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March 31, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 31, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #3
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And greetings, welcome back.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbo doing more for America in a week than most people do their entire lives.
Now, Snerdley's in there laughing.
I only say that because so many people call here and thank me for all that I'm doing.
And I don't think it's actually very much, but I appreciate the sentiment.
Anyway, telephone number if you want to be on the program in our final busy broadcast hour today is 800-282-2882.
And the email address is ElRushbo at EIBnet.com.
Now, I mentioned this in the first part of the program, but some people, I think, got confused.
The first hour, first half hour of the program is always a challenge because the audience has things they want to hear first.
And if I don't talk about what some people want to hear first, they listen casually until I get to what they really think is the most important thing of the day.
And that's when they really tune in.
Now, I think most people who listen to this program are more attentive than the average audience out there.
So when I say that people listen casually, they're still far more aware of what's happening here than most audiences on the particularly television cable news.
And everybody was revved up to hear about two things today, Indiana, number one, and Iran and Nuke deal, number two.
And the Daily Show, to people in this audience, big deal, big whoop.
But this is fascinating stuff to me.
This is pop culture.
This is, to me, it's very important.
Not that I care.
I'm not invested in this.
But it nevertheless is interesting in a know-your-enemy framework.
So Stewart is leaving.
No mas, no mas, just like Dingy Harry is leaving.
I told you that, you know, no matter what the drive-bys make it look like day to day, the left, they're not riding high.
That's what all of this anger and outrage is all about, folks.
They're miserable people.
They're angry.
They're unhappy.
They are constantly outraged and enraged.
And everything they believe in, Obama was their messiah.
This was going to be utopia.
It's an absolute disaster and a mess.
And they know it.
And they, of course, can't blame themselves, their ideas.
So it has to be our fault.
It has to be the Republicans' fault, Bush's fault, you name it.
But strip all that away, and they're miserable.
They're unhappy.
And Dingy Harry leaving the Senate tells me that he doesn't think the Democrats are going to win it back anytime soon.
And Stewart leaving the whatever, Daily Show, there's something going on there other than tired of doing it, the audience growing complacent, whatever.
This is not to say that conservatism is in an ascendancy.
It could be, but the two don't mutually go together.
The left could be falling apart, and that could be all that's happening.
It does not mean that the opposition to the left is doing great things at the same time.
I mean, people can grow fed up.
It's like what we've always heard about the millennials.
This is a very distressing thing when I learned it and heard about it.
They don't think America's best days are ahead.
They think the best days are behind us.
They don't think they're going to have a chance to live as well as their parents did.
But they're blaming America.
They're not blaming Obama.
They're not blaming Obama policies.
They're not blaming the political party, the Democrat Party.
They're blaming the country.
The country has finally failed to live up to its promise.
That's a bad, bad thing here.
And I think people can grow weary of the Democrat Party and the left, but not at the same time think we ought to choose conservatives or Republicans.
The Republicans, conservatives have to earn that support.
And that's a whole other matter.
So I think that all of these resignations from entertainment and politics by people on the left means something when you include what is obvious to anybody observing.
They're not happy.
They are even the comedians, even the people trying to make people laugh, they're mad.
Everybody out there is enraged.
Everybody's upset to one degree or another.
Mad, enraged, outraged, fit to be tied, disappointed, you name it.
The range of negativity and pessimism, I think, has totally overwhelmed the left, more so than usual.
So anyway, in the midst of all this, we get a new host for the Daily Show.
And you realize the left is totally invested in this show.
This show, The Daily Show, is the daily dose.
It is the prescription that fulfills the needed ingredients for hate of Republicans and conservatives every day.
That's why this show is important to the left.
Fake news for liberals is one of the only things that keeps them from going totally insane.
And so it matters to them who's going to host this show.
This show is where they get their daily injection of hate and bigotry and anger and all of that.
And they're worried now that somebody coming along may not be able to fill that syringe as well as Stuart has.
So they're interested in this new host, this Trevor Noah guy from South Africa.
And I'm reading some of the leftist critics about the guy.
You know why they like him?
You know what?
He's just like Obama.
He's half white and he's half black.
That's a great qualification, right?
It is to people on the left who judge people totally on the basis of surface characteristics.
Also, there is the TV columnist at salon.com.
Salon.com is also part of the insane leftist internet blogosphere website coalition.
And the name of the TV critic at Salon is Sonia Soraya.
And listen to some of the things that she has written about this guy.
She's just so excited.
Let's see, Lucas.
She thinks that he's great because he's biracial.
She thinks he's great because she's from another hemisphere.
Noah is a literal product of apartheid, as his mother was black and his father was white, an illegal union at the time in South Africa.
It is this ultimately that is going to get the most attention.
Praise from those of us excited to see any club of all white, all men rendered extinct.
Yeah, you heard me.
That's right.
That's what she said.
She's a TV critic at Salon, and she likes this guy because he represents The rendering extinct of all white, all-male institutions.
Whether it's late-night television or whether it's the presidency.
The tenor of conservative criticism of the daily show is about to get very, very, very ugly, she writes.
This country spent years embroiled in a debate over whether an American citizen who became the president was really American.
Or what are we going to do to Trevor Noah?
Conservative critics have a practiced double-speaking method of piling on the heat on figures who stand out because of their race or gender or sexuality.
Meanwhile, the left is the only people talking about this.
The left are the only...
I didn't know the guy was biracial.
I didn't know he's from South Africa.
I didn't know he had a black mother and a white father or vice versa until they told me in the midst of passing their judgments on that.
And now they're predicting that conservatives are going to be the ones that have the cows over it while they're in the process of giving birth to the cow over it.
And then she says, look, prove me wrong.
I hope I'm wrong because I'm so excited about Trevor Noah.
Get this next.
He is going to bring the perspective of a whole other hemisphere to the American conversation.
And he's ushering late night into an era where it's not an oddity or a fluke to have a host that isn't a white man.
Noah joins Larry Wilmore on Comedy Central to make a daily night block of two hosts of color.
This while network late night continues to be all white, even with the new hires James Corden and Stephen Colbert on CBS.
But as Noah told the New York Times, it quotes him anyway, it's so great we're finally going to have somebody from a different hemisphere because this hemisphere sucks, don't you know?
This hemisphere, the home of global warming, the home of discrimination, the home of blatant sexism and racism and bigotry and homophobia, we deserve somebody from another hemisphere.
And their perspective.
And in Trevor Noah, we are getting it.
And then she concludes by writing this.
I hope we can prove to Trevor Noah that we deserve him.
And that we'll stand for him too when it's necessary.
Because though it's clear that he's used to backlash, I'm not sure that we are.
This is insanity.
This is insanity on parade.
This is lunaticism.
I hope we can prove to Trevor Noah that we deserve him.
What?
What an attitude to have.
You're in an audience, you come there hiring a comedian to host the show, and you hope that you, as an audience member, can prove to him that you deserve him.
What is he, God?
You have the same attitude about Obama?
Oh, I hope that we can really prove to Obama that we deserve him.
Meanwhile, this savior from another hemisphere, this first attempt at making extinct the all-white, all-male, late-night TV host, has put some very anti-Semitic, anti-Jew tweets out there, and they have been found.
And they have been reprinted and published here.
I'll share with you some of them.
South Africans know how to recycle like Israel knows how to be peaceful.
Behind every successful rap billionaire is a double as rich Jewish man.
What does that mean, Mr. Snerdley?
It means that behind Jay-Z is some rich Jewish guy.
All right.
Some rich Jewish guy.
If it weren't for the rich Jewish guy, Jay-Z wouldn't stand a chance.
Jay-Z is nothing more than a frontman for some rich Jewish guy pulling the strings behind the scenes, right?
That's what the tweet is.
Behind every successful rap billionaire is a double as rich Jewish man.
Farrakhan, you don't want to be that blatant about it.
You got to hold some cards close to your vest.
Now, they also found some stuff from his Facebook page, and this printed out, it printed the graphic of the Facebook page, and it's really too small for me to read.
So I'm going to go back and reprint this in a readable portion.
It's found at P.J. Tentler.
But it's, I mean, these posts at Facebook and some of these tweets, I mean, this guy genuinely has a problem with Jews.
And so they're just going to have to wait and see here.
Mr. Stergley asked, what if this guy's ratings suck?
Well, that's always a risk.
But it doesn't matter.
It all depends who his writers are.
If the writing team stays the same and the words on the prompter are the same things that Stewart would say, this guy has a little bit of input.
I mean, look, if this show is what it is, the people who do this show know what it is.
And as long as there's anybody up there that can deliver hate for Republicans and conservatives and make it look like humor, it'll be fine.
That's all it is.
See, it's the comedy that provides the buffer.
This is a comedian.
Come on.
You need to learn to laugh at yourselves, conservatives.
Just a comedian.
Come on.
We're not talking about anybody with really power here.
That's how they excuse all of this stuff.
Anyway, they're just all a Twitter here over the...
This is how...
This is news everywhere, this guy being hired.
That's how important this show is.
Fake news is the biggest show of the day to liberals.
We've had Josh Ernest weigh in on Mike Pence's remarks today in Indiana talking about fixing the bill, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
It's at the press secretary of the press briefing today and Julie Pace from the AP said to Josh Ernest, okay, Governor Pence said earlier this morning that he wants to amend the legislation to clarify that it does not allow discrimination against gays and lesbians.
Does the White House feel that that's the right approach to amend the bill?
Or do you support a full repeal of the Indiana law?
We've seen the governor and other Indiana officials in damage control mode here because this law has provoked an outcry from business leaders across the state of Indiana.
Understandably, we see business leaders saying that they are reluctant to do business in a state where their customers or even their employees could be subjected to greater discrimination just because of who they love.
That's not fair.
It's not consistent with our values as a country that we hold dear.
Wait a minute.
It's not provoked.
We got to deal with something else here.
Because I'm starting to see this phrase all over the place.
We can't allow these customers and their employees to be subjected to greater discrimination just because of who they love.
Who they love.
It's not about who anybody loves.
It's about gay marriage.
It's about people who have religious prohibitions against it.
It's about gay marriage.
It's not about homosexuality.
It's not about honoring disagreement, discrimination against homosexuality.
It's about people whose religious beliefs prohibit them from engaging in activity which lends credence or support to gay marriage.
But this business of who you love, where does that stop?
If you're going to start throwing the phrase around who you love, what happens if you love your dog?
Which we have had a story of a UK woman who wanted to marry her dog, I think, and did.
Do you remember that?
She married a dolphin.
Okay, whatever.
She wanted to marry an animal that was not a man.
Where does this who you love business?
That's a catchphrase that's designed to silence all opposition because who opposes love?
My God, we need more love in the world.
What are you doing?
You're against love.
People love each other and it's horrible.
And you know you're against love.
We need more love in the world.
That's precisely why they use this phrase, who they love.
But who they love, what does that mean?
Where does that stop?
Well, hey, I'm not the one using the phrase.
Don't get mad at me for thinking about, I mean, a woman wanted to marry or did marry damn dolphin.
I didn't.
I'm not making it up as she loves the dolphin.
Is it legit?
So, anyway, that's not fair.
That's not fear.
This is not about any of that.
There's a point here, Mike Pence.
The point is, oh, gosh, I just saw that.
Oh, my God.
No.
Why didn't one of these reporters ask Josh Ernest why Obama voted for the same damn law?
Why didn't any reporter think to ask that?
Obama voted for the same damn law.
This law is in 38 states, 25 or 30 states.
It was the AP, January 3rd, 2006.
British woman marries dolphin.
I told you.
Well, make these things up.
And we've got an audio sound bite on graph number 19.
I don't have it in front of me here.
It's here somewhere.
Ah, just found it.
This is Trevor Noah.
This is the new savior of the Daily Show sitting in for Jon Stewart when Stewart finally takes a train out of town.
This December 4th of last year, when they were introducing this guy to the Daily Show audience, and he had just arrived from South Africa.
And Jon Stewart said, I just understand you just flew in here from South Africa.
And this is what Trevor Noah said.
I've been holding my arms like this since I got here.
I never thought I'd be more afraid of police in America than in South Africa.
It kind of makes me a little nostalgic for the old days back home.
What he was saying was, and this is one of the tweets, is that it's worse for blacks in America than it ever was for blacks in apartheid South Africa.
And his hands up here, he came out with his hands up, don't shoot.
He was mimicking the lie about the gentle giant trying to surrender.
I've been holding my arms like this since I go here.
I never thought I'd be more afraid of police than America than I've been South African.
Funny, funny.
Hands up, don't shoot.
Yes, it kind of makes me nostalgic for the old days back at home.
I were able to necklace people to disagree.
You remember having gasoline in an attire and put it around their necks and we'd light it on fire and we'd burn them alive.
I miss those days, don't you know?
It is a time it comes in every day's program where I finally lose my place.
Because I've got loose individual sheets of paper, the audio soundbite roster, various item stack stuff, just literally in a mess in front of me.
Nothing, the attempt to keep it all organized is now over.
And I don't know where anything I still haven't talked about that I want to talk about is.
And I should have found it during the commercial break, but I had to respond to an email from my financial advisor about some app somebody.
So I didn't have a chance to do it.
So now I'm vamping.
Wife.
Because there's all kinds.
Oh, there's a Hillary story.
Well, we touched on the Hillary story.
We'd already done that, too.
Sanford, Maine, this is period.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello.
Hello, Period.
How are you?
This is David.
I'm sorry.
I apologize.
Thanks for taking my call rush.
Oh, it says, period.
I will hang up and listen to what you have to say about the guy from West Virginia that said that we shouldn't hold conservative views about abortion and homosexuality.
He thinks that Christians should retreat from the public square, and we don't count.
Second thing, the homosexual issue is about accepting their lifestyle 100%.
And if you divert from that, they will come after you personally, business-wise, and even governor of the state, who is a good man.
Third thing, you can talk about discrimination, discrimination.
This is about influencing the Supreme Court on homosexual marriage.
Thank you.
Have a good, great day.
And I love to hear what you have to say.
All right.
Thanks very much, period.
Great to have you on the – there's a period up there where his name – I thought that was the name he gave.
Oh, there it is.
This is David up there now.
Okay.
He's responding, if you missed it, one of the first call of the day was from a guy, much like some guests that came to my house for dinner one night that I didn't know.
They were friends of friends, who basically were of the opinion that we should throw Sarah Palin overboard because the media had destroyed her and there was no way of saving her.
And since she's done, it's just a waste of time.
Plus, she's stupid.
And I, having told you this story before, will rein it in.
I said, so you guys want to let the media pick our candidates.
And the media disqualify somebody, they're gone.
That's pretty much right.
I mean, if the media can destroy them, Rush, then what good are they?
I said, so you're perfectly fine.
You don't care to defend anybody.
You don't care if somebody really thinks what you think and believes what you believe, you think it'd be good for the, if the media can destroy them, because they can destroy anybody, then we should just let them go.
They said, yep, cut them loose.
And that's basically what our first caller said today.
He said, look, you guys got to realize you're not going to win this in Indiana.
They should have never brought this up.
They should have never written this bill.
They should have never even entered this whole arena where they're going to be perceived as taking on militant homosexuals because there's no way we Republicans are ever going to win.
It was a stupid thing to do.
Pence should have known it.
So he's asking me, do I think that's the right way to go about this?
I do not because you'll cede every issue to people that way.
If you're of the opinion that you can't beat X, Y, and Z, then why would you even try if you're going to further damage yourself by trying to defeat them?
That's what the guy was saying.
Now, I disagree with that totally.
I think all of this is political.
Every bit of it.
It's not about who you love.
That's just what they say.
It's not about love and marriage and devotion.
It's all political.
It's all part of the Democrat left-wing agenda.
And there's no question that this is in part an effort to influence the justices on the Supreme Court who are deciding the Burwell case over subsidies for Obamacare and just any other thing that might come up that negatively impacts the Obama agenda.
And of course, same-sex marriage is also at the Supreme Court.
And he thinks this is explicitly aimed at that.
And I don't think there's any question that militants like this, they are bullies and they attempt to gain victory via intimidation.
And they're trying to intimidate anybody who might stand up and oppose them.
How else, that's exactly how it works.
As I mentioned earlier in the busy broadcast today, let's go look at the case in New Mexico where we had a photographer, a lady owns a little photography store, and in walks a gay couple wanting her to photograph their wedding.
She says, no, my religion opposes gay marriage, and it would be immoral for me.
So they go to the news media, they make a big news story out of it, lawsuits left and right, intimidate this poor woman.
She's the worst example of living, breathing bigotry that there is.
And they end up putting her out of business.
And the way that happened was her existing clientele were frightened into staying away.
Once her store became publicly known by everybody, and once her photography shop, her studio was associated with anti-gay bigotry, and every existing customer she had saw exactly what happened to her.
They said, you know what?
I don't want these people coming after me.
So I'm not going to start, I'm not going to patronize this studio.
And she lost her customer base.
And the same thing happened to a bakery.
I think it was in Denver, somewhere in Colorado.
Same thing.
The existing clientele end up being intimidated and staying away because they think that the activists are keeping a sharp eye on anybody that goes in that store, and they could be targeted too.
And so the first caller today probably would agree.
Yeah, that's the only sensible thing to do.
Just don't patronize these places because you're just going to end up being a target yourself.
And that's the objective.
This kind of intimidation, at the end of it, how can you blame the gay activists?
Look at the bakery went out of business and the photography studio went out of business.
All we did was ask them to photograph our wedding and they said no.
And they go out of business.
That's kind of justified, right?
They're bigots and they're homophobes.
But that's not why they went out of business.
They went out of business because everybody's scared to death.
So this law comes along to protect the scared to death.
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act basically says a shield.
It basically says that people like this cannot be discriminated against, cannot lose their businesses because of religious views.
It's not a weapon.
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act does not give anybody the ammunition to discriminate against or otherwise bigoted, be bigoted against anybody else.
It's been totally misconstrued, misreported, but that's the name of the game.
Just like Ferguson was misconstrued and misreported.
The Duke La Crosse rape case totally made up, not one shred of evidence to back up what everybody thought was the truth there.
And the fact that the Duke La Crosse case was exposed as a fraud, that's the exception to the rule.
Most of these stories don't end up being exposed.
Ferguson has been exposed, but you'd never know it.
The protesters are still there.
They're still trying to wreak havoc on the community.
They're still importing protesters from outside the city, many cases the states.
So the worst thing you can do is back away from it.
I think what Pence should have done, this is just off top of my head, and I don't like actually doing this because it's easy for somebody like me, not even Indiana, to sit here and say, well, you know what he should have done?
I wouldn't do this.
But this is what I would have done if I'd have been involved and thought about it.
I'd have gone out there and said, you know what?
You want the law changed?
Fine.
You know what I'm going to do?
I'm going to rewrite this law so that it is word for word what Chuck Schumer wrote in 1993 and Bill Clinton signed into law.
I would find a way to throw this back on the Democrats rather than sit there and act like I have to make excuses for myself, which I don't think I ever have to do, and I don't think you do either.
I don't think you need to make excuses for the things that you believe.
You're not a bigot.
You're not a racist.
You don't discriminate against people.
You have a religious objection maybe to gay marriage.
You may think, you know, marriage is, by definition, man and a woman.
They're changing the definition of words here to make this all look legit and kosher, but it's not anti-gay.
It's people that are opposed to the definition of marriage changing because they have a religious belief in what marriage is.
And this law simply provides a shield for them that they supposedly can't be harmed for holding that view.
This thing is so out of focus and out of whack.
It's not the businesses that are doing the discriminating.
It's the other way around.
Anyway, I got to take a break here, folks, because once again, I happen to have gone long in a second.
You know, I don't know what everybody's so hysterical about.
The photographer in New Mexico, Elaine Hagenen was her name.
The name of her company was Elaine Photography.
She refused service for the 2007 commitment ceremony of a lesbian couple.
She lost her business.
They've got a religious freedom restoration act in New Mexico.
It did not save her business.
The Colorado baker was a guy named Jack Phillips.
He owned the Masterpiece Bakery.
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act did not save Elaine's company either, nor the bakery.
The federal law did not save, nor the New Mexico law did not save the business.
It didn't even shield them.
I don't know why, but I don't know what everybody's so hysterical about because the law didn't even stop the discrimination by the militant homosexuals in this case.
Anyway, I have to make these points because they're literally when stories like this hit the news, none of it is true.
It's striking how little factual truth there is to these highly charged, emotional, culture-related stories.
Look at here, despite there being an RRFA law in the books in New Mexico since 2000.
In 2012, the New Mexico Appeals unanimously upheld a claim against the photography studio that refused to take pictures of the gay wedding.
In 2013, the New Mexico Supreme Court upheld that ruling in a unanimous decision.
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case.
Even with the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the photography studio lost her business.
See you tomorrow, folks.
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