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Jan. 26, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 26, 2015, Monday, Hour #3
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And greetings to you once again, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
I am America's real anchorman, Rushlin Bohr.
You're the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Our telephone number is 800-282-2882.
My gosh, I feel kind of guilty here.
You know, I really feel like we should be doing all three hours talking about Kit today.
He'd think that's nonsense.
But anyway, if you're just joining us, the staff member has been with me longer than anybody else.
Chief of staff, we jokingly called him H.R.
The reason his nickname was HR, by the way, was after H.R. Haldeman, who was Nixon's chief of staff.
And he said no to everybody.
And that's why we called, in fact, Kit came up with the name for himself, H.R. Passed away this morning at 8 a.m. at age 58 and spent much of the first hour doing the remembrances.
But it's such a huge void here.
I feel like I'm just doing the program today here on half half mast, half scan, half attention, what have you.
And it's just, it's such a, I don't know, just an empty feeling, even though it's not unexpected, sadly.
It's still hard to accept.
But anyway, forge on we must.
And he would have insisted, obviously.
But it just, I just, this feels weird.
So part of me thinks I shouldn't even be here today, but that's silly.
At any rate, move on, we do.
Again, the phone number is 800-282-2882.
Have you all, sure you have by now, heard about the massive outbreak of measles?
Disneyland, yeah.
Top doctor, source of measles spreading rapidly in Southern California is likely to be, dot, dot, dot.
What do you think the source is?
Well, you know, this, this, we, we'd, we'd eliminate, well, we've all but eliminated measles in this country.
And we've, we've, we've had measles, for the most part, eliminated for decades, right?
I mean, how many cases of measles are there?
We don't even hear about it much.
And all of a sudden, there's a plague.
And all this is an epidemic out there.
And this is Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet warned about the possibility that the influx of illegal immigrant children would cause a surge in disease in June of last year.
And many people are joining her in pointing fingers at the Obama open door, ship us your sick children immigration policy.
Future Democrat voters is the, yeah, it's the Obama open door, ship us your future Democrat voter children immigration policy.
And, you know, here we this is a tipping point in and of itself.
You've got political desire on one hand, and that's the Democrat Party and maybe hell no, the Republicans do, hoping that they have a whole bunch of future voters here.
And for the Democrats, a whole bunch of dependent people who are going to be depending on government benefits to survive, which means they're going to need a big government growing to handle all of this.
You've got that slamming right into the reality of the health and well-being of children in America.
We had effectively eradicated measles, and now all of a sudden, because of Obama's open door policy, we're welcome.
And remember when the, we're coming up on a year now.
It was last January when we noticed the jobs posting memo on a government website in which the Obama administration was seeking logistics company companies.
And the purpose was to transport newly arrived illegal immigrant children to various parts of the country.
This was, in fact, set up a year ago.
It wasn't until March that the influx really began or became noticeable.
And remember when that was happening last late winter and early spring, if you'll recall, these migrant kids, they were called, these minors were rammed across the border and they went into holding sessions, holding tanks for what, a couple of days, and then they were released.
And it was impossible that full, detailed health checks were being done.
And so now people are logically concluded, well, maybe the influx of measles.
I mean, Southern California, is there really an accident here?
And this is why so many people have been demanding we close the border.
See, the way the left looks at this, and you may think I'm full of it, if you're new to the program and you're still getting up to speed on how things happen here, we are being governed right now by people who believe that America has had an unfair advantage that we didn't earn in the world.
We have become a superpower and all of the great things that go along with that because we've stolen and we've cheated and we've basically mistreated the poorer people of the world.
But they believe that we were founded on an abject lie, that we were founded on the backs of slaves.
And we have an original sin that can never, ever be forgiven or absolved.
And so they believe that it's not fair, since we are an unjust and illegitimately founded country, it's not fair that we have found ways to eradicate disease in this country when the people around the world haven't.
It's not fair that we have.
They don't believe that there's anything special about America.
They don't believe, they think quite the opposite.
So the leftists, and there are many of them, and they know they're never going to come in contact with these people, these illegal immigrants, so it's not their problem.
But they think it's only fair.
And I'm not exaggerating, folks.
I'm not trying to make a point.
I'm not trying to sound what you might think is outrageous.
I really believe If you're going to open the borders and make no effort to stop who comes in, and you're not even going to give the people that come in health checks and determine, I mean, that was the purpose of Ellis Island.
People may not know this.
Ellis Island in the early 19th century or the 20th century was not to approve this race or that ethnicity or what it was to determine if people were healthy or not.
We were not going to let people immigrate to the country with any kind of a disease that we had eradicated or were in the process of eradicating.
That's the whole purpose of Ellis Island.
So if a kid tried to get in and had tuberculosis, it was tough toenails.
Well, people like Obama and the people in his administration is terribly unfair.
That's not.
So there's none of that happening with this massive illegal immigration taking place now.
None of it.
But of course, the correct way of thinking about this is you have to safeguard your own people, your own country's people.
You have to be concerned with the health and well-being of your own population.
But to people that run the country right now, that's offensive to think.
We're not that special.
Why should we?
It's no different than the way they look at Iran's nukes.
Well, who are we to tell them they can't have nuclear weapons?
We've got them.
Who are we to tell them they're not allowed?
It's none of our business.
Who are we to tell Turkey they can't get nuclear weapons?
Who are we to tell them they can't use them?
We don't have that right.
What gives us the right to tell other people what they can and can't do?
What gives us the right, it's not so much the right as the responsibility.
It's a recognizing bad guys.
It's defending liberty.
It's defending freedom and people who want to be free and use liberty all over the world.
That's what we've stood for, not just defending ourselves, but others and liberating people from all kinds of totalitarianism.
That's what we've been about.
But you have to believe in some form of American exceptionalism in order to support that, and this bunch doesn't.
So if a bunch of newly arrived, unfortunate immigrant children who want to come to America to improve their lives and escape war and bondage and whatever, why who are we to say they can't come?
And just because they might have measles, well, that's not compassionate.
Who are we to say that we ought to be able to prevent our own people from getting all they want to do is see Mickey?
They just want to come to Disneyland.
I mean, what's the problem, Mr. Limbo?
These young kids, all they want to do is go to Disneyland and ride the Rhinesy Mickey Mouse, right?
So any opposition to this based on public health is considered discriminatory and racist and mean-spirited and all of that.
Here's Fox New feature here on Michael Moore.
Michael Moore is a sniper.
Michael Moore's been more sniping at people than anybody I can imagine.
Telling lies about people, making things up about people.
And now Howard Dean's joining Michael Moore in this crusade.
Anyway, there's just a boatload, however you want to put it, illegal aliens are just trampling the border, and who knows what diseases they're bringing with them.
But it's no accident that there's a measles outbreak in Southern California when we'd already gone to great lengths to eradicate it in this country.
Take a timeout.
Be right back.
What's a question?
You know, Snurdly just asked me a question.
I've been meaning to get to this.
Folks, I really do have to, it's not worth apologizing for.
My mind's not all the way here today, and I feel like I'm just kind of going through the motions because of the death of our friend here and colleague.
And your question reminds me of something I would normally have mentioned at the beginning of the process.
It says, how the hell can a snowstorm that hasn't happened be historic?
And it's a brilliant question.
You know, I started paying attention to this yesterday for reasons related to the death, to Kit's death and getting in and out of New York.
So I start paying attention to this and I see record of all time blizzard is being forecast.
And then I see this idiot mayor on TV telling everybody this could be, might be, likely will be the absolute worst blizzard in the history of blizzards in New York.
So I said, hmm, this sounds pretty cool.
What's this going to be?
So I dug deep and I got the details.
25 to 30 inches of snow, maybe three feet of snow.
Worse than it's ever been.
And, you know, the usual things.
Don't drive, stay home if you can't avoid it.
If you have to go out, don't go out.
Stay home.
Stock up.
Do everything.
Go empty the groceries.
In this, it's a time to panic.
So I started looking all the different places that have weather websites, AccuWeather, everyone, National Weather Service, Wild Gas.
I went everywhere trying to find as much detail about this as I could.
Because I can't tell you the number of times a record or major snowstorm has been forecast.
This year alone, I was just trying to think last night, trying to recall a couple instances where they forecast something that's going to be really, really bad.
And it hasn't even come close to being not even close to bad, much less really, really bad.
And not just in New York, but elsewhere around the country.
It's been a horrible, horrible year for forecasts.
And the reason is, if I can cut to the quick and get to your, the left has corrupted everything.
And just like the left has corrupted the professoriate, the faculty at major institutions of higher learning, the left has populated all these bureaucracies.
The Department of Commerce runs a National Weather Service.
And do not believe that they're not politicized.
Look at after Hurricane Katrina.
Look at the very next hurricane season.
Global warming was responsible for Katrina.
And that meant Katrina was just the first of many that were going to follow.
And they were all going to be bad, each one worse than the one before.
It's just part of global warming.
There hasn't been a major hurricane landfall in this country in 3,000 freaking days.
Cat 4, Cat 5 has not happened.
But part and parcel of the left taking over is, okay, you've got to forecast me it's going to rain.
What do you do?
Did we not have a story last week?
Some idiot got frostbite standing outside in the rain in the cold telling everybody it was cold.
Some TV reporter got frostbite and probably lost an ear or something reporting and telling people not to stand outside.
It's a part and parcel of liberalism is the nanny state and to assume that we can't take care of ourselves.
The assumption that we don't know what's best for us, that we have to be told, don't drive when the roads are slick, that we have to be told, make sure you bundle up and put on extra layers.
You're going to go out when it's cold.
And make sure you don't shovel your snow too rapidly.
It could lead to a heart attack.
And all these don'ts.
Be sure and don't.
And then if you do and you suffer a heart attack, here's what to do if you have a heart attack.
And here's how to call 911.
And here's how to clear the street for EMS to get to your house.
And it's all predicated on the fact that we are idiots and don't know how to protect ourselves and don't know what's best and don't know how to make proper judgments.
Well, that's how you get an historic snowstorm before it's even started snowing.
Everything is a crisis.
To the left, everything is a crisis.
It is how government ends up controlling people.
I alluded to this earlier in the program when I was talking about Scott Walker.
The government has succeeded.
When I say government, I mean agency after agency after agency, not just the White House and not just Congress, House and Senate, but local government agencies and state agencies.
They have succeeded somehow in portraying themselves as members of the community when they are not part of the community.
Government is not part of your community, but they have finagled that.
And when they become part of the community, it gives them license and freedom to infiltrate as much of your daily life as they can under the guise of giving you advice, under the guise of looking out for you, under the guise of trying to protect you.
But whatever it is, it's all about control.
But it's the assumption that we're all children.
And that's where all of this stuff stems from.
The reason why a snowstorm that hasn't even started will be called historic is because that level of crisis fulfills the liberal need to run in and protect and control and illustrate they know best and all that.
As far as the media and everything is concerned now, everything Obama and de Blasio do is historic.
But here's the thing about this.
They've already started downsizing the intensity.
Last night, it was going to be 25, 30 inches, maybe three feet.
It was going to be disastrous.
Flat-roofed homes and buildings were going to collapse with all that weight.
None of it had happened.
But it was being reported as though it was imminent.
Well, now, I just checked, and the forecast has been revised now to be 12 and 24 inches instead of 25 to 30.
And the winds are now not forecast to be 65 miles an hour, but maybe 40.
And I don't think this is the first downsizing of the forecast.
I don't think it's the last.
I've been in New York.
Well, you've been there, Snarl.
It's 24, 25 inch snowstorm.
The city doesn't shut down.
This stuff doesn't shut down.
Anyway, that's answered a question.
Are you glad you asked?
And back to the phones where you go.
This is, well, yeah, I am.
Look, I wish, you know, I should have.
Look, I'm sorry, it wasn't on my mind to do it.
But there's clear research that can be done just this year on the forecasts, what they've been and what's turned out to really be, and how they've been overblown, how they've been saturated in panic.
It's all panic now.
Every freaking weather forecast is a panic.
They've canceled 5,000 flights.
You can't find stuff in store shelves now.
They create all this panic with all these weather forecasts.
And the point is, there's no difference.
A 10-inch snowstorm, they're going to create the same amount of panic as they will with a 30-inch snowstorm.
It's just become what happens.
It's a disservice to the public that's being done.
People have lived through 25 inches of snow before.
They've lived through 30 inches of snow.
It's not a death sentence.
It doesn't mean you're not going to be able to eat.
It doesn't mean you're not going to be able to get around.
This is the United States of America for crying out.
We have these things called chains.
We have four-wheel drive vehicles.
It's not going to bring everything to a screeching halt.
And yet, this stuff is all reported as though it's the biggest crisis in the midst of panic.
And it has an impact on people.
It creates a helplessness among people, and it makes them wait around and become dependent on other people to do things.
It's not good.
It does not develop manliness.
Let me just put it that way.
Makes everybody a bunch of chumps.
But there's no sense of proportion.
There's no distinction drawn.
A 10 or 12 inch snowfall is forecast the same way as a blizzard 30 inch snowfall.
They stop everything.
The drive-bys send these reporter routes to stand there and tell you how bad it's going to be.
And then when it gets bad, they send the drive-bys out there to tell you how bad it is, even though you can look out a window and see for yourself.
I don't know.
I just think the whole thing's insulting.
But of course, I'm highly attuned, and I'm highly sensitive to the ways of the media.
And let's admit it, there are billions of people who aren't.
And so it's a different world.
It's still a great question.
How in the world can you have an historic snowfall when there hasn't been any snowfall yet?
Now, it has started snowing now, but it's nowhere near historic yet.
It's all over the news.
Historic snowfall, historic snow.
Do you really, every nor'easter in New York is, oh my God, it's panic to every nor'easter.
It's rain, snow, whatever it is.
It's the worst.
Oh, my God, we might die.
Oh, my God.
And they just keep doing it over and over again, and it's never as bad as they let on.
Not to say it isn't bad.
I'm just telling you that there's senses, you know, proportion and intensity that are missing at all.
Anyway, Barry and Virginia Beach, I'm glad you called, sir.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
First, personal condolences on the passing of an EIB family member in New York.
Thank you, Russ.
Thank you very much, sir.
We appreciate that.
A second.
You've kind of taught us over the years to be positive and optimistic.
And I think we've got good reason to be.
I'm not going to say who's the best Republican candidate we've got shaping up that's a strong suite that we're going to have a choice of.
And I'd point out that much of Obama's legacy can be eliminated by the mere fact that these are all executive orders and don't have a standing way to stay around after he's gone.
And unlike other things that are passed by Congress and then signed into law by the president that stay around, his won't.
And so I would think that one of the things that we'd be looking for out of a Republican candidate for president would be somebody that would make this a key part of how they are going to offer themselves to the electorate.
And that is 30 minutes after he leaves the slurring-in ceremony that he signs an order eliminating all of those executive orders, sir.
If I'm not mistaken, and I might be today, I'll admit that I could be making mistakes today, and which I will allow myself the permission to make mistakes today.
But I've been seeing things on this.
Now, there's three things I want to say in response.
Number one, you're right that executive actions are more easily withdrawn than acts of law that have been signed into law by a president, passed duly by Congress.
Second thing is Obama is planning on staying around in Washington.
I haven't seen anything on this since the first time I saw it reported, which is now a couple of years ago.
But Obama is planning on having a house.
He's going to have a house in Palm Springs.
He's going to have a house in Hawaii.
He's going to have a house in the Caribbean.
He's going to have houses all over the place.
He's going to be rivaling Jeffrey Epstein for houses.
I don't know where he's going to get the money, but it won't be a problem.
But he's going to have a house at Washington.
And there's only one reason for an ex-president to stay in Washington, Barry, and that is to make sure what you just said doesn't happen.
And I want to warn everybody for this, about this.
I think every Republican presidential candidate in these prime had better be aware of this, that there's going to be whoever wins the Republican nominary process, nomination and becomes president maybe, whoever that Republican is, no matter what, Obama and the media are going to, if there's anything done that tries to unravel anything Obama really cared about, like Obamacare or executive action on immigration,
if any Republican makes the first step toward unwinding any of that, Obama and the media are going to get in gear and they are going to set out to destroy this new president, even if it is the afternoon of his inauguration where this stuff happens.
I think you, Barry, you should be prepared for this to happen.
That's the only reason for an ex-president to hang around town.
The third thing is, I know that I read something about this recently, and I can't recall it, about the ease or the difficulty that it actually is unwinding an executive order.
You just said that unwinding one of those, unraveling one of those would be easier than legislation.
And first glance, that's the automatic conclusion.
I think I read something where it's not that easy to do, and it isn't just as simple as signing a counter order and that Obama is going to be hell-bent on making sure that it doesn't happen.
So you're right, I think every potential Republican needs to be aware this is what he's going to face.
It's not just Obama that's going to be trying to stop him.
He's going to have the entire Washington press corps as though Obama still is president.
We in this, all of us in this country better get used to that.
I think it may even be the case even if the Democrats win the White House in 2016, even if it's Hillary.
Whoever it is, I guarantee the media and this relationship they have with Obama, I've never seen anything like it.
And it's not going to end when he leaves the White House.
They're not going to all of a sudden stop protecting Obama and his accomplishments and achievements.
Remember, they're the history writers, too.
Anybody tries to unravel anything this guy's done, it is going to be a bloodbath, a political bloodbath.
Do not doubt me.
And I wish I could remember that story I read, and I may not have even printed it out and had it ready for the program.
read so much, but what, well, yeah, he's not even signed the executive order on amnesty.
He's doing it by memo.
But the thing that I, the story, or whatever, it might have been a column I saw, an opinion piece.
I can't record it off the top of my head now.
But it made the, and it might have been a leftist drive by writing it to discourage, I just don't remember.
But it was devoted to the idea that unraveling these things are not, is not going to be easy.
Not as easy as anybody, as most everybody thinks that it is going to be.
Anyway, Barry, I appreciate the phone call.
Let me take another brief time out here, folks, as time goes on.
We'll be back after this.
By the way, you're not going to believe this.
No, I take that back.
Sadly, you will believe it.
It's still unbelievable.
Just listen to this.
As you know, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud passed away Friday at age 90.
He's the king of Saudi Arabia and the custodian of the two mosques in Mecca and Medina.
He was the figurehead of Islam.
The king of Saudi Arabia is as the custodian of the two mosques, the figurehead of Islam.
Wahhabiism, the militant Islam, originated there, and it is the official version of Islam for the royal family, the Saudi royal family.
The king of Saudi Arabia is not a reformer.
He's not a freedom fighter.
He's not an ally because I got all, and we needed it.
You ready for this?
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman, General Martin Dempsey.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has established an essay competition to honor the late Saudi king Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, the Pentagon announced today.
The competition to be hosted at the National Defense University over the next academic year will focus on issues related to the Arab and Muslim worlds, according to the official Department of Defense News.
This is an important opportunity to honor the memory of the king while also fostering scholarly research on the Arab-Muslim world.
And I can think of no better home for such an initiative than the National Defense University.
Abdullah, who ruled since 2005, was the power behind the throne of his ailing predecessor, King Fahd bin Abdulaziz, for a decade before that, died Thursday, succeeded by his brother and crown prince Salman bin Abdulaziz, who is suffering dementia.
Dempsey met the king in 2001 when he served as an advisor to the Saudi Arabian National Guard, which Abdullah commanded.
It's my job to train and advise his military forces in our relationship since I found the king to be a man of remarkable character and courage.
Though Abdullah was undeniably a key ally in the Middle East because of oil, he was not an ally in regard to our relationship with Israel, for example.
But let's not throw stones, shall we?
I just, I saw this.
This has got to be a satire.
This is every bit the satire I thought was satire when I heard the State Department convening a panel after 9-11 to discuss why they hate us so much.
Now, Obama has announced he's going to honor the late Saudi king by announcing that he's not going to make Alaska off-drimmage for oil drilling.
Is that it?
That's got to be a joke going on.
Have you heard that?
That Obama, in honor of the king, is going to announce that Alaska is off limits for oil drilling.
It's got to be a joke.
The thing is, it's believable.
He is trying to limit U.S. exploration.
He's trying to limit U.S. oil production.
There's no question.
And he did go over and he bowed to King Abdullah when he met him.
You know, people say, what the hell is that?
The president of the United States doesn't bow to anybody.
Not the queen, not the king of Saudi Arabia or anybody, but he bowed down to him.
And a lot of people think they understood why.
I mean, he's a custodian of the two mosques.
Anyway, an essay contest, an essay competition to honor the late.
Okay.
All right, fine.
What are we all doing here?
That is it for us today.
We'll be back tomorrow, folks.
God bless Kit Carson, his wife Teresa, and his sons, Jack and Jesse.
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