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Nov. 19, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 19, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #3
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I want to quickly go back to Eric in Charlotte, North Carolina.
I appreciate your holding on because I took your call when there wasn't enough time, and I didn't want to shortchange you because you're actually making a very good point.
And I wanted you to give you a chance to do that.
Well, you know, Obama's either being intentionally deceitful, which makes him evil, or he's just being, or he's just an ignorant man.
You know, he says, or people think that he's, or blacks think that he's so pro-black, he's a black man, which he's not.
He's half black.
He's just as much white as he is black.
It's not that.
Let me address that.
It's not that he's half black, half white, or whatever.
It's just that Barack Obama does not have the American black person's civil rights heritage tradition or pedigree.
He's a citizen of the world.
He was raised in all parts of the world.
He doesn't identify.
This is the problem with racial politics.
It's surface only.
Black people in America see a black president, think he's one of them.
He's not.
Exactly.
He runs around with Harvard and Yale elites.
He runs around with Wall Street rich people, Hollywood rich people.
He's not running around with these, with Reverend Sharpton and Reverend Jackson and John Lewis.
That's not his crowd.
Look, blacks are being blindsided here, or we're being beguiled.
We're being deceived by this guy.
The fact is, the jobs that we're so looking forward to, we think, or blacks think that, okay, we've got a black president.
He's going to look out for us.
No, he's not looking out for blacks.
And this is why I'm waiting for you.
I don't think that.
Eric, I think it's something else.
I mean, there's a certain, look, you're right.
There's a certain percentage of the black population that thought Obama's going to look out for him.
But I think the majority of them think Obama is going to get even with their enemies first.
I think they look at him as somebody who is going to take it and take the fight to their enemy.
Look, the black mentality is a herd mentality.
And we think that we have to stick together.
And we think that we've hired or elected a black president who is actually going to look out for us.
This is the way we as black people think.
This is why we group think.
We actually just think as a herd.
But the point here is we're looking for jobs.
We're crying for jobs.
The unemployment rate is astronomical among the black community, in the black community.
And this bill here is actually working counter our needs.
We need jobs, and this bill is going to allow for a larger segment of the Hispanic community.
I'm not racist.
I'm not against Hispanics, but what I'm saying is what's going to happen, the end result, is twofold.
Number one, I mentioned that we're going to be now second class, second class, second to second class.
We're already a minority, and our numbers are.
I hate to tell you, Eric, and I'm not trying to sound cynical.
I've been predicting this for 20 years.
I've been predicting that there's going to be a battle of the minorities.
And for the longest times, African Americans were the number one victims in America.
And now they're about to be replaced by the Hispanics.
And that isn't going to sit well.
Exactly.
If you're going to be a victim, you better be the top dog victim.
Thank you.
So we're really hurting ourselves.
And I don't know, back to Tom Joyner and Pattish Smiley and all that.
Either they don't see it or they do see it and they're welcoming it because that means they're pawns and users themselves.
But the point is, it's working against their interests.
I'm looking at it.
But secondly, to that is economically, we're now not going to be able to get as many jobs.
Or among the pickings are already slim.
The pickings are already thin.
And now it's going to be made thinner and much more difficult.
This president is either totally ignorant of economic policies or how to make a country grow, or he's intentionally trying to damage this country, country's prosperity.
He's definitely harming black people.
And the problem is that.
Okay, hold it right there.
Let me just ask you a quick question.
Does it matter what the answer is?
The fact is, the country is being damaged.
Yes.
It's being damaged, and he's not lifting a finger to stop it.
Okay, so you might think his incompetence, and others might think he's doing the damage on purpose.
I mean, the motivation I don't think is a point anymore.
I happen to think it's purposeful, but other people think he just happens to be happy-go-lucky, ignorant, believes in socialist utopia crap.
I think he knows exactly what he's doing.
I mean, he's doing exactly what he set out to do.
And I think this is a gender from the get-go.
And he's not a civil rights coalition guy.
He's not a 1960s-era black.
He is a worldwide leftist community organizer progressive.
He has nothing whatsoever.
He doesn't care about anybody's job, much less black.
That's not what he's here to do.
That's not why he was elected.
He wasn't here to revive an economy.
He doesn't run around and say he was.
But I think you've got this down pat.
I think you're exactly right about this on so many levels.
A, you've got African Americans who have always been proud of being the number one victim of this country.
And now all of a sudden they see the first African-American president shuffling them aside and seems to care more about Hispanic victims of this country than black victims.
And it's what the hell is this about?
And then when you see, then you start looking at, you know, wait a minute, there's a lot of other stuff that's wrong here, too.
Look at our unemployment level versus everybody else.
And look at this.
And then the lights start to go off.
And that's what's happened to you.
And I just say to join the crowd because this is – you understandably have your worldview.
Eric, for me, the devastating thing about this is it's happening to everybody.
It's happening to virtually everybody in this country.
The damage does not know racial lines of distinction.
The damage does not know sexual or gender lines of distinction.
The damage is being wreaked out, handed out all over this country, and everybody is being hurt.
College graduates, non-college graduates.
You hear more and more people talk about the fact that America's best days are behind us.
We're in a country in decline.
We have to learn to adjust to that.
Sorry.
Not me.
And I think it really is.
It's more than unfortunate.
All of this is so unnecessary.
But it happened.
So now we're left with what to do about it.
What to do to reverse it, to stop it.
And that's the big question.
I'm glad you called.
I really appreciate you holding on to the top of the hour because I felt like I short-changed you in our limited time.
I mentioned, folks, we've got some great soundbites and I want to get started with them.
And along the same lines here, in fact, this is fascinating to me.
This is Maria Bartieromo.
And, you know, she just moved from CNBC over to Fox Business Channel.
And she, too, is perplexed by Obama's seeming ignorance about economics.
This is a woman who ought not to be confused at all.
She is the primo financial journalist in America, correct?
I mean, by many popular characterizations.
Oh, you're laughing at there's Don Lemon.
Yeah, I know.
I saw it, and I'm tempted.
I'm tempted to give parents like a 10-minute heads up here.
Oh, is that what he's doing?
He's explaining it away.
He's trying to justify and apologize.
I'm almost obligated to do it now because here I'm talking about it.
It's an unfair tease.
So I'll think about it.
In the meantime, back to Maria Barcheromo.
She is, many people would say, the primo economics reporter anchor in America.
Some might say Lou Dobbs, some might say Stuart Varney, but the money honey.
So you would think that she would have no question.
She would know, but she's perplexed.
We have a couple of audio soundbites this morning on Fox and Friends.
They were talking about the defeat of the Keystone pipeline in the Senate.
And Elizabeth Hasselbeck said the key question, Maria Bartieromo, is in fact if it will affect gasoline prices.
The good news here is that this takes the president out of the awkward position of vetoing this.
Okay, so that's the good news.
The other day when the president spoke about this, he missed the fact that this is a global market.
He said it's Canadian oil coming into our land, being exported to other countries.
And he said it would not impact gasoline prices.
I think that's really misleading.
I do believe that if this passes, it will move gas prices lower.
No kidding.
But did you notice the first comment she made here?
Well, the good news is that it takes the president out of the awkward position of vetoing it.
That's the good news.
And he would have.
He would have vetoed it.
But to her, that's all.
It's embarrassing that the president would have vetoed it.
Why is it embarrassing?
You know exactly why he would veto it.
So she's, you know, he doesn't know what he's talking about.
He missed the fact that this is a global market.
He said it's Canadian oil.
It wouldn't lower gas.
Maria, these are the same people who said in response to a policy of drill, baby, drill that that wouldn't create more oil.
Remember, Maria, how they made fun of everybody?
I know you might have been one of them.
I don't know.
But when a lot of people, me included, running around saying the way out of our energy jam, drill, baby, drill, made fun of, mocked.
Well, now we got fracking, and now we have shale oil and shale gas.
We got more reserves in Saudi Arabia, and so many, so much so that the Saudis had to lower the price of oil to $75 a barrel.
The Saudis are lowering the price on their own to damage their competitors.
Drill, baby, drill has created more oil.
It's lowered the price.
And we were all made fun of for that.
Even though it's as axiomatic as saying bringing more Keystone oil to the pipeline to America would lower gas price.
Yes, it would.
It's supply and demand.
But she's not sure Obama understands that.
But there's one more sound bite here.
And it kind of gets to the nub of it.
Steve Ducey said, I think it's curious that you think the president of the United States doesn't understand the simple economic policy of how the world spot market works with oil.
I was very surprised at those comments because it either indicates he doesn't understand the global market or that he's just against it.
He's being political.
One is more scary than the other.
She's genuinely concerned that Obama doesn't understand economics.
To her, that's a legitimate possibility that he doesn't understand economics.
Has she watched this guy for six years?
He understands economics.
He knows exactly what he's doing with his economic policy.
This is the problem here.
You have people in positions of power and authority inside the beltway in the media, and they just assume that everybody like them is just as smart as they are and just as oriented the same way they are.
That it's how a Mitch McConnell will express shock that Obama is not moving to the center after this election defeat.
It's the same as Maria Barcheromo here expressing shock that Obama doesn't understand or a journalist expressing shock that Obama is not doing more to reduce the debt.
It's right in front of your face that he's trying to increase the debt.
It's right in front of your face that he's trying to raise the price of energy.
It's right in front of your face that he doesn't like oil.
It's right in front of your face.
I mean, everybody.
It's right in front of all of our faces that Obama believes in this stupid, idiotic, green energy, newfangled stuff.
And he believes that oil is a poison.
It's right there in front of your face.
And yet people simply somehow can't accept it and believe it.
And that's how people like Obama get away with it.
They're assumed to be so smart, maybe they know more than we do.
When in fact, if you don't understand Obama's ideology and if you don't apply his radical leftist ideology to everything he does or says, then you are going to forever be confused about what he's doing.
The answer to Obama is learning and understanding liberalism and progressivism.
And once you have that, then Obama is no longer a mystery and you can see him as the threat he really is to free markets, to the founding of the country.
That's what he's opposed to.
And he's making it abundantly clear.
But the fact that some people want to continue to not see it or not admit it is, as I say, quite telling.
Because admitting it or seeing it, man, that's serious stuff.
That's a call to action of a different kind.
That requires more than just journalism and commentary, see?
And a lot of people don't want to go beyond journalism and commentary.
They don't take action because of this?
Hell no.
What are you talking about?
Now, that's just intellectual exercise for us, Mr. Limbaugh.
We'll call it the way it is.
But when it comes to shaping and bending outcomes, no, that's not for us.
And everybody's that way.
And so Obama's got a free road.
He is single-handedly in charge of the outcome because nobody else wants to get their hands dirty in fighting him for it.
Looky here, right before our very eyes, What the Republicans thought was a brilliant strategy is coming back to bite them.
The White House press briefing is going on right now with Josh Ernest conducting for the White House.
And the press corps is asking all about the upcoming announcement on Amnesty tomorrow night.
And they're asking, are you worried about the Republicans and the opposition?
And Josh Ernest just said, no.
They told us that there wasn't going to be any government shutdown over this.
I mean, we're not worried about the Republicans.
They seem to be all on board.
No, the Republicans, no, no, no, we're not.
They've said impeachment.
No, they're not interested in that, although we not necessarily believe them on that, but they said there isn't going to be a government shutdown.
There's no blowback from the Republicans here.
See, these guys, I don't know how they think they're going to get credit for saying this stuff.
They think, this is mind-boggling and convoluted.
They really believe that if they publicly say there is going to be a government shutdown, that the American people will love them even more and will respect them and will think of them not as confrontational or argumentative or partisan or what have you.
Oh, we're not going to shut down the government.
Damn right there's not going to be a government shutdown.
There is no way.
And the White House is up there chortling now.
Well, hey, you know what?
No, we're not worried about any opposition that is married.
They just said they're not going to shut down the government.
I recognize this because in my naive days, I used to try what the Republicans did.
In an interview, I would go in knowing that the journalists thought that I was a reprobate just because I'm a conservative.
So I would try to say things that would make the journalist question her or his opinion of me.
Back in my naive days, where I thought that was possible, I learned 20, 22 years ago that that's a waste of time.
But the Republicans are still coming at this from a very self-conscious and a very, what's the, almost, they're admitting that they are feeling inferior here and that they've got to say things to make people like them.
And they've got to say things that help people not to misunderstand them.
So it'd mean no different than if Reagan had said, Mr. Gorbachev, don't bother tearing down the wall because, you know, we know.
Or, Mr. Gorbachev, if you don't tear down the wall, don't sweat it.
We're not going to deploy any missiles near you.
And then Gorbachev says to the press, are you worried that not tearing down the wall is going to provoke.
Oh, no, no.
President Reagan said he's not going to deploy the missiles anyway if we don't tear down the wall.
Same thing here.
They think they're going to get credit for these things.
They really think they're going to get credit for saying, no, no, no, government shutdown, never again, not on our watch.
And they just sit up here at the White House and they rub their hands in glee and they say to each other, free road, there ain't no stop signs or stoplights ahead of us, Mr. President.
The Republicans just pulled into the truck stop.
So, this Josh Ernest guy, I'm going to tell you, this irritates, this arrogant superiority crap from these people really rubs me raw.
This guy's up there in his press briefing.
He said, the Republicans need to put the nation ahead of politics.
The Republicans finally need to start thinking about what's good for America.
These people are destroying our nation.
These people are transforming.
They are rotting our culture.
They are turning this country inside out and upside down.
They're doing it all for politics.
These are the people doing everything for politics.
The Republicans need to put the nation ahead of politics.
The nation is being bandied about here like a deflated football as far as these people are concerned.
But this arrogance, this condescending arrogance, this superiority from these little wimps.
This is what irritates me.
You know, everybody has things about people's personalities that irritate them.
Some people hate braggarts.
Some people hate people that smack their lips when they eat.
I hate that too, by the way.
I can't stand these little sniveling, liberal, arrogant supremacists running around out there talking about how their way is the only way, and anything that's not their way is obstructive and disastrous.
It grates on me.
I want to take you back to me on this program, August 19th.
Ferguson, Missouri is attracting a lot of people who, like Obama and Holder, wish they had been alive during the civil rights movement in the 60s.
And that's another thing that's going on here.
This is a flashback.
This is an opportunity.
Remember, Obama, Obama has wistfully spoken of the 60s.
He wasn't around, but he says he wishes he had been.
Well, here's a chance to relive some history.
Here's a chance to flash forward.
Here's a back to the future moment, if there ever was one.
The 60s civil rights movement, all of a sudden, is back in full glory.
Some of the Ferguson protesters, like the new Black Panthers, are claiming to be the new civil rights movement, which I guess is only natural.
The civil rights era is the only period in our nation's history that's glorified in the schools these days.
And it is.
And this is exactly what's happening in Ferguson, on the verge now of the grand jury report decision on an indictment or not on the death of the gentle giant.
Folks, it's uncanny.
All these civil rights dinosaurs, they're heading back to Ferguson.
It's going to be Selma all over.
It's going to be Montgomery, Alabama.
It's going to be Lester Maddox all over again.
They're going to have so much fun.
They're going to relive the whole era.
And they can't wait for it.
Here is Emmanuel Cleaver.
He's on all due respect last night on Bloomberg TV.
Question.
Do you expect, as many people do, to see the grand jury come back and not have an indictment in the gentle giant case?
What I think we will see is a group of young people who've been organizing, who've actually gone through the kind of training that many of us went through back in the 1960s and 70s.
Did you hear that?
To participate with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and nonviolence.
Did you hear training?
He said, this is Emmanuel Cleaver.
He's a member of Congress from St. Louis from Democrat Missouri.
He said, yeah, we got young people who have been organizing, have gone through the kind of training many of us went through back in the 60s and 70s to participate with nonviolent direct action.
Okay, here's the rest of the bite.
Direct action.
Now, having said that, this past summer, when we had all of the tumult, we also had an influx of people coming in from Los Angeles, and we have gang members coming in from Chicago.
I think that they are committed to doing some damage to Ferguson and to the image of the community and actually the entire nation.
What, they've been undergoing training, too.
What is it?
You have no problem with that?
You got Black Panthers coming in.
We got an influx of people, gang members coming in from Chicago.
It's going to be a party.
We got gang members coming in Chicago, committed to doing some damage to Ferguson.
Yeah, got some trading going on out there.
And here's John Lewis, who was on the bridge in Selma.
He was on some show, Roland Martin show, News One yesterday.
And the question, for this generation, Congressman, do these police killings and the social justice issue represent the modern days, Selma?
Selma was the turning point.
And I think what happened in Ferguson will be the turning point.
I think people are waiting, they're watching, and we're going to see, I think, within the next few days what happened.
And there could be massive nonviolent protests all over America when we were beaten on that bridge in Selma.
That people couldn't take it when they saw it, when they heard about it, when they read about it, there was a sense of righteous indignation.
And if we see a miscarriage of justice in Ferguson, we're going to have the same reaction that people had towards Selma.
There you are.
I'm told you.
I told you.
Snurdle's in there going for heavens.
I'm told you.
I mean, I'm telling you, they're going to relive the sick.
They can't wait for this.
I'm telling you, they're all excited.
No, it's not delusion, man.
It's just they're looking for meaning in their lives.
And let's face it, the civil rights movement hadn't had a Selma in a long time.
Oh, you're never going to, you're going to be, you're going to be here in Selma as long as Hillary Clinton's alive and can go there and do her reading.
I ain't no ways tired.
Remember that?
That's Hillary Clinton at Selma.
And Obama went to Selma.
And he said, yeah, my dad was affected by Selma.
My dad told me about Selma.
And he even put on his Selma dialect when he was talking about, oh, this is Selma.
I mean, that's, they just can't wait.
If the grand jury indicts the cop, that's not possible.
If the grand jury indicts the cop, you're going to see, well, I just, I won't predict it.
I just, I'll tell you, you'll be surprised.
Actually, no, whatever they do, there's going to be an excuse to cause trouble.
They can't, whatever, whatever decision comes down to the grand jury, they'll find a way because they're too trained for it now.
They're too ready, too ginned up.
Ladies and gentlemen, your beloved host has once again hijacked the debate on this issue in the United States Senate this afternoon.
We take you via the miracle of solid state hard drive disc to the Senate floor just moments ago and Senator Chuck Yu Schumer from New York.
The other side says it's amnesty.
They're listening to Rush Limbaugh.
Amnesty, amnesty, amnesty.
Amnesty means you get away with it without paying a price.
Here's the price you got to pay if you cross the border illegally.
One, you've got to pay all your back taxes.
Two, you got to keep working.
Three, you have to admit wrongdoing.
Four, you have to pay a fine.
Five, you have to learn English.
Six, you have to go to the back of the line.
On whose plan?
Is this what Obama's going to announce?
They don't have the ability to make any of that happen.
Whose plan is this?
This is not what Obama's going to announce tomorrow night.
Back of the line, pay.
There was a plan that did this.
And it was Chuck Yuges.
You know, Chuck Yu and there was a gang of eight that had this plan, but that's not what Obama's going to do.
What do I have to do with any of this now?
What Obama's doing is not the Gang of Eight plan.
And there's one more soundbite here.
I'd say to my colleagues, don't be afraid of the Tea Party.
They're afraid of the word amnesty, even though the bill is not amnesty at all, as I mentioned.
But Rush Limbaugh says amnesty incessantly.
And I know my Republican colleagues, I'm a political guy in some ways.
They're afraid primary voters that skew far right believe it's amnesty.
The Tea Party may be a sliver of the American public, but they're a huge percentage of primary voters in too many Republican districts.
And that's what they're afraid of.
What is he talking about here?
Is Obama going to announce a gang of eight plan tomorrow night?
Obama's going to simply suspend deportations, basically granting these people amnesty, and they're going to allow their kids to come in here.
What is this?
Move to the back of the line.
Learn English.
Pay your back taxes.
Come on.
Give me a break.
None of that's going to happen here.
I think what I'll tell you what's going on here is this is a separate debate in the Senate where they're trying to get Republicans to join the Democrats in a comprehensive thing that will follow whatever Obama's going to do tomorrow.
So they're doubling down on the pressure on the Republicans.
Hey, you're upset that Obama's going to leave you out tomorrow night?
Well, here's how you can get your skin in the game.
Here's how you can get some credit for this.
Join us and ignore Rush Limbaugh, who says amnesty, amnesty, amnesty, amnesty, it's not amnesty, amnesty.
You got to get to the back of the line and all the rigmarole.
That's what it is.
They're still trying to cajole the Republicans to signing on board to something above and beyond whatever Obama's going to do.
It has to be what it is.
Unless.
I mean, we're assuming what we know Obama's going to say tomorrow night.
We'll have to wait and see.
I apologize, people on the phones, for not getting to you today.
The Chuck Yu-Schumer soundbites came in and it kind of superseded what I intended to do.
And I had some soundbites here on the sports meeting.
Oh, I got to do Uber.
I got to do Uber tomorrow.
And what's happening with the NFL and these suspensions because the sports drive-bys are just coming down on Goodell again like it's brand new.
Yeah, Uber, maybe Don Lemon, maybe, and the sports drive-bys on Goodell.
Now, as to what Chuck Hugh Schumer's doing, very quickly, I think Chuck Yu and the Democrats and the Senate are not totally happy with what Obama's going to do because it's only 5 million.
They want the whole enchilada.
They want all 12 to 15 million illegals legalized.
And so Obama's going to take care of 5 million of them on Thursday night.
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