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March 24, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 24, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Oh, yes, sir.
Here we are, folks, revved and ready to go.
Just as I warned you yesterday would be the case.
I am Rush Limbaugh, well-known radio raconteur, America's real anchorman, noted historian and climate change denier here on the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882 and the email address LRushbow at EIBNet.com.
Ladies and gentlemen, yesterday Ted Cruz makes his speech at Liberty University.
And I shared with you the fact that I had spoken with Mr. Cruz on Friday.
And I shared with you additionally that I had told him one thing after he asked.
It's important for you to know that he asked.
I did not sit there and tell him how to do his business.
And I warned him, I told him that something I have noticed in the last probably three or four presidential primaries, at least, certainly the last two or three.
What happens is that conservatives take out conservative candidates.
I mean, the drive-bys do too.
Don't misunderstand.
Like CNN.
You know what CNN's done?
CNN edited video of Ted Cruz's speech yesterday, and they drew an arrow to a portion of the back of his jacket and said, this is what happens when you don't use a prompter.
When you don't use a podium, they had found a bulge in his jacket.
They don't state it, but they imply that Ted Cruz was getting advice, was getting help from somebody backstage through a communications device.
Because he didn't have a podium, it all boils down to he didn't have a prompter, and they just can't believe that somebody can go out there and speak like that without a prompter.
So he had to have somebody coaching him.
Remember, they tried to accuse George W. Bush of this in one of the debates he'd had with Al Gore.
And all it was is the battery pack and the wireless transmitter for the wireless mic that Cruz was using.
But there's CNN with a full-fledged implication that Cruz was cheating.
So we know the drive-bys are going to go after Cruz.
That's a no-brainer.
But one thing I've noticed is that this quest, and in some cases it's a quest, in other cases, another reason for it.
This quest for perfection that seems to possess or obsess many conservative groups leads them to nitpick and find a single issue or maybe two that conservative candidate X is supposedly wrong on.
And they immediately launch into criticism.
And when conservatives launch criticism of conservative candidates, the media just eats it up.
They just love it and they glom onto it and they amplify it even more than their own criticism.
And I warned Senator Cruz that this would happen to him.
And it already has begun.
I forget the name.
A blogger at National Review Online wrote that Cruz is going to have to learn how to speak better.
He speaks at people rather than to them.
And he comes off like a used car salesman at a motivational rally or some such thing.
It's just uncanny.
It's predicted.
You've got some conservatives out there.
We had a call yesterday.
We've got the birther issue is back saying Cruz is disqualified because he's not a citizen.
Not a real one.
And of course, the drive-bys eat that up, too.
And the drive-bys are saying, see, see, it just proves that the attack on Obama and Hisburg was racist because they're giving Cruz a pass on it, but they didn't give Obama a pass on it, so it's racist.
And then yesterday on Fox, the five in the afternoon dumped all over Ted Cruz for one thing or another.
That's somewhat understandable for reasons I can't explain.
You have to figure that out yourself.
And then last night, Grab Audio Soundbite number 11 on special report with Brett Baer.
They were talking about Cruz and his announcement yesterday.
And let's see, Shannon Breen was filling in as the host for Brett Baer.
She turned to Charles Craunhammer and said he talked a lot about the Constitution and freedom and liberty and very broad policy, repealing Obamacare.
Some of the things he has been working on and talking about since he got in the Senate.
Here's Dr. Krauthammer.
First-term senators, we already tried a first-term senator.
And that's why when Scott Walker says a proven track record, what Walker has, I mean, he doesn't have the fluency on issues that a Cruz does.
And he's made a lot of stumbles thus far.
Cruz talks about you have to walk the walk rather than just talk the talk.
You have to have done something.
But that's not his record in the Senate.
He's a good rhetorician.
But when Walker says, I ran the state, I took on the unions, I took on the liberals, and I won, I think it's going to be a strong argument.
Now, there's no, I have no argument with that.
I have made it myself when it comes to Scott Walker.
But really, is one of the knocks on Ted Cruz going to be that he's just like Obama, that he doesn't have enough experience, just like Obama, he's only served a certain number of days in the Senate, and he has not run a state, and he hasn't really walked the walk and accomplished anything, just like Obama.
So what is this?
If Obama had run a state, or if Obama had been in the Senate longer, he'd have been okay.
Obama would have been a better president if he had just been in the Senate longer, maybe been a governor.
Is that all this is about?
This is horse hockey, folks, that Barack Obama is what he is only because of a lack of experience?
Well, that, I don't know how you come to that conclusion.
Barack Obama who's who he is because of his ideology.
Barack Obama could have come straight from the community organizer office and become president and been exactly who he is.
He could have served the governorship, served governor in Illinois for two terms, become president, be the same president he is today.
This argument that we're going to disqualify Ted Cruz because we've learned how bad an inexperienced president can be, Obama and his foibles, Obama and his presidency that is a disaster has nothing to do with the fact that he's inexperienced.
It has everything to do with who he is, ditto Ted Cruz.
It's who he is that is the determining factor here.
And by the way, let's talk about this experience for just a second.
Here we have a two-year senator, Barack Obama.
He serves two years, 160 some odd days.
He's a first-term senator.
He becomes president.
Obama is running circles around the entire Congress, which is made up of what?
All kinds of experienced politicians.
Obama is embarrassing them.
Obama's making mincemeat of professional career politicians with decades, in some cases, worth of experience.
And I don't like that.
That embarrasses me.
That a supposed neophyte who's never done anything comes into town and starts running rings around professional politicians.
I think that illustrates how wrongheaded By the way, Krauthammer, I'm not harping on Krauthammer is not the only person mentioning this criticism.
There's all kinds of people coming up with all kinds of creative reasons on the conservative side to disqualify Ted Cruz, exactly as I predicted would be the case yesterday.
But I think it's just, it stretches credulity to me to say that, oh, man, this is what happens.
Oh, Barack Obama, this is what happens when you elect somebody who doesn't have much experience in Washington.
It wouldn't matter how much experience Obama had because experience has not determined who he is.
And ditto for Cruz.
And again, just to repeat this argument that we've got this neophyte, inexperienced Obama, and that's why he's been a disaster, somehow running rings and embarrassing all of these seasoned, experienced, brilliant, inside-the-beltway politicians in the House and the Senate.
You see, a conservative who leads, who is unafraid, unflappable, as Cruz is, and who is principled, who can relate, who can articulate, and who has a mission, can do a great deal as president, whether he was a governor, a senator, or whatever.
I've heard the arguments against electing senators because they don't have any executive experience.
They're one-man operations and they're fraught with over-inflated egos.
I've been persuaded by that argument now and then, but it's always dependent on who we're talking about.
People are individuals and no two are the same.
And to simply start broad-brushing people.
I mean, the thing I think that's flawed here is the assumption that Obama is as bad as he is because he didn't have any experience.
If Obama had been a two-term governor in Illinois, what would be different in the Obama president?
I dare say, in terms of substance, very little would be different.
Anyway, we've got a whole roster of sound bites here to give examples for you, to you, of the kind of criticism that Cruz is getting, all of it predictable, some of it quite frustrating.
And I got up today.
I must tell you, I bopped out of bed today.
One of the first things I do after becoming fully conscious is grab the phone and check to see if there's been any emergency breaking type news overnight during the four or five hours I was asleep.
And I see that Netanyahu apologized for his racist comments about the Arab vote.
And I have to, my heart sank.
I just, a little bit of it sank, and I started shaking my head.
And I said, it just, why are so many people afraid of this inexperienced man-child president?
The case of Israel, I decided it must be the money.
We give them a lot of money.
Give them a lot of foreign aid.
And Obama's clearly somebody who would take it back if he could.
Slightest provocation.
So, whatever, there was some kind of diplomatic pressure was brought to bear, and Netanyahu thought that the best thing to do would be to apologize.
Something he has no reason to apologize for.
He didn't do anything.
All he did, to rehash this, was respond.
In fact, we have learned more about the Obama political operation for Netanyahu.
If anybody needs to be apologizing to anybody here, it's the Obama campaign team.
The Obama team needs to be apologizing to the people of Israel for coming in and gumming up the works of their election.
They were using all kinds of American tactics, push-polling, any number of things.
And they were specifically trying to gin up the anti-Netanyahu vote among the Israeli Arab population.
And all Netanyahu did was realize it and tell people this was going on.
And that all of a sudden became racist when it was Obama and his campaign team that were behaving according to the tenets of racism.
Netanyahu just responded, but he had to apologize for some reason.
And I just hope it's not that meaningful in terms of Netanyahu's resolve.
It's like, did you see the Iranian supreme leader, the Ayatollah hominy?
A lot of people noted that he gave a speech the other day and he was shouting, death to America!
Death to America!
Death to America!
And so they asked, grab somebody, let me find this here.
It's Marie Harf, and I've got to find what number it is.
I got him out of order here, but it must be near the end.
Grab 18.
This is our old buddy Marie Harf, the Valley Girl Impresario, who's a spokesman at the State Department.
And Wolf Blitzer spoke to her last night on CNN.
He said, the Grand Ayatollah hominy, all of a sudden, once again today, is declaring death to America.
This is a guy who's in charge, Ms. Harf.
He has to approve a deal, the Iranian nuke deal that we are negotiating.
But now he's telling a crowd over there, death to America, death to America.
And a lot of people are suggesting, members of Congress and others, Ms. Harf, how can we even negotiate with an Ayatollah who declares death to America?
Well, we've heard this kind of rhetoric for a long time.
This certainly isn't new.
What we're focused on is what's happening in the negotiating room.
So the words have no meaning when he says death to America.
You don't take that seriously?
It's not that they have no meaning.
Obviously, it's incredibly offensive, I would say, to all of us here.
We've seen this kind of rhetoric before.
He goes on, she goes on to say that he's just saying that for domestic content.
Marie Harf said, you have to understand who these people are.
And the Ayatollah hominy was just saying that for his people.
He didn't really mean it about us.
He just has to say that to his people.
Now tell that to a uniformed American military man or woman who has seen an Iranian-made IED blow up in their face in the Middle East, in Iraq or Afghanistan.
You ask a uniformed military personnel if the Ayatollah hominy only means it for domestic consumption.
That he really doesn't mean it.
So I guess he really doesn't mean death to Israel, death to Israel, when he says that.
And I guess Mahmoud, Ahmedine Nizad, he didn't really mean it when he said they wanted to frog march the Israelis into the Mediterranean.
Yeah, he just had to say that for domestic consumption.
So conversely, does that mean, well, you know, Obama really doesn't mean all this stuff when he runs around and apologizes for America.
He's just saying that for international consumption.
Nobody means anything.
Is that it?
Oh, he says this all the time.
Of course words have meaning.
He did that to America.
But it's not that they have no meaning.
Obviously, it's incredibly offensive.
And I would say it's offensive.
It's 20,000 times more offensive and dangerous than Ted Cruz.
But you're running around making excuses for the Ayatollah Hominy, and you and your media buddies are out trying to destroy a United States citizen who you don't get anywhere near the same benefit of the doubt.
I have to take a break back after this.
So, Ayatollah Hominy says death to America, death to America.
And the State Department says, it's no big deal.
He just has to say that for domestic consumption.
But Benjamin Netanyahu is required to apologize for racist comments about Israeli Arabs.
Note that the White House didn't shrug off what Netanyahu said.
Well, you know, he was just speaking for domestic consumption.
Isn't it interesting with this White House?
Nations and people we've always thought to be our enemies are given the best treatment.
And the people we think are our friends are treated with great suspicion, derision.
They're even insulted.
Speaking of the media, ladies and gentlemen, poll after poll, and I get this, this is important.
In poll after poll, the American people say they are against amnesty.
In poll after poll, a vast majority of people hate Obamacare, disapprove of amnesty.
A vast majority of American people claim they want a smaller and less intrusive government.
They do not want more gun control.
And increasingly, they say they do not believe in global warming.
And so here comes a candidate, Ted Cruz, who espouses those very same positions.
And the news media claim that he's a lunatic from the fringest of the fringe.
How can that be?
The American people overwhelmingly oppose amnesty, overwhelmingly hate Obamacare.
By a majority, they want a smaller, less intrusive government.
They don't want more gun control.
They don't believe in global warming.
Here comes, and not just Cruz, a number of Republican candidates who espouse the exact same things.
And the media accuses them of being stupid, dangerous, dumb.
You want to hear dumb?
You have to hear about the political reporter for Yahoo News.
Do not miss this.
Hi, how are you?
Welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, EIB Network, Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Little pop quiz for you.
Who said the following?
Quote, the beautiful cry of death to America, death to America, unites our nation.
Who said that?
If you guessed Hassan Rouani, the current so-called moderate president of Iran, you would be right.
But he was just saying that for domestic consumption.
Yeah, yeah.
The Iranians, doesn't matter who, Mahmoud Ahmedine Izad, Ayatollah Khamenei, Hassan Rouani.
Death to America!
Death to America!
Just saying it for his own people, Mr. Limbaugh.
Don't get so worked up about it.
Okay, thanks.
Ted Cruz yesterday spoke about the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
Preamble to the Declaration, one of the most beautiful things ever written.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.
It is an acknowledgement by the founders of our country declaring independence from Britain that human rights are bestowed by God via creation, that the natural state of the human being contains God-given rights.
It is the basis, forms the foundation of the founding of our country.
And here is more living proof and testimony that this hasn't been taught, nor has history been taught in American education, particularly journalism schools, in way too long.
There's a woman named Meredith Scheiner.
She is the political reporter for Yahoo News.
Now, you might say, so what?
Well, don't discount Yahoo News.
The low information crowd lives there.
Facebook, Twitter, all these different news digests.
Yahoo News is what are you laughing at?
Is this news to you?
You didn't know this and you just find it funny, or did I?
Well, it is.
Yahoo News ranks in the top five of news sources for low information and young people.
She tweeted yesterday, Meredith Scheiner did, that Ted Cruz talking about God-given rights was bizarre.
She said, she tweeted, bizarre, to talk about how rights are God-made and not man-made in your speech announcing a POTUS bid when the Constitution was man-made.
We have a glittering jewel of colossal ignorance on full and proud display here.
This woman, the political reporter for Yahoo, has no clue about the preamble of Declaration of Independence.
She probably has scant knowledge of the American Revolution, the Declaration of Independence, the people involved.
I wonder what she would do if she heard about the founders pledging their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
Would she call them extremists?
Nothing could be worth all of that.
Meredith Scheiner is a Yahoo News political reporter, and before Yahoo, she spent three years at Roll Call, where she was considered a leader in the newsroom.
And then she worked at Politico for two years.
She is a graduate of Duke University.
She grew up in Chicago.
That background I provide on purpose so you can have a great idea of just how ill-educated people coming out of higher education today are and where they end up working.
Roll call, Politico.
And now, Yahoo News, a graduate of Duke University.
She has no idea.
She is totally unfamiliar with, we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.
I would love to hear Meredith Scheiner try to explain unalienable rights.
That among these are life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness.
Our founders acknowledge that the human being is created with those unalienable rights.
It means they can't be taken away by human beings.
Even if they're taken away, you have your rights.
That's who you are.
That's what humanity as created by God as enshrined in the preamble of our Declaration of Independent states.
She is totally clueless.
The concept, and this, folks, this is classic.
This tells you everything you need to know about modern education, religion, and the way little liberals and journalists have grown to believe that the center of the universe is Washington, D.C., and government, and everything comes from there.
Remember the monologues yesterday and the whole notion of Washington works.
Washington isn't working, as stated by Mark Halperin.
Washington isn't working.
These are people who believe that everything that you have permission to do comes from Washington.
Every right that you have is the result of legislation or executive action or superior political beings acting on our behalf, conveying to us our rights.
So here comes a Harvard-educated lawyer, top of his class, an accomplished debater, has won numerous elections, who comes along and simply affirms the preamble to the Declaration of Independence and the acknowledgement that our rights come from God.
And this woman reporter blows a gasket because she is offended.
It's blasphemy to her for somebody to say that rights come from God.
Not everybody believes in God.
You can't say that.
She probably believes.
Well, how could our rights come from God when the Constitution was man-made?
Our rights come the constant rights are legislation.
Rights are laws.
Rights are whatever.
Some liberal somewhere wants to claim is a right.
The basic ignorance that does not allow for the understanding of what even a right is versus a law versus a statute.
But the wanton, willful, happy ignorance of the concept and the preamble to the Declaration is just overwhelming.
But folks, it is so indicative.
It's so illustrative of how education is performing one of the greatest disservices to people whose parents are paying 20 grand a semester or a year to have their minds, their skulls full of mush filled up with this kind of drivel.
Meredith Schreiner, Duke University graduate, Yahoo News political reporter, roll call three years, politico for two years, has no idea, literally no idea about the founding of this country.
And without that, her work as a journalist is worthless because she doesn't know history.
She hasn't been taught history.
To add insult to injury, this woman thinks she's the one that knows everything.
And somebody like Ted Cruz is the dangerous idiot that we have to stop.
Take a time out.
Be back after this.
Don't go away.
Ladies and gentlemen, that preamble, the preamble to the Declaration of Independence was the political revolution that literally rocked the world.
The Declaration of Independence and its preamble broke the hold of monarchs, tyrants as the source of rights all over the world.
It literally changed the world.
The world before America is a world most of us would never want to live in.
It is why I have said over and over again that the real definition of American exceptionalism can be found in our founding documents and what they created.
Human life prior to the United States of America for most people was one form of bondage or another.
Everybody lived under tyranny in one form or another.
The United States of America was the first organized nation to come along and claim that it was the people of the nation around whom the nation would be built.
Not a monarch, not a tyrant, not even a government.
And that is why people the world over have risked their lives to come here.
Because even today, most of the people in the world live under one form of tyranny or another.
Some of it is deadly and bad.
Some of it is simply mind-numbing, controlling.
The simple fact of the matter is that human freedom and human rights exist like nowhere else in the United States of America.
And we have an entire generation, maybe two generations, of young people who have not been taught this.
They believe that our rights come from political people we agree with.
Even if it is a tyrant, if he's our tyrant, he's good.
Even if he's our king, he's okay.
It's our government that gives us our rights.
It's our president that gives us our rights.
It's our president that makes sure other people have rights when they're being denied.
And they're clueless.
Totally 100% clueless.
There were 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence.
After doing so, they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor as they signed.
What happened to the families of many of those men is unspeakable, what the British did, to try to force them to recant.
That's how powerful the document was.
Great Britain went to war over that document, over that preamble.
It was unspeakable what that said.
It was unheard of before.
That human beings' rights come from God.
Why do you think communism requires there to be no religion and therefore no God except the state?
Because there can't be any other source of goodies in life.
There can't be any other source of what you have than your benevolent government or your tyrannical government or what have you.
The concept of God.
If you don't have a concept of God, you are going to miss the truth of so many things.
I maintain it is the absence of God that permits so many people, otherwise intelligent, to fall for the hoax of global warming.
But that discussion, even though I've engaged in it before, is for another time.
Meredith Shriner, Shiner, Meredith Shiner, she's just one of millions who have been lied to while ostensibly being educated.
It's not a matter of what she has been told.
It's also a matter of what she's not been taught.
And she's worked at some prominent places and she probably had a fairly good socioeconomic childhood.
Northern suburbs of Chicago.
Duke, Politico, now Yahoo News, Roll Call Magazine.
She's a glittering jewel of ignorance.
Doesn't know it.
Thinks Ted Cruz is the one stupid.
Ted Cruz, the one dangerous.
Yeah, yeah.
He thinks our rights come from God.
Ha, how stupid.
What an idiot.
Man, that's really extreme.
Wow, man, we can't permit that.
That's just, oh, that's unacceptable.
That's bigotry.
You know what?
That's religious bigotry.
We can't permit that.
Rights come from God.
Who does he think he is?
That's the attitude.
It's scary stuff.
You know, another criticism I've heard of Ted Cruz, swerving into a different subject here.
In addition to the fact that he's like Obama, he doesn't have enough experience.
It's bogus.
Obama's not as bad as he is because he didn't have experience.
He's as bad as he is because he's a liberal, extreme radical.
Another criticism of Ted Cruz is, well, show me what he's done.
Hell, Ted Cruz hasn't done anything.
Scott Walker, he's done things.
I can't disagree with the fact that Scott Walker's done things.
But Ted Cruz has been in the Senate.
At this stage, if you ask me, I humbly point out, it's not a matter of what has Ted Cruz done.
It has a little bit more relevance to me to ask, what has Ted Cruz stopped?
The objective here, the past six years, has been to stop Obama.
We have not had the majority in anything until a couple of months ago.
There was no way we had the votes to stop Obamacare.
What do you mean, what has Ted Cruz done?
Let's list his accomplishments, which is more than we get out of Obama.
He's beaten the GOP leadership in election after election.
He was in Texas.
He's a Harvard graduate.
He's got a great resume.
What do you mean, what's Ted Cruz done?
These are criticisms coming from conservatives, by the way.
Real question is, what has Ted Cruz stopped?
And that takes us to what the left loves to point out, and that's the government shutdown.
Ted Cruz has done his level best to stop as much of Obama as he can, and he still is.
And that, to me, is more relevant than asking, what has Ted Cruz done?
The whole point of Ted Cruz and anybody who's able to articulate an agenda like he is, we're going to be pretty confident what he will do if given the chance.
Unless, of course, he's just saying all this for domestic consumption, like the Ayatollah hominy.
Death to a Medicaid!
Death to Amedica!
That Ted Cruz, he's so stupid, he's so dangerous.
We've got to destroy Ted Cruz.
Debt to America, debt to America.
He's just saying that for the Iranian people.
We have to worry about that at all.
Well, now we find out, you know, the NFL's had this veterans combine, like the rookie combine, only it's veterans.
It's basically a tryout camp for veterans.
Michael Sam showed up and ran a 5.1-second 40-yard dash.
Folks, if you can't break a 4.4, the NFL doesn't want you.
Michael Sam couldn't break five seconds in the 40, which leads me to, I mean, his combine was flat out horrible.
This probably wasn't the rookie combine.
Anyway, another thing.
Dick Morris says that Hillary Clinton can't type.
So her emails are not going to show anything.
You've got to find Humas and Cheryl Mills.
Hillary can't type.
I wonder if Hillary can't type because modern era of feminism, and damned if I'm going to learn to type, so all I'm going to be is the secretary for some brutish man boss to hell with that.
How many women refused to take typing for that reason in the 60s and 70s?
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