Dec. 15, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Yes, America's Anchorman is away today, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in. | |
| No supporting paperwork whatsoever. | |
| Honored to be here. | |
| We are live at uh Ice Station EIB. | |
| Mr. Snadley is keeping a Kim Jong unlike control of things from New York City. | |
| And we are taking your calls, a 1-800-282-2882. | |
| I mentioned that uh hilarious story in the uh in the New York Times uh about Jeb Bush uh at what they called a little noticed meeting uh i at uh at John McCain's office in uh in uh in in Capitol. | |
| I like that. | |
| When former Governor Jeb Bush of Florida quietly visited Senator John McCain. | |
| He he visited him so quietly that amazingly it's all over the New York Times. | |
| Jeb Bush. | |
| Uh Jeb Bush uh sounding out how he w how he can run for president without, quote, pandering to the party's conservative base. | |
| Uh unquote. | |
| And that's great news. | |
| That's that's thrilling news. | |
| Um it's uh th there w these stories now come up every few weeks. | |
| Uh influential Republicans, this was uh the Washington Post story. | |
| Influential Republicans working to draft Jeb Bush into 2016 presidential race. | |
| Fluent in Spanish, Bush has credibility within the Hispanic community that could help broaden his coalition. | |
| He also has the gravitas, many Republicans say is required to compete with former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Democrats leading potential I I I don't I d again, I'd be grateful. | |
| You might be able to detect if you're if you're listening in very high quality stereo, you might be able to detect just the hint, just the hint of a foreign accent in my voice. | |
| And and I I I won't deny I was not born in this country. | |
| You might just be able to detect that. | |
| So I would be grateful if loyal Americans tried and true, born and bred, could explain to me the benefits of a hereditary political class. | |
| Uh because one of the benefits, uh odd benefit, side benefits of a monarchy is that at least your political class is non-hereditary. | |
| We've had Australia in the news today. | |
| Uh oddly enough, Tony Abbott, the Australian Prime Minister, is not the son or brother of previous Australian Prime Ministers. | |
| Uh his predecessor, uh Julia Gillard. | |
| Uh she's not uh the wife of a former Prime Minister uh who decided that she'd like to be Prime Minister too. | |
| So now we have you know the only thing that can beat a Clinton is a Bush. | |
| I'm not sure what the historical evidence for that is. | |
| But now so now they're moving on. | |
| It's not enough. | |
| It's not enough to to to stick the knife in you with this Cromnibus bill over the weekend. | |
| Now they're telling you now they're telling you w we haven't even sat the new Congress, but we're telling you that as Rush as that caller to Rush said on Friday, uh the 2014 election was meaningless. | |
| We're now giving you an advanced heads up that the twenty sixteen election is is going to be is going to be meaningless too. | |
| It's all over the New York Times uh quietly met, he quietly met with John McCain, but mysteriously, uh, about how he could become the nominee without having to pander to the party's conservative base. | |
| Because that worked out so well with John McCain. | |
| That's worked that that that worked out so well. | |
| So there um I I I posted at my website uh I think about six months ago, a photograph of some Bush family get together, uh showing uh showing uh the first President Bush, the second President Bush, uh the third President Bush in waiting, that's Jeb Bush. | |
| I think they're all wearing kilts if I remember, and uh then all the various sons and the uh the uh the what's the the fellow, the Hispanic nephew uh that uh that was all the rage for a while. | |
| All these guys, all the various Bushes are lined up, and I caption the photograph as the and then the and there's some little girls in there too, like it looks like she's a six-year-old girl or something like that. | |
| And I ca I I uh I captioned the photograph, the 1992, 2000, 2016, 2020, 2024, 2028, 2032, 2036, 2040, 2044, 2048, 2052, 2056, 2060, 2064, 2068, 2072, 2076, 2080, 2084, 2088, and 2092 Republican presidential candidates get together at a recent fundraiser for influential GOP bundlers. | |
| The fellows who brought you the Romney campaign and the McCain campaign and the Bob Dole campaign are now already planning to throw the 2016 election. | |
| This is uh this is this isn't really every anything to do with whether you're conservative or liberal. | |
| Uh it's to do with basic competence, basic competence. | |
| And when you take it in take it in uh with what happened in the Senate over the weekend. | |
| Everyone's mad. | |
| Everyone's mad at Ted Cruz because he wanted a vote. | |
| Uh he he he he wanted a vote on Obama's executive actions on immigration. | |
| And people are mad at him. | |
| My own Senator, Kelly Ayott, Republican of New Hampshire, goes, I think this is ridiculous, Senator Kelly Ayott, Republican of New Hampshire, who had already returned to New Hampshire with plans to see the nutcracker with her daughter this weekend, told Politico. | |
| God. | |
| Kelly Ayott had plans to see the nutcracker with her daughter this weekend, but was forced to go back to the United States Senate to wave through one point one trillion dollars in uh in pointless spending. | |
| It's I don't you hate her when that don't you don't you Well, you know, Mr. Snerdley, I would like actually, instead of her taking her daughter to see the nutcracker, I would like her to be able to take her daughter to the United States Senate and see a few real nutcrackers in action on the Republican side. | |
| People who are serious about putting the pressure to the out of control spending. | |
| For a start, here's the minimum. | |
| When you what what is discredited American government um is these multi thousand page bills that nobody reads. | |
| You can't read them. | |
| Nobody can read them. | |
| You guys wouldn't even have your country if George III had had uh had had the British Parliament pass three thousand page uh bills, nobody would have read them. | |
| The the whole T thing would have been a mystery to you, because it would have been on page twenty-three hundred of the bill and nobody would have nobody would have known about it. | |
| Nobody would have known about it. | |
| Uh as I said on this show a couple of weeks ago, at least the Swedes come by their socialism honestly. | |
| They come by their big government honestly. | |
| Uh this this stuff, this stuff. | |
| Uh I'm I said uh that there was a uh a thing for Blue Cross Blue Shield, a special provision on page sixteen hundred of the bill. | |
| I was wrong. | |
| It's actually page sixteen hundred and two. | |
| It's a sixteen hundred and three bill. | |
| And at sixteen hundred and two, it's supposed to be a continuing resolution uh omnibus appropriations bill. | |
| That means it's about money for funding the government. | |
| Okay, and it's ridiculous. | |
| When you've got a a president behaving unconstitutionally, uh, by the way, to do it in this big omnibus funding bill. | |
| It's why no it's why American spending, uh government spending just goes up. | |
| It should be broken down and they should have bills, particularly when the president is acting unconstitutionally. | |
| You can say uh it's entirely reasonable to say uh the Department of Homeland Security has been made an outlaw by this president. | |
| It is beyond the bounds of American law currently. | |
| So we are going to fund it separately, and we're going to have a special Homeland Security funding bill at which we will s fund legitimate uh uses of homeland security, uh the Department of Homeland Security, but we will not fund the illegal immigration business. | |
| So they could have done that. | |
| But instead they have one of these things, and we're told it's necessary to prevent the government shutting down, uh, which is ridiculous. | |
| Because last time round, only seventeen per cent of the government shut down anyway. | |
| So when you have a government shutdown, even if you have a government shutdown, eighty-three per cent of the behemoth is still staggering about. | |
| Uh that's apparently essential personnel. | |
| Eighty-three percent is uh totally essential. | |
| In fact, some places had higher manpower. | |
| If you were trying to look at the Second World War or the Vietnam War Memorial on the mall, uh, they had enough extra manpower to ring fence the thing and and put yellow police tape up there and prevent veterans from going and standing at an open air memorial in the middle of nowhere. | |
| They had uh people who were preventing at Mount Rushmore, preventing people from looking at uh not just looking looking at Mount Rushmore. | |
| There's a parking area where you can pull off the road and look up and see the stony, cragged visages of uh Teddy Roosevelt and Abe Lincoln and Barack Obama. | |
| Oh no, he's he's his head's way too big for Mount Rushmore. | |
| But all the other fellas they got up there. | |
| You can park by the side of the road and look up at it. | |
| And they had the manpower during a spo so-called government shutdown to prevent people taking photographs. | |
| Um at uh at Yellowstone National Park. | |
| They had extra they had extra uh uh park rangers on hand to prevent people taking photographs. | |
| They escorted a bunch of uh Japanese and German tourists out of the park for illegally taking photographs of a park during a government shutdown. | |
| This is so actually uh the government shutdown didn't shut anything down. | |
| It's a joke. | |
| It's you can't shut this thing down. | |
| It's like uh trying to kill a vampire. | |
| You can they they could they could try and shut Dracula down and they put the stake through his chest and they put the silver bullets in it, but eighty three percent of Dracula is still functioning, and that's how it is when they shut the government down. | |
| But it's that's why we were told they had to pass this bill. | |
| So the government doesn't shut down. | |
| Government doesn't shut down. | |
| Uh and uh and instead the bill has on page sixteen hundred and two some special crony favor that's got nothing to do with government spending under a section titled Modification of Treatment of Certain Health Organizations. | |
| It's got a special provision from Blue Cross Blue Shield. | |
| Why is that? | |
| Why is that in the bill? | |
| And you know that's why that's I would like a party that supports clean government. | |
| Clean government. | |
| Not dirty back deal special favor government. | |
| Makes you feel dirty, makes you feel ashamed just reading these garbage bills. | |
| Where's the guy for that? | |
| Because uh it doesn't seem to make much difference, Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, John Bain and Nancy Pelosi. | |
| Whichever way you do it, you still get these multi thousand page bills, the spending goes up, and the bills are not about what they say they are. | |
| So you got this rubbish uh special provision for Blue Cross Blue Shield, nothing to do with government spending, but it's somehow in this absolutely urgent, indispensable cromnimus bill uh that my Senator Kelly Ayott complains she had to miss a performance of the nut I didn't even know they had to miss a performance of the nutcracker with her daughter this weekend. | |
| I don't know where that was. | |
| I didn't even know they had ballet in New Hampshire. | |
| I I speak as a as uh Rush implied in his interview with me in the Limbaugh letter. | |
| He said I was a musical aficionado. | |
| I'm not sure what he's trying to see uh say there, but I would have minded seeing. | |
| Uh I'd think uh last time I took my daughter to see uh the nutcracker, it was uh it was in Montreal. | |
| You have to go a long way to see ballet in northern New Hampshire. | |
| Uh but Kelly Aud is complaining that she had to miss the nutcracker to vote for a uh a discreditable, ridiculous bill in which the new Republican Senate has a fa and the new Republican House just gave away control of spending to the other side, and that aside from that has special favors uh that have nothing to do with government spending. | |
| This is dirty this is dirty dishonest government. | |
| You know, if you want big government, do it honestly. | |
| Do it like the Swedes and the Danes and the Norwegians do. | |
| Uh but don't do it in this way and pretend that uh this is anything that a real respectable legislature would do. | |
| Multi thousand page bills that bear no with all kinds of stuff in there that's nothing to do with whatever the title of of the bill is. | |
| I'm sick of this stuff. | |
| Uh there's no point. | |
| Nobody nobody who went and voted for the the the the decrepit Republican Party on November the fourth did so because uh their priority was this uh the this deal for Blue Cross Blue Shield on page sixteen hundred and two of the bill. | |
| Nobody who voted for a Republican congressman on November the fourth did so in order that that Congress could give away control of spending for half of its legislative term in the lame duck session. | |
| Uh where are the nutcrackers? | |
| Where are the nutcrackers on the Republican side? | |
| Uh that's that's what uh my Senator should be asking when uh when she complains about having to miss the ballet to return and wave through uh one point one trillion dollars of spending uh plus uh special favors for blue cross blue shield. | |
| Mark Stein in for Rush will take your calls straight ahead. | |
| Let's go to Mark in Tampa, Florida. | |
| Mark, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show. | |
| Great to have you with us. | |
| Hi, sir. | |
| Thank you so much. | |
| Great to hear you on the radio. | |
| My pleasure. | |
| What's on your mind today? | |
| Um first off I was looking forward to seeing you when you were to come here to Central Florida back uh earlier this year, January February. | |
| I'm sorry you had a situation that caused you not to, but I hope you feel better and uh it's great to hear you on the radio. | |
| Um my my truck uh tried tried to uh tried to kill me. | |
| It was uh I had a I had a terrible accident and uh and uh couldn't actually hear for uh a long time. | |
| I had a touch of what Russia has uh I thought I was gonna have to go full cochlear implant. | |
| But uh I'm feeling much better now Mark so thanks for that and we will be back in Tampa soon. | |
| I recall and I'm glad you're feeling better and and I'm glad you're on the radio uh on at whatever station you can get on and and through your books and your columns because your your wisdom is fabulous and your wit uh just really helps to kind of be that spoonful of sugar that we all need. | |
| And I hope that everybody listening will kind of you know share with friends the wisdom that they hear from you. | |
| And what I heard from you at the beginning of the show today was that people need to really wake up and see the pattern that's going on uh globally. | |
| And uh that pattern happens to be that this mubble Muslim extremism that is not being balanced by um you know individuals who say I'm not part of that or whatever it might be. | |
| But more importantly is the pattern. | |
| And the pattern, you know, you mentioned Ottawa and the shooting there and the the slaughter there of a um a serviceman who was doing his part to give back to other soldiers by you know guarding the unknown tomb there in Ottawa and then you know these innocent individuals in Sydney Australia just going out for coffee and uh suddenly becoming hostages. | |
| And I think people need to understand that when someone takes over a coffee shop and puts these people in a hostage situation doesn't walk in nicely and say if y'all don't mind I need to inconvenience you for the next 15 hours you need to stay here and do what I say so you know let's fire up the cappuccino machine. | |
| Not at all. | |
| It had to have been brutal and unfortunate and people need to wake up to these patterns of violence that are occurring across our globe. | |
| Do you don't you agree? | |
| Yeah I I think you're right. | |
| I think one one of the problems though Mark is we don't have a language for it. | |
| You know people people want to like this guy is obviously some kind of crazy guy. | |
| He's he's uh charged with sexually assaulting women and all the rest of it. | |
| So it's easy to say oh well he's a lone wolf. | |
| That's what they say it isn't terrorism because uh unless you're a card carrying member of ISIS unless you've got the little laminated card in your wallet you're just a lone wolf and it doesn't count. | |
| And in fact uh and in fact the guy is you know he's a bit of a loony so he's maybe he's mentally ill or he's disturbed or deranged or whatever like they said about the fella in uh Ottawa like they said about the uh guy in Moore Oklahoma who beheaded a woman in Moore Oklahoma the guy who stuck a uh an axe in a policeman on the streets of New York. | |
| Uh the genius of the ISIS model is that the genius of the ISIS model is that both parts can be true. | |
| You can have people who are deranged lunatics and they go on a social media site and they discover ISIS and they like the sound of ISIS and they get the jihad fever and they go full Jihad. | |
| These possibilities are not incompatible. | |
| You can be a deranged lunatic and an Islamic imperialist. | |
| And the fact is that ISIS has had great success in actually sparking people to sort of go spontaneously combust with jihad. | |
| And that's the danger of it. | |
| And so this idea where we get hung up on, you know, what membership card is in their wallet or whether there are other people involved, the beauty of this thing, the beauty. | |
| of this racket these guys have got going is that it's huge appeal across the planet to all the people in in uh all the all the people in Minneapolis who've gone out to fight for ISIS who've gone to s back to Somalia uh to fight for the jihad it has huge appeal uh huge appeal and this this uh outdated language it doesn't count as terrorism unless they're Card carrying members. | |
| We've got to get beyond that and address the ideology, because if you don't address the ideology, it's gonna kill more and more people. | |
| Hey, great to be with you. | |
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| Uh here's why I haven't really got time for the Ramas anymore. | |
| We're now getting reports that a second hostage uh may have died. | |
| Uh I I I said earlier that at least one hostage is reported to have died in that uh cafe held under siege by one uh self-styled uh Islamic cleric for sixteen hours. | |
| Now he's a self-styled Islamic cleric, by the way, but we're not allowed to say this is anything to do with Islam. | |
| In other words, he's not just like some guy who's who who uh like the fellow in Moore, Oklahoma, who converted to Islam. | |
| This guy actually calls himself a sheikh and uh and regards himself an Islamic cleric and is doing what he does in the cause of Islam, but we're not allowed to make that connection. | |
| But uh a second hostage is reported to have died. | |
| Uh died because he or she went to a coffee shop in the heart of downtown Sydney uh that they've always gone to. | |
| No different from going to a coffee shop on Fifth Avenue uh in New York in the heart of Manhattan. | |
| And uh and he or she is dead now because some guy walked in and decided that it advanced the interests of Islam uh to take all these people hostage. | |
| Um and uh almost a decade ago, an Australian uh wrote to me uh quoting uh a poem by a guy from New Hampshire, as it happens, Robert Frost, uh and this Australian uh fan of mine wrote that he was beginning to feel as Robert Frost did in his poem A minor bird. | |
| I have wished a bird would fly away and not sing by my house all day. | |
| And uh this Aussie correspondent of mine, his unceasingly cheaping bird was Islam. | |
| He was fed up, waking every m up every morning and reading of the latest offense uh taken by the uh more excitable followers of the religion of peace. | |
| And that he sent me that thing almost ten years ago, and I think about those lines from Robert Frost. | |
| I've wished a bird would fly away and not sing by my house all day. | |
| Every time one of these stories happens. | |
| Uh because that soldier got run over in Quebec. | |
| That's uh that's a town I know well. | |
| It's about an hour and a half uh from where I'm sitting right now in northern New Hampshire. | |
| Uh it happens to be my my daughter can be a little picky about food, and it happens to be where her favorite fondue restaurant uh was. | |
| So I know that town very well, and I I don't see why uh if a soldier is serving in that town he deserves to get run over by some crazy Muslim. | |
| I don't see why if you are working in a food processing factory uh in Moore, Oklahoma, you should be at risk of beheading. | |
| Uh I don't see why if you go to a coffee shop in Sydney you should have some guy taking you all hostage. | |
| And it doesn't it doesn't matter that it's not every Muslim. | |
| Uh I don't it doesn't matter that a lot of it is in places you don't want to go to, like the lousy parts of the Syrian desert where they're beheaded. | |
| They beheaded two guys from New Hampshire actually are among those beheaded. | |
| I would have thought that was statistically impossible. | |
| Uh but two fellows from New Hampshire who were a bit like Rama. | |
| They believed in world peace. | |
| They thought these guys were just like them, and that If we all uh sang uh what the world needs now is love sweet love, uh they weren't as crazy. | |
| I'm doing them an injustice. | |
| They weren't they weren't as out of it as Rama. | |
| Uh but they took they took the view of Ambassador Stevens in Benghazi, the the same thing that they wanted to hear what these people had to say, wanted to get to know them, wanted to hear their stories, and they're all dead as a result of it. | |
| And I I I I find myself thinking about uh those lines that that Australian guy sent me nearly a decade ago from Robert Frost. | |
| I've wished a bird would fly away and not sing by my house all day, and like him, you know, the unceasingly cheaping bird is Islam, and the price of incubating Islam in Canada and Australia and France and Germany and Dearborn, Michigan, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, is awfully high. | |
| It's awfully high. | |
| Uh and you and you and you should think about that when they don't know how to tell you what's going on here. | |
| We don't know the motivation. | |
| The Australian Prime Minister, uh Tony Abbott, a guy I like, but he nevertheless got it wrong here. | |
| We don't know the motivation. | |
| He has hung a flag. | |
| This guy hung a flag of black uh black flag with uh the Shahada on it is different from the ISIS flag, but it means the same thing. | |
| It means Islam will be the one ring that will rule you all. | |
| Uh these guys say they want that black flag of Islam flying from the White House, they want it flying from the Buckingham from Buckingham Palace, they want it flying from the Reichstag in Berlin, they want it flying over St. Peter's in Rome. | |
| Uh and that may sound crazy, uh but there's an awful lot of people who are gonna die uh before we address that craziness seriously. | |
| And the reports that have just come in uh now is that a second hostage has been killed uh in this uh cafe at the heart of downtown Sydney. | |
| This guy was an Iranian refugee. | |
| He he was taken in by this country, by Australia, in the way that uh the Sarneev brothers were taken in by the United States, the Sarnaiev family. | |
| And uh this country opened its arms to the Sarnaiev brothers in the way that Australia did to this guy, and they were repaid with bombs and body parts and hostage sieges, and at some point the price of mass Muslim immigration is simply too high, and people should think about that. | |
| And it gets back to the insane uh behavior of uh the United States Congress over the weekend, waving through uh and voting down Ted Cruz's bill on the president's unconstitutional executive order on immigration. | |
| Apparently there isn't even an executive order. | |
| He didn't want to leave a paper trail, uh so there isn't an executive order. | |
| Apparently just at a quiet word in Homeland Securities ear. | |
| There's rumors that the president may have issued a memo or he might have uh issued a tweet uh or he might have done a Miley Cyrus like twerk in the general direction of the US Constitution with his pert little bottom in the air. | |
| But apparently there is an action in executive order. | |
| He that's how beyond beyond doing it by the book uh this administration is. | |
| But the the way he gets away with it is because of the of the sentimentalization uh of the immigration process. | |
| That somehow if we the if we have a Rama like uh immigration uh program, if if we take the view of Rama that uh we love all these people and they love us and all we have to do is open the borders and we can all they'll bring us some nice exotic flowers from their exotic lands, | |
| and we'll hand them daisies and we'll all wear garlands of flowers and wear flowers in our hair and sing and dance in the sun uh and it will all be fine, and they and they sentimentalize the the uh immigration issue. | |
| There are reasons why countries have borders. | |
| Countries have borders because ultimately because they don't want people walking in and blowing up marathons and taking hostages in cafes and all the rest of it. | |
| And if you don't know who's coming in, and if you don't know who is immigrating to your country because they love Your country and they want to be a citizen of your country, and the other people for whom uh an American passport or an Australian passport is just a flag of convenience. | |
| Uh if you don't have a border, that's the reason you have a border, and if you don't have a border, you don't have a country. | |
| Uh and that's the reason why what's going on in Sydney, uh, which is uh an abuse of Australian hospitality in the same way that what happened to the Sarneevs, uh what they did to their victims was an abusive American hospitality. | |
| That connects to the to a uh Republican party uh that won't even stand up, uh that will essentially nod and wave through and get uh you know, meet the president. | |
| We're not we're not willing to sign on to his unconstitutional action all the way, but for the moment we're willing to wave it through till February or whatever they did over the weekend. | |
| Uh it's part of the same continuum, different points on the same continuum. | |
| And you don't want to uh you don't want it to wind up at the far end of the the continuum like those Boston Marathon victims with body parts lying all over the street. | |
| Mark Stein in for Rush will take more of your call straight ahead. | |
| I mentioned earlier the uh the authoritative story, fascinating story about that the New York Times ran about how Jeb Bush uh can uh run for president in twenty sixteen, quote, without pandering to the Republicans conservative base, unquote. | |
| And it begins with this touching vignette of how he quietly, quietly held a meeting with John McCain uh to discuss this fascinating thing about how he could win the nomination while stiffing the base. | |
| And uh i he was uh he did it so quietly that it's all over the New York Times. | |
| It's amazing, it's amazing. | |
| It's uh you'd almost you'd almost think somebody connected to Jeb Bush was giving information to New York Times reporters uh to run stories about how he's diffident and being edged into possibly maybe considering a presidential run. | |
| This is the same New York Times that on Saturday ran this terrific correction. | |
| An earlier quote New York Times corrections column, quote, an earlier version of this article misidentified on second reference the person who was shot in Ferguson, Missouri. | |
| It was Michael Brown, not Darren Wilson. | |
| An earlier version of this article also referred incorrectly to the shooting of Trayvon Martin. | |
| He was killed by a civilian, not by a police officer. | |
| In addition, an earlier version of this correction misspelled Trayvon Martin's given name as Travion. | |
| Uh the following day they ran then ran this correction. | |
| The strategies column last Sunday about how holiday retail sales may have been affected by recent demonstrations against racial injustice. | |
| Referred incorrectly to the death of Eric Garner after a confrontation with the police on Staten Island. | |
| He died after being placed in a chokehold. | |
| He did not die in a shooting, unquote. | |
| This is America's newspaper of record, the New York Times. | |
| I I made the mistake of writing for the New York Times. | |
| I think I wrote three or four pieces for them in the 1990s. | |
| Uh they they'd call me up. | |
| Okay, just sort of d showbusy type uh pieces, and they were always edited within an inch of their life, so they read like sludge. | |
| They're the most embarrassing pieces I've ever written. | |
| Um I I Rush uh w that that interview Rush did with me in the Limbaugh Let about what he called my must-read book, uh, has a lot of my greatest hits in it, and none of the pieces in there are from the New York Times, because they when when I read them in the paper the following morning, they read like sludge because uh eighteen different editors had destroyed those pieces. | |
| So this is the New York Times 2014. | |
| Uh and it it thinks that the person who was killed in Ferguson, Missouri was Darren Wilson. | |
| It thinks that Travon Martin was killed by a policeman, not by a white Hispanic or whatever they called that Zimmerman guy. | |
| It thinks that Eric Garner died uh by being shot, even though the video of how he actually died is all over the internet. | |
| So we're not dealing with obscure uh we're we're not dealing with obscure stories here, like uh over the weekend um uh they had an election in Mauritius and uh Sir Anarud uh Jugnouf, uh KC M GQC, has been returned to power in Port Louis as Prime Minister. | |
| One can understand that if the the Mauritian general election the New York Times might find some of the names a bit odd, might get it all a bit confused about it. | |
| These are the biggest stories of the time. | |
| The Ferguson, Missouri shooting, uh the Staten Island uh death of Eric Garner, and it can't get the basic facts of the story right. | |
| The the the the it it thinks that Darren Wilson was shot in Ferguson, Missouri. | |
| It thinks that someone called Travion Martin was killed by a police officer. | |
| It thinks that Eric Garner was shot in Staten Island. | |
| This is America's newspaper of record and we are supposed to believe it when we think that there is a big groundswell, a big movement, a big movement of smart money, and that the New York Times knows anything about what is going on in the Republican Party when it's doing these booster peach pieces for uh Jeb Bush. | |
| Let's go to Larry in Mooresville, North Carolina. | |
| Larry, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show. | |
| Nice talking with you. | |
| I've tried to call the Rush show since 1988 and finally got through and since I didn't get him, I'm glad I got you because you're the best. | |
| Oh that's terrible after 26 years you've got to make do with a guest host. | |
| I'm I'm glad you made it, Larry what's on your mind? | |
| I'm 63 years old. | |
| I'm I'm an registered independent. | |
| I've been a solid conservative all my life. | |
| And this weekend I just about came off the couch to screaming and hollering I'm I am so tired of these Republicans. | |
| We give them all this power, tell them what we want that we want Obamacare stopped, we want immigration stopped, and they go right up there and ignore everything we put them in office to do. | |
| I didn't care if he shut the government down, whatever little minute about it was they should they somewhere along the line if they're not going to take a stand, I'm to the point I'm not going to vote anymore. | |
| Because what's the use? | |
| I've campaigned for Republicans, I've been thousands of editorials, I've called my Congress and Senators religiously, I've written letters to the Supreme Court about their rulings. | |
| I've done anything and ever and donated money, anything and everything I can to get them to understand what we want out here. | |
| And we told them very clearly what we wanted and then they still stabbed us in the back. | |
| And then I heard I heard Will on uh Fox this weekend say that the vote was for bipartisanship. | |
| There was no such thing about that vote in this election we didn't want bipartisanship. | |
| We wanted to stop that clear message. | |
| That's that you're absolutely right Larry what happened was that people voted for an end to what's happening. | |
| In other words they they they wanted an end to what Obama and the Democrats have been doing to them. | |
| And the first thing that happens even before the new Congress sits is uh is as Rush was saying essentially Obama and Harry Reid are going out and working the phones uh for John Boehner. | |
| They're in other words in other words uh Boehner and Obama and Harry Reid who all pretended to be on opposite sides of things uh until November the fourth are now suddenly all cozying up uh and uh and they've got this great bipartisan deal. | |
| We're gonna we're gonna have to take a break there, Larry. | |
| I'm glad he got through after 26 years uh and hope that the next time you make it in uh what what year would that be? | |
| That would be around about 2040 you get through to the big guy himself. | |
| So Rush will take defin I pledge now that Rush will take Larry's call on this show in the year 2040. | |
| December 15th, 2040, you're first up on the show, Larry. | |
| Uh we'll we'll talk about Larry's points and uh lots more of your calls straight ahead. | |
| Mark Steinin for us, Catherine uh Timff of National Review, I think actually knew as a student at Hillsdale College a couple of years ago reports that Princeton University students are setting up a microaggressions uh report on their Facebook page because these so-called quote microaggressions uh they refer to them as paper as quote paper cuts of oppression which are so small but |
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