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Dec. 16, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 16, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Greetings, my friends, welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, the cutting edge of societal evolution teleboard number.
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Two thousand eight was the first year the NFL wore pink for breast cancer awareness.
And the only look it, I'm finished.
You know, I just I asked everybody what year did that start.
And if you track forward, it was 2008.
Now you're on your own.
Blind blind.
I've said what I have to say about it.
I've said it unequivocally clear.
It'll be misquoted, taken out of context, turned against me and used to make me a hateful devil, probably before 6 p.m. Eastern time tonight.
But you know.
And then that will last for a couple of days until some other story comes up superseded on the cable network discussion shows.
Probably be asked back on Fox News Sunday to explain myself.
Um you know how it goes.
Now, more in this, by the way, 800 282-2882 if you ought to be in the program, and we'll get the phone calls quickly because there's some people lined up with Vittory all of hatred for me.
And we always try to get to those people first.
And we'll do that here in due course.
I realize I might have uh very quickly gone past my Jeb Bush theory and intrigued some of you.
So let's take just a little time.
Jeb has announced he's gonna form an exploratory committee, one of the biggest surprises since the moon came up last night.
And the uh what about this Spectre?
How about Jeb versus Hillary, 2016?
Do you see the American people invigorated and excited?
Oh, speaking of which, there is a story in the stack today, which I will get to.
I'm doing all this stuff out of order.
And so I'm but I'm remembering it as it as it as it applies.
It has to do with uh millennials learning something about oh, oh, this is what there's a poll.
Millennials are shocked when they learn that Hillary Clinton is 67 years old.
They can't believe it.
Now that begs an obvious question.
What in the world are they looking at?
The second thing that the polling data suggests shocks young people about Mrs. Clinton is that she hasn't driven since 1996.
Hillary Clinton hasn't driven herself since 1996 and is 67 years old.
The millennials were shocked that she's that old.
In in what?
I drive myself.
I do.
I drive except when I'm out of town.
But I but I well sometimes they do.
Depends.
But nevertheless.
Now stop and think of this.
Here these millennials are and by the way, the the poll, the the news about the poll suggests the millennials are disappointedly surprised here.
Hillary 67?
Oh my God.
We're voting for a dinosaur?
Oh, geez.
Or we're supporting it, and then they find out she doesn't drive.
And and that manifests itself in their minds, my God, this woman doesn't drive, she's out of touch, for she's been chauffeured everywhere.
Wait until these kids find out what she did to enable her husband abusing women.
Speaking of that.
Wait till they find out about wait till they find out that Hillary Clinton ran the Bimbo eruptions unit.
This is why I say, uh, ladies and gentlemen, that this yellow brick road to the White House for Hillary Clinton.
I'm not on board with this yet.
And I think if the Democrat Party, and by the way, speaking of that, there are a couple stories in the stack today about the disarray the Democrat Party is in.
And there's no question it is.
It is a mess, but I don't think that ought to take precedence over the absolute mess the Republican Party's making of things.
Republican Party has squandered.
They have already squandered a massive landslide election win.
They've already squandered it with this budget deal that they did.
They looked at this this landslide election victory and spat upon it.
All to send a message to us, to conservatives.
In fact, the Democrats and Republicans got together on it.
The Democrats and Republicans that got together on the budget, they're getting together on amnesty, and they're getting together on Obamacare.
And I've had people call me over the years saying, Rush, they're no difference in the parties, and I've always argued with those people.
But in the last two weeks, you'd be hard pressed to find any difference.
I mean, they've all united on this this lame brain budget.
They have this really dumb budget.
Dumb for the details in it, dumb for how long everything about it's dumb and wrong.
And they're aligned on amnesty because their donors are.
The donor class is running both parties on amnesty.
And the Republicans are throwing in with the Democrats and Obamacare.
You can't find a lick spittle bits of difference.
You can't.
In on those three issues.
And this is I I tell you, this is all done.
This unity is all aimed at those who are considered the enemy in a domestic sense, and that's conservatives.
That's the Tea Party, the Ted Cruz's, the Mike Lees, pick a name.
Throw Palin in there if you want, but that's that's what this is about.
So in the midst of all this, here comes Jeb announcing it, he's going to explore via a committee the idea of running for president.
And he's going to do it in a unique way.
He's going to do it by ignoring the base.
Jeb Bush is out telling donors, potential donors, CEOs, and the like, that he's not, he is not going to compromise his principles, like others have, in order to get the nomination.
Meaning he's not going to pander to the Tea Party.
Nope.
He's not going to pander to conservatives.
He's going to show that you can win the Republican Party nomination without securing the base.
And I think one of the things that I think is really going on here.
I think that the Republican Party, it's true of both parties.
The Republican Party is dominated now by what it is called in the parlance of the day the donor class.
You've got the political class, the establishment, the consultants class, but the donor class is the donors, the big, big donors.
I'll tell you who they are.
If I had been paying attention, I would have realized what was happening 20 years ago.
Remember this dinner party I've told you about over and over again at the Hamptons?
And out on the deck after dinner, this got big donor, comes up to me, starts poking me in the chest, says, What are you going to do about the Christians?
Remember that story?
Well, this guy's perfect example of what I'm talking about, the donor class.
He's not a conservative.
He is a Republican, probably on fiscal issues, may even be pro-abort pro-life.
I don't know, but he certainly hates social issues, wants them to be no part of any campaign because his wife nags him about it.
He has, he doesn't like going to convention with a bunch of hay seed hick pro-lifers.
But this guy and who he represents was a forerunner of what's going on now.
This happened to me.
It had to be 1992 or 1993, and it was my first time at the Hamptons.
And it's uh, I mean, I would love to tell you the names, but I it that's not, I didn't get permission to do that, and it's not.
It's enough to know that you would know them.
Some were administration officials at the time.
Um, some reformer, but it was heavy hitters and big, big donors.
And I remember this guy came up to me and said, What are you gonna do about the Christians?
And I was taken aback.
You know, I'm very young, naive, and still in the first four years of this, and still not really understanding what's happening.
And certainly not knowing who my friends are yet or not.
Although I thought I did, I was wrong about that too.
But when this guy starts poking me, I thought he's teasing me for but he was venomous.
I mean, he was really mad.
And I said, What do you mean, the Christians?
And he started in on pro-lifers.
And uh at the time, what do you call the the moral majority or the Christian right?
I forget the term he used, whatever.
Popular back then.
And I said, Well, you I don't know why you think I have they listened to you.
You're one of them.
They listen to you.
So right then, if I'd have known, if I'd had the presence of mind, I could have, I would have understood that even back then I had been tagged as what the Tea Party is to these guys today, a problem.
A potential friend, if I could see the light a day.
But if I stayed the way I was, I was going to be a problem because I had inroads to the Christians.
And I uh tried to stand my ground.
I said, sir, they're 24 million votes.
You can't win the presidency without them.
And that's what they're fed up with, folks.
That's what they're tired of.
And so when you hear Jeb or anybody else seek the Republican nomination and start talking about doing it without winning the base or doing it, they're trying to all come up with a way to win the party nomination without owing anything to the Tea Party.
If their wildest dream is to render the Tea Party conservatives an irrelevant factor.
And one of the primary reasons for that is that that's what the donors want.
The donors rule the roost.
The donors are the big money.
And the donors determine in large part what the parties, that's clearly that's what happened here in this budget deal.
It's clearly what's happening with Amnesty.
It's clearly what's happening with.
I'm not so sure that the donors are responsible for Obamacare, but in some ways it may be, depending on which donors you're talking about.
So I think that a lot of this talk about the Jeb candidacy is an attempt to see if they can actually once and for all, in a primary setting, relegate the Tea Party, and members of it who are elected, such as Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, uh impotent.
And I think that's the objective that uh that they have.
I mean, look at the way they went after Ted Cruz when he stood up and tried to get a vote on whether or not what Obama was doing unconstitutional, he only got twenty two Republicans to agree with him on this notion that Obama was acting illegally outside the Constitution.
Only 22 senators voted with Cruz on his on his point of order.
Wouldn't you think, just in the in the normal ebb and flow of the day, given what you've always thought party politics was, wouldn't you think that this current bunch of Republican senators who are have have to be fully aware that they're gonna be the majority next month.
The current crop of Republicans in the Senate, they're gonna have a majority because the people that won are gonna be sworn in in January.
They're gonna be part of a majority.
You would think that they could have taken this vote and established for the party, yes, President Obama is acting outside the Constitution, and only 22 senators voted for this.
In effect, they sided with the Democrats on this, saying, no, President Obama is not acting outside the Constitution on this executive amnesty business.
I had people emailing me over, what does this mean?
I folks, I think what it means.
It can only mean one thing.
If you it what what Cruz offered was a simple point of order.
There wasn't even any oomph behind this.
It was just go on record stating a belief.
If they are unwilling to do that, I don't think you should expect.
Maybe you don't already.
I wouldn't expect the Senate to do any serious battling with Obama, even after they're sworn in.
I mean, it has to be what this means.
Gotta take a break.
We'll do it.
We'll come back and get started with your phone calls right after this, my friends here.
By the way, just I I didn't think I needed to say this, but twenty years ago when the guy pokes me in the chest and says, What are you going to do with it?
Christians.
It's not just abortion and the social issues today that have the Republican establishment aiming at us, opposed to conservatives.
They they folks, it's all about limited government, too.
They do not want a smaller government.
They want a big government that they run.
They claim they're going to do it smarter.
They're going to do it more efficiently.
But they want the power.
I mean, hell, if the government's going to play crony socialism, the Republicans want in on the fun.
It's a danger of precedent setting.
You think principal people roll back all these destructive things, and that's not what's going to happen.
All these crazy things Obama's done, some Republicans say, hey, you know, I want some of that action.
It's power, man.
It's power.
And the power of the federal budget and being able to dole out goodies to your friends in business who have spent a lot of money getting you elected, so it's quid pro qua.
It's not just about abortion.
I don't want anybody thinking it's it's it's become much more than that.
It's what it was as the animating factor, but now it's it's still the social issues.
But it's also the fact, and look at this budget.
This is not my opinion.
It's not theory.
Based on the boat vote on the budget, I don't think anybody can honestly claim that the modern incarnation of Republican leadership is at all interested in reducing the size of government.
And that has a practical meaning.
Individual freedom and liberty are directly related to the size of government.
The bigger government, the less freedom and liberty we all have.
Undeniable.
Okay, to the phone.
Starting in Rockville, Connecticut, Jean, welcome, sir.
Great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
I want to stand up and sing, oh, what a thrill to be the first caller on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Well, it's it carries with us uh with it a heavy responsibility.
So yes, my goodness, set the tone.
What a great song by the Mavericks Rush.
I don't know if you know the Mavericks, but oh what a thrill is uh become my favorite uh song.
I remember that tune from way, way you talk about the grooveyard of forgotten favorites.
I mean, that's maybe, but uh I always get nervous in the presence of greatness, so I'm gonna need your help through this one.
All right.
Um and greatness uh not only uh uh with the individuals involved, but the greatness of your program today.
Today's program is by far, and I've listened to a few, um, by far the most compelling program you've ever put out there.
Oh, come on, that say 27 years.
Yes, this is number one.
Must be striking a serious chord with you.
Well, you've swerved it to so much of the truth here, and and uh especially it is uh National Fertile Fallacy Day.
Fertile fallacies are something that have been identified by George Soros as the way to destroy an economy and to destroy a country, and he's done it with ours.
But you're bringing up of all the tangents involved with this conversation, even the professorette at Penn State University.
And you've identified the destruction of the NFL by uh uh beginning with the October is pink uh controversy.
And and you realize, and you're pointing out to to your listeners, and they may talk to other listeners and so on and so forth, and you know how it works in in truth radio.
But American exceptionalism is disturbing to these uh fascists and communists.
They hate it, they're afraid of it.
They actually, you know, I've been even on my tech blogs.
This is where I read about freaking iPhones.
I'm getting people applauding the torture report.
I'm getting people happy that the uh the Senate staffer report, which was filled with lies about how we torture where this.
I got people on my tag can't escape this, applauding the fact That the United States has been exposed as a torture nation.
They're happy about it.
Well, you understand these leftists every bit as well as I do.
And by picking out the Penn State case, you sort of been to an amazing uh uh uh coincidence.
If it is that.
Or or maybe it's uh serendipitous.
But American exceptionalism is best demonstrated by the Pennsylvania State University.
And that's why this same group of leftists, the same group that removed Benedict the 16th from office as Pope, such as no Pope has been removed in 600 years, went to that university when they saw an opportunity to destroy a good and great family name, Joseph Vincent Paterno of Brooklyn, New York.
All right, yeah.
And a great and good university.
And this is the same group that comes after the NFL, that is the same group that came after the Boy Scouts of America.
And I spoke about this group on your show the day the new Pope was selected in Vatican City, Italy.
Right.
And this group is uh commonly known as the Lesbo fascists and lesbo communists.
And they have buried this nation.
And this is the this is the topic that is not suitable for conversation on the airwaves and it it it clearly isn't because these people who whatever you know, lesbo fascists that you say, uh and lesbo comedy, whoever they are, they don't like to be exposed.
That's uh, you know, exposing them is its own crime.
They're the ones that are supposed to do the exposing on their terms, filled with their own camouflage and everything else.
Anyway, Gene, appreciate the call.
We gotta continue after this.
Hey, look, I don't know.
I mean, if people say, hey, Rush, wouldn't you explain something to me?
Jeb Bush is telling Republican donors that he's gonna get the nomination outside of the base.
He's gonna do it without the votes of the base.
Well, how's he gonna do that?
I mean, nobody wins their nomination without the base.
Look, folks, uh, right now, I don't have an answer I can give you a wild guess.
What I think it's not so much a wild guess, it's just paying attention to what they say.
If if if somebody had a gun to my head, say you give me a credible theory here on how the Republicans think they can win without the Tea Party voters, I say here's what it is.
They remember they are devoted to the concept of who he wins independence wins it all.
They're devoted to that, number one.
And especially now they love the independence because they are not ideologues, and these establishment, big government, whatever Republicans just don't like ideologues because they associate ideologues with Tea Party and conservatism.
And then I actually think this is probably more of a general election strategy than primary, but I think that they believe that they can win with a coalition of independents,
who they believe, by the way, hate conservatives as much as everybody else hates them, and Hispanics do not forget how devoted to the potential Hispanic vote Republicans are.
It's the sole reason they want to do amnesty.
And I think they think they could put together a coalition of independents and Hispanics to go along with the average Republican voter who's not a conservative or Tea Partier.
MR. Romney did it.
Here's the problem with it.
Romney played the independence big time.
The problem is Republicans got fooled by a trick run by the Democrats all these years.
The trick is he who wins the independence wins the election.
The reason that was a trick, I've said this over and over again.
What it what effectively does, it makes the Republicans run a campaign, ain't it 20% of the populace?
It assumes that the base is going to vote for you no matter what.
In the general, it assumes that the base is going to vote for you no matter what.
So you got that, 40%.
And the Democrats have their same 40%.
The key, therefore, is the remaining 20% independence.
And so the Republican consultants Tell their candidates and by the way, make their sales pitch to get the job from each candidate.
I'm the guy that can get you the independence.
I'm the guy that can devise a campaign where you'll win the independence.
And Romney won independence going away and lost the election.
But they're still wedded to it.
It's uh it's a nostalgic thing.
They still think it's key.
Because I think they'd love to win with independence.
I actually think they would love to win.
Oh and and be able to say afterward that conservative Republicans were not a factor in the victory.
That's what that's Reagan won everything.
You don't if 49 Reagan won practically everything.
I don't know what the demographic breakdown back then was Hispanics and all that was.
But he had hit two landslides.
Um But see, they don't they don't go back and look at the Reagan years as the example.
They go back and look at Goldwater.
They associate conservatives and Tea Party with Goldwater landslide loss rather than Reagan.
Anyway.
I've been through all of this.
I just snarling want to know how do you win without the base.
They I don't know.
I really don't, but I know they'd love to.
They would love to.
Their dream, let me tell you what their dream is to win the White House and be able to say afterwards that they didn't need a single Tea Party vote to do it.
And the Democrats will do anything to help them.
In that regard, not win the White House, but they'll the Democrats will do anything they can to help them render the Tea Party vote impotent or irrelevant.
That's their objective.
It can't be anything else.
I mean, it maybe it is.
I don't see it.
I think it's pretty.
Here's uh here's Bob in Nashua, New Hampshire, as we head back to the phones.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Yeah, thanks, Rush.
Uh this theme, uh, that to the GOP establishment, uh, the Tea Party and Conservatives are the main enemy, not the Dems.
There's nothing new.
It goes back really to the 2008 presidential election when the Republican establishment, or at least many in the establishment sabotaged McCain Palin.
Because to them Palin was the bigger threat, the bigger enemy than the Democrats winning.
And you know, the funny thing is, now, more than six years later, in my opinion, Palin remains, of course, it's unsaid, the bigger threat, the bigger enemy than the Dems.
And I say Palin in particular because she remains probably the most influential single Tea Party conservative political figure, yet her name is never mentioned by Fox News and the faux conservatives.
But the bottom line, she and the conservatives are the bigger enemy to the GOPE establishment, not the Democrats.
Uh and that that's what Jeb Bush Romney and Christie establishments are all about.
Stop the Palin Conservatives.
After all, uh, you know, looking back a Romney's strategy in 2012 to get the nomination was to divvy up the conservative contenders uh among third third stringers like uh like Michelle Bachman and Herb Kane.
Really, I think to stop Palin and give Romney the plurality.
Well, you you you think it's still oriented around and focused on Palin?
I do, because think about it.
She's uh the reason I say she's more influential and popular than anybody else, because she's probably the only Republican uh figure or politician that if she publicly said I'm not gonna support the Republicans, it would sabotage it would ruin the Republicans have no chance.
I mean, after all, they kept her out of 2012.
They kept her out of the convention because Romney had to keep her out and get these third stringer conservatives in there to lose, so we'd get the plurality.
They kept her out, but she didn't say anything to stop them.
Now she's she's gone on record now, and she will uh if they if they don't if they go with a Jeb Bush type or uh or uh that or uh Romney type, she'll reelect them.
I tell you what, I am hearing from people who heretofore have sworn off third party.
No way, Rush, that's a sucker's bet.
I wouldn't do it.
I that that that's guaranteed Democrat victory for as long as we all live.
And I'm having these people have told me this.
If there were a viable third party, they would be there right now after this budget deal.
They would be there.
I mean, that is the degree to which I don't know what you call frustration, anger.
But you talk about squandering an election landslide victory.
It has been squandered.
This whole budget deal totally squanders an election victory before the Republicans are even sworn into the is the majority in both the House and the Senate.
And the only thing that explains this is an objective that is never publicly, I mean, you'll never have any Republican establishment type or consultant or potential presidential candidate.
They will never say, they'll never admit that the Tea Party is the enemy.
They will never admit they're trying to wipe out the conservative wing of the do just the opposite.
But you have to look at the actions here.
But I'm telling you, this Ted Cruz vote was very instructive.
All it was was a point of order.
It had nothing behind it.
It was just Ted Cruz.
And the reactions he's getting, he's just fundraising.
He's just grandstanding.
He's just trying to use the Senate to further his own political aspirations.
He doesn't really mean it.
And we're not going to get sucked in, and we're not going to be used by Ted Cruz.
So whatever the reason, 22, 22 senators, Republicans, voted with Cruz on his little point of order that Obama's amnesty is illegal constitutionally.
And if you're not even going to, if you can't even go on regular list as a meaningless point of order, then stands to reason that when it comes time for the gloves to come off, you're not going to do anything, is absolutely true, too.
But I mean, I don't know how, excuse me, I don't know how else you categorize this budget vote as anything other than a total abdication of the mandate that they won.
And they they appeared to do it enjoyably.
They appeared to happily do this, my dad.
Back after this.
By the way, I have to go on record and remind everybody I was first to this.
Just because Matt Drudge on his page today has this as a as a link.
I haven't clicked on it, but it's a link.
It's about Hillary.
And it's the millennials have discovered how old she is.
And they're stunned.
Remember, I mentioned this not long ago.
The millennials are shocked when they find out Hillary Clinton is 67.
We got to get pictures out on Twitter, folks.
There's the I don't know how this.
How can you, how can how is that possible?
How can people be shocked to think Hillary Clinton's that old?
Anyway, young people.
And they're also shocked, not positively here, not that 67, my God, we're not going to support somebody that old.
And they learn that she doesn't drive.
She hasn't driven since 1996.
And that's that's a negative.
But Drudge has a link to the to the potential problems for Hillary presented by Bill Cosby.
Because the Bill Cosby situation is going to bring back to life the Bill Clinton situation.
And as I've I've mentioned here, when these millennials find out that Hillary ran the bimbo eruptions unit that destroyed all these women that came forward, remember we live in an era where fake journalism is permitted to highlight such things as abuse of women on campus.
You can Rolling Stones not being criticized by the mill, even if it's a fake story, it's still accurate, they say, because that happens.
This story may not be true, but it's great the story ran to raise consciousness about it.
Well, you just wait till they if they're shocked that Hillary is 67, then they also don't know what Hillary did to all the bimbos that erupted here and tried to stop Clinton back in 1992 and uh 93, 94, 95.
When they find that out, what it's gonna be is Bill Clinton may have been the first black president, but he's gonna end up being the white Bill Cosby.
And that's what they're all, I'm telling you, that's what they're gonna be worried about at the Hillary camp.
You mark my words.
Now, I've mentioned this before, but this starting to gain traction and get out of control out there.
And I want everybody to remember that it was your host, your beloved El Rushbo on this, as they say, like white on rice, way back last week.
Yeah, I got the sound bites.
I'll get to them in the next hour.
Here, let me go back to the phones.
Larry in Boston, I'm glad you called, sir.
Great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello.
Mega Christmas Ditto's Rush.
Thank you.
How are you, sir?
Same to you.
Well, sir, um, I want to talk to you.
I was looking forward to seeing uh American Sniper, the new movie based on Chris Cowell's life.
I've heard a little bit about it.
Right.
Well, it looks like it's going to be pretty good.
It's directed by Xenicewood, getting some rave reviews.
But it hit me, this is one of several movies opening on Christmas Day.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Now, movies have opened on Christmas Day for years, but I started wondering if the same people who are protesting all those evil retailers for taking away employees from their families on Thanksgiving Day to sell stuff, are those same people going to protest the theaters for taking people away from their families on Christmas Day to show for Little Hollywood.
No.
You know why?
Yeah, it's rhetorical.
Because those people don't go to theaters, so they don't care who's working.
They they watch pirated movies on their iPads from BitTorrent.
Well, that's true.
These are a bunch of tightwise.
They wouldn't pay to watch a movie if they had to.
They'll steal it online, stream it somehow before they'll go to a theater.
So they don't care if the audience's working or not.
I know the tech guys.
I know I'm not going to back in my hand.
They don't want to pay for anything.
Everything ought to be free.
So if somebody has to work at a theater, making sure that a movie is running the popcorn's hot, they're tough luck.
Yeah.
They'll watch it on the iPad streaming.
Nobody cares about them.
What was that?
Nobody cares about them.
It's only when it's retailers making people work.
Well, yeah, look, your point is well made.
If if if the same people who decry the evils of capitalism tearing families apart on holidays that they have already torn apart themselves, by the way, by not permitting them to have to be celebrated.
I mean, the same people who get upset that families have to work on Christmas Day are the same people that won't let you put an activity scene up in a town square.
But but I get your point is well taken.
When when it sir serves their purpose of beating up capitalism fine and dandy, but if the theater would be closed because of this, then it would be bad.
Because their personal enjoyment, whatever, paramount.
I get it.
Barry.
Sorry, Larry, thanks for the call.
Time's flying here, folks.
I gotta break.
We do have a pretty good audio soundbite roster, newsworthy, and uh valuable for commentary by me, all coming up.
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