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Feb. 16, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 16, 2015, Monday, Hour #2
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Yeah, it you know what?
It's just it's just an impression I had.
In fact, it was more like a feeling than a thought, and I very share very rarely make a judgments based on feelings.
I am unalterably opposed to that.
But I've had a feeling about this Brian Williams thing that from the beginning he was never really accepted as somebody in the anchor club at the highest levels of the drive-by media.
It's just it's a feeling, as I say, it's n it's it's it's not a thought.
It's something I uh maybe had a gut feeling about, and as such I haven't discussed it with you.
But if you look at Brian Williams has now been discovered, it's not public knowledge, he dropped out of school.
He attended a community college.
Now, Ivy Leaguers do not have that blemish on their resumes.
Community college, an Ivy Leaguer would become suicidal if even one of the best ways to intimidate, you want to blackmail an Ivy Leaguer is tell them you have a way of convincing everybody they went to a community college first, and you'll own them.
Biggest blemish you could ever, outside of not going to a place, but attending a community college or a junior college.
Brian Williams dropped out of um, let's see, he went to uh community college and then went to Catholic University and then George Washington University.
None of those are Ivy League schools.
Now, I don't know if that is a factor in the fact that so many of his colleagues are not rallying around him.
And I thought they would.
As uh I mentioned here numerous times.
I thought it was a lock that the other two anchors, the other networks would uh help others circle the wagon to protect Brian Williams because that's protecting the news and that's protecting the cause.
Liberalism, but that isn't happening.
And I always, when he got the gig, when he got the anchor chair at NBC Nightly News, however many years ago that was, I just I had a uh, as I say, it was just a feeling that he's someplace that nobody really thought he would end up being.
He was always said to be in waiting behind Broco, but I don't think anybody ever really thought that would happen.
And when it did, I don't know if it's a factor now in the way he's being treated or not.
Anyway, greetings and welcome back.
Rush Lin bought the EIB network 800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program.
Now, relating to what we're talking about here, I have a fascinating column that appears in the New York Post today by Mark Cunningham, and it's entitled to win in 2016, The Voters Republicans Forgot.
Now, this ties in directly with the points that I have made in a previous hour about the elite exclusionary status of college graduates from Ivy League schools who end up in government work.
And by the way, government work can be as a lobbyist.
It can be as a legislative aid.
It doesn't have to be an elected position.
It could be a bureaucrat, one of the uh bureaucracies, one of the cabinet level departments or something.
I mean, there's a lot of people working government.
The Ivy League turns out a lot of people.
And they all, they all have the same worldview.
That's the thing.
It's a cookie-cutter education.
Everybody comes out thinking pretty much the same thing.
There are some variations.
Of course, there are Republican graduates and Democrat graduates.
But in terms of worldview, and and uh look at the immigration debate.
You don't see any party difference on the immigration debate.
They're all identical.
Illegal immigration in the elites in the establishment inside Washington, and it extends up to banking in New York, too.
Republican Democrat doesn't matter.
They want amnesty for the illegals that are here.
Party membership doesn't matter there.
There is a singular worldview that attaches to people that go to these schools, but there are other aspects of that worldview, and this column by Mark Cunningham touches on it.
The Republican pack is off now on a 16 month war for the nomination.
That means performing for the party's base and the money men.
Yet whoever comes out on top will not take the White House unless he starts now connecting with an entirely different class of people.
Those people are the voters who did not come out for McCain in 08.
And they are the voters that did not come out for Romney in 2012.
Who are they?
They are middle and working class, mostly men, mostly white, though there are some minority voters and women in the group.
When these voters have come out for the Republican Party, it has seen congressional landslides like 1994, like 2010, like 2014.
But no national Republicans since Ronaldus Magnus has drawn them in.
And this is so right on the money.
You look at the midterms in 2010 and 2014, and they were Republican landslides.
And if you don't want to look at it that way, they were landslide defeats for the Democrats.
You had gazillions of people showing up, all voting, the vast majority voting against everything the Democrat Party stands for.
And I phrase it that way because the Republican Party did not have on purpose.
They did not have an agenda.
They did not announce an agenda.
They didn't want to be saddlewatch, so they don't have a mandate or the mandate stop the Democrats, stop Obama, which they are ignoring, by the way.
But the point is what when the when the 2012 presidential race came around, and I'm looking at the polling date, and it shows it shows Obama up five or up six.
And I'm looking back at the 2010 turnout, and I'm saying these pollsters are missing it.
Why are they discounting the 2010 turnout?
And I found out that presidential year turnout is a much different animal.
I should have known it instinctively, but, and maybe I did instinctively, but it didn't surface.
The presidential year turnout's a much different turnout, a much different group of people than for a midterm.
A, the presidential turnout's larger, but B, it's even a different makeup, demographically and otherwise.
And lo and behold, when 2012 came around, the people that made the 2010 midterm landslide possible stayed home.
Remember those four to five million Republicans that did not vote in 2012?
They did not show up for Romney.
And in 2008, they did not show up for McCain.
They show up in the midterms.
They stay home, and that's what this column is about.
When these voters do come out for the GOP, the GOP wins in landslides.
Now in 1994, the Democrats gave this group a name, Angry White Men.
That's what this group was named back in 1994.
When this group of voters came out in droves and elected a Republican majority in the House for the first time in 40 years, the Democrats' immediate response was to was to call them angry white men.
Okay, but the anger is rooted in reality.
Why were people angry in 94?
Why were they angry in 2010?
Why were they angry last November?
There are many reasons, but among them, these people have seen their ability to provide for a family under assault for decades.
They're under assault by everything from economic changes to politics.
They know this group of people that do not show up in presidential years when they do not have a Republican candidate they can get enthusiastic about.
They know that they're losing, not gaining ground.
When the Democrats win and start talking about the redistribution of wealth, spreading the wealth around, they know they lose when that happens.
They know The welfare state grows when that happens, and they want no part of it.
They need a reason to believe a Republican will fight for them.
And that's it in a nutshell.
Romney was not looked at as a fighter, and McCain was not looked at as a fighter.
And they weren't fighters.
They were obsessed with cooperation and getting along and showing that Washington works and showing they could criticize not criticize Obama and that they could cooperate.
And that's not what these voters want to hear.
These voters' lives are lessening their economic lives are getting worse year after year after year.
They don't care about getting along with the people whose policies are destroying their economic futures.
Okay, so then the question is asked well, what could Reagan, why could Reagan talk to these voters?
Why was he able to relate to them?
And the answer is he had talked with them.
Between 1954 and 1962, Ronald Reagan was the spokesman for General Electric, and he hosted the GE Theater on TV.
But in addition to that, part of his job was to give speeches at General Electric offices and plants all over the country.
And he ate lunch every day with the people in the cafeteria, not in the executive suite.
And he talked to them.
And he listened to them.
And there were no cameras because he wasn't running for anything.
There were no press gaggle with him.
None of it was for show.
He actually listened to them.
He got an earful on how they saw their work, on how they saw the country, on how they saw the world.
I will guarantee you, there isn't.
You can put in two hands.
Count on two hands a number of people in Washington really doing that.
I mean, it gets lip service all the time.
But people actually go out and mingle and don't.
The stuff that happens in Iowa doesn't count.
You got a press gaggle with you, you got cameras with you, all the stuff that happens at diners and the pancake joints, that's all fake.
Everybody knows you're coming.
Even the people that show up and wait to talk to you and tell you what's on their mind.
It's all done for show.
None of it's done for real.
And the people we're talking about recognize when it's for show.
And when it's for show, it doesn't really matter.
The objective of when it's for show is how it looks for the candidate later on in the day.
It's not about actually communicating with people and finding out what's on their mind.
Inside the beltway, inside the elite, the Axis there.
It's probably safe to say that most people have no real idea.
Look at there's the unemployment rate inside the beltway is 3%.
The average income is way above average in the country.
It's just a fact that people there are not able to relate.
Like I just printed a story.
It's coming up.
The Democrat Party makes a perfect example.
The Democrat Party, the only party that voted for Obamacare.
It's an AP story, is said to be in a near panic because their voters are livid as they find out how much Obamacare is going to cost them with the IRS.
Either for real in the form of premiums and out of pocket or that fine.
They didn't know this was part of Obamacare.
They heard all the PR.
They heard keep your doctor, keep your policy.
They heard premiums are going to get cheaper.
They heard free, they heard a number of things, they heard lies.
But now it's tax season and they're being confronted with the reality of how much it's going to cost.
They don't have it.
And it's the Democrats who are hearing from their people, Republican voters in most parts are aware of it because they have different sources of information.
But I'll get to that in just a second.
I want to stick with this piece by Cunningham.
His point is no candidate today has time or makes time for real deep exposure to the people out there who are not showing up to Vote, but who make the country work.
And he offers some tips for the candidates on how to get it done.
And I don't go through those because they're basic.
You know, when you go to ask the CEO for a campaign contribution, also spend some time where people are actually working in that company and talk to them.
And don't take the press with you and don't take any note takers with you except your own.
You know, make it real.
These are obvious things that are not being done.
But the point is, there's a reason why these millions of people who are denigrated in the American media every election.
Angry white men, or you name it, there's a new name given for this group of voters that doesn't show up every four years.
Angry white men is one.
It's all it's all insults and put down.
But the key is they are the difference in Republican victory and defeat.
And they're totally ignored.
They all, or vast majority of them happen to be conservative, which the mainstream party leadership isn't.
And then the piece, I've got to take a break here, but the piece goes on to talk about college degrees, college education, who has it, who doesn't, and how that relates to these people that we're talking about.
I'll share more details with you after I take this time out, because it's fascinating.
It dovetails with exactly what we are talking about today.
So don't go away, we'll be back before you know it.
Welcome back, El Rush Moe, executing a signed host duties flawlessly zero mistakes.
Okay, this guy's writing his piece, Mr. Mark Cunningham writing his piece to the potential Republican candidates as a as an advice piece on how to reach these voters that are staying home.
He says, you want to get America working again.
Fracking has made us an energy superpower.
That should mean huge growth right here at home in industries and jobs making stuff, not software movies, but physical products.
Make a big deal out of it.
Talk about it, amplify it.
Wages are up enough in China that jobs are coming back home now, but they're coming back too slowly, even though the American workforce is vastly higher quality than anything overseas.
The politicians have made it too hard to open a new plant, to launch a new product, even to get the oil and gas to where it can fuel a U.S. manufacturing revolution, i.e.
the Keystone XL pipeline.
These voters know this stuff should not be this hard.
These voters know that this doesn't make any sense.
These same politicians have been belly aching for 30 years about energy independence.
Here's fracking.
We've got more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia now, with the discovery of how to go get it.
And we have politicians standing in the way of it, contradicting their own promises to get us out of this energy dependence cycle that we're in.
And these voters at some they're tired of being lied to, they're tired of being given the run around because they know what's necessary to get this country moving again.
They just don't see anybody anywhere talking about the things they know to be true.
They don't see anybody fighting for the things they believe in, and they don't see any leadership per se on anything other than the agenda that is weakening this country.
And it has them angry and perplexed.
The Democrat Party panders to ignorant environmentalist wackos.
That is, to people who think that the only people who ought to be earning a living by getting their hands dirty are the guys who work the recycling truck and the mechanics who fix their Prius.
In other words, the Democrat Party impugns the farmer, the laborer, while apparently standing up for them.
But they support people like the militant environmentalists who are harming a tradition and backbone of America.
Now, as a candidate, you're all for college, but you don't think the only good paying job should be for College grads.
Too many Americans are stuck with a choice between getting work as a Walmart greeter or seeing if they can make a disability claim stick.
Boy, is that not the case.
Look at what we've become.
A get rich quick scheme in America is now figuring out how to defraud the federal government so you can get on disability when you're really not disabled.
Because the opportunity for big bucks is better there than a job you can find tomorrow if you haven't gone to college.
And about college, something's really wrong there.
We're graduating too many kids with a $100,000 debt and no skills to earn enough to pay it back.
While the rest of America is busy doing more with less, these schools keep on paying way too much money to weigh too many people who don't even teach.
Yeah, teachers' assistants, graduate assistants and so forth.
All right, your telephone calls are next, folks, so don't go away.
Should be allowed to have half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Here's this AP story on uh on the Democrats seek relief from health care law penalties.
The official sign-up season for Obama's health care law may be over, but leading congressional Democrats say that millions of Americans facing new tax penalties deserve a second chance.
A second chance, you're the ones that saddled them with this mess.
You know, this is the limbaugh theorem on display.
Here we have Congressional Democrats acting like they had nothing to do with this law.
That their voters are a bunch of victims of something.
And they need a second chance.
They need a second chance because the official sign-up season has ended, and these people didn't know it, and now they're saddled with higher costs and penalties and fines that they didn't know that they were going to be faced with, and the Democrat Party's outraged and wants to do something about it.
These people deserve a second chance.
This situation exists because the Democrat Party gave us this bill.
The Democrat Party and the Democrat Party alone gave us Obamacare.
There wasn't a single Republican vote for it.
The three Democrats bellyaching are Michigan's Sander Levin, the ranking Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee, and Democrat representatives Jim McDermott of Washington, Baghdad Jim, and Lloyd Doggett of Texas.
All three work to help steer Obama's law through rancorous congressional debates from 2009 to 2010.
The lawmakers, these three Democrats, say they are concerned that many of their constituents are going to find out about the penalties after it's already too late for them to sign up for coverage since open enrollment ended someday.
Yeah, they did it.
This is classic.
These three Democrats, it even says here, they worked to help steer Obama's law through rancorous congressional debate from 2009 to 2010.
But this story, they're allowed to portray themselves like they had no idea any of this was gonna happen.
And now their constituents are bellyaching to them, and their constituents deserve a second chance.
As though some other group of people saddled them with this.
This is so classic.
Government comes along under the guise of fairness, fixes something, gonna make it fair, going to make it equal, gonna make it affordable, maybe even make it free.
What they end up doing is blowing it all to hell, screwing it up worse than it's ever been screwed up, then their voters belly ache and complain about it, and the same Democrats come back and demand that something be done.
Because they're voters need a second chance.
And I'll say they can't blame the Republicans for this because there isn't a Republican fingerprint on Obamacare.
The Republicans have done not one thing to support this.
The Republicans, if they've done anything, and it's been a while, but if they've done anything, it's try to stop it.
And so now these three Democrats are saying government must do something.
Government must fix this mess.
Government made this mess.
The Democrat Party and Barack Obama made this mess.
Lawmakers say they're concerned many of their constituents will find out about the penalties after it's too late for them to sign up for coverage.
Since open enrollment ended Sunday, that means they can wind up uninsured for another year, only to owe substantially higher fines next year.
The fines are collected through the income tax system.
Yeah, and wait till people find out how that happens.
You Democrats think your constituents are mad now.
You wait until next year, when half or more of their refund is taken and kept by the IRS to pay their fine.
You are going to have an open revolt on your hands.
And then you're going to bellyache and moan again and claim we got to do something to fix that.
You broke it in the first place.
It is your mess.
You know, and there's a there's a part of me, there's a just a small part of me.
It's Democrat voters who made all this possible, make them pay the consequences.
You elected these charlatans.
You openly elected these people.
You buy into the lies they tell about how mean, evil, and all that the Republicans are.
The Democrat voter's best friend when it comes to Obamacare is any Republican he can find.
And what does he probably think of any Republican you bring up?
Racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobe, only cares about the rich banks, when in fact that is the Democrat Party today.
Racist, sexist, bigot, and phobic about practically everything.
And tightly aligned with the banks.
It's called crony corporatism, crony socialism, whatever you want to call it.
And now all these people who elected all these Democrats to make it fair and to make it affordable.
Life, not just health care, but make life fair.
And to get even with all those rich people, now they're finding out that oh my God, it's going to cost me.
And these same members of Congress who made this possible, made this happen, are now belly aching that their voters got the shaft by somebody.
And they need a second chance.
This year is the first time ordinary Americans will experience the complicated interactions between the health care law and taxes.
Based on congressional analysis, tax preparation giant HR Block says that roughly four million uninsured people are going to pay penalties this year.
And you know how that's going to happen again?
Their tax refunds, if they are due any, that's where the money, it's in the law.
If you get a tax refund and you haven't bought insurance, the fine will be held from your return, your refund.
You wait till that happens.
Most people know that their refund's gonna be what it is.
Let's say it's a grand.
They've already spent it before they got it.
They've bought a new muffler, whatever it is.
They've they've spent it.
And then all of a sudden, that thousand dollar refund becomes, say, 350 bucks.
And they're gonna be told, yeah, well, that's the fine.
It was then the law, it was in the law.
Well, nobody told us.
Yeah, that's probably right.
And by the way, AP, no sympathy for you.
The AP is writing about this as though, oh, look at how something is so unfortunate here.
These poor voters, why they're for the first time be saddled with the first law's interactions with the law and taxes.
You knew this while it was being debated.
The AP had the ability to tell voters the truth about this before it was voted on.
The entire drive-by media knew, well, that maybe is an exaggeration.
I don't know how many of them actually read the health care law, but enough of them knew enough to be able to tell voters that this law was gonna cost them much more money.
That this law was not gonna reduce their costs at all.
That was known.
Anybody ran around saying that was called a fearmonger or a liar.
Or worse.
And now all of a sudden, everything we've said about this bill every month or so we're validated again.
And there's a companion story to this, folks.
This is in a UK Daily Mail.
Health and Human Services extends Obamacare deadline for some enrollees after computer glitch and long waits kept them from signing up over the weekend.
The last day to sign up for Obamacare was February 1st.
But as many as half a million Americans may have been unable to complete their applications.
So on Saturday, an IRS function that verifies income was out of service.
And over the weekend, callers faced longer than normal wait times.
Affected applicants will now have until February 22nd to sign up before they are assessed a fee of $325 or 2% of their income, whichever is greater.
There is a ceiling on that at some point, but it's much more than these people are out of their league.
So these three members of Congress were able to get a one-week extension.
Yes, Sander Levin, big Baghdad Jim McDermott, Lloyd Doggett of Texas.
Concerned that many of their constituents didn't find out in time about.
Yeah, there was a glitch in the law.
Yeah, yeah, there was a glitch.
We did realize that you didn't.
Maybe they didn't know either.
Hell, nobody read this thing.
I wouldn't be surprised if these clowns didn't know what was in it.
Actually, I don't.
I I don't I'm not going to let them get by with it.
They knew exactly what was in it.
They knew exactly what Obamacare was going to do.
They might know the details, might not, but they knew exactly what this was.
Government taking over health care.
They knew exactly what they were doing.
They knew it was going to cost people more money.
They knew, and anybody they told opposite they were lying to.
They knew this was not going to make health care cheaper for people that buy it.
People that get it free, that's a whole different ball of wax.
But even the subsidy thing is all messed up now.
They knew it.
The media and everybody, this was so unnecessary.
This need not have happened.
But see, this is just the ancillary little problems you deal with when you're taking over a country.
Yeah, it's okay.
We got some aggregituents for a couple of months, maybe a couple of years, we'll deal with it.
But taking over the country, transforming the country, and making it into what we want it to be, it's worth a few people being upset now and then.
We'll deal with it.
And that's exactly what is going on.
In fact, I think it's safe to say, if my memory on this is right, that Obama, in a speech or two, actually assured the American people that they would have an additional $2,500 every year.
Disposable income after Obamacare was implemented.
Because their premiums are going to come down 25%.
He said the average premium would be $2,500 less.
That means $2,500 more disposable income.
Every American's going to have.
Well, what the hell happened to that?
Well, the thing about that was it was never true.
It was a lie from the get-go.
Just as was, you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
You like your plan, you can keep your plan.
Everybody has known this is coming.
Everybody has known that a vast majority of American people have no idea what's in this plan.
They are laboring under misconception upon misconception.
Chief among them is it's going to cost me less.
The concept of a fine or a penalty.
Escaped them.
They don't have any idea what that's about.
So now this is all happening, and they're not prepared for it.
What do you mean if I don't have insurance referral first, they're going to pay a fine?
And so members of Congress come along and act like they didn't know it either.
They f voted for the law.
They debated it.
They did it.
And yet they come along and act like they had no idea this was in there, and they're going to get to the bottom of it.
They're going to find out who's screwing their constituents.
They had no idea it was there, which is a bunch of BS.
It's what these Democrats do every time, every damn time.
It's the limbaugh theorem.
Make victims out of everybody out of stuff you do it to them.
And then when it happens, blame the Republicans for it.
And in the meantime, Elliot in uh in Wilmet, Illinois, great to have you.
I'm glad you waited.
You're on the EIB network, and hello, sir.
Hey, Rush, real good to talk to you.
Thank you very much, sir.
I called to tell you about Woodrow Wilson, but while you're right on the subject, I gotta say that the reason the that uh health care and college are so expensive is that they are free.
That is a third party makes it such that there's no more communication by price.
That's right.
That's exactly that's exactly right.
Call to tell you on President's Day, Woodrow Wilson was the first president with a college degree, at least if I'm not mistaken, and his background was in philosophy of what they called philosophy of history, and he was one of these people then who are saying that we now know because we're so smart based on history that we can tell exactly how to run the government and the and the country in order to do things the best way.
Come on, let's just let's let's cut to the chase.
Woodrow Wilson was the first flat-out extremist progressive president we had.
Exactly.
He was Obama before Obama was born.
Precisely.
And he's just like Obama in the sense he's smarter than everybody else.
He knows more than everybody else.
And or in his case, he knew more than more than everybody else.
Now, are you making a point by saying he's the first president with the you think with a college degree?
You making a point about that, or are you just throwing that in as an idle fact?
Um, that's the idle fact, but he was the uh the most progressive of progressives and was the first one to really uh put that all into high gear.
No question about it.
It was an effete snob.
No question.
I appreciate the call, Elliot.
Uh let's see, who's next?
Looking for the green line, Brooksville, New York.
I'm sorry, Brooksville, Kentucky.
This is Vicky.
Vicky, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Ross.
What a privilege.
Thank you.
I'll get right to my point.
I know you've got a lot of callers and a lot and less time.
Um, I think that uh back when you were talking about the colleges and the Ivy League crap.
Um I'm 61, you're 64, we're of the same generation.
And to our parents, an Ivy League education was the be all and end-all.
You know, if you could if you were smart enough to get into one of those, your life was made.
And then the colleges themselves perpetrated that to the next generation, the next generation, and so it goes.
It doesn't have a damn thing to do with education.
It has to do with the title.
It's a vanity.
So that's my take on that.
Well, you know, I I know you're she's right, folks.
I uh it was not true of my parents.
My parents would have been happy if I would have agreed to go to Anaconda Junior College for six weeks.
I hear you.
I hear you.
Well, you know, you have given us some information on your background, and I can understand then wanting you to go to Annaconda College.
Well, just because I wasn't gonna go anywhere.
But but I've explained it.
My dad came out of Great Depression.
If you didn't have a college degree, then you didn't have a prayer getting a job.
It was it was the it was it was the most impactful event in his life, formative.
It informed every aspect of his life, saving, uh being employed, respecting authority.
It was because it was so it was it was hell on earth for people that were out of work, and and even for people who had jobs, it was it was great depression was and they didn't want their kids to ever go through it, and therefore they wanted their kids equipped to deal with it if it happened again, and the key to it was a college degree.
And when I steadfastly refused and uh actively said I don't want to, I mean, my father thought he was a failure for that reason alone.
Failure as a father.
But anyway, you're right.
Um parents, look, everybody's parents want them on the honor roll wherever they are.
My mom.
I made the honor roll one time for penmanship.
Mother was not that thrilled.
I was still on the honor roll, name in the paper, but for penmanship.
The blue-haired bloody merry gang, it's not American history.
Oh, Rusty got his uh honor roll of penmanship or whatever.
It means I wrote really legibly.
Anyway, um there's a there's a point about this I want to make, but sadly again, out of busy broadcast time for the moment.
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