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Jan. 29, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 29, 2015, Thursday, Hour #2
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Hey folks, I may have spoken too soon on this uh dynamic scoring business.
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In one of this is from the Hill.com, in one of their first moves upon taking power in Congress, the Republicans instructed the CBO to adopt dynamic scoring when evaluating the budgetary impacts of new legislation.
This is the type of issue that uh only a beltway insider could love, but the priority that Republicans put on this move indicates the uh high value politicians place on controlling the numbers attached to the assessment of public policy.
So, as it says here, uh, under dynamic scoring, the CBO would estimate changes to the macro economy as a result of a tax change, and then incorporate those changes in their estimates of the budgetary impact of whatever new tax policy's been proposed.
Makes all the sense in the world to do it.
But even so, the dynamic scoring is still a little bit of a of a guess and an estimate, although there's historical behavior as a guide that you can use, but it clearly makes far more sense than the static analysis.
The static analysis is worthless.
Static analysis does not take into account any human behavior or human nature whatsoever.
So I might have spoken too soon.
The Republicans have said they're uh they're gonna start incorporating this in uh any future calculations made by the CBO.
Folks, it's great to have you with us here as we head on down toward uh towards Super Bowl.
What number is this Super Bowl 49?
Super Bowl 49.
I've lost track of the ability to count the Roman numerals.
Not that I ever did know that.
But it's okay, so it's 49.
Uh, and so everybody's but Tom Brady has a cold.
Marshawn Lynch is still not talking and wearing unapproved hats.
Might be subject to a hundred thousand dollar fine.
That's typical Super Bowl uh pre-publicity and so forth as we get ready for the uh for the big game.
Now, grab audio of Sunbite 32.
I've got more on Scott Walker here, but I want to spread this out.
I want to spread the Scott Walker stuff out.
Uh and by the let me make something very clear.
I haven't endorsed Scott Walker or anybody else.
As per usual, I don't endorse, particularly this far out.
I mean, we don't even have any real official candidates here.
But even if we did, that's that's not what happens in this program by policy.
There's some things that Scott Walker uh I'm getting emails now.
Hey, you better be careful.
You know, Scott Walker's not exactly good on immigration rush.
You don't you don't want to embarrass yourself here by going overboard at night just folks, everything's cool here.
My my point about Scott Walker is I thought what everybody out there, I thought all of you were so upset about.
I know I have been.
I don't I but my my whole point is that defeating the left, I mean it's not easy, but clearly it can be done.
And when it's done, using conservatism with the right candidate done the right way, it wins.
And the Republican Party's not even interested in that, as we've documented and discussed.
My only point about Scott Walker is if you want to beat back the left, there's a guy that's done it.
And he's done it against all odds.
He has written the blueprint how to do it, and I thought that's why we were all here.
Is to restore this country and beat back the left and their desired transformation of this country.
And Scott Walker has shown how to do it in the belly of the beast.
He hasn't done it from a think tank.
He hasn't done it from position papers and theses and all this.
He hasn't done it as a consultant.
He's done it with his name and reputation on the line.
He's done it as a candidate as a sitting governor campaigning for re-election.
He's done it.
He's shown how it can happen.
And it's it's not even tied to geography.
Yeah, Wisconsin's a northern plains state, but it's a blue state.
The unions ran that state.
That's who he had to take on and beat back.
Along with the media.
And he had to take every illegal act they tried, every act of personal destruction against him and his family.
My point is, for 25 years, I've been gotten phone calls.
I've been receiving phone calls.
Why don't the Republicans do that?
Why don't the Republicans why don't there's your answer?
Scott Walker has been doing everything you wish the Republican Party at large has been doing in terms of beating back the opposition.
In terms of taking them on, beating them back, showing how to do it, and succeeding at doing it.
There's the blueprint.
Not even that complicated.
Anyway, the media hasn't yet zeroed in on him full time.
The Wisconsin media did to a certain extent that the uh national media, but now they are going to start focusing because of his speech Saturday, and the brand new attention he's getting outside.
What are you laughing at?
What in the world is so funny?
What it what now?
Okay, look.
I just called it.
I just predicted it.
And then you got me a caller.
Somebody just make sure it doesn't, it's it's a guy Josh and Josh to cater Alabama, hold on.
Do not go away, Josh.
And I have not endorsed Walker.
I just made that point.
I've said the same kind of things about Ted Cruz over and over and over again.
I've said many of the same things, not quite the same verve and energy about Mike Lee.
I've said roaringly good positive things about Rick Perry.
Uh over the uh so I'm not endorsed anybody.
At any rate, the that Romney has become the focus now that drive by's again because he's let it be known that he's looking at maybe running again.
He's gonna run.
So it's folks, it's hilarious to watch the drive-by.
As I mentioned, the Washington Post on the web has got this little interactive game you can play.
They've got Mitt Romney, one of his mansions.
I don't know which one.
I didn't read all one of his mansions.
Well, he's got an 11,000 square foot place in La Jolla.
It's not this one in the in the Washington Post, because this one's bigger than that.
And he's got a place in Boston.
And I think he's got a place in Utah somewhere.
He's got houses.
Nitt Romney likes to live in different houses.
And he's out there, he's earned the money to do so.
Big whoop.
Well, no, not big whoop.
The Washington Post thinks this is horrible.
It's terrible, it's out of touch, and they have an interactive little game you can play.
They have the Romney blueprint.
All three floors of one of his mansions.
And you can input the square footage of your domicile, be it a condominium, be it an apartment, be it your shopping cart.
Uh your own house.
You can input the square footage, or if you don't know what that is, there are other ways you can input the size of your house.
And that size will be superimposed over Mitt Romney's blue plan or blueprint floor plan of his of his house.
I did it.
I tried it.
I put in the size of my house, and they they've it's a it's a giant blue overlay.
In my case, the blue overlay was bigger than the than the Romney blueprints.
Which I'm sure is not what the Washington Post intends.
Uh the the the media did go after McCain's houses.
They did go.
I mean, you couldn't, after a while, you couldn't read them.
McCain had eight different condos.
Remember?
Eight different apartments, condominiums, and houses.
And it what was funny, McCain didn't even know he had them all.
Remember?
In one of the, you know, I have these things in my wife, I'm in my wife's nation.
So I don't care what he asked to me, fire.
He didn't even know he had as many as he had.
Theoretically, Romney knows how many he has.
The Washington Post found one, got the floor plan.
Public record, you can get the floor plan, the details of anybody's house you want.
Well, from the architect and the design, if it has to go any kind of approval process and any kind of uh architectural approval, environmental approval.
Yeah, you can f it's all public record, you can find these things, and that's what they did.
And they've just got this little game.
You put in they figure most people live in a 12 or 1400 square foot place, 5,000 what you you input your size, and your house by designing this thing is going to be dwarfed by Romney's.
That's the whole point to show how big only one of Romney's houses is in your shack in comparison.
And then the you're supposed to conclude that Romney hates you and it doesn't care about you.
Remember the exit poll question, 2012, cares about people like me.
Obama won that one 81 to 19.
Well, the media's not going to let that go, so they're trying that.
And exactly right, puts his dog in the roof of the family station wagon uh on family vacation.
How can you like the guy?
Yeah, and that's another thing.
He some some guy that worked for Romney's wife died, and Romney didn't care.
Yeah, a guy's wife got cancer or something.
That's the media's out, and they can't wait to rev this stuff all up again.
Now, my obvious the obvious conclusion is, okay, where's the blueprints for the Kennedy compound?
Where how about the combined properties and homes of Nancy Pelosi?
They would never ever endeavor to have people compare the size of their homes with where a Democrat, a wealthy Democrat lives.
How about the combined square footage of the Clinton estates?
They got a place in Georgetown, they got a place in Chappaqua.
Clinton lives in the second floor of the library and massage parlor down there.
And why not, and and they all spent a lot of time at Jeffrey Epstein's places, why not get a blueprint of the floor plan of Jeffrey Epstein's houses and show where all the so-called massages and stuff went on, and have you overlay your house and the size of your massage room with Jeffrey Epstein's where Clinton and the boys hung out.
But they'll never do anything like that, of course.
So they're they're they're revving up on Romney, and then they don't have that kind of thing to attack Scott Walker on, so they'll have to come up with uh with other things.
In addition to that, the forehead was on CNN today on the program called Newsroom and the uh the infobabe named Kate Baldwin was interviewing the forehead.
He's a Democrat strategist still.
Hey, did you know?
I saw something today that I didn't know.
Did you know that that uh Carville, James Carver, was a Fox News analyst.
I didn't either.
He's been a Fox News analyst for the last year, and the only reason I knew that is because he quit today.
Or he's no longer one.
I don't know if he did that one-year contract that ended or if he resigned or whatever.
I didn't even know he was one.
Well, he was at CNN.
I remember him leaving CNN somewhere.
I just maybe it's in the back of my mind he'd gone to Fox as a, you know, one of their commentators or analysts, but I didn't recall it, and I saw today that he he's he's not there anymore.
Anyway, his partner is the forehead.
Carl and Bigella in the war room, and they they do polling together and all kinds of stuff.
Partners and liberal Democrat crime.
And so they've got they got the forehead on today on CNN, and uh and and along with a Republican uh strategist named Doug High, and they're talking about Romney, maybe running for president again, and Cape Baldwin says, hey, Paul, it sounds like uh when you're starting to eat barbecue in Mississippi, you have to be running for something.
Also taking on Hillary Clinton pretty hard, Mitt Romney.
What's going on here, Paul?
First, uh congratulations to those engineers.
The the technology behind those animatronic dolls that make them so lifelike that when they recharge their lithium-iod batteries, they actually look like they're eating.
God bless them.
Uh You know, I advise the pro-Obama super pack, and we ran millions of dollars worth of ads attacking Mitt Romney.
So I have a bias here.
Uh still, here's my bias.
Run Mitt run.
We know how to beat you.
We'll do it again if you run again.
Uh, it seems really pathetic, frankly, when a candidate, as the Washington Post said this morning, has to rebrand himself as authentic.
Well, when you're rebranding as authentic, you're probably not very authentic.
All right, fine and dandy.
You've got to rebrand yourself as authentic.
You're probably not authentic.
But what is Hillary Clinton doing?
Has anybody seen her?
You know, she's had two public appearances in the last, what is it, six weeks, two months?
She is off the grid.
And everybody knows why.
One of the reasons she's off the grid is they're doing some work.
Lots of different kinds of work.
The second reason she's off the grid is the more Hillary is seen, and the more she is heard, the more her approval number drops.
It's uncanny.
The less people see and hear of Hillary Clinton, the higher her numbers go.
So she's being sequestered.
But I have the details.
In fact, I have a whole stack here on the latest stuff involving women in our culture.
First off, Chris Starwall at Fox News.
Hillary retreats deeper into cocoon, with the conventional wisdom on the left congealing against the idea of even a symbolic challenge to Hillary Clinton's march to the Democrat nomination.
Her team is now publicly toying with the idea of continuing to delay the official launch until the middle of the summer.
In what appears to be a rebuttal to the staff assumptions from a Democrat familiar with Clinton's thinking.
They're saying the actual kickoff would not be till July.
Clinton would submit to partial scrutiny from the FEC starting in April.
But she would keep most of her operation off the books until the beginning of July.
They just keep moving this announcement of hers back, folks.
The stated reason, get this.
The candidate wants to develop her message, develop her policy, and develop her organization.
Yeah, because what?
The previous 15 years of running for president, serving in the Senate, serving as Secretary of State, serving as First Lady, haven't given her enough time to nail it all down.
So the forehead saying, Well, Mitt Romney, if you have to rebrand yourself as authentic, then you must not be very authentic.
Well, by the same token, Mr. Bagella, if Hillary Clinton has to go into deep hiding to develop her message and to develop her policy and organization, what the hell has she been doing since 1992?
She shouldn't have to develop a message.
It should have been a consistent one that everybody already should know.
Same thing with policy.
It sounds to me like they're trying to construct something inauthentic for her.
Because that may be the only way she can win.
Hey, before we head back to the phones, grab some by 33.
This is Doug High.
This is the Republican consultant is on with a forehead on C and the forehand just ripped into Romney.
Hey, if you gotta rebrand yourself as authentic, then you're probably not very authentic.
And look, I'm telling you, if Mrs. Clinton's got to go in and have months and months of privacy to concoct policy positions and all this other stuff, then it sounds to me like what they're trying to do is make her inauthentic.
I think that the challenge the Democrats have with Hillary Clinton is to convince everybody she's somebody she's not.
The only hope she's got, this business of authentic, inauthentic.
Anyway, here's what Doug High had to say.
After Bogala said that Romney's not authentic, this is what the Republican guy said.
Look, candidates always want to be authentic, whether that's real authenticity or fake authenticity.
Right.
Okay, so real authenticity or fake authenticity.
You realize there's no such thing as fake Authenticity.
Fake authenticity is inauthentic.
But that's just me, folks.
You know, I'm a stickler for words.
The key is that Mrs. Clinton, that's why they got her sequestered.
She's got too much of a history that everybody can remember, particularly Secretary of State as totally incompetent.
First lady, horrible senator, no record of any sort, and so forth.
It's it's a mess.
She's an absolute gotta straighten out what everybody knows and try to convince people that what they know about Hillary isn't who Hillary really is.
You can beat up on Romney all you want, but the bigger task here is Mrs. Clinton.
And I don't think it's going to come down to either one of those two if you want to know the truth.
That's just me.
But I think all this is just a giant circle.
You know what?
I don't think it's going to come down to either of these two.
When the rubber hits the road, we'll see.
Here's Josh and Decatur, Alabama.
Josh, we're not going to get you all in in this segment.
We're going to get started, though.
What's up?
Hey, Rush.
It's really a pleasure.
I've been listening to you for 15 years.
Great to have you with us, my buddy.
How are you?
You're the man, and I I just uh I know you said you didn't endorse him, quote unquote, but you've all uh you've all been endorsed Walker.
And I just I just gotta ask.
I'm I'm a confessed cruise, I'm in a tank for crews.
I fell snerdly I'm a cruise uh seminar caller.
But what do we what about Walker on Common Core and Amnesty?
What's your what's your take on that call?
Well, I didn't see this is why I've endorsed Walker, and I didn't say he's perfect.
And I did not get into anything specifically policy.
He beat the left by being conservative and fearless and taking them on and not trying to become a partial liberal.
He didn't do it by being cooperative and working together with them.
He's not perfect, and that's why I didn't endorse him, haven't endorsed anybody.
Now, hang on out there, Josh.
Don't go away.
And we're back, Rush Limboy here at the distinguished and prestigious Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, and back to Josh in Decatur, Alabama.
Now, you were you were very bold, Josh.
Unabashed Ted Cruz, seminar caller.
Now, how long how long you've been listening to the program?
Years.
About 15 years.
Okay, then you know you have heard me rave and rave about Ted Cruz, have you not?
Yes, yes.
I and and I and I totally agree.
Walker makes a very compelling case.
But what Walker does is supply a blueprint.
That really is my and so does Ted Cruz, but Ted Ted Cruz doesn't Is it is it the governor thing?
Is that is that what it is?
No.
Well, partially it's a governor thing, but but but Cruz look, Cruz has won his own battles, and he's fearless.
He does not back down from either.
He's never wavered.
Nope.
Never waved.
He doesn't waver, and and if you're gonna have a conservative scorecard, he's gonna probably be a hundred percent on the thing.
When it comes to anything you care about amnesty, social issues, you name it, Cruz is gonna be right there.
I would love if Ted Cruz be elected president.
I think but but Walker uh has been for the most part laboring in obscurity despite all this success.
He has done I I think probably of all Republican candidates outside of presidential campaigns, Scott Walker has had more thrown at him consistently than any Republican out there and has nothing.
Well he slayed the dragons.
I I grant I I give you that.
He totally slayed the Union Dragon.
All right, now stick to stick with me here, because you're you're gonna end up happy here, Josh.
And I know that's why you called.
You you you you feel let down by your radio show today, and that is I'm not gonna let you hang up here having that be your lingering thought as you head into the rest of your day.
Oh, wouldn't that?
I'm gonna tell you why I think.
You want me to be you you want boldness, you want honesty?
You want to know why Fox News did a segment on me touting Scott Walker?
Why do you think they did it?
I don't know.
You tell me.
You said it.
You said it in your opening criticism of me or your not criticism, but your your complaint.
They want they want an endorsement.
No, it's immigration.
They touted me touting Walker Because that puts me touting a guy who is not quite an open borders guy, but he's he's not really opposed to doing this amnesty for the illegals already here.
He's still, he's got a he's got a very he's really good on closing the border.
He's excellent on border security, but but he's also uh got a position here on Obama's executive amnesty that bothers some people.
He's certainly not as solid on that as as your guy, Ted Cruz is.
And Cruz is a rock star.
I mean, are you talking about uh great with the speech?
I mean, did you did you hear Crazy's speech at all?
Yeah.
It was great, it was great too.
I've every speech Cruz gives is great.
But the Republican Party is as Freight of Cruz as they were Palin.
Yeah.
And I think Walker's a little dry, and so that's another edge to freeze.
I think this is.
I'll take Walker the VP.
Um, that's magnanimous of you.
Now that's what kind of compromise this party needs.
I'll take my amnesty guy on the VEP side, but I don't want him getting a big show.
I got you on that.
Josh, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
Look, I'm under no illusions here.
Let's be let's be frank.
Cable news could highlight things that I say every night if they wanted to.
I mean, let's call it what I'm just not.
That's it's not that things are something happens here that's so unique it's newsworthy, because everything that happens here is newsworthy.
But I I'm not under any illusions here.
The the Republican establishment is pro-amnesty.
There's no question about it.
And if you look at Scott Walker, that would be the one area where people would have red flags going up.
And so here comes Fox News.
Hey, man Walker, big bump from Rush Limbaugh.
Does that matter?
Oh, yeah, that could be exactly what he needs.
Big push, big push.
With Dr. Crowdhammer and O'Reilly both agreeing.
And it's right in there is one of the reasons I'm convinced.
And it could be wrong.
It doesn't matter either way.
Don't anybody tell anybody I'm mad about anything.
I don't, I'm not mad, I don't get mad over things like this.
It's not useful.
It's just to me it's it's fascinating.
But I think that's one of the reasons why.
All of a sudden, I'm not an albatross.
All of a sudden, I'm not a problem for the Republicans.
All of a sudden, why the Republicans are free to uh and be happy with a positive mention from me all of a sudden in this case.
Uh you think I've got a point on this, Mr. Snerdley?
Absolutely.
There's no question about it.
It doesn't diminish anything I said about Scott Walker, but I'm glad old Josh called here because this I've made it clear as I can that I'm not endorsing anybody.
Look, folks, what I want's what every do you know how I'm not even going to ask you.
I'm just going to tell you I am I am a combination mad, ticked off and frustrated, like you can't believe of being led everywhere we look in this country by a minority.
The left is a functioning minority in this country, and I'm sick and tired of our side being afraid of it.
I'm tired of our side afraid to stand up for what they know and really believe.
I'm tired of our side, unwilling to stand up and show this contrast and draw this great distinction that exists between us and I'm so fed up with this belief that we have got to join amnesty in order to win.
I'm fed up with all this.
That we we were not elected to stop Obama, but rather to make Washington work.
All of this stuff just really it just frustrates and angers me to no end.
Now coming here and being mad and frustrated every day, nobody wants to hear that.
But with Scott Walker, my whole point has been ever since I've been touting the guy, there's the blueprint about how to beat him back.
Now it was a governor's race.
I do not know to what extent immigration, illegal immigration amnesty factor in the campaign.
What I do know is that Scott Walker was personally targeted on Education and unions.
They tried to destroy him every which way possible.
We just we want winners, do we not?
And we and we when they keep talking about the same moderate Northeastern Republicans that the that the donor class likes to get behind, but they don't win.
It'd be great if they did, but they don't win.
McCain didn't win, Romney didn't win, and they're not going to.
They may be fine men, probably are.
They're probably very and Romney, I don't think you can find a more solid citizen.
But Romney, what is I give you a class?
Romney all of a sudden found it necessary earlier this week or last week to publicly announce that he is now changed his mind on global warming, and he's one of the people now that believes man is negatively impacting, destroying the climate.
Why would you do that?
Who in the hell are you trying to get votes from by doing that?
We're not gonna win by trying to siphon off liberals.
You know where that thinking comes from?
That comes from the idea that we are second class.
That comes from the defensive posture that the minority in this country actually is the majority.
These people must think that the left and the Democrat Party, the majority of everything, and we're gonna have to get some of those people if we're gonna win.
And the only way to get some of those people is to say a couple things that they agree with.
We just can't be totally different.
We don't have a prayer.
And it just totally misses the vote.
And it is not an accurate picture of reality.
Presidential turnouts are what they are, and you can't deny Obama's last two election victories, but you can explain why Romney lost this second one a lot.
Let's put it this way Romney had a far better chance of beating Obama in 12 than McCain ever did in eight and squandered it.
Obama could have been defeated.
The 2010 turnout, the 2014 turnout, those midterm election turnouts, it is clear where the people who care enough in this country to show up and vote stand.
And it's not with the Democrat Party, and it's not with Obama, and it's not with his agenda.
And it's not people who want to work with that agenda and activate, implement maybe a little of it here and a little of it there.
People want Obamacare gotten rid of.
They want no amnesty, particularly by virtue of executive order.
They revere the Constitution and they want it revered by the people who are elected as stewards.
They don't want dictators, authoritarians.
They don't want people who are going to reach and grab for far more executive power than's permitted.
They want, and this is the vast majority of people in this country, if presented, this is the point.
Walker presented a total contrast in a blue state and won three times.
Look, I'm gonna stop mentioning this because it's gonna start irritating those of you who hear it all the time.
But you do have to say things over and over again sometimes for them to make an imprint on people.
I'm telling you, the point with me about Scott Walker, the blueprint.
That's how it's done.
It shows it can be done, by the way.
Not just how, but here it works.
And I don't think he's a dry ball like everybody's trying to intimate with this business, hey, where'd this guy go to get a charisma transplant?
It's gonna be an interesting campaign from a lot of standpoints.
Uh but I'll tell you what it's going to boil down to, and this is gonna be a real challenge, I think, for people.
For like people like Josh, the perfect candidate doesn't exist.
There isn't a single Republican who scores 100 on everything.
Right?
There's single issue crowds out there, every issue has their single issue people in there, and no matter what candidate you nominate, there's gonna be a constituency group that isn't gonna like him or her.
Now normally it is the left that gets everybody in trouble in their pursuit of perfection.
Now the left believes that people can be perfected, and that institutions can be perfected, and that And that and that uh businesses can be perfected.
And that is the root of their major evil and problem.
This endless quest for perfection when it's simply impossible.
But by the same token, uh people on the right, conservatives, republicans, whatever, by the same token demand a perfect candidate in terms of this issue, that issue, that issue, and I don't think that candidate exists.
And so there's going to be fallout during any kind of a primary and a uh and a campaign.
Anyway, I'm a little long, I have to take a break.
We're going to be developing all of these theories as the days unfold, so we've by no means gotten to the end of any of it.
Sit tight, we'll be right back.
Now, just one more thing in this Scott Walker business, just so nobody misunderstands, because I am totally into being a top-notch professional communicator.
I think it was uh just as though, or just as it was I on this program who explained over and over again, detail after detail about 529 and Obama's plans to cancel the tax cut for the middle class in it.
And they canceled it.
By the same token, folks, the Republican Party, the RNC, Republican National Committee, Republican consultants, you name it, nobody in Republican Party officialdom was touting what Scott Walker had done.
And I thought it needed to be touted.
I thought it was phenomenal.
And I thought it was crucial that people know it.
You realize how many Republicans there are, voters who are depressed thinking we can't win because the deck is so stacked against us.
The media, Hollywood, music, books, TV shows, the news.
Wherever you turn, the left dominates it, the campus, the academy.
They think we can't win.
They're depressed, they're down in the dumps.
The Republican Party's not out there saying, yes, we can win, look at our guy in Wisconsin.
So I decided to do it.
Plain and simple.
I think people needed to know.
I I still think it's phenomenal what he did.
And the fact that there's still you know, it it it it didn't even become a factor until he finally shows up and speaks outside Wisconsin at this uh conservative confab in Iowa last Saturday.
However, it happened, find him dandy with me.
I just think you needed to know.
I think people need to know they can be beat.
I think people need to know there's a way to beat Democrats.
There's a way to beat the left.
It's called conservatism.
It works most every time it tries.
It's tried on a national stage.
Anyway, back to the phones.
Larry in uh in Woodburn, Oregon.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Good morning, Rush.
Hey, real privilege to talk to you.
I'm glad that you took my call, and thanks for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
Uh deep deep condolences for the loss of uh Mr. Kit Carson there.
I heard your show on Monday, and uh I'm I'm sorry for you.
Thank you, sir.
Uh my question is kind of embarrassing, actually.
Snerdley gave me uh a bit of uh bit of the business there because he thought I was joking.
Proud member of the uh Rush Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, but I'm here raising my hand.
Rush, the distinction that the left is trying to make between Islamic terrorists, Islamic extremists, and extremists acting in the name of Islam.
What distinction are they trying to make?
I'm missing the point.
I'm I'm missing what they're trying to get me to think these people are other than what they are.
I'll be happy to explain it to you.
Because you understand it.
You know, you just can't believe it.
Here's what they're doing.
This distinction is saying they are terrorists in the name of Islam instead of Islamist Islamist extremists or Islamist terrorism.
It's terrorism in the name of Islam.
What they're trying to do, Larry, is tell you that these are not Islamists.
They are terrorists, they're criminals, they're bad guys.
They're like people that hold up the 7-Eleven with a gun and maybe kill people.
But they're not Islamists.
They're lying about it.
They're making it up.
They're impugning Islam.
They're not really Muslims.
They're not really Islamists.
They weren't trained in mosques.
They don't hold any Imam out as a hero.
They're just renegades, and they made to look like terrorists, so you'll think they are, but they're really not.
That's what they want everybody to believe.
That's why they're drawing the distinction.
They actually want you to believe that these are just renegade criminals that happen to live in the Middle East and have decided to put on the uniform of a terrorist.
And then they go out and commit acts of terror and then claim that they're from ISIS.
Or claim that they are from the new Coruscant group.
Or claim they're from Al Qaeda.
And what our regime wants you to believe is that lying.
Well, they're committing the atrocities.
No doubt about that.
But Islam is a religion of peace.
And these people are making a mockery of it and impugn it, they are lying.
That's what they want you to believe.
That's the stretch.
You understand that.
You just don't think anybody can be serious about trying that.
But that's what they're doing.
All right, folks, that's it for this exciting busy broadcast hour.
Much more straight ahead.
Much more left to go.
You hang in there and be tough.
And we will be back before you know it.
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