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Feb. 17, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 17, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Grab audio soundbite number uh number one.
Let's see.
Grab number number two and three, too, because this is gonna dovetail.
Anyway, this is last night on the O'Reilly factor on the Fox News channel.
Bill O'Reilly had on uh Juan Williams uh to talk about the nation's loss of Jon Stewart and the Daily Show.
Yes, the nation's in mourning, and everybody's trying to figure out how we're gonna cope.
Well, well, I mean if you depending on where you go, yeah, that's the attitude you get.
The left certainly is.
And Juan Williams had brought on to discuss why.
O'Reilly wanted to know why.
O'Reilly said, Look to Juan Williams.
Say I get run over by a bus tomorrow.
I think the media would just missed over.
Right, Juan?
Wouldn't that happen?
Why would I not get the same treatment that John Stewart's getting?
Now I don't know.
I'm sorry.
I I would you know I don't like commenting on other people that do this.
I really don't.
It's it's been a policy of mine to avoid any kind of contrived rivalry fight or any of that sort of stuff.
But I I didn't answer bring somebody on.
Why would the media not cry over my leaving like they did, Johnson?
Anyway, he asks the question, and I don't I don't think my guess is he didn't like the answer.
Here's what Juan Williams said.
His numbers in terms of ratings are not that good.
His impact goes beyond the ratings in terms of liberal media.
I mean, you start to think about the impact he's had on everybody from Jimmy Fallon to Stephen Colbert, and then you saw MSNBC and all the rest.
They tried with people like Bill Maher, they tried with Al Franken, now the Center for Minnesota.
They could never find somebody to go up against the likes of Rush Limbaugh.
That's that's why I played you the bite, folks.
That's why I played you the bite.
So Juan Williams told O'Reilly, yeah, the reason everybody, the reason why you won't cry over you and the remote and crying, they did everything they could.
By the way, I'm getting a lot of email.
I wasn't gonna mention this.
I really wasn't gonna, but I'm gonna mention it now.
I have gotten a decent, a fair amount of emails from people.
Uh who I don't know, I'm uncomfortable saying this.
I really am.
Well, because my parents taught me manners and so forth.
I just I'm really but people have been sending me emails and asking me, um, how come your name never gets thrown in as having done the Daily Show before the Daily Show even existed?
Uh what was that?
How was Yeah, in fact, uh God bless him, John Padoritz.
He had a tweet, somebody sent me his tweet.
John Pedort sent a tweet out there, he said, what is all this fault or all or some such thing?
Rush Limbaugh was doing the John Stewart show while John Stewart was still doing stand-up.
That's what I thought.
That that was Pedoritz.
JPod, uh JPUD.
I somebody sent me that.
I don't go to Twitter.
I have I have spies that go to Twitter for me, among them my brother, but he's not the one that sent me that.
Uh friend of mine in Kansas sent me that tweet from uh from J Pod.
Anyway, here listen this one more time, because it's just in in the now that you know the whole context.
Here's the question.
O'Reilly is asking Juan Williams.
Say I get run over by a bus tomorrow.
I think the media would just missed over, right, Juan.
Wouldn't that happen?
Why would I not get the same treatment that John Stewart's getting?
His numbers in terms of ratings are not that good.
His impact goes beyond the ratings in terms of liberal media.
I mean, you start to think about the impact he's had on everybody from Jimmy Fallon to Stephen Colbert, and then you saw MSNBC and all the rest.
They tried with people like Bill Maher, they tried with Al Frank and now the Senator from Minnesota.
They could never find somebody to go up against the likes of Russia.
Ooh, just not something you expect to hear on the Fox News channel, but there it was from Juilliams.
Anyway, next up is David Axlrod.
Now, you know, Axlrod's got this book, and he's actually firing both barrels at some people, including the Clintons.
And something that is fascinating to me, the Clintons, I have a theory about them.
And actually, I have a theory about many liberal Democrat politicians and personalities.
I don't think they can take it.
I don't think they can take very much criticism, real or half-baked, or comedic, because they're not used to it.
The Clintons, for example, but I'm sure you can think of your own examples, they get fawning press attention, and they have all their lives.
And I'm talking about from the mainstream press.
Obviously, not from the conservative media or conservative blogosphere, but the mainstream press, what they care about, New York Times, NBC, CBS ABC, they salivate over these people.
They have never been ripped to shreds.
They have never had their characters assassinated.
They have never had their livelihood attacked.
They have never had one percent, for example, what Scott Walker has had to put up with just the last four years.
And so when there is just a little bit of criticism, they can't take it.
And Axelrod, in his book, has had a couple of little zingers aimed at the Clintons, and the reaction the Clintons are forming a new war room to deal with it all.
The story is from the Hill.com.
David Axlrod, the former top strategist of President Barack Hussein O, aka the one, has been annoying Hillary Clinton allies with his rash of recent comments about the would-be presidential candidate and her potential campaign.
The staunch Clinton supporters feel as though Axlrod, who's out promoting his new book, has taken unnecessary aim at Clinton and her team.
One Clinton ally said, it's not helpful.
It's definitely not appreciated.
The last thing we need is another round of headlines about lingering tension.
And this is doing exactly that.
When he speaks, it gets picked up and people listen, the Clinton ally added.
Another Clinton supporter said, I think a lot of us are scratching our heads.
Why is any of what Axlrod is saying necessary?
A third Clinton ally said, What is this?
She's been a great team player.
She's been very supportive of the president.
She hasn't gotten in front of him on a lot of issues.
So what's Axlrod trying to do?
Now it hasn't just been one or two comments or a rare accidental slip, Clinton insiders point out.
It seems as though Axlrod is going out of his way to make a point.
On hardball, MSNBC earlier this week, Axelrod said that John Podesta, who's expected to be Clinton's campaign manager, has to get control of the Clinton operation.
That's what Axelrod said.
And that has ticked them off.
All Axelrod said was, yeah, they're in such a state of disarray over Camp Clinton at Exod that Podesta's going to have to move in there and get control of the operation.
In a radio podcast with the Glenn Thrush of the Politico, he said that Clinton's paid six-figure speeches may have hurt her chances in 2016, and that he would have advised her to take a different approach.
That's it.
That's all he said about it.
And the Clinton war room is motivated, and they are ready to fight back and destroy Axlrod.
Now, my point is, if they think that is criticism, they ought to try walking in the shoes of any elected Republican in this country for One day.
And I don't think they could do it.
I don't think that the Clintons or the Obamas or any of the titular heads of the Democrat leadership could withstand more than a week of kind of the kind of intense scrutiny that conservative Republicans.
And it's not it's not just scrutiny.
The left and its affiliates try to destroy the lives, the character, the reputations, and the credibility of political opponents.
And I'm telling you, people on the left, like the Clintons have never had to deal with it.
I know what some of you are saying.
Well, what do you mean, Rush?
What about all that stuff in the spectator back to Trooper Gate?
What do you think stuff you've done, Russia?
It's different.
It's different.
When we match and launch attacks on the Clintons, the mainstream media responds by launching attacks on us.
The Clintons do not get treated.
No Democrat does.
No elected Democrats could withstand the kind of daily treatment in the media Republicans get.
And I just think this degree to which the Clinton people are upset with these and hard-hitting comments from Axelrod make the point.
And these are mild things that John Podesta has to take control of her campaign and that Hillary might have trouble from her six-figure speeches.
And I tell you what, the fact of the matter is Hillary has never faced a real hard-nosed opponent.
She was given her job in the Senate.
She was given her job as health care administrator in the Clinton administration.
She was given her job to head up the bimbo eruptions unit.
And I could make the case that even the Obama campaign treated her with kid gloves.
I don't think Hillary Clinton has ever had to defend her lousy record in public office.
She's never going to be asked about it.
Her endlessly long list of scandals, and this is just proof they can't handle it.
These are these are nothing.
These are throwaway comments.
These are kind of things you don't even react to.
I would have told Hillary to drop the six-figure speeches.
I think those are going to hurt her as she gets into the campaign.
Anyway, let me take a brief time out.
We will uh continue when we get back.
Don't go anywhere, folks.
Be right back.
Randall and Sue Falls South Dakota, I'm glad you called.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hi.
Yesterday you had a little boy on the phone who was concerned about the way the country was going.
And since you know liberals like you know every inch of your naked body, I was wondering how does a liberal able in their mind to justify giving away the country and yet still be able to go home at night and look their kids in the eye and say,
I love you and their grandkids, I love you, when they know that when they give so much away that it's going to be gone forever Well, it's an interesting question, and it's an easy answer from my standpoint, but I need one more bit of information for you from you.
What do you mean specifically when you say they that they're giving so much away the country?
Well, um now with this illegal immigration that foreign borders, they want people in, then they're going to take money away from rich people to give to those people through health care and food stamps.
Do you want do you want a truthful answer?
Uh well, I think the nation needs a truthful answer.
Well, I'm not gonna get are you prepared to accept the truth?
Because that's what I'm gonna tell you.
Because you're you're not you may not believe it.
You may not believe it is the point.
Okay, well, I'm glad you're prepared because the very fact that you're asking the question is uh is is telling.
And it's that's it's a good Question, don't misunderstand.
But but it's you're you're you're struggling with it, I can tell.
Here's the answer.
The people that you're talking about.
They're one or two, three, four different types of liberal.
You have the leadership liberal, then you have the blind follower liberal, then you have the intellectual liberal who thinks he's smarter than everybody else, and then you've got just the stragglers who are just going along with it because they feel good doing it.
In other words, not all these people could give you intellectual reasons for it.
In fact, very few of them could, because the reason they're doing it is feelings and the fundamental belief they have that enables them to literally give the country away, as you're saying, is they have a deep-rooted disagreement with the country as founded.
They believe the country was founded under false pretense.
They think the country was founded on slavery and racism and bigotry and favoritism to the rich.
They do not think the United States economy has been legitimately built because it has been built on the theft of resources and material from countries around the world we have gone and conquered and stolen things.
The wealth of the country is not legitimate because it's been built on the backs of the poor who have never been properly compensated for their work, and it is they who actually built this country while the rich got the spoils.
They don't believe anything about the founding of this country is legitimate, that it was a rigged game from the get-go.
They also have a deep-seated inexorable bias against any majority.
Any majority is by definition illegitimate.
A majority has way too much power simply because of numbers, and because of those numbers, that majority can punish and discriminate against and mistreat the minorities.
Not just racial, but I'm talking about numerical minorities.
So the majorities are inherently horrible and mean-spirited and extremist.
And so all of this giving away the country is finally making it fair.
We are simply returning this country to the people who were here first, in the case of Native Americans and now the Mexicans and other Central Americans.
And we are acknowledging that we took what wasn't ours from them and made ourselves into a superpower that we never really deserved.
And so this is now get even.
This is payback.
This is where liberals make themselves feel worthwhile by admitting that all the country has become is illegitimate, and this is how they are asking for forgiveness from all the minorities, be they racial, be they ethnic, be they religious.
They believe that the country is one giant grievance, and that every minority that has ever existed has a legitimate grievance against this country from day one.
Now you're asking, well, why all of a sudden they've always thought this.
This is not a new thing.
What is bringing it to the surface is that we finally elected somebody who thinks all of this.
The Democrat Party has been taken over by these kind of leftists in the last 30 years.
They've always been there, but they themselves used to be, in a practical sense, their own minority in the Democrat Party, but now they've taken it over and they run it.
And it's not your grandfather or your father's Democrat Party anymore.
It is a bunch of radical leftists who don't have the same appreciation or love for the country, so they don't even look at it as giving it away.
They look at it as perfecting it.
They look at it as being fair.
They look at it as spreading opportunity equally and denying the opportunity to people simply because of their skin color or because of their mommy and daddy were.
They are getting rid of all of that favoritism, all of that injustice, and they are inculcating and implementing social justice, which means that everybody's equal and everybody's gonna get as much and everybody's gonna get the same, and the government is the instrument to make all of this work.
And it cannot get too big.
And the government is populated by people of deep compassion who really care.
And if they screw up now and then, it's okay because their intentions are honorable, and that's what has to be judged.
Never the outcome of their ideas, never the results of their policies.
We are to judge their intentions and their intentions are gigantic.
And they're rooted in compassion and their huge hearts, because they are good people.
They are trying to save the earth.
This country is destroying the climate.
They are saving it.
If a if if if the if the big industrialized parts of the country need to be destroyed and torn apart or given away, so be it.
It's necessary to save the world.
And it is a it's a it's a it's a magnet to people who are weak, who are lacking in confidence, who don't think they ever will amount to anything, who want meaningfulness in their lives and think their lives in and of themselves are meaningless.
Liberalism gives them all of this.
And none of this is intellectual.
This is all gut-level emotion.
And it's the result of propaganda.
It's the result of indoctrination because none of it's none of it's true.
None of it's real, but they live and breathe it as though it is.
If you have the courage to believe that, that's the answer to your question.
And let me add one thing in my answer to the caller who wanted to know how is it that liberals are so comfortable with just giving this country away, as in amnesty and endless illegal immigration?
Another thing that I should have added is that there is very little reverence for the Constitution.
Many liberals think the Constitution is a limiting document, not a liberating document.
Many liberals don't like the Constitution because they want government to have as much control over life as possible to make things fair and equal.
And the Constitution limits what government can do.
The Constitution liberates and empowers people, and liberals do not trust people to make the right decisions in their own lives or with other people.
Liberals don't trust you to eat the right things.
How in the world can you have militant vegetarians?
But we do.
You ever heard of a militant beef eater?
Have you ever heard of a guy that loves steak demanding and protesting and putting out of business vegetarian places demanding everybody eat steak?
No.
But how many militant vegetarians do you know trying to shut down McDonald's?
Or trying to shut down the beef industry?
They're all over the place.
And they're doing it on the basis of climate change.
They don't want you to have the freedom to eat what you want because you don't know what's best.
They want the government to control what you can and can't eat.
And they want the government in charge of your health care when you get sick.
But if you have made yourself sick, you're on your own.
Other people shouldn't have to pay for your wanton health negligence.
That's why you should eat what they tell you.
Here's Erica in Commerce Township, Michigan.
Great to have you on the program, Hello.
Oh, oh, Erica, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute.
I got that, you got to hear Eric Holder has has commented on the uh judge's decision in Texas.
He's at a national press club today, and he had some kind of address there.
And afterwards the QA, the moderator said, What is the practical effect of this judge's ruling in Texas on the president's immigration order, the uh executive amnesty?
How much of a setback is this judge's ruling?
We are still in the process of looking at the um opinion and trying to decide uh what steps we might take next.
The solicitor general will ultimately make that decision in consultation with me.
I think that we have to look at this um decision for what it is.
It is the um a decision by one uh federal district court judge.
I expect, I've always expected that this is a matter that will ultimately be decided by a higher court, if not the Supreme Court, than a federal Court of appeals.
And so I think it has to be seen in that context.
This I would view as an interim step in a process that will uh that has more to play out.
In other words, this guy's a peon, we're not worried.
It's one federal district court judge in Texas of all places.
What do you expect?
Bunch of racists?
Texas, give me a break.
We're not worried about it.
This guy's gonna be overruled before sundown tonight.
We know that a higher court's gonna have the final say on this.
The Fifth Circuit, Supreme Court, whatever.
We're not worried.
That's how to translate what Holder said.
Okay, now Erica, thank you for that.
I appreciate your waiting.
Hi.
Um, thank you.
Um hi, Rush.
Um, it's an honor to speak to you right now because my mom has been calling for years, and just today we got in, and I'm like really excited.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate it.
I understand it too.
I really do.
Yeah.
Um, so um I called, and I just want to mention uh I'm in love with all of your books.
Like I didn't think I would uh like be find any interest in them, but once I read them, like it just drew me in, like the way the storyline was held throughout the book and how everything just was like.
Do you mind my asking how how old you are?
Oh, I'm thirteen.
Thirteen.
And when you first heard about the Rush Revere series, you thought you wouldn't like them.
Why?
And no, you can't hurt my feelings.
Um this is genuine market research here for me.
Okay.
Um well, actually, my mom brought them up to me.
She said that like I was looking for a book for English class, and we needed to read one.
So she brought it up because she loves you so much.
And um and I was gonna think I'd be interested because she said it was historical fiction, and I'm not all that into history, so I was a bit iffy about it.
But once I like started reading it, it just pulled me in.
Well, I'm glad you started reading it.
You know, most of the time.
When most people, when they decide they're not interested in something, don't even do it.
Yeah.
Uh what was any part of it because it was your mom and you just don't want to do everything your mom says you want to was that part of it too?
Yeah, I guess.
Yeah, that's well, I was that that uh every every young person's that way with their parents.
But you nevertheless, for some reason, curiosity or what have you, you decided to pick one up.
Yeah.
And I am glad that you did.
Because this is this is quite a testament.
You were prepared not to like it.
I mean, it's not that you were prepared to dislike it, but you were prepared to think it's no big deal.
And you ended up enjoying them very much.
So that's that's a very nice thing to say, and I really do appreciate that.
Yeah, I'm actually going on to the third book right now.
That's just awesome.
That's just that's just fantastic.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
So you're where where's Commerce Township, Michigan?
What part of Michigan is that?
Um, like by Lancing in Detroit.
And I guess like Southeast, I think.
Southeast, okay.
So you're not far from Michigan State.
No, not all.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, uh, I'll tell you what.
I d you know what I have some um I have some extra iPads around here.
Do you do you have an iPad?
No.
Well, you ought to, you know, iPads are great.
You I don't know if you have you read uh books on a Kindle or anything in ebooks.
Um I read one book on a Kindle.
Yeah.
You read one book on a Kindle.
Well.
Uh you can do that on an iPad too.
I've got some loose iPads around here that that I need to get into people's hands.
So if you if if your mom wouldn't mind, I'd like to send you one.
And you can get the electronic version of the books and always have them on your iPad.
You can take notes, you can highlight things in them.
Any book.
You can highlight things that you like in whatever color you want.
You can make notes and always refer back to them.
And it's real light now.
It's real light and it's real thin, and it'll last you about ten or twelve hours, depending on any kind of thing with it.
So if you wouldn't mind, if your mom wouldn't mind, I'd like to send you one.
And the audio versions of the um of the books too, so you can listen to them uh read by me, which means it's really good.
I bet it is.
Yes, it is.
I'm really I I'm I'm proud of the audio books.
I really spent a lot of time doing them, and I put a lot of uh effort into it.
And I've I'm uh I'm proud of them.
So if you'll hang on and we get your address and we'll get that stuff out to you as soon as we can, hopefully this week, okay?
Okay, yeah.
All right.
Thanks, Erica, very much.
We'll take a brief time out, be back and continue after this.
Breaking news from Fox.
Islamic state militants reportedly burned to death forty-five people in an Iraqi town, the western Iraqi town of Al Baghdadi, not far from an air base housing uh 400 U.S. Marines.
This, according to local cops telling the BBC.
ISIS burned to death 45 people in western Iraq town of Al Baghdadi.
Not far from an air base housing uh 400 U.S. Marine minutes.
That's a lot of random burning.
Those folks are doing some really random burning out there.
Islamic state.
Not terrorism, of course.
Debbie in Naples, Florida.
Great to have you on the EIB network, the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
I'm smug over here in Naples, too.
It's beautiful.
Yeah, and I was just there last week.
It's a beautiful town.
I like where you live too, so.
Um anyway, I have a question for you.
I'm hoping you can answer this because I'm usually pretty good at figuring things out.
I've been a uh student of yours for many, many years.
But this one eludes me.
Why would the Chamber of Commerce, and in their capacity as representing businesses, be interested in legalizing all the illegals that are here and then subjecting all these businesses to having to comply with all the laws that apply to legal workers?
It makes no sense.
Yeah, it does from their standpoint.
If a Chamber of Commerce, what is a Chamber of Commerce?
It's just a representative of member businesses.
So it's it's not an ad hoc independent group.
It's it's a group of people who represent businesses, businessmen, business women, business owners.
It's all about cheap labor.
But isn't it going to become more expensive when they're required to pay workers' comp, comply with overtime and wage laws, pay for health insurance, social security tax, and all of the other things that go along with imply employing.
You're you're basing that on you know they get them really cheap now, but when they become citizens or when they get green cards are going to cost them even more.
Yes.
From it, not that many are being hired right now, and and certainly most of them who are in the dark and they're being paid under the table.
Uh the the what isn't going to change is that they're going to remain low skill, and they're going to remain poorly educated.
So even if they are legalized, get amnesty, they aren't going to command huge wages because their their abilities aren't.
These are people to fill grunt work that these businesses claim many Americans won't do.
Okay, so can I ask you another question?
Sure, fire, fire.
I got about one minute.
Okay, following up on that then.
Wouldn't it at that point, because there have been studies done that show that low-skilled jobs don't pay as much as simply getting things from the government?
What incentive would there be for those people then to stay in these low-skill, low-paying jobs when they can just go on the government?
Well, see, that's that's what many of us happen to believe is going to end be the end result.
So, how is this in interest of business that the chamber's supposed to be?
Well, it doesn't mean they're smart.
Doesn't this don't make the mistake of assuming that the chamber of commerce is populated by smart people.
Oh, I can see they're not.
I mean, it every, you know, people labor under the misconception that all of these special interest groups are populated by really brilliant, smarter than the rest of us people.
And in and they're not, and what thing they're missing, they have no ideology.
So they wouldn't understand what you just said.
That that that wouldn't that hasn't computed with them yet.
Um those are good questions.
And I'm glad you called Debbie.
Really appreciate it.
You might even want to make the case, you might want to try to make the case that uh Chamber of Commerce have been taken over by the left.
It it's not the total explanation, but I wouldn't be surprised if there have been some inroads there, like any other number of institutions the left has corrupted.
Anyway, that's it, folks.
Out of busy time today, busy broadcast time.
Back tomorrow.
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