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Dec. 16, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 16, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #3
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All right, dear folks.
Now just a couple things more on this whole business of the establishment of the Republican Party targeting Tea Party's candidate, the Tea Party itself for defeat.
Look, there's no question, in my mind, that the Republican Party would love to win the presidency and have it be said in the aftermath that they didn't need any Tea Party votes to do it.
That's their dream.
Now, I don't know what their strategy is going to be for 2016 to win the White House, because I don't know who the nominee is going to be.
But what if?
What if the strategy in 2016 to win the presidency is a repeat of their strategic in the midterms 2014?
I.e., don't say anything.
Don't say anything controversial.
Don't have any agenda.
Don't have any, don't lay out any agenda items you're going to do.
Don't make yourself target.
Just run, be Republican, and just have people get angry at Democrats, vote for Republicans for no reason, other than they're not Democrats.
Well, I look, I know it sounds crazy, but they they really do believe they pulled off a brilliant coup here in the midterms.
The Republican establishment thinks it was brilliant to not have an agenda.
And they knew the American people were fed up with Obama and fed up with the Democrats who wouldn't be.
So they vote for the Republicans as an alternative.
And they may be thinking, let's just, let's let's do that again in 2016.
Well, to you and me, it doesn't seem like it can work.
I'm just I'm just throwing an idea out there.
I mean, none of what they're doing is it depends, yeah, that normally whoever's at the top of the ticket defines the agenda, but what if whoever at the top of the ticket doesn't announce an agenda?
Other than we need a change, other than I'm not Obama, other than I'm not Democrats, other than sort of planitudes, restore American greatness, blah, blah.
You know, just don't make themselves targets is is that's what I'm saying.
It if they do it right, it could it it could end up working.
Now, what's fascinating about these people to me is, you know, they go back and they they say, no, the Tea Party will kill us.
Look at Goldwater.
Look at what the last time a Republican, my God, it was a landslide.
They never look at Reagan.
But what's interesting, they never look at the at the candidates they nominate.
McCain got shellacked, Romney got shellacked.
Uh whoever they nominate is going to get shellacked, but they never look back at their own active choices, losing elections as something from which to learn a lesson.
They always go back to 1964 and say, well, look at that.
It's conservatism.
I mean, my God, it's such a small minority, it's a landslide.
We'll get creamed.
We can't have a gold water.
And that's what Cruz would be, or well, anybody that that's that's not Chris Christie, uh, Jeb Bush.
Uh, who else?
Who else thinking about throwing McCain?
He won't do it again, will he?
Uh, but the noise is that Romney's thinking about doing it again.
We'll just have to wait and see.
An interesting story here in a UK Daily Mail.
Uh, vegetarianism is just a fad.
It's a phase.
84% of vegetarians go back to eating meat again, many within just three months.
It's a big survey, found that 84% of vegetarians eventually go back to eating meat, more than half of them, 53%, start eating meat within a year.
Almost a third of vegetarians report relapsing within three months.
Most people said they found it difficult to maintain a pure plant-based diet.
They also didn't like being the odd one out among their friends at restaurants.
And the majority of people, 88%, in this survey, it's a UK Daily Mail again, uh, have never tried giving up meat.
Never even, never even tried to be a vegetarian.
Fox News.com, a Massachusetts scruel, that advertises itself as an inclusive community, banned Santa Claus From its annual Christmas concert in the hometown of Harvard University, this in Cambridge, obviously, after some one complaint, one person complained, and the enlightened leaders decided to get rid of Santa Claus from the Scrual's annual Christmas concert.
Principal Jennifer Ford, writing a letter to parents of the Peabody Scrual in Cambridge, said, I am writing to you today to inform you of a change in our concert series this winter.
Our first through fourth grade concert, as well as our kindergarten concert, will not include a visit from Santa Claus this year.
The principal did not explain why Santa Claus was banned from the concert.
And it was held December 12th, so this is this is old news.
What happened was one parent complained that Santa Claus would be offensive.
And the politically correct principal and everybody else panicked and began to be filled with self-loathing and guilt.
And so they broomed Santa Claus.
A parent by the name of Robert Thompson told Fox and Friends, I come from a city, Cambridge.
It celebrates diversity and tolerance, and at its base, this decision reeks of intolerance.
Santa Claus had been relegated to a family sing-along on the day before Christmas Eve.
Robert Thompson, the parent, said it's as if they're saying Santa's not good enough for the main show.
The scrual was afraid, even that even the presence of Old St. Nick would uh would offend overly sensitive residents.
Now the here's I want you to listen to this.
Jennifer Ford, the principal.
This is what she wrote in a letter to parents that was obtained by the Boston Globe.
She wrote, quote, I am sensitive to the fact that you may not want your child involved in this event.
If you prefer that your child spend time with me that afternoon, please let me know.
I will be in the library playing games and reading books with the children.
Man, oh man.
Look, all well and good, but I'm just telling you, I don't know about your day, but my day at school, no way would any kid choose to go spend the day with the principal reading and playing games.
I mean that is this.
I will be, if you if if if you are offended, if you do not want your chancing Santa Claus in our presentation, if we don't ban Santa Claus, I will be in the library playing games and reading books with the children.
On the torture report.
The Washington Post is fit to be tied.
The Washington Post is livid.
Because there's a new poll out there from the Pew Research Center.
And it's the first to gauge reactions to last week's big CIA report on torture.
And the reaction's pretty muted.
A poll shows people say 51 to 29% that the CIA's methods were justified.
And 56 to 28% said the information gleaned helped prevent terror attacks.
And so, bottom line, the American people didn't care.
The American people were not made angry.
The American people were not livid like the media wanted them to be, and like the Senate Democrat staff wanted them to be.
The American people ho-hummed it.
The media was outraged.
The media was fit to be tied.
They thought the American people could be talked into being fit to be tied.
This goes back to the media losing their power and doing everything they can to demonstrate to themselves they still have the ability to shape public opinion.
And so this pew poll.
5129.
Torture methods justified.
Well, not torture wasn't used, enhanced techniques justified.
56 to 28%.
The information was useful.
It helped prevent terror attacks.
Now they didn't use the word torture in the poll, but it was clear it's what it was about.
And they were just, in fact the more you associate enhanced interrogation techniques with the idea of combating terrorism, the more the American people support it.
You should say a Washington Post is just livid over.
Well, you can read how disappointed they are.
They're just about to bust out crying if you can read between the lines here.
Because they and the rest of the drive-bys put so much time and effort into promoting a Democrat staffer's report that the CIA's torture was in fact torture.
And now it looks like it's all been for naught.
Maybe worse than naught.
Because those who've been following the story closely approve of these techniques.
Dire techniques.
This is the kind of thing gives me confidence.
I mean, the daily narrative, the daily soap opera of news, quote unquote news, is built, crafted, constructed, if you will, and it really is for this purpose.
There's I I the more I am willing to be honest with myself and really call this for what it is, the more I think I'm right.
The shaping of news every day, the writing of the soap opera, the determination of what to cover, what not to cover, and the termination, determination of how to cover it, I really believe that one of the primary emphases or ingredients as they put together the news every day is their effort to tick us off.
Their desire to dispirit us, their desire to laud it all over us, how everything we believe is wrong and in the minority and being stamped out.
I really believe that is as much a factor in how they determine what's news and what isn't as anything else.
There are other factors, of course, but that ranks near the top.
And so when they get a poll like this, they put everything, just like they did Ferguson.
They put everything into Ferguson.
They put everything into this torture report.
And the American people went, yon, oh hum, no big deal.
Don't care what you think.
We don't look at it the same way you do.
And they're devastated and President Obama thought he would uh relate to the troops.
This is yesterday afternoon, Burlington County, New Jersey, joint base McGuire Dix Lakers.
Obama speaking to the troops and their families, trying to relate to them, trying to show them he appreciates what they do, understands what they do, very much supports what they do.
Here's the first soundbite.
You never stop serving.
You never stop giving.
Although I'll bet uh one of those C-130s is a little more efficient than uh Santa's sleigh.
I figured I'd gotta get something out of our guys on that.
You talk about a joke that fell flat.
Did you hear that?
President Barak Hussein oh, equating the uniformed United States military with Santa Claus.
You never stop serving, you never stop giving.
You guys are like Santa in fatigues.
I'll bet one of those C 130s a little more efficient, Santa Slay.
They didn't laugh.
And it's not because they're opposed to Santa Claus.
Not at all.
But they don't do what Santa Claus does.
They don't have a bunch of little elves running around making things at the North Pole.
Here's the next Obama soundbite proving he learned nothing from Iraq.
After more than a decade of war, our nation is marking an important milestone.
What's that?
This month in just two weeks, the transition that we're making in Afghanistan will be complete.
What's Afghans will take full responsibility for their security.
This month, after more than 13 years, our combat mission in Afghanistan will be over.
Did we win?
Does anybody know?
Did Snardley, did we win in Afghanistan?
Does anybody know?
Well, I know he didn't say, but did I don't think he learned a lesson of Iraq?
We're pulling out of there.
We haven't won, but we're getting out of there.
And this is so that he can, ladies and gentlemen.
So that he can uh uh make the military more lean so that he can uh gut the military.
It isn't needed anymore.
We just you know we're getting out of Afghanistan.
But we didn't win.
It's not finished.
But then again, I don't even know what Obama's objective there was.
So that I don't know that there was ever going to be a way of proclaiming victory.
Okay, time out, back with more after this.
Stay there, folks.
Right.
Right, right.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh.
I've been doing this a long time, ladies and gentlemen.
I have been hosting this program.
I'm a Hall of Famer doing this for a long time.
And that means I know what I What are you laughing at?
I have been doing it a long time.
What do you think it's bad to point out I've been doing it a long time?
You think I should say 27 years?
What is it about long because I might do that?
They start cringing in there.
Okay, uh back to the phones.
Walt in uh Garner Valley, California.
Where is that, Walt?
Where's Garner Valley, California?
Up above up above uh Spawn Palm Springs, Rush, Ah, cool.
Right.
What I wanted to say is uh, you know, I I align myself with the Tea Party, but uh they need to change their attitude towards illegal aliens.
Don't don't get me wrong.
It made me mad for years that they ran across the border.
But you know what?
The Republicans, the Democrats let them in, and we as a people hired them.
And they're a lot of most of them are really nice people.
They have married into families out here.
And and you know, make the good ones citizens, throw the bad ones out.
Uh okay, fine with me.
Uh who's in charge of finding the bad ones.
Well, I don't know.
They're gonna have to figure that out.
I got an idea.
Let's find the ones that are breaking the law and and get rid of them.
Right, right.
But you can't you can't throw 15 million people out of this country.
Come on, they're crazy.
Nobody's advocating that.
I haven't seen a single person advocate that.
Yes, but they're really down on them, and they're Christians too.
We need more Christians in this country.
Who's down on them?
The Tea Party.
And I'm I I align myself with Tea Party.
The the Republicans.
I mean, the base.
You know, we we gotta do it.
You know, that here no, no, they're not down on these people.
That's the that that's you've got to know better than that.
Rush, I see it out here in California.
I see you know, uh uh they're great people.
What do you see?
What do I see?
I see I see well, basically racism.
Say nasty things about them.
And they work for us.
They work beside us.
They're good workers, they're Christians.
Don't get me wrong.
I'm not I'm not a somebody on the left.
I'm I'm conservative.
Right.
Uh you still there?
Yeah, yeah.
I'm here.
But I just think we need we need to do something to help these people, the ones that are good.
What do you want to do?
Get rid of the ones that cause problems and get them out of here.
Okay, well, fine.
What do you want to do on what do you want to do?
We can't win that right now.
Well, it's easy to say.
What do you want to do for him?
What do I want to do for him?
Well, let's start let's start let them apply to become citizens.
Oh I know it's uh a lot of people think it's not fair.
My parents waited five six years to come to this country, five years become citizens themselves.
And it's not fair to people that are in line.
But there's a sounds like you you you sound like Mitt Romney.
You want to swallow hard.
No.
But how are you gonna find the malcontents to get rid of them?
Because a lot of people want to throw them out.
They'd like to just round them up, but we can't do that.
But you just you're the one saying to do it.
Keep the good ones, throw the bad ones out.
Check their check the records, check to see if they got a they're in the shadows.
We don't know who they are.
Meeting and the surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Rush Limbaugh, one of the leading Improv performers in all of major American media.
For example, the first hour of the program today, I didn't even know I was going to do until I got into it.
I had no idea.
I just, I did, I had a stag of stuff.
I was ready to go.
I was going to start with some sound bites, and I got started, and my mind went you don't want to remember this remember that.
Improv.
And that means that the last two hours I still had all the show prep I hadn't even gotten to yet.
So I'm just going to cram some of that stuff in here.
Got some Ted Cruz sound bites.
Now the last caller that we had, there's one thing that he said, and it's it's a no-win.
It's a no-win.
But there's a popular here's here's a guy who's a conservative who is claiming the Tea Party's racist and doesn't like these, because he's heard the racist comments on California about the illegal immigrants, and it's time that we turned Christian, realized that there are a lot of Christians and welcomed them in.
They're already doing grunt work for us and this, that, and the other thing.
It uh dawned on me yet again that people do not understand the principled opposition to amnesty.
It has nothing to do.
There's nothing personal about it.
It's nothing to do with these particular 15 or 20 million people.
It has nothing to do with that.
It has everything to do with borders.
It has everything to do with preserving the country as we know it, with a distinct and proud of it, dammit, American culture.
Which is why every immigrant in the past has wanted to come here.
There's not a person I know that wants to deport, try to round up 15 or 20 million people and send them packing.
It isn't practical, it isn't going to happen.
What everybody wants is the border secured with active limits on the amount of immigration so that the flow is two things economically acceptable and productive, and that something that used to happen automatically begins to happen again, that's assimilation.
Every time I tell people that there was no immigration in this country for over 40 years, from the 1920s to the 1960s, 70s, they're shocked.
You'd be amazed at a number of people that do not know.
We totally closed the borders.
After the wave of European immigration in the 1920s.
And we did it for one reason.
That mass arrival of immigrants needed to be assimilated.
Now they wanted to be, they wanted to become Americans.
So they had to learn English.
They learned American custom.
They became acquainted with American holidays.
They studied for citizenship.
All of this they wanted.
And it took that many years to assimilate.
All the the opposition to amnesty is not personal to these 15 million people.
It is a rule of law.
If we lose the rule of law, that's all we've got.
We are seeing how really precariously structured this country really is.
We've got to document the Constitution that is the law of the land.
And we've now got a president who, when he doesn't like it, pretends it doesn't exist.
There is no mechanism other than censure or impeachment to deal with that.
And the Republicans have taken both off the table.
So there's no signal that he must stop.
If this continues, the United States is not going to be what was founded.
The Constitution spells out, it it and it's it's somebody asked me on the phone recently, is the honor system rush?
Is that how it works for 200 plus years?
The honor system?
What the caller meant was, was it just high elected officials, presidents, and they were just duty bound to obey the Constitution?
Well, partly.
But it was respect for it, but it was also respect for the law.
The honor system, it was it was there was a reverence for it.
Now there's always been opposition to it.
Always since the days it was written, there have been people opposed to it.
I don't mean to present a Pollyanish picture here.
But it is precariously balanced.
If if any given president or succession of presidents just decides to pretend it doesn't exist, and if the other two branches of government aren't gonna do anything about it, then it won't exist.
And this country, there'll always be an America, but it won't be what was founded.
Who knows what it'll be, but it won't be.
That's what people are worried about.
Not worried about being overrun.
We're not it's not it's nothing personal here.
It's a desire to hold on to America and to make it a beacon, keep it a beacon.
Stand for something.
We're losing our economic stature and status to the ChICOMs now.
There's a reason for this.
And when you realize that that amnesty and open borders is a weapon used by the anti-American left.
That's reason enough to oppose them.
When you realize who wants open borders, when you realize the political and ideological motivation behind it, you you are duty-bound.
Top of the honor system, you're duty-bound.
I would take the stand up and oppose it.
It isn't personal, it has nothing to do with ethnicity or race whatsoever.
And by the way, don't go crazy crediting all these amnesty people with love of humanity.
They don't want these people to ever be self-reliant.
They want these people to be voting as dependent incompetent.
The political powers that be that are trying to make this happen, see a wave of potential registered voters who are unskilled and uneducated and will never be self-reliant.
Therefore, they are always going to need support from government.
They are seeking dutiful respectful, appreciative dependence.
The open borders crowd has no love for these people.
That's the thing that really bugs me.
These people are pawns, and there is no desire for these people to come here and become the best they can be.
That's not going to serve the purpose of the political class.
The value of these people is as future vote.
The Democrat Party needs a permanent underclass.
And as people in the old days, not so much true right now, but in the old days, as people worked hard and moved themselves out of the lower quintiles of poverty and up into the middle class and beyond, they became less and less dependent on government.
The Democrats had to replace them.
And so Ted Kennedy thought after 40 years of no immigration, well, let's just let's let's open the borders.
And that's what it was all about.
It's inhuman, if you ask me.
And these people get away with uh getting all the credit for compassion and caring and big hearts.
The people pushing this, in my mind, are the people who have the least real human concern.
These are just pawns.
And it it's it's offensive in every which way you can think of.
That's why whenever you hear people talk seriously about this, border security is always the first thing required for any else in a deal to take place.
Provable, demonstrable, that would mean years of border security before we do anything on amnesty.
You can't just promise that you agree with securing the border, and then we make them legal.
You gotta show three years that you're serious about securing the border, then we do it.
There has to be some value attached to this.
Or it all becomes meaningless.
Which sadly, way too much of what used to be important is now becoming meaningless as the political class corrupts as much as they can for their own power.
Gotta take a break, folks.
Back with much more after this.
A federal judge in Pennsylvania.
Has declared in a ruling that Obama's immigration executive action is unconstitutional.
It doesn't change anything yet.
It's just a single ruling.
Federal judge in Pennsylvania has declared that Obama's immigration executive action is unconstitutional.
And there are reasons.
I just I just got the link.
I didn't get a chance to click on the details yet.
But we'll see if that even makes any news.
It doesn't, it doesn't carry the weight of changing anything yet, but it is a legal opinion.
And there will be many more.
You can count.
They're now trying to find the Obama and Clinton appointed judges to hear whatever cases there are on this.
In the meantime, Joyce in Carterville, Cartersville, Georgia.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, Merry Christmas.
Same to you.
Same to you.
Thank you.
Well, I've listened to you over the years, and whenever anybody's brought up third party, you've always poo-pooed the idea saying, you know, you don't want to split the vote, that it would definitely hurt the Republican Party.
But I was so glad to hear your thoughts today on the Republican Party being pretty much the Republicans and the Democrats are pretty much the same thing.
Well, uh no, let's let's people just tuning in.
You don't want to give them the wrong idea.
I said on three things.
I said amnesty, Obamacare, and uh and the budget, you you you can't what was that, H.R. Yeah, budget, size of government.
You can't find any difference in them.
That they d they agree on amnesty, they agree on extending Obamacare, and and that they don't want to shrink government, right?
I think there's no difference in them screwing the American people.
I mean, they're they're exactly the same thing.
And the last election we had proved that we have the votes to beat Democrat politicians or whatever now Republicans, I honestly don't see them as any different.
I know.
As a person who lives within the budget and has to go grocery shopping and continues to pay more and more.
I think that if there is a conservative candidate that we cannot get on a Republican ticket, a third party may provide us with the leader, conservative, that we all want and have been hoping for in this party that I no longer call myself a Republican because they don't represent me and haven't for a long time.
And I think that what you said today and how it's obvious how you're feeling now about the Republican Party that people like you, with your influence, and I've called the floor and said you could be, you know, my conservative mouthpiece.
I've said that on the last phone call to you.
That, you know, with people like you, conservative powerhouses backing a conservative candidate, I think that the American people would vote for them.
I think the Republicans and the Democrats would lose because personally I'm sick of them, and I think everybody else is too.
Well, they are.
It's it's elections are not quite that simple.
Um there's a really important thing called money that that trumps ideas and ideology practically every time.
Yeah, yeah.
And you'd have, I guarantee you, if if what you say that the Democrats would join with the Republicans to trounce whatever third party.
I'm not I'm not I'm not shooting you down here.
Don't don't misunderstand.
I just tell you what happened.
The thing is I I still think taking over the Republican Party is uh we've got more I think the Tea Party has more votes than the standard Republicans, but I could be wrong about that.
There are plenty of what I call mainstream Republican voters who are favored amnesty.
Many Republican voters they don't want to hear a word about social issues, and they really don't care about government getting smaller.
I mean, the Republican Party is not all conservative voters.
Question is does the Tea Party, and I use that to mean conservative, do we outnumber other Republicans in the party?
Third party route.
Really, really, really tough road to ho.
But I understand your your thoughts on this.
Everybody's frustrated.
You've been squandering, squandering a landslide victory before you're even sworn in.
Anyway, I'm not turning you away disappointed, Joyce.
It's just, it's just not it's not as heroically simple as all that.
And you can't find any recent example of third-party success.
So it would be something done for the long term.
You'd if you do it, you've got to commit to it, and it's gonna be the long term because you're not gonna win for a while.
You're just not gonna have the uh the money, the forces, and all that.
It would take time.
But I appreciate the call.
Thanks very much.
I wish I had more time, but the program's coming to a screeching halt.
U.S. Federal Judge Arthur Schwab in the Western District of Pennsylvania said presidents do have powers to use discretion, but that Obama's new policy goes well beyond that.
It's just the first of many rulings.
Have a great Tuesday.
Rest of the day, and we'll be back tomorrow.
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