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March 2, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 2, 2015, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Well, I'm sorry, but wouldn't you be?
If you were the White House, wouldn't you be gloating over how you took the Republicans to the backyard on this Homeland Security thing?
Right there, politico, White House gloats over Republicans, DHS flop.
And everybody's that's rather unseemly to gloat.
It is, but that's who they are.
I'm not surprised that they're gloating.
These people got shillacked.
The Democrats got show lacked in November.
They can't believe they're winning anything, much less prevailing the way they are.
And it is fascinating.
And as if somebody sent me today a piece.
By the way, hi folks, as you can tell, revved and ready to get going here.
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There's a lengthy piece by Victor Davis Hanson and National Review.
I think it's National Review Online.
And it is one of many such stories written by Victor Davis Hanson.
This is PJ Media, I'm sorry.
He writes both places, PJ Media, National Review Online, so forth.
Obama and liberalism's descent into travesty, the liberal circus.
Victor Davis Hanson's been writing for six years, chronicling and demonstrating the robust failures, one after another, of liberalism of the Obama administration, and he's about to reach his wit's end because he thought the failures of all of these policies alone would provide the corrective measures that people would realize, and he's kind of like a lot of people.
He's shocked that nobody cares.
He's shocked that nobody even recognizes these things as failures.
Now, they're not failures from Obama's standpoint.
They're failures if you expect improvement in the country.
But Obama cannot be said to have failed.
Everything he set out to do is working as he intended, but it's not in the best interest of the country.
And I've I've I read a lot of blogs, as you well know.
And one thing I've noticed, and I'm gonna have a tough time explaining this, I may it may take me two or three attempts to explain this right.
But over the six years, six plus years now of the Obama administration, a number of uh it's and who they are is not important.
That's not this this is not to name names and all that, it's it's just an observation of the way people think uh on our side.
Victor Davis Hanson and a number of others have written chronicling all these failures, assuming that it is 20, 30 years ago when demonstrable failure is unaccepted and change and fix are required simply on the basis of the failure alone.
And I think I've read so many different bloggers and so many different conservative media types who have just expected this to happen because it always did.
Nixon fails, big time gets thrown out of office.
Uh, as one example.
And it's not the case anymore.
It's not happening anymore.
And there's a there's a there's an obvious reason why, folks.
And let me just tell you what I hadn't even intended to get into this yet, but I mean it's gonna it's gonna be a good setup.
Because he chronicles all of these things that we have talked about since day one of the Obama administration.
Let me give you some pull quotes just to give you an idea of his piece.
Who would have believed that Iranian leaders who just ordered bombing runs on a mock U.S. carrier could be treated with more deference than the Prime Minister of Israel.
And we are.
We are showing more respect to the leaders of Iran and their effort to get a nuclear weapon than we are to our ally Israel in their effort to prevent that from happening.
The debate over illegal immigration has gone from arguments over closing the border to social security cash rebates to illegals and presidential threats to punish border patrol officers who enforce existing law.
Yep, that's true too.
And just last week we had the news that the two things illegal aliens who had been sent home, been deported.
We're gonna call them back.
The thousand or two thousand we're gonna call them back and ask them to come back and reapply.
We're going to admit they shouldn't have been kicked out in the first place.
Come on back in.
We are also preparing to essentially make a welfare payment of 35 to 40,000 to every illegal alien who's granted amnesty.
How are we going to do that?
Well, we're simply going to say that had we granted amnesty four years ago, they'd have been paying taxes, and maybe they have been paying taxes.
And they should have qualified for the earned income tax credit and a number of other things.
And since we have intended to do this for four years, we're just going to make four years' worth of benefits available to them retroactively.
And so each illegal who grants amnesty is granted is going to get 35, 40 grand in benefits.
And you know, people write about this and they know they can't believe it.
Where's the outrage they're asking?
Where are people standing up saying enough?
And stand by, I'll come to that.
Here's another pull quote.
Why this descent into Travesty?
By the way, by the this headline reminds me, I have concluded all 13 episodes of House of Cards.
Have you seen, have you guys in there?
Season three.
Yeah, it came out Friday.
I binged it.
It's just 13 episodes, just 13 hours.
Big whoop.
It's show prep, man.
And I I've I finished it and uh Well, I'm not going to discuss it yet.
I don't want to do spoiler alerts until a number of people have uh have seen it.
But I've had a number of people write to me and said it's the best season yet.
And I think the fact that people think this is the best well, here I go, spoiler alert.
The fact that people think this is the best season yet is evidence and proof positive to me of the descent into depravity of our country.
And if you want, I'll give you a couple examples later on.
But I don't want to do spoiler alerts for everybody.
The end of episode four.
How many of you gotten there yet?
The end of episode four.
Have you said have you started even yet, snertly?
But you're not, you haven't gotten episode four yet.
Okay, well, I should have known.
You'd have known what I'm talking about if you'd been there.
Don, Brian, you guys started watching.
I said, I don't get they have yet.
Why this descent into Travesty, the liberal left got what it wanted in 2009 with a supermajority in the Senate and large majority in the House, a subservient mainstream media, the goodwill of the American people, and a most liberal president in American history.
It only took that the liberal hierarchy six years to erode the Democrat Party to levels we have not seen since the twenties.
Almost every policy initiative we have seen, whether climate change, vote in policy, health care, race relations has imploded.
Every policy initiative we have seen, climate change, Obamacare, foreign policy, you name it, race relations has imploded.
That's why there's so much misery out there.
It's just everything has gone wrong from the standard perspective of judgment.
If you look at it through Obama's eyes, it's not gone wrong at all.
Now many liberals are very distressed because they believed in all this stuff, leading to a utopia, and we are further from a utopia than we've ever been after six years of a utopian president.
So they're understandably miffed.
But when they get mad, when they get angry, they don't think corrective.
Because this is the next observation, Victor Davis Hansen, the answer to these failures has not been introspection, humility, or re-evaluation why the liberal agenda proved unpopular and unworkable, but rather in paranoid fashion to double Down on it, convinced that its exalted aims must allow any means necessary, however farcical to achieve them.
Now, what that means is, and it's the key, it's the key to the frustration on the part of Mr. Hansen and a lot of people.
When you have massive failures like we've had here, normally reasonable people try to examine, okay, what went wrong and correct what went wrong and implement corrective measures, fix the problems, and instead that's not what's happening.
There has been no examination of failure, because there's been no admission that it is failure.
The economy's roaring.
We got the best economy we've had since Reagan, right?
That's what Obama says.
John Kerry says we're safer than we've ever been.
The biggest problem in the Middle East now is Israel.
We got they don't even think this stuff is failure, which is what I think a lot of people need to understand.
Nevertheless, in the midst of all this failure, there isn't any examination, no introspection, no re-evaluation of why it's not working and why it's unpopular.
Nope.
What there is is anger, paranoia, and a and a demand that we double down on it.
And this is where I think people get confused.
And the that that's these kinds of abject failures, not too long ago, would have led to massive public outcry, number one, to fix it, and then there would have been a response to the massive outcry to fix it, and there would have been efforts to fix it, and this would have been one of the final nails in the coffin of liberalism.
So why hasn't that happened?
Would you like to hear my theorem?
A lot of people have been assuming that liberalism would implode of its own immorality, much like Ronald Reagan thought communism would.
Reagan always believed that the Soviet Union would implode eventually, whether we fired a shot or not, simply because it could not sustain itself in any number of ways, economic, spiritual, you name it, it was doomed, communism was because of its own immorality.
And I think a lot of people mistakenly assume that the actual failure of all of these things would be self-evident to a population, an enlightened population, and thus be corrected for.
And that's also missing.
Yeah, to many of us, this boondoggle is self-evident.
To many of us, what is happening to the country is outrageous and demands first an immediate stoppage and then a fix.
But many people in this country, and it's not a majority, but it's clearly enough, it is not self-evident that we're in the midst of a bunch of failure.
Well, not entirely true.
Let me expand on that.
I think what people need to understand and trying to understand why, for the first time in a long time, the abject in our face, right in front of us, overwhelming dismal failure of liberalism.
Why that hasn't meant its end, why that hasn't meant that it is over and we're going to stop it and correct it, is because while the left has been in the process of implementing all of these failures, they've also been doing something else.
And that is destroying the brand of the opposition to all this.
There has to be an opposition to this.
Observing it failing is simply not enough.
Recognizing that something isn't working is simply not enough.
Corrective measures are not automatic anymore.
And the Republican brand has been destroyed by the willing accomplices of the Democrat Party.
And the importance of that is any alternative to these failures, any alternative to the status quo, is seen as automatically unworkable.
Or worse, maybe even seen as immoral and unjust.
So while you might have a lot of people think, my gosh, this is horrible, they don't see the Republicans as a viable option.
They do not see the opposition as an alternative.
Because that alternative has already been destroyed.
People laugh at the GOP.
They mock it.
They make fun of it.
They certainly don't take it seriously.
And therefore, what should be the repository of alternative policies is seen as a national joke.
The left has been so successful that it has convinced millions of Americans.
In fact, it gets even better, I think.
The left has been so successful that it has convinced millions of Americans that all of these failures that we are experiencing are actually the fault of the Republicans.
Reaganism, racism, sexism, all of the things that the left has used to mischaracterize, to character assassinate, to destroy the Republicans and conservatives, are the very things that have been blamed.
It's the limbaugh theorem.
Obama has nothing to do with any of this.
He's still trying to fix it.
He was in he inherited all of these problems.
Evil Republicans for all of those years trickle down, you know the drill.
The Republicans caused all these problems, and poor Obama just tried to fix Obama God, and we're failing miserably in the process, but at least he's trying.
The left has been so successful, it has convinced millions of Americans that the very failures of liberalism today are in fact the fault of Republicans.
That's because the left, while they've been advancing their own agenda, has also via revisionism destroyed the substance of all alternatives to liberalism and socialism.
Capitalism, look, what do you think young people think of capitalism based on what that's being taught to them in college?
The alternative to this, free markets, freedom, liberty, capital look at.
These failures just keep adding up and building on themselves.
And this is why millennials have lost faith in the country and not Obama.
Millennials, everybody that has a desire for this stuff to get fixed at their wit's end.
They think the country's letting them down.
They think the country's better days are behind it.
They think the country is not worth all this hope anymore.
There is no alternative.
The alternative, the Republicans?
Are you kidding me?
Those nerds?
Oh, give me a break.
I hear what's said about them on the Daily Show.
Republicans.
The only alternative is to let Obama keep trying.
Because gosh, he's got such great intentions.
And these failures just keep mounting up.
So when I see the White House gloating over the GOP's flop in stopping the implementation of executive amnesty, I totally understand them laughing about it and gloating.
We'll be back, folks.
Don't go away.
I mean, how else do you explain the administration and the drive-by media and all of the other supporters of the regime, all citing the Republican flop, and that's what it is.
They had every, they had every opportunity to defund small portion of Department of Homeland Security so that Obama could not have the money to do his executive amnesty.
They promised they would do it after the election, they said they were going to do it.
And they didn't even get close.
And now the administration is running around gloating over the Republicans' flop here.
And in addition to that, you know what they're doing?
They're saying that this is evidence of the Republican Party's inability and failure to govern.
While they gloat, they throw that in.
Never mind that Harry Reid and the Democrats are the reason.
Well, the partial reason.
I mean, it would be easy to blame Harry.
Harry Reid is doing what his party wants.
The Harry Reed took every precaution, took every Step at his disposal to stop the Republicans from doing this.
And the Republicans did not use every weapon in their arsenal.
The Democrats did.
The Republicans, I am convinced, are scared.
They're just they're in fear of the usual things and maybe some things that we don't even know about.
And so the Republicans win big in November and won't even take the steps necessary to stop the partial lack of funding for Department of Homeland Security.
And when the Democrats run around and say, see, this is evidence Republicans can't govern, that's the last thing people hear.
And it just further tarnishes the GOP brand, and then the GOP is an alternative to this failure is not even considered an option.
Except it was.
By the way, folks, just as I predicted, a bunch of liberals, a bunch of leftists have started learning what is in net neutrality, and they are unhappy.
Wall Street Journal has a headline, Liberals Mugged by ObamaNet.
Buyer's remorse already setting in for Google and other net neutrality proponents.
And you know what?
The one thing that none of these people ever figured on, none of them, none of these leftists ever dreamed that Obama would do.
What they have now discovered is part of net neutrality, and that is the regime is going to regulate content.
They all thought the regime was simply going to punish the ISPs, the internet service providers, and the telecoms for all of the throttling or for fast lane preference to the highest paying customers and freezing out the little guy trying to stream whatever perversion he's watching on Netflix tonight.
And instead, the regime is going to regulate exactly as I, El Rushbo predicted to you.
Speaking of Google, have you seen what they want to do with their search results now?
Google search results now return the most popular results.
Like if you go out and search perversion and depravity in Hollywood, just to pick a subject.
Or in other words, House of Cards.
If you go search that, you'll get a you'll get a list of articles on that subject based on how many clicks those articles have received.
So the Google search results have nothing to do with content per se.
I think they do.
The Google guys tinker with this behind the scenes.
But nevertheless, what you are seeing in a Google search result is popularity coupled with the Google guys' preference.
I mean, you're never going to see Rush Limbaugh.com at the top of anything unless I'm in trouble, for example.
But Google has now decided to change it.
Get this.
Google wants their search results to be based on the sites that are the most factual.
Now you you might think, well, hey, Royce, you know it's about time.
Somebody needs to police the internet for what's right and wrong out there.
Wait a second.
Who gets to decide what's factual?
Give you one subject.
Look at global warming.
I guarantee you that everybody at Google thinks it's real, that man's causing it, that Google believes every bit of liberal drivel propaganda about it.
And by the same token, anybody who doesn't, anybody considered a denier will never ever be revealed in a Google search.
If indeed they get to determine what you get returned on a search based on factual content, because who gets to decide what's right and wrong?
Who get, you know, facts are not facts anymore, particularly in politics.
So whose facts?
Who gets to determine that?
That's what Google wants to do.
Now, it that it not just something I guess they can automatically do.
I get into more detail here as the program unfolds.
The basic point here is that a bunch of leftists are starting, it's slowly starting to dribble out.
They still haven't released these pages.
They still haven't released the 302 pages of what net neutrality is.
But some people who know what's in there are starting to leak it.
And so the uh the details are becoming slowly known.
And people are getting very, very worried.
Like there is the ability for Obama, the regime and administration, government, regulatory agencies, to regulate content.
And I knew I had a conversation with some people about this years ago, and the big concern from opponents of net neutrality was just that.
That what was actually being set up here was a government regulatory agency that would police the internet and make sure that every point of view had equal access.
It would be the same thing as if the government could regulate cable TV.
Here's Fox News is number one and MSNBC at number 25.
Well, that's not fair.
That's not neutral.
That's not equal.
And so if there were a government agency that could regulate the audiences for Fox News, they would see to it that Fox lost some audience and that the MSNBC picked some up.
And that's what they want to do with the internet.
That's what net neutrality is.
And none of the proponents even gave that a thought.
They all thought it was about getting even with big corporate interest in punishing them.
They all thought it was about fast lanes and the last mile and all this gobbledygook.
About equalizing things with a little guy.
And what it really is the government empowered to punish points of view it doesn't agree with.
And that is slowly being learned.
It's being discovered.
It's trickling out, and they're very, very much worried about it.
Now, on this Department of Homeland Security thing, I want to get back to this in an and upcoming later on the program, we'll get some stuff from CPAC, some of the uh things that were said, and my thoughts on CPAC, as I as I told you on Friday, somebody was sending me a bunch of people sending me notes.
Rush, why aren't you there?
Why aren't you going?
And I said, because as I watch it, everything I've said before is already being said there.
So there's no need for me to go.
Besides, I was there.
When was the last time I was there to that speech?
It was uh five or six years ago.
I forget when it was now.
Anyway, uh, we'll do that, and the Netanyahu speech at APAC today, which set up his speech at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning, Eastern time before a joint session of Congress.
Now, there's an if if you believe a Democrats on this, there's nobody going to be there.
Everybody's outraged.
Nobody wants to see Netanyahu.
He's coming here and he's just stiffing President Obama.
He's disrespecting President Obama.
President Obama didn't invite him, and he's coming anyway.
And he's just, he's an in-your-face move, President Obama.
In fact, it's the toughest ticket for a joint address to Congress ever.
This speech by Netanyahu is in more demand than any such speech in recent American history.
And yet the media is trying to tell you nobody cares, nobody's gonna go because it's a slap in the face at President Obama.
So we will have that.
And the Department of Homeland Security thing, there's some inside baseball politics about this that I should inform you of so as to be able to put more in context this whole notion of a GOP flop on this.
I can't tell you the number of people have sent me frustrated emails.
Rush, why can't they do budget reconciliation to stop this?
Just like the Democrats did in Obamacare.
Why can't they do it?
They could.
The question is not why can't they?
The question is why won't they?
Why won't they take every step available to them to stop this?
It's not why can't they?
It's why won't they?
2009 is exactly right.
So it's uh Five, six years ago that I was at V CPAC.
Anyway, it's not that they can't, it's that they won't.
Now part of it is, and this is a big part.
Part of it is the Department of Homeland Security is about amnesty.
And folks, many, many major Republican donors want.
They want these illegals made legal.
And the money talks.
But there are other reasons too.
And by the I need to correct something I said.
I started to correct it and ran out of time for the end of the break.
In talking about how the country sees no credible opposition, because the left has destroyed the opposition, the brand of the GOP and their reputations while the left is destroying the country, while the left is implementing programs that are imploding, while the left Obama implementing programs that are dramatically failing and causing this country great harm, they at the same time are blaming the Republicans for needing these programs.
The Republicans made such a mess when they ran a show, Bush and all that, Bush and Reagan.
They made such a mess that Obama is just trying to correct those mistakes, and it's going to take longer than we thought, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And so to many millennials, I said, there is no opposition.
The opposition's a bunch of kook nerd freaks.
The GOP giving you a break.
They're not cool.
They're not hip.
But yet, in the midterm election, look what happened.
2010 and 2014, it was a Republican landslide.
There are still millions of people in this country who expect the Republican Party to be the party to stop Obama, that they are the legitimate opposition.
Despite the efforts of the Democrat media and the Obama White House to destroy the Republican brand, they're still winning midterm elections in landslides.
And there's one reason the people voting want this stuff stopped and they want it fixed.
you The Republicans don't seem to notice.
Or they notice it and are ignoring it and making excuses for why they can't do this or do that.
So the inside baseball stuff happens to involve.
Remember what the trick that the Democrats were worried McConnell had run on them?
The Democrats are demanding a clean bill in the Senate to fund the Department of Homeland Security.
Just a clean bill, all the way through the end of the fiscal year in September.
No carve-outs, no lack of money for Obama to implement his amnesty.
And then that bill would be sent to the House.
And the Democrats were demanding that the House pass the identical bill, a clean fund of the Department of Homeland Security and sent it up to Obama and sign it.
Democrats began to worry that maybe they had been victimized by a trick.
Pass this clean bill, and then it goes to the House where they feared the House could add amendments.
And after the House added amendments and changed the bill, that requires that changed bill, the new bill to come back to the Senate, conference report, where the Senate and the House meet to reconcile the differences in the two bills, the clean bill and whatever amendments the Republicans added.
But Harry Reid refused to allow the Democrats to go to conference.
And I didn't know he could do that.
This is a first for me.
I continue to learn things.
I did not know that a party leader could stop a conference committee from convening to reconcile two different bills.
But Harry Reid said, you need 60 votes.
You need 60 votes here to get to conference, and you don't got them.
So he simply refused to let the Democrats go to conference.
So the Republican bill didn't matter what it was.
And that's where the Republicans caved.
And that's when it became a one-week funding bill where they're going to figure out what to do after this one week goes by.
We're back to the same place.
Republicans shutting down government.
Part of the whole process of destroying the GOP brand is Republicans equal government hate.
Republicans equal government shutdown.
Republicans equal government not helping people.
Republicans equal kids starving because no school lunch because Republicans shut down government.
In fact, the left has been so successful at that, they use all of that as the reason their bills are necessary.
Oh, we gotta fix Republicans.
The last time they were in charge, they threatened to starve every kid.
That's why we gotta provide enough money to school lunch program to survive the next Republican onslaught.
It's all been working.
Anyway, I gotta take a time out.
We'll get back to some of your phone calls when we resume.
Don't go away.
Okay, we're gonna start on the phones of Peori, Illinois.
This is Brandon.
Brandon, I'm glad you called.
It's great to have you with us on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
How are you doing, Russ?
Fine.
Very well, thank you.
So I I just barely caught the the tail end of your uh conversation with the Google search results, and I wanted to weigh in a little bit for you.
Uh I am a software engineer out in Peoria here.
Okay, well, just before you get started, I just since you caught the tail in, the important thing that you sh that I want you to hear, Google wants to change its search results and now wants to rank websites based on facts and not number of links.
Number of hits, okay.
Did they explain it all how they determine fact?
No, they didn't got that uh that that hasn't they haven't gotten that far yet.
Um they know that's an open-ended facts.
Who's gonna define the facts?
But they want to set up algorithms for this stuff, obviously.
Yeah, well, what I wanted to weigh in is you know, I've done some research with search algorithms and and such, and as big as Google is, they literally would not be able to come up with the manpower to determine fact against fact.
That doesn't matter.
You're making the mistake of taking this seriously.
As far as...
Assuming that Google's intent here is exactly what they said, to actually rank this by virtue of fact, liberalism would barely show up on a search result if they're going to do that.
That's not what this is.
So you're saying that they're just basically trying to push their their opinions further up the rankings?
This is this is to legitimize a Google effort to police content based on political preference or scientific preference or whatever, and to make sure that things they don't agree with never are seen in a search return.
Right.
And honestly, I doing the research that I've done in the past, i it will be utterly impossible for them to even accomplish anything of that feat.
They can try and try as hard as they want, but we ask you a question.
Let me let me ask let me let me ask you a question since you have experience with this.
Sure.
Pretend that you have a search site like Google and that you are a you are a an extreme liberal and you don't want any conservative website returned on any search.
And so I go to your search site, I go to the Brandon search, and I w and I want to search myself.
I put in Rush Limbaugh.
Can you see to it that nothing is returned?
That your database has nothing on me based on the fact, and you say later when somebody I couldn't, your search didn't show anything on Rush Limbaugh.
Well, we have determined that nothing he says is factual, and therefore, can you do that?
Well, that's the the hard part is basically the entire search algorithm is based on keywords.
So they're gonna be searching on Rush Limbaugh.
So there's gonna be thousands of sites out there, Rush Limbaugh says this, which is maybe derogatory.
Right, and can't they simply in a keyword basis say do not display anything with the name Rush Limbaugh in it?
One person can do that.
You wouldn't need an army of people to do that.
Which they already do with like things with piracy and uh, you know, porn and things of such a there's no question they do.
But for them to filter out, you know, half of those keywords is where I'm saying it would be utterly impossible for them to to accomplish to to push their their goals.
Would it be impossible to do or impossible to get away with?
I just want to be clear on what you're saying.
I kind of think a little bit of both, because if even if they did find a way to get away with it, when people start searching Rush Limbaugh and find absolutely no results.
Well, I take it back.
They they uh right.
Okay, that was a bit extreme.
They wouldn't return anything positive.
It would be, say, Media Matters would be the number one site that would return things.
They they can do that now.
For how Hell they do that now.
On me, global warming, you name it, doesn't take thousands of people, takes one guy to write that line of code.
Anyway, Brandon, I appreciate I get his point.
I really do.
We gotta take a break, though.
You remember when Bush was in the White House, the search term miserable failure, the top result was George W. Bush.
Bush White House.
And when Obama was elected, miserable failure no longer directed you to any White House story.
And Google.
They can do it now.
They don't need an army.
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