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Nov. 21, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 21, 2014, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Shot full of holes last night.
We wake up today and it's still shot full of holes.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's Open Line Friday.
And of course, up next, Ferguson, Missouri.
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It was hard to tell last night just whose leader Barack Obama is.
I mean, that was, I'm watching this.
It's surreal.
And it's almost like a dream.
Was Barack Obama speaking as President of the United States?
Or was he speaking as the victorious leader of a foreign invasion?
It is, I mean, it's curious the alignments this president makes, the allies he makes, the enemies he has, and last night his allies, and you can see them dancing and cheering all over the world.
I mean, in your head, you could see them cheering and dancing all over the world.
And at times last night sounded to me like Obama was speaking as a victorious leader, if not a foreign invasion.
You see, I know what's going on here, so it was tough for me to watch this objectively.
I know exactly why he's doing this.
And I've been saying it for six years, so I can't say anything about it that you haven't already heard.
And I hate being redundant.
I really do hate repeating myself because it shows a lack of creativity.
But when it is what it is, what can you do?
The man thinks this country needs to be taken down a pick or two.
And he's not alone.
Many people in his party and many people, leftist movement, believe this country has been artificially and unfairly and unjustly a superpower, too rich, too powerful, too whatever.
And we need to be cut down to size.
And it's his view that this superpower status and all this prosperity was achieved on the backs of pick your favorite minority.
And it's time now to pay back.
He's never going to admit that.
He would never ever, unless he slips up someday.
But it's there for everybody to conclude if you just listen and if you just learn what liberalism is.
And by the way, the reason I keep pounding this is because I think the solution to this is found in understanding this.
You know, we have all these commentators on Fox.
We have all the columnists everywhere.
Everybody's throwing their opinion out there, and that's it.
And people are frustrated by lack of action.
Okay, we know there are a lot of people, the majority of people disagree with it, yet it happened.
And as a caller said yesterday, why is the country so paralyzed in fear of one guy?
Well, there are obvious answers to that, too.
But the fact is, the paralysis is there.
You can complain and moan at the commentators who may be right, may be wrong, but even the ones who are right, then what?
Okay, so you watch Fox and you watch five or six commentators get it right, and then the next day nothing's changed.
And so my focus here is always oriented toward having this understanding, this disagreement that we have with Obama on policy and have it mean something.
Have it mean something towards affecting change.
Not just anybody can sit here and tell you what's wrong with the country.
Anybody can sit here or anywhere else and tell you what they think.
But how many are doing anything?
And everybody thinks somebody else should be doing it.
That's not a criticism, by the way.
I'm just observing.
And so my point in trying to get to the motivation behind this is I think if many more people than do understood the motivation, there would be far more than just disagreement with this.
And the disagreement is all over the place.
I mean, even some Democrat senators are not happy.
Some Latinos are not happy.
Do you know the tech community is miserably unhappy today?
They didn't get what they thought they were going to get.
These idiots, I cannot believe these idiots actually thought that what Obama was talking about all this time was increasing the H-1B visas.
These idiots didn't have the slightest idea what this is about.
And now that they've got it, I'm reading my little tech blogs today, and you can't believe how many of them are disappointed.
After all the money they spent, after all the support they went, and they get nothing, they get bupkus.
They were never going to get what they want.
They were lied to.
They were misled.
So welcome to the club.
These are otherwise smart people.
No, I'm not kidding.
They really thought that when Obama's speech was concluded, they're going to be able to keep a lot more Ivy League grads, a lot more high-tech engineers, MIT from foreign countries, this kind of stuff.
And that, Obama's not touching that because that's not what immigration reform is about to him.
He's about providing a current and constant underclass, a permanent underclass for the Democratic Party.
This thing last night was about many things, one of them, one-party rule.
This was about creating, however many millions we're talking about here, new Democrat voters last night.
And here you have all these diabetes, the chamber.
Congress did not have, what do people think they were going to get here?
I am sitting here.
I literally am stunned at looking and reading the reaction.
Well, no, I'm not stunned because I'm really coming to the conclusion that we are surrounded by genuine ignorance in far many more places than you and I would like to admit.
And I'm not talking about stupidity.
Anyway, this is why I continually focus on the why, on the motivation, because I think that's one of the best teaching methods.
I think giving people the reason why something has happened would wake them up.
You have a lot of low-information people and half-engaged people who think this is fine because it's fair.
And because we're being nice people, we're being nice to the poor.
We got a great country.
They want to come to our country to get rich or to get saved for the world.
Well, fine, who can turn them down?
And how do you oppose that?
But that's not what this is.
There isn't any compassion to what Obama's.
Obama's not overflowing with compassion.
Obama's overflowing with anger.
Obama is filled with rage.
He doesn't like certain aspects of this country.
And he's taking advantage of the power he's got to do whatever he can to change it.
And it's almost a punishment.
It's not as though he has a different utopian vision of America.
I don't think that Obama thinks America as a third world country is an improvement.
I don't think that's what he.
I think he thinks we need to become a third world country because in his mind, we've created third world countries.
We have kept people in third world countries.
We've stolen from people in third world countries.
So it's about time we paid our due.
I think this is part and parcel of what inspires him and motivates him.
And if you read Saulinsky, you can't help but conclude this.
And if you listen to some of the community organizers that are out there talking today, that's the only conclusion you can come to.
And if you're going to open the floodgates to the third world, what are you going to...
And it's not that Obama thinks everybody being equally miserable is fair, because he's never going to be miserable.
He's never going to be subjected to any of this.
He is never going to be affected or impacted by any of this.
He's always going to have multiple layers of personal insulation from all of the policy initiatives that he implements.
You're not going to be affected or impacted by any of it.
And neither will many of his buddies.
So anyway, this is why, ladies and gentlemen, I look at all this and try to explain the motivation because I think therein lies the key to enlightenment or opening up the minds of many who otherwise wouldn't be enlightened.
And there's a risk in it, too.
Obviously, there's a risk if you are good, if you're a good communicator and you clearly spell out what the motivation is.
Some people are just not going to want to believe it and they'll automatically reject it.
So it carries risk with it.
But nevertheless, it seems to me the best route.
So it's a long, roundabout way of asking for your understanding as I am repetitive time and again with some of these things.
But I really did.
I mean, there were times in this speech last night, I really thought I was listening to somebody speaking from the standpoint of conquering hero.
Somebody's conquered this country.
Somebody has conquered this country and is defending now and speaking up for people that don't live here as though they have achieved some kind of victory.
And I thought, imagine what would happen if just in a week, if Obama worked as hard for Americans as he does for illegal aliens.
Just imagine if he cared as much about the unemployed can't get health care tax paying citizen of this nation as he cares about people who are not citizens.
But I and I love the irony and I love this of Obama claiming that our immigration system is broken.
This from the guy who refused to enforce the immigration laws for six years.
In fact, he even sued the state of Arizona for attempting to essentially create their own replica of federal immigration law for the purposes of protecting their own state borders.
And Obama sues them and he claims that our immigration system is broken.
And it isn't broken.
It's just not a set of laws that are being enforced.
And there are a lot of people today, as I said, the tech guys are not happy, the Chamber OF Commerce is not happy, some Democrats are not happy.
Of course, the left will say, well see, it must have been a good speech.
If everybody's unhappy, then it must be made everybody mad.
There must be some equally really good things about this, and I throw that old saw analogy away.
But when i'm even even in the media today, you can find fact-checked articles here at the Washington POST, you can find them at AP.
All the lies Obama told are being chronicled in the drive-by media today.
Some of them are celebrating that he got away with them, like they always did for Bill Quinton, and others are very concerned that he lied so much and like, for example, he has lost David Brooks.
The crease in Obama's slacks simply not enough to hold the alliance.
Well yeah, he's lost David Brooks.
I mean, this is a seminal moment.
Let me see if I can find it.
What's the sound bite number?
I hadn't intended to get to it first, but this is what happens.
If anybody with a copy of this list, it's number 10.
Here we go.
David Brooks.
This was on PBS special coverage of Obama's speech on immigration.
This is after the co-anchor, Judy Woodruff, spoke with or after the whatever Judy Woodruff said to Brooks.
David, going into the speech, you said the president was making a mistake.
After listening to the arguments that he made, did he persuade you?
Do you think that he'll persuade the doubters?
The crit?
It doesn't matter if he persuades anybody, he did it, it doesn't matter.
And i'm hearing a lot of people, oh man, this is going to really imperil the Democrat party.
Our Democrat party is going to be in such and there's some Democrats really worried about that too something we addressed yesterday.
Fine, the Democrat party's in trouble today okay, and the Republicans are thinking, man okay, we could be sitting pretty oh, speaking.
Another Washington POST article from Costa today and I think it's a WALL Street Journal or some other Republicans better be careful, they better not overreact, they better not get mad, they better cold.
They better hold their lunatic caucus in check, the TEA Party, otherwise Hispanics are going to get mad anyway.
Here's Brooks reacting to Judy Woodruff's question.
Do you think that he persuaded the doubters and the critics?
The substance was not the issue.
Most people agree with him on the substance.
The issue is why he's doing it and how he's doing it, the unilateral way he's doing it, and I think probably the unconstitutional way he's doing it.
He's ratcheting up the use of executive authority, this unilateral action.
The one line in this speech about process is: if you don't like this, pass a bill.
Well, suppose a future Republican president says, You don't like my decision not to enforce Obamacare or the Civil Rights Act, pass a bill that I like.
That is not how this system works.
We have compromise, we have alternate voices, we have a legislative process.
We do not have unilateral action by the White House.
Mr. Brooks, you gave us this guy.
You and a cadre of like-minded, brilliant eggheads gave us this guy, and you could have said this six years ago.
I contend, Mr. Brooks, you could have known all of this six years ago if you would have just had the courage to admit to yourself who he is.
Now, what good is it after the fact it's all done?
Yeah, yeah.
And I can give you all kinds of things.
Imagine Sarah Palin's president one day and said, You know what?
I've asked Congress to do something about abortion, but they won't, so I'm just going to make it illegal.
We'll take a break and be back after this.
Don't go away.
And we are back.
It's Rush Limbaugh.
This is Open Line Friday.
Great to have you on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Grab Son by number 19, John Boehner, the Speaker of the House.
By the way, the Republicans that they're leaving Washington.
The Republicans have left town with no plan to deal with this.
And it's not as though they were blind-sided.
Anyway, this was at a little press event that the Speaker had on Capitol Hill today.
Just a little portion.
We've got about 45 seconds left.
All year long, I've warned the president that by taking unilateral action on matters such as his health care law, or by threatening action repeatedly on immigration, he was making it impossible to build the trust necessary to work together.
As I warned the president, you can't ask the elected representatives of the people to trust you to enforce the law if you're constantly demonstrating that you can't be trusted to enforce the law.
The president never listened.
And with this action, he's refused to listen to the American people.
The president has taken actions that he himself has said are those of a king or an emperor, not an American president.
Yeah, he did.
Yeah, he did.
Okay, he did.
Now what?
So, this is what everybody wants to know: is here, everybody knows what he did.
Most everybody, and I maintain that even, you know, people like Geraldo and these others that are applauding and this Ramos guy from Univision, they all know this is illegal.
It's just that some of them are celebrating it.
But they all know it.
Everybody knows it's unconstitutional.
So, I mean, it's literally mind-boggling.
So many people are apparently of the belief that the act alone, the illegal or unconstitutional act alone, is enough to engender corrective measures in response.
And we're seeing that it just doesn't work that way.
So, Constitution's still full of holes.
You know, I've got my cynic hat on today.
You know, some days I just can't help.
And I'm still, hey, folks, I'm in a good mood.
I mean, don't misunderstand.
And we're going to have some yucks today.
But it still is, it still is surreal.
Anyway, you know, the NFL PSA that we have spoken about on previous occasions on this program.
You may have seen it by now.
During NFL game telecasts, there is a, I guess, a 30-second PSA which features NFL players, not in uniform.
Some of them recognizable, some of them not.
They're standing in front of a white background, and they each utter a word or two.
One will say, we must.
The next one say, no more.
The next one says, stop now.
And then on and on for 30 seconds.
And at the end of it, you find out what they're talking about.
Stop domestic violence now.
And as I say, it's always been kind of funny to me because I'm not engaging in it.
The guys telling me to stop it are the ones or in the group where it's happening.
It's kind of reverse order.
And there are now these kinds of things in St. Louis, Ferguson, Missouri.
A bunch of PSAs, no more, don't do it.
We got to stick together, hang together, no violence, peace.
And I sit here and I do people that conceive these things really think they're going to work, or is it just an exercise in showing how much somebody claims to care?
Does anybody really believe that the people that just can't wait, they can't wait for this grand jury not to indict?
They so want to relive the 60s civil rights unrest all over again that if the grand jury indicts the cops, there's going to be a huge, what?
Oh my God, what?
What do we do now?
And they're going to have to invent a new reason to protest.
And they will.
They'll find them because they're going to protest.
They're going to try to raise hell no matter what.
It's just, it's not even about the specifics of this indictment or lack of coming down.
And the reason I mentioned it is because Eric Holder is now out.
He just issued a plea for everybody in St. Louis to keep calm and to not riot and to maintain calm and peace and all that.
And I look, I don't have a problem with it.
My problem is that people actually think it's going to have an impact.
It's just so much surface public relations and spin that isn't really designed to do what it claims to do.
It's designed to make the organizers look good, designed to make the creators of the plan look like they're brilliant and compassionate and so forth.
And like so much in our culture and society, nothing's real.
Everything's public relations.
Everything's buzz, everything's spin.
And it's just comical to me.
I get Eric, not Eric, Adrian Peterson.
Adrian Peterson's always, you know what?
I'm never going to use a switch again in spanking my kids.
I'm going to do different kinds of discipline.
I'm going to sit down.
I'm going to talk to them.
I'm going to make sure they have timeouts.
I'll send them to the corner.
I have to face the corner of the room, but I'm never going to use a switch again.
Don't confuse me with Ray Rice.
Nobody did.
It's just.
And then everybody sees these things.
Oh, man, don't people care?
And the things people get credit for in our society, undeservedly so, just continue to mount up.
Meanwhile, the people, mostly invisible, who really do things for the common good and really achieve, are never noted, never noticed, and of course, never credited.
Sometimes it's even worse than that.
Now, back to the Obama executive amnesty last night.
We mentioned yesterday afternoon there was a story from Robert Costa, who used to be at National Review Online, and he has now moved over to the Washington Post, which is a common move.
Somebody that works at a conservative publication to go to the Washington.
It happens all the time.
And he had a piece yesterday that pretty much said that the big concern inside the Republican establishment over Obama's executive amnesty last night was not Obama.
The main concern inside the Republican establishment was not what Obama was going to do.
And it was not dealing with the circumstances after Obama did it.
No, no.
The thing the Republican establishment and the Republican consultants were most threaten yesterday was the Tea Party reaction to what Obama was going to do.
And they were very, very worried.
And they were doing their best, the article said, to try to rein in the lunatic caucus.
That's my term for it.
That was not in the story.
The Tea Party members of the House and the Tea Party members of the Senate.
And the establishment was hoping, they know they don't have a lot of control over them.
They were hoping they would keep it in check and not go crazy and not get angry and not get bloodthirsty and show the Hispanics of this country that Republicans hate them and all of this stuff.
And there are two more of these stories today.
Costa himself has a second story in the Washington Post.
And Jackie Kalmas has one here in the New York Times.
Headlines, some in the GOP fear their hardliners will alienate Latino voters.
New York Times.
This is not the story from yesterday that Robert Costa had in the Washington Post, though it might as well be.
And this story is also the top story at Google News, and it ranks near the top at Yahoo News.
All but drowned out by Republicans' clamorous opposition to President Obama's executive action on immigration are some leaders who worry that their party could alienate the fastest growing group of voters for 2016 and beyond if its hottest heads become its face.
That is the lead in the New York Times.
And of course, by some leaders, the New York Times means a couple of Inside the Beltway pollsters and a third pollster from something called Latino Decisions.
But this is what passes for journalism at the New York Times.
They actually have cite three polls here to produce this result.
Both the president and the Republican Party confront risks here, said Bill McInturf, Republican pollster.
While the anger for Mr. Obama is being perceived as overstepping his boundaries, McInturf said, the Republicans' risk is opposing his action without an appropriate tenor and thereby alienating the Latino community.
Mitt Romney got 27% of the Hispanic vote.
How much more can they be alienated?
So you see, the great fear inside the Republican establishment was not what Obama was going to do and not The result, not the impact on the country of what Obama was going to do.
No, no, no, no, no.
The big fear at the Republican establishment was that certain hotheads in the party would overreact and alienate the fastest growing group of voters in 2016.
Thereby signaling that the only thing that matters is winning elections.
And however, we have to do that, we're going to do it.
And if it means punting on core beliefs and issues, then we'll do that.
But don't you guys, you hotheads, run out there and screw it up for us by making these Latinos think that we're like you and don't like them.
Meanwhile, you cannot find a single national poll showing a majority support for what Obama did.
So why in the world is the Republican Party in the face of yet again another majority opposing the president?
Why is the Republican Party running around and worried about something that is completely a non-factor?
In 2010, the Republican Party had an opportunity to align with the Tea Party.
They had a joint issue, opposition to Obamacare.
They've had numerous opportunities to align with a majority of the American people who oppose this.
And by the way, there are, in addition to these stories that are detailing various groups that are unhappy with Obama did last night, do you know there are a couple stories here that some Latinos are not happy?
Oh, yeah.
You know, there's some Hispanics not happy.
Because, you know, unlike what the Republican Party's pollsters might think, the Hispanic population, the country is not monolithic.
They don't all think alike.
They don't all vote alike.
And they don't all do everything else alike.
And it's the same thing with women and it's the same thing with every other group.
They are not monolithic.
There is widespread opposition to what Obama did.
And for some reason, the Republican Party doesn't want to hook up with it.
And the bafflement continues.
Okay, folks, I finally, I've got some audio here of this NFL PSA that I have been talking about.
And I'm going to give you the names of the players here.
Starts out with Eli Manning and then Prince Amukamara and then Alfred Morris of the Redskins.
And then Ben Watson, Charles Way, Mark Herzlick, LeVar Arrington, Jason Witten, Curtis Martin, John Doranbos, Merton Hanks, Aeneas Williams, Chris Carter, John Lynch, William Gay, and Eli Manning closes it out as well as opens it.
No more boys will be boys.
No more.
What's the big deal?
No more.
It's just the way he is.
No more.
He just has a temper.
No more.
But he's such a nice guy.
No more.
She seems fine to me.
No more.
What was she wearing?
No more.
She was drunk.
No more.
He was drunk.
No more.
She was asking for it.
No more.
She never said no.
No more.
We don't talk about that.
No more bystanding.
No more ignorance.
No more excuses.
No more.
And then graphic stop domestic violence now.
It seems like we should be recording the PSA, playing it to locker rooms.
You know, at halftime, here's Robert in Waldorf, Maryland, as we head to the phones and open line Friday.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello, sir.
How are you doing, Rush?
How are you hitting them?
Pretty good.
Well, actually, since you ask, I'm crushing them.
Too cold up here to hit them.
Well, that's why I don't live up there.
That's terrible.
But look, I've been listening to this.
I listen to you every day.
You keep me well educated, and I thank you for that.
But I got a different way of looking at it, and I wanted to run it by you.
I think that maybe Obama just blew up the Democrat Party.
Because as long as the Republicans, to me, don't get their hand in this, this is now on him and the Democrats.
And I just think that that's going to backfire on them.
The people were already mad two weeks ago.
I mean, the people were pretty clear to me what they said two weeks ago.
And basically, last night he flipped all of us the bird.
But I think by him doing this, he just blew up the whole Democrat Party.
And I heard you yesterday say, you know, they're going to march on and all.
But I just think he really did them great damage yesterday.
Well, you heard me correctly yesterday, and I was trying to make a point with it.
I'm not trying to say it's not important to beat them in elections.
It is.
But that's not all that we have to do to stop them.
You got to do more than win elections, is my point.
And they've got a whole wing of that party that doesn't care whether they win or lose elections.
They're going to keep implementing their agenda and corrupting as much of the country as they can behind the scenes that nobody notices, whether they win elections or not.
Now, but that was just to clarify what I said yesterday.
You think that the Democrat Party has had their hat handed to them?
You think that he has really put an albatross around their neck with it?
As long as the Republicans stay out of this.
Is that what you said?
Yes, sir.
Well, what do you mean by that?
What do you mean as long as the Republicans stay out of it?
Number one, I think, Rush, I mean, the impeachment thing, they don't have 67 votes, so that's a moot point there.
They're not talking about it.
But I'm just saying as in general.
That's just a waste of even talking about it.
But they're not talking about it.
It's not an issue.
They're not going to do it.
They've already said so.
And then if they go out and take up this immigration issue, this is a hot issue.
You know that.
Countrywide, I don't know what the polls are.
58% of people or whatever it is are against amnesty.
Doesn't matter.
So as long as they don't touch it, it's wrapped up.
He's got it around his neck.
He's got it around the Democrats Party's neck.
Okay, so let me.
What we're supposed to do, and I just want to understand your theory.
What we're supposed to do is pretty much replicate what we did during the election.
Just shut up.
Just let him do this stuff.
Shut up and let him kill the Democrat Party.
To me, the only chance we have is getting that White House in 16 and reversing this.
If we lose, do not get that White House in the next election.
We're never going to turn this stuff around, Rush.
Well, I don't disagree with that.
Hey, you don't have to be contentious with me.
I'm not disagreeing with you.
I'm never being contentious with you, sir.
You've taught me everything I know.
You taught me how to read the green on the green.
Well, that's I can read Bermuda Greens with the best of them, sir.
Rush, I love what you do.
Appreciate all you taught me.
I love that.
He's about reading Greens and Bermuda Greens and so forth.
And you can spot the grain?
Yes, sir.
All right.
Yes, sir.
All right.
Well, look, before you go here, Robert, let me tell you what I think.
Let me tell you what I fear.
I think Obama is watching right now.
I think Obama is taking note of how little anger, protest, opposition there really is.
I mean, it might be in the polls, but Obama is taking the measure right now of how much more of this he can do in the next two years with as little opposition as he thinks he's going to get.
I guarantee you, he's only just begun here, Robert.
We haven't even started the final two years.
He has just blown up the Constitution.
And as far as he's concerned, life is going on as normal.
There's not a single protest about it.
There's not one Republican leader threatening to do anything about it.
And I think Obama is saying, I've got a free road.
There's no stopping me.
I can do that.
But it's not the first time he's done it.
I mean, you go back.
No, but my point is, while he may have saddled the Democrat Party with a really, really bad situation here, that all may be correct.
It isn't going to affect him in one way.
It's not going to matter to him what happens to the Democrat Party because of what he's done.
If he sees, look at what he just did, folks.
He just looked the Constitution in the eye and basically wadded it up and threw it away.
And nobody is saying a word.
I guarantee you, he's thinking he's got smooth sailing for this is just the beginning.
That's what I really.
What happens if Obama makes a deal with Iran without Congress that allows them to develop nuclear energy, quote unquote?
Why not?
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