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Nov. 27, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 27, 2014, Thursday, Hour #2
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TALENT on loan from God.
Yes, sir, Bob Rush Limboy at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Great to have you, folks.
A thrill and a delight.
Telephone number is 800 28282.
And the email address, L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
So I'm just scanning the news during the break here, and I see that Howard Feynman, formally of Newsweek until it went out of business, and informally of MSNBC.
Well, he may still be there.
But the source I saw was the Huffing and Puffington Post, and Howard Feynman says the era of Obama is over, and it is not.
The era of Obama is not over.
Obama has not been stopped.
The election last night, and I'm going to keep saying this.
You know, the old saw, you have to say things over and over again for it to set in for people to finally hear it.
Particularly the spoken word, which was here and then it's gone into the ether.
This election has a mandate.
And the mandate is I don't think the Republican Party even is aware.
They may be now, but it's not something they were conscious of.
They tried to win this election by practically being invisible at the national level.
And because of this election, they have been elected to stop Barack Obama and his agenda.
They were elected to put the stop, put the brakes on it.
But Obama has shown, and he's even in the midst of all this, out there huffing and puffing and bragging about doing amnesty this Christmas.
The way he's going to do it is to delay forever deportation of four million illegal immigrants in the country already.
Start with a small number, four million.
Everybody thinks 12 to 20 million in the country.
So he'll start with a four million number, and he's not going to say it's granting amnesty.
He's just going to suspend deportation.
They're never going to be sent back, which is amnesty by another name.
And he's going to do it by hooker by cricket.
And why would he not?
What is it about?
What is amnesty?
What is Obama's primary purpose in granting citizenship to millions of Americans who at this moment can't.
It's a voter registration drive.
There's no reason he would not do it because of the election results.
The election results are not going to stop him.
That's why the era of Obama is not over.
Obama has shown he's demonstrated and he continues to threaten to govern outside the will of the people, against the will of the people, and outside the Constitution.
I think these next two years portend some of the greatest danger yet.
I think these next two years hold it's scary to think about it.
Because we have a man who's committed.
He is by virtue of his own existence, he is committed to transforming this country.
For whatever reasons.
We can debate from now on the end of the day what it is about America that Obama doesn't like and wants to change, but it doesn't matter.
We know that he doesn't like certain things, and he has resented them for a long time, and by God by golly, he's gonna fix it before he goes, and he's got two years.
And it's everything to him, and it doesn't matter to him what he has to do, and the Republicans have already promised him that they're not going to legally stop him.
They've taken impeachment off the table.
They better be very careful about talking about how there won't be a government shutdown or we're not gonna withhold funds.
They better be very careful about that, because all they're gonna do is send a message that he has a free reign, that he's got a free road ahead of him, do whatever he wants to do because when it comes to it, they aren't gonna stop him.
And that's the only reason they were elected.
There can be no other.
Voters don't send people to Washington to compromise.
Voters send people to Washington to dominate.
Voters send people to Washington to persevere to win, to bring about things they believe in.
They don't send people to Washington to cave on core principles in the name of compromise.
And that's Not what happened yesterday.
The American people who voted loud and clear made it plain and simple.
Stop it.
We don't want any more.
And the Republicans are the only ones who can.
And so in the midst of all this, here's Obama.
Hey, bud, you know what?
I'm going to continue on with my executive amnesty, and because he needs, and the Democrat Party is seeking total dominance of the American electoral system.
This election result's not going to change his mind about it.
Public opinion doesn't matter.
The American people show up in droves to say to the country and Obama, stop.
Doesn't matter to him.
He's going to keep on.
And when you know when you understand why, it makes total sense.
He wants all of these illegal aliens to someday be legal Democrat registered voters.
Pure and simple.
It isn't complicated whatsoever.
I went back and looked at some of the news stories we had late last week, early this week.
Remember the story in the New York Times by uh what was the guy's name?
Cone?
Nate Cohn.
Why polls tend to undercount Democrats.
Remember this?
Polls show that the Republicans have an advantage in the fight for control of the Senate.
They lead in enough states to win control.
They have additional opportunities in North Carolina, New Hampshire to make up for potential upsets.
As election day nears, Democrat hopes increasingly hinge on the possibility that the polls will simply prove wrong.
And so this guy had a story in the New York Times about how polls do not accurately count Democrats.
Democrats are always under-sampled in the polls.
How does that look today?
Many polls got a lot of races totally wrong.
The drive-by media today has a new job, and that is to make as many people as possible believe that even though the vast majority of voters voted for Republicans to stop Obama, the media's objective is to support Obama and Democrat policies, particularly amnesty and climate change legislation.
And from the Associated Press exit poll, Nation in a Funk turns to Republicans.
The glum voters who handed Republicans full control of Congress on Tuesday feel the U.S. is stagnating under Obama's leadership.
But put little faith in politicians of either party.
See?
You see how this works?
The American people just threw Democrats out of office, and the AP is trying to tell everybody that everybody is disliked.
It was not an anti-incumbent election.
It was an anti-Democrat incumbent election.
Here's the next paragraph.
Most voters leaving polling places said that they don't have much trust in government, and they feel the nation's off on the wrong track.
They were twice as likely to predict life will be worse for the next generation than to say it'd be better.
Those feeling pessimistic were more likely to vote for Republican congressional candidates.
Above all, voters worried about the economy, exit polls showed.
The exit polls showed just over half of voters think the government's doing too many things better left to business and individuals.
About two-thirds feel the nation seriously off of the wrong track, slightly more than thought that thought that when Republicans won control the House in 2010.
But then there's this.
On some issues, most voters took positions that align more with the Democrat Party.
A majority favor offering immigrants who are in the country illegally a way to stay.
If so, that's the first poll that's ever shown that.
I have never seen a poll showing a majority of people support Obamacare, and I have never seen a poll showing a majority of people support amnesty.
And yet AP says the exit polls showed this yesterday.
Isn't that amazing?
We have a wave election.
We have a landslide.
We have an overwhelming shellacking of the Democrat Party, and yet voters said they want amnesty.
As wrong as many of the polls were on some of these races, we're getting to the point now where it is the intelligent thing to do to discount the polls.
The polls could not have been more wrong about Allison Lundergan-Grimes, could not have been more wrong about Wendy Davis in Texas.
The polls got a lot of races wrong.
The polls got a lot of races wrong.
Okay.
And I it's stunning how much was missed.
And why was it missed?
It was missed because of the built-in media bias on part of the pollsters who themselves are all liberal Democrats.
And it was missed because the purpose of polling, especially polling that's far away from the actual date of an election, like a poll result about an election in June.
The election is in November.
Here's a poll in June or July or August even.
Doesn't mean anything.
It can't.
It cannot mean anything.
A poll in all other than an interesting talking point, but that's all it is.
Unless the pollster is using it to try to shape public opinion.
Why are you laughing so what did I just say something funny?
I did.
Oh, good.
Snerdley is laughing because liberals are calling fit to be tied.
He said it's hilarious what they're saying, but they don't want to go in the air and say it.
Were they mad at me?
Or just mad at the outcome, mad or mad at everything.
You look at a horse race.
At the halfway point, does anybody pay off their bets?
Let's say a poll on the on the horse race that's halfway through.
What it doesn't mean anything.
It doesn't mean anything until it's over.
So many polls got so much wrong, and the reason they got it wrong is because of the built-in bias that exists to try to deny the reality that people might not like liberal Democrats.
Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton were rejected everywhere they went to support and endorse a candidate.
Barack Obama ditto.
Michelle Obama ditto.
And that's simply unacceptable to the Democrat establishment.
That just can't be.
In their minds, they are universally loved, respected, and adored.
Now, before we go to the break here, I want to go back to the archives at Groveyard Forgotten Favorites.
We just had uh Tom Brokaw and Charlie Rose, in which Brokaw tried to say that this election doesn't mean anything because it was about small things.
So many small things.
He doesn't even really know what they all are.
So many small things, but back when he was doing the news, back when Tom Brokaw was reading the news teleprompter every day, that's when big stuff was happening.
That's when we had Nixon going to China, and that's when we had Reagan taking on the Soviet Union, and that's when we had Kennedy taking us to the moon.
But this stuff going on now is chump change, and it doesn't mean anything.
Really, saving the country from socialism is not a big idea, Tom.
But see if you recall this.
This is October 30th, 2008, Audio Someway 26 here.
Same show, Charlie Rose show.
Tom Brokaw.
Folks, this is a week prior to the 2008 election, a week prior to what turned out to be an historic election in the country, the first African American president in our history.
Tom Brokaw and Charlie Rose talking about Obama.
I don't know what Barack Obama's worldview is.
No, I don't know.
I don't know how he really sees where China is.
We don't know a lot about Barack Obama and the universe of his thinking about foreign policy.
I don't really know.
And do we know anything about the people who are advising them?
You know, it's an interesting question.
He is principally known through his autobiography and through very aspirational speeches.
I don't know what books he's read.
What do we know about the heroes of Barack Obama?
There's a lot about him we don't know.
Yeah, and the sad thing is they still don't.
Even now, these two guys still don't, in the midst of an abject national calamity and near disaster.
These guys still don't know who Barack Obama is.
They still remain clueless.
They remain clueless about the import of last night and what it was all about and all day yesterday.
Gotta take a quick time out.
We'll get to your phone calls when we get back, so don't go anywhere.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Republican Party has a genuine star.
The Republican Party has a demonstrated genuine hero and potential star in its ranks.
And he is the governor of Wisconsin.
His name is Scott Walker.
Scott Walker has won three out of four elections in the last five or six years.
Regular gubernatorial races and a couple of recalls.
Every American labor union.
Every American labor union thug, a rigged judiciary, a rigged media.
The Democrat Party has thrown everything they've got at Scott Walker, and he has beat them back without one syllable of complaint, without one ounce of whining.
All he has done is win and implement a conservative agenda that has created a budget surplus in his state, has created rampant new employment, has created a budget surplus which has allowed him to cut taxes.
He has dealt a serious blow to the teachers' unions, all to the benefit of Wisconsin school kids.
The Democrat Party, in conjunction with the national media, has thrown every bit of slime, every bit of excrement, every dirty trick they have at Scott Walker.
And he has beat every effort to not just beat him in an election, but to destroy him, to destroy his career, to destroy his reputation and to destroy his life.
In the week before the election, Barack Obama went to Wisconsin to campaign for his opponent, Mary Burke.
Bill Clinton campaigned in Wisconsin for Mary Burke.
Hillary Clinton spoke out in support of Mary Burke, his opponent.
Michelle, my Bell Obama, campaigned in Wisconsin for Mary Burke.
Union money poured into Wisconsin from all over the country.
The Wisconsin governor's race was a national election.
Every interest group in the Democrat Party, from the climate change group to the animal rights group to the militant extremists of every Democrat coalition, every group aligned in opposition to Scott Walker, and never once took him on on the issues.
That campaign that they ran was personal.
It was the politics of personal destruction and an effort to wipe him out as a viable figure.
And I watched his acceptance speech last night, and I saw the epitome of class.
I saw the epitome of dignity.
I saw a guy who was genuinely happy and respectful.
And not one shred of bitterness.
No evidence of anger whatsoever.
Went into Wisconsin to take out Scott Walker three times in six years.
Scott Walker defeated his opponent, Mary Burke.
Scott Walk, Scott Walker defeated every national labor union.
Scott Walker defeated Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Scott Walker defeated Barack and Michelle Obama.
In other words, Scott Walker defeated the A-Team.
Not once, not twice, but three times.
And he did it with a conservative agenda.
Scott Walker has been elected three times to stop Democrats in Wisconsin.
You don't get much bluer as a state than Wisconsin used to be.
University of Wisconsin is there.
Madison, that's where Donna Shalala was the university president where she came from.
It is a blue state like Minnesota is a blue state, like New York is a blue state.
What's happened in Wisconsin doesn't get very much chatter because it's Wisconsin.
It's the upper Midwest, uh, no real stars there, and besides, it's a profound Democrat embarrassment what happened.
And so it doesn't get a lot of chatter.
But Wisconsin last night was a huge, huge win.
And Scott Walker has by virtue of his work created a blueprint that is there for anybody in the Republican Party to follow if they want to experience the same results he has.
So just want to take a few minutes here to congratulate him on his big win.
No, this was not a defeat for incumbents.
It was not a rejection of incumbents.
This was a rejection of liberalism.
Whether the voters know that or not.
Liberalism is what this country has been in the shackles of for six years.
Liberalism is what is ruining this country.
The people voted yesterday and said no more, no mass.
Stop it.
The people of this country yesterday went to vote and they rejected liberal Democrat policies.
There can be no other analysis of this.
Not honest.
You can lie to yourself if you're a Democrat.
And even if you're a Republican, you can lie to yourself and say the voters want us to fix a broken system.
The voters want us to work together.
BS.
The voters want whatever they call happening stopped.
You and I know it as liberalism.
They may not know what it is, although I think a majority do, but regardless, they want it stopped.
This is not the America that everybody has come to know and expect.
The idea that America's best days are behind us.
Who says?
That's hogwash, and nobody wants to believe that.
We don't want to be told that this is the new reality, and that we'd better accept an America in decline because an American superstatus nation, American superpower nation.
No, no, that doesn't work anymore.
We're all together now in a global community.
BS.
That is not what the American people want.
The American people don't want a vacuum around the world where terrorist groups like ISIS rise up, Boko Harem rise up, Al-Qaeda rise up.
The American people do not want infectious diseases all over the world brought into this country.
The American people want America to remain what it always has been, the greatest country on earth.
And I finally heard a candidate say that last night.
I actually, in an acceptance speech, I heard a candidate actually call the United States of America the greatest nation on earth.
And I had to stop and think.
I haven't heard a candidate of either party say that about this country in I don't know when.
I don't know how long.
It was Joni Ernst.
It was Joni Ernst in her acceptance speech when she described what she's gonna do.
She is going to go to Washington and make them squeal.
And she's talking about the Democrat Party and the Washington establishment.
She is going to make them squeal.
She said, we are going to make them squeal.
And she described America as the greatest nation on earth, the greatest nation in history, and it is.
And the American people know it and they want it to continue.
They want to live and be part of the greatest nation on earth, and they want to be among those who make it work.
And they don't want to hear how the best days are behind us.
They don't want to hear how, well, the past trickle down, living on borrowed time.
It really wasn't real.
It really wasn't real.
This is the real America, where we have to redistribute limited resources.
That's not what this country is.
It's not what the people of this country want this country to be.
And they went to the polls yesterday and they knocked that premise out of the park.
They don't want Democrat Party light.
They don't want compromise.
They don't want the Republicans to go there and do a little bit of what Obama does just so everybody's smiling.
They don't want it, they want this stopped.
There can be no other analysis.
There can be no alternative take on this.
Now I realize some of you in the New Castrati, the metrosexuals among you might be yelling at your radios.
Mr. Limbo, you simply are wrong.
I know for a fact that many of my friends want Washington to work together.
And that's what the election meant.
Really, where do you get that?
Honestly, if you happen to hold that view that the election yesterday means voters want the Democrats and the Republicans to work together.
How in the world do you get there?
Isn't one candidate who said that's what he was going to do that won?
The candidates that won promised to stop, primarily Obamacare, but other things too.
But even if they hadn't, how do you get?
Don't you understand that is a Democrat myth?
Just like the independents don't like Democrats being criticized.
If Republicans criticize Democrats, the independents are not going to put up with that, and they'll go running right back to the Democrat Party.
Really?
Yeah.
That's a myth.
That's a lie.
Another Democrat myth is the Republicans are never ever going to win another election unless they get on board and support Amnesty.
Really?
How do you explain last night?
Name for me one Republican who won, promising to work with Obama on Amnesty.
You can't produce such candidate because he doesn't exist.
So where do you get this idea that the election means the voters want the parties to compromise and to work together and to govern with no acrimony?
Where do you get that?
You can't find that message.
That's not what elections are about, anyway.
Elections are about winners and losers.
And last night the Democrats lost.
It means the Republicans won.
It means the Republicans' job is to dominate to stop the Democrats, pure and simple.
It doesn't mean work with them.
It doesn't mean compromise.
It doesn't mean share the majority leadership position with Harry Reid.
It means get rid of Harry Reid.
Mr. Snerdley just asked me in the break.
So do you think L. Rushbo that this is the end of Wendy Davis?
Ladies and gentlemen, it's another myth.
Wendy Davis was never in it.
Wendy Davis, a total creation, a dream of the Democrat Party because of whatever she once did on abortion.
And that matters so much to them.
And so they created this mythical figure.
She never had a prayer.
She lost by 20.
She was never in it.
Never viable.
She was never a real candidate.
But nobody knew that until the election yesterday.
All we had to go on was the media and their polling data telling us, this is nip and tuck.
You know what?
She might win and she should win because she's a woman.
And we're doing the war on women.
And she's for abortion.
And she's big on abort.
It's not even a factor.
Charlie Christ, is he gone?
No, he'll run next time as a Tea Party candidate, probably.
And then when that doesn't work, he may run as a Maoist.
I mean, he's got plenty of options left.
There are plenty of other political parties for him to join.
But Wendy Davis.
Scott Brown, Scott Britt, could have won that race, could have won that race.
But he lost that race years ago.
Scott Brown lost this election last night, years ago.
He was elected on a premise to stop Obamacare when he won in Massachusetts.
What did he do?
Gets to Washington, starts talking about compromise.
Well, I represent a bunch of Northeastern liberals.
Well, where'd it get you?
To me, this is not complicated.
And I know politics is a business.
This is something that people often forget.
Look at McConnell, for example.
Alison Lunderson Grimes.
Do you realize she was never ever a threat?
Do you realize Alison Lunderson Grimes, London, or whatever?
She was never ever going to even show up in the final results.
And the Democrat congressional campaign knew it when they were, you know, a week before they pull out of there.
They knew everybody, but they had their polling data, but the media myth was that she might unseat Mitch McConnell.
Well, politics is a business like any other business, and it has its professionals.
It has its superstars, and it has its halfway players, it has its losers.
It has pretenders, but it is a business.
It's not Civics 101.
Politics is a business, it's a cutthroat business, and the people that win know that business.
And it's not mine, by the way.
I will be the first to, I'm not in that business.
Getting votes is a much different proposition than getting an audience.
And I'm not trying to be falsely humble.
I'm I'm just trying to be realistic here.
But I'm I'm telling you that that the people in the know in that business have known all along that Wendy Davis was a placeholder and a pretender, and the same with Allison Lunderson Grimes or whatever.
And they're simply holding out hope that a miracle would have happened.
They could have done something to make McConnell unacceptable in Kentucky.
But that's all the hope they had.
I mean, she was never viable.
Come on, not even admitting she voted for Obama.
If she had a chance at any point, that ended it, but no, we couldn't say that.
We had to hold out hope.
There's so much deceit and fraud in the day-to-day media.
And that fraud is given cover by polling data.
If you produce a poll that says Allison Lunderson Grimes, London Grimes has a chance to upseat McConnell, then you're going to do a series of news stories pretending and portraying her as viable and powerful and maybe something serious when it never was true.
Snerdley, again, trying to get my attention.
What?
What's a quib?
Well, no.
He's asking if I explain how you go from a Daval Patrick Democrat governor to a Republican governor in uh the only thing I can tell you, and it's it's anecdotal uh honestly, and this cracks me up too.
In the last three weeks, and as always, I can't mention names because these people, when they speak to me, are assured that it's all off the record, terms of their identity.
But I've had, I don't know, a handful of full-fledged rock rib Democrats in Massachusetts, say, you know, I hope, I hope you and Fox News pull this out.
And I look at them and my mouth falls open.
You know, you you and Fox News are so crucial here.
Uh uh, and I I look at them, I said, what do you what are you saying?
You've got to stop them.
And I'm looking at people who who who they're the ones that made all this that they now oppose possible.
And they're looking at us to stop it.
But they're never going to say it publicly.
So you want to know what happened to Dval Patrick?
Well, obviously, what happened to Duvall Patrick is there's enough liberal Democrats in Boston that are also upset with what's going on who want to change.
But the Republican candidate is just like all the others.
He's the other guy, it's a way to say stop what's going on.
It's a way to send a message that people are ticked off.
Other than Hollywood and Silicon Valley, you would be hard-pressed, and Wall Street, of course, you'd be hard-pressed to find unbridled, never-ending prosperity and abundance.
Most every place in this country is undergoing economic doldrums, disasters.
Unemployment's high everywhere.
People's work is being cut from full-time to part-time everywhere.
Everybody's health insurance premiums are going up.
Everybody's deductible is going up.
Everybody.
And everybody's fed up with it.
And this election shows this.
I'll tell you what you know what frustrates me more than anything, and it is frustrating, is that we have to go through this so often.
And this is going to be forgotten at some point, and these people are going to be re-elected maybe in two years.
Maybe in four.
The same bunch of liberal Democrats, once again, voters will feel it's safe to go back to them because the Republicans have never done what they need to do to secure their victories, election to election, generation to generation.
And if I'm gonna I'm gonna reprise something else here.
If the Republicans make the mistake again of not, as a party, explaining to voters why yesterday happened.
We know you voted for us.
We know you voted against Democrats.
But here's why.
You've got to let them know that you know what they feel, what they're experiencing.
You have to let them know that you understand their plight.
You have to teach.
Anyway, I'm long here.
I gotta take a break.
I meant to get the phone calls in this segment, but so next one, I promise.
You know, Martha Cockley lost again.
Hillary Hillary went a campaign for her.
And that's when that's when Hillary said uh everybody knows that uh jobs are not created by uh corporations and businesses.
Remember that.
Jobs are not created by I even today.
Now everybody, I I'm running into all kinds of Republican strategists and consultants and analysts on TV, and they're all last night and today, just scared to death of Hillary Clinton.
Well, they're not scared to death, but I mean they're just speaking about her as a serious, serious, oh my God, we'd better be very worried kind of threat.
We've got a son might just wipe her out as a viable candidate.
Small business corporations don't create jobs.
Anyway, where we go, Peter, in York, Pennsylvania.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Hello, Rush.
It's nice to talk to you.
Thank you, sir very much.
I've called you three times and I've gotten through you three times.
It must be uh magical between you and I. I'm very concerned, Rush.
Uh first of all, you're always right, and I really don't like that.
It's like you're in my head sometimes when you say things.
But you said something that everybody should listen to and remember.
We have a president who does not care about the law.
We this country has faced many, many evil things over the years, but right now, the next two years are going to be very dangerous.
Absolutely correct.
Because this man will do anything to further his agenda.
He will do anything to make this country a second-rate country.
I've listened to him.
I I've even tried to like him.
And I just can't.
And I don't trust him at all.
And you're absolutely correct.
He's a dangerous individual, and he's much more dangerous, I think, than the Republicans realize.
Well, I I think he's I think he's more dangerous than most people realize.
I don't think people, and you can't blame them.
I I don't think very many people stop to think about how precariously balanced America is every day, anyway.
Think about something.
We were founded over 200 plus years ago.
And this is really, I mean, when you get down to brass tax, this is the first man who has attempted to pretend the Constitution isn't there.
The precarious balance can be called the honor system.
We have a constitution.
For all of these years, it has been respected as though it is a rock.
It is unalterable.
Now there are people that don't like it, and they have they've blown through it.
The second amendment types, and we know the battles that have been fought, but we've never had somebody pretend it isn't there.
The Constitution itself has always been the backstop.
How precarious a balance is that for a country?
There are constitutional remedies if somebody does what Obama does, but the Republican Party's taking them off the table.
So the only thing that keeps the Constitution relevant and meaningful is Barack Obama's willingness to honor it.
And if he chooses not to, then what?
And that's what he's demonstrated that he's tur perfectly willing to do.
He's already done that, and he's promising to continue to do that.
And we're just smoking right through everything here today, folks, and we have one big exciting broadcast hour remaining, and we're going to get right to that before you even know it.
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