when the veil came up, that was it.
And he he proclaimed right there in the I divorce you, and it was done.
This is not the only example.
This this happened shortly after another Saudi man divorced his wife after she didn't reply to an instant message from him.
He uses the WhatsApp instant message, and he and she does she he sent her a WhatsApp message, and she didn't reply in a decent amount of time, so he divorced her.
Now the the wife who was divorced after revealing her face, lifting the veil, immediately collapsed in a fit of tears, as panicked wedding guests stepped in to try to resolve the dispute.
News of the jilting was met with anger on social media, but their efforts were to no avail, obviously.
Well, you need a hashtag.
I don't know what the hashtag is, but I'm sure the Twitter Twitter Pete had a hashtag save the marriage or looks shouldn't matter, or whatever the hashtag was.
But it didn't work.
The uh the groom said that he had not been able to see his bride's face before marriage, And he wasn't he wasn't gonna fall for this.
He felt a trick had been played on him, and he wasn't he wasn't he wasn't in for it anymore.
He's not he's not down for the struggle on this.
You heard about this guy on uh Australian TV who wore the same suit for a year.
You know, this is so, so telling about television.
This I've I've shared with you on counts occasions, you know, why I'm not crazy about TV.
Uh television is artificial, and I've I finally figured out what it is.
Why I'm no good, I'm too self-conscious.
You know, on TV, you have to be able to be totally you have to be able to be I don't know what the term is.
You've got to be able to broom your self-consciousness.
You can't if the if you are so you can't be an actor if you're self-conscious.
You've got to be able to get outside yourself.
You have to be, and I can't do that.
I'm just too self-conscious.
Anyway, this guy on Australian TV's news anchor wore the same suit for a year.
Same suit.
I think he changed the tie, but same suit for a year, and nobody noticed.
His female co-anchor had to change her hair every day, had to change her dress every day, and if if and people that's what people commented on.
They commented on her attire much more than whatever she reported as the news.
Meanwhile, the guy wore the same thing for a year and nobody noticed, much less cared.
Now, what does that tell you?
Well, I know there's there's a lot of those there's a lot of tellyas uh in this.
I remember back in uh Sacramento once had a local infobabe guest host my show, and she was stunned after one show.
She'd go to the grocery store and people came up to her and told her what they thought of what she had said, and it had never happened to her before.
People would come up to her in a grocery store or wherever, always tell her how pretty they thought she was, or uh how they liked her hair, but nobody ever commented on the substance of her work.
But when she did the radio show one day, that's all anybody and they and it it changed her perception in one show in one day.
Anyway, quickly back to the phones.
This is Sally Richmond, Virginia.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, how are you?
I'm well, thank you very much.
Good.
I wanted to comment about your conversation about the Republicans and shutting down the government.
Yeah.
I actually think Ted Cruz and the Republicans that supported the government shutdown, they they caused the wake-up call, and they were what really caught people to pay attention and get engaged, and they drew the attention.
They drew people's attention to the truth about Obamacare and what the negative impacts were gonna be, not only on the economy, but the level of care that we were all gonna eventually experience.
And that is an interesting take because Ted Cruz did get the blame, right?
He got the blame, but he really should be getting the praise.
Well, but wait because of well, that's what he did.
The point is did Ted Cruz lose any popularity.
He he lost popularity in his outside of the Republican Party, but also within the par the party.
Well, no, I'm from with the American people.
No, no.
No, he didn't lose popularity.
He might have he might he might have been enemy number one inside the party, but in terms the voters didn't take it out on Ted Cruz.
That's uh that's a good observation.
Interesting observation.
Sally, I appreciate the call.
Thank you very much.
You know that that sortie groom that that divorced his wife the moment she lifted her veil for the photographs.
I wonder if somebody told that guy you have to marry it to find out what's in it.
Wonder if there's a Nancy Pelosi in this guy's life.
And he fell for it.
We have some audio sound bites here.
President Obama reading from uh the audacity of hope.
That's an audiobook version of one of his books.
I don't know which one.
I can never get these things straight.
But it's fascinating.
This is Obama talking about illegal immigration and his thoughts on it.
Many blacks share the same anxieties as many whites about the wave of illegal immigration flooding our southern border.
The number of immigrants added to the labor force every year is of a magnitude not seen in this country for over a century.
If this huge influx of mostly low-skilled workers provides some benefits to the economy as a whole, it also threatens to depress further the wages of blue-collar Americans and puts strains on an already overburdened safety net.
Really?
What happened to that?
So here's Obama in an autobiography that he writes.
Oh, well, well, uh, I know here's Obama in an autobiography published to coincide with his run for the presidency, and in it, he acknowledges that illegal immigration hurts blue-collar workers and strains the safety net.
And so after he gets elected, he says, hey, why not?
That's exactly what I want to do.
And there we go.
I'm telling you, these people are running cons on us.
Everything this regime has done has been a con game.
And here's Bill Clinton.
This is Bill Clinton's Saturday in Little Rock at a political event celebrating ten years of the Clinton president.
The political, a journalism outfit celebrating, well, it is.
It was a political event.
I guess they had a booth.
Politico had a booth at uh ten years of the Clinton library and massage parlor.
And here's Clinton speaking about the midterm elections.
Listen to this.
The African American vote held fairly steady and was remarkable given the well that we had a little bit of a loss of the Hispanic vote.
Perhaps because the president didn't issue the in the uh immigration order, but it it was a tough call for him, because had he done so, then a lot of the others would have lost by even more.
It was a difficult call.
Are you able to understand that?
Here is here is slick Willie.
This is an Obamacare type lie that's being perpetrated right now about amnesty.
It's a political loser.
And it's it it's it's Clinton admitting it.
Yeah, well, you know what, the African American hell fairly steady.
Uh is remarkable, actually, given given the thought that, well, uh we had a little bit of a loss of the Hispanic vote.
Uh perhaps because the president didn't issue the uh the immigration order.
But but I mean, that's a tough call, immigration order, because had he issued the immigration order, then a lot of others would have lost by more.
So it's a tough call.
So what I'm here to tell you is at Limbaugh's right, had Obama done executive amnesty before the election, it would have been an even bigger disaster for us than it was already.
So Obama, he couldn't done it beforehand.
So he had he had a delay screwing up the country until after the election, it wouldn't hurt his party as much.
But he's gonna do it.
I have it all good for Obama, he's gonna do it.
He's gonna do the immigration thing, and he's gonna totally mess up everything because that's that's the plan.
Amazing how these people sometimes come clean after an election when there can be no retribution for what they say.
Just enough time to say thanks, my friends.
It's been great being with you today, as it always is.
And as is always the case, look forward to tomorrow.
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