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April 1, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 1, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #2
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The Washington Post gives up the game.
Or the ghost, depending on how you wish to phrase it.
Right here it is.
Indiana law draws Republican white house hopefuls into the culture wars.
Exactly right.
And precisely by design.
The only real surprise about this is that the Democrats did this so early on in the presidential process.
But they may not really have had much control over it because Indiana did their law when they did it.
But nevertheless, but the greetings and welcome back, folks.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh with the second hour of broadcast excellence today here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Now this story is by uh Philip Rucker and Robert Costa.
Robert Costa.
Robert Costa used to be at National Review Online.
What is he doing at the oh well?
And there's actually two stories here.
There's the Washington Post story, and then there's a follow-up here by the Politico.
And both of these stories give up the game.
The national debate, this is the Washington Post first.
The national debate over an Indiana religious liberties law seen as anti-gay.
By who is it seen as anti-gay?
This is exted as anti-gay by the opponents of the law.
There's nothing about anti-gay in the law.
There's nothing anti-gay in the formulation or the conception of the law.
The national debate over an Indiana religious liberties law seen as anti-gay has drawn the entire field of Republican presidential contenders into the divisive culture wars, which badly damaged Mitt Romney in 2012, and which Republican leaders eagerly sought to avoid in the 2016 race.
Now the Mitt Romney thing, that was the war on women.
So the war on women has run its course, and so now what are we gonna get the war on gay marriage or the or the war on humanity?
What's it going to become now?
And once again, where did this all start?
George Stephanopoulos.
George Stephanopoulos' fingerprints are on both of these.
In the Mint Romney case, it was a presidential debate, primary debate, Republican contenders, and there's our old buddy George Stephanopoulos asking a question about birth control and conception and so forth in the middle of a Republican presidential debate when the subject had never come up.
It was not an issue.
It was not being talked about by anybody anywhere.
And out of the blue, Stephanopoulos asked Romney what his thoughts were on state-sponsored birth control measures and what have you.
And Romney was caught flat footed because he had no idea why George.
I'm not even thinking about no, I don't know.
No state.
What do you mean, George?
And Stephanopoulos would not give it up.
Just give me a yes or no, he said.
Just give me a yes or no.
Do you believe that states should have the power to be involved in in uh contraception measures and so forth.
And and and Romney thinking free, no, this is a state George.
I don't even think about this.
But eventually Romney gave an answer.
Didn't matter what the answer was.
He eventually answered the question, and immediately the war on women came to life.
Because then the media and everybody ran around saying that Romney, as a Republican, was in favor of governments being involved in contraception of this and that, and you everybody knows what that gave birth to.
No pun intended.
So last Sunday, It's George Stephanopoulos again.
You got the governor of Indiana, Mike Pence on this week.
And there's Stephanopoulos once again demanding yes or no.
Yes or no.
Why do you want to put a bill into law that discriminates against gay people?
Isn't that what you're doing?
Do you want state-sponsored discrimination?
Tell me how people can't see it.
There's just a yes or no question, Governor.
And him, uh, Pence Hems and Hawes and so forth.
And the birth of an issue happened again right before our very eyes.
And then we get this story in the Washington Post.
Indiana law draws Republican White House hopefuls into the culture of wars.
No, the media has drawn Indiana law and Republican presidential hopefuls down a sewer.
Which is what has happened here.
And that's why the Democrats and their media, because they want to cloud, they want to disqualify the entire Republican field right now.
Remember, this is how they have to do it.
They have to impugn, defame, and destroy the credibility of virtually every Republican rather than tout the benefits of voting Democrat.
That's not how they go about it.
They don't have enough people to vote for them to win just on the issues alone, folks.
They have to.
They have to create a number of people that will either avoid voting Republicans because they're mad at them and stay home, which is a name that one of the primary objectives of this, by the way, is to anger the Republican base by exposing Republican candidates as wusses.
And even though the Republicans know what's coming, they don't seem to be able to have a plan to deal with this.
Why hasn't the party already had a battle plan ready to go in case not in case for when the Democrats tried to repeat what they did with Romney with whoever the next Republican potential nominee would be.
Well, here it's already happened, and Pence is is not in the presidential field right now, but it doesn't matter.
They're trying to drag every Republican into the debate to get them on the record saying anything, doesn't matter what they say, because there's only the wrong thing to say.
There's no way a Republican can say anything that's going to be judged to be right.
Look what they're trying to do to Coach Sheshewski.
The Duke coach will not comment on it.
CNN, number of other media outlets have been trying to get him to comment on the law, and he won't say a word about it, and so they're trying to tar and feathering because of that.
He's a bigot because he won't weigh in the way we want him to weigh.
He's a bigot because he won't say what we want to hear.
The national debate over an Indiana religious liberties law seen as anti-gay has drawn the entire field of Republican presidential contenders into the divisive culture.
Isn't it amazing how this happens?
Everybody's wandering along minding their own business, and out of the blue, the Republican presidential contender contender all decide to shoot themselves in the foot on the same day.
Isn't it amazing how that happens?
And then the media gets to write about it.
And this is why the Democrats and their media minions are ginning up this is a phony crisis about a law that mirrors a federal law written by Chuck Yushumer.
A law that was hailed by Bill Clinton as a miracle from God, a law that has been around for 22 years, maybe longer in certain states.
Most other states follow this without needing a law to back them up or to have a law in the books.
Even though 19 other states have enacted similar laws just to be on the safe side.
They're really not necessary, since the Supreme Court ruled that the federal law doesn't have to be followed by the states.
Anyway, it's clear that the Democrats and their willing accomplices in the drive-by media sat down and tried to come up with an issue that would force Republican candidates to go against their base in the primaries or risk losing in the general.
What the many objectives here, but one of the big ones that the Democrats have and their media buddies is to anger You, the Republican base at your candidate.
They want to expose Republican candidates as wusses or whatever, so that you get ticked off at them again.
So you think they're a bunch of just worthless, endless politicians that don't get it, and you end up staying home in a fit of anger and not voting.
That's what they are attempting to do here is anger you so much at your own party that you don't vote.
And you don't donate.
Most top Republican presidential hopefuls this week have moved into lockstep and without pause to support Governor Mike Pence and his religious freedom restoration act, which has prompted protests and national calls for boycotts by major corporations.
And once again, we're back to the left all of a sudden falling in love with corporations.
The left all of a sudden thinks there's nothing in the world wrong about big business.
Man, oh man, they love big business this week.
Man, these corporations, why they are helmed by some of the most conscientious CEOs.
Why we love these corporations this week.
Here's the politico story.
Indiana law backs GOP hopefuls into a corner.
Same story, different publication.
Mike Pence, this is the opening.
Mike Pence just lobbed a grenade into the Republican presidential field.
How did Mike Pence do that?
By signing a law and going on television to explain it?
What was he doing on TV?
Why did he feel he had to go on TV and defend this thing to somebody like George Stephanopoulos, who's a member of the Bill Clinton war room for crying out, why do you think you've got to go to the drive-by media to defend yourself?
What is this compulsion?
You're not going to persuade them.
You're not going to get them to see the error of their ways.
You're not going to convince them you're a good guy.
You're not going to convince them the law isn't what they think it is because they don't care.
The law is whatever they claim it's going to be, and you are the reprobate that they claim you're going to be, no matter what you do, how you do it, or what you say.
Now these stories are made to look like that all these Republican candidates minding their own business, walking along one day, and then the next Republican idiot, in this case, Mike Pence came along and opened his mouth.
And in the process, tarred and feathered every other Republican hopeful because this party is filled with absolute idiots like Mike Pence.
This is the this is the tenor of the news coverage.
You never see, you never see stories about Democrat candidates worried about being associated with scandal involving the Clintons or anything of a scandal involving Obama.
You never see this kind of story.
You never see a story in the drive-by media where any Democrat candidate is disqualified on the basis of anything.
This is the game now.
And the media is so con they're they're writing about the game.
They're writing, they're giving it up.
They're explaining how they did this.
And one of the things that is assumed here, as you read these media stories, one of the things that the media is assuming is that every single member of the low information voter group is gonna buy hook line and sinker what they say.
They don't even think they have to work very hard at persuading their readers.
Now, as I say, this is not anywhere near the first time this technique has been employed.
But everybody on the Republican side acts as though they've never seen this before and don't know what to do about it.
By the way, folks, while all this is going on, there's something else happening out there that very few people are even aware of.
And it happened again last year at this exact time.
More than 2,000 illegal immigrant children continue to arrive In the United States every month, according to the Department of Homeland Security stats compiled by the Center for Immigration Studies.
Now that's not possible because Obama and his buddies in the media have said the flood of illegal alien children stopped long ago.
But I guess they were wrong.
The flood of illegal alien children continues.
Two thousand arriving every month since January.
While more illegal immigrant children are entering the country this fiscal year than at this point in 2012 and 2013, the number of children crossing the border has not yet surged as it did last year.
So what?
We're supposed to think, well, okay, no problem then.
Just because it's not surging like last year.
The Center for Immigration Studies report shows that 84% of the children crossing the border are teenagers, and most of those are male.
See, teenagers are not considered children in Central America, but these are gifts of love.
Isn't that what we've been told Central America giving us gifts of love?
How can we object?
Why they love these kids in Central America and they are giving them to us.
Who is it for us to be critical of love?
Gangs may be getting a little thin here, as most of them keep going to prison, so we might need a replacement operation, could be part of what this is.
But it continues, folks, while everybody's looking the other way at all the so-called bigotry and homophobia in Indiana.
Here is Rich in White Plains, New York.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Your turn.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, thanks for taking my call.
Um with all due respect to the governor, um, you know, how stupid is it for Mike Pence to even do an interview with George Stephanopoulos, particularly considering the fact that the template of how to deal with the media is happening simultaneously, and it's Hillary Clinton with her emails.
Your point being that Hillary is showing the way.
You just ignore them, you don't talk to them, you don't give them what they want, and stonewall their butts.
That's that's exactly it.
I don't know why the Republicans continue to voluntarily walk into the lion's den.
Now, I'll bet you can I'll bet you can answer this if you actually think about it.
You've asked a good question.
Why does Pence even go there?
Now stop and think for a moment to yourself.
Why do you think he did?
He did it.
I mean, he had to be a reason for why do you think he and and it's not just Pence.
Um why do these guys continually subject themselves, not just to Stepanopoulos, but the entire Democrat Party media apparatus?
Why do they do it?
Okay.
You you know why?
The only thing I can think of is that they're afraid of the media saying that they won't.
Well, there I think some of that I think that that's partially true.
I don't think that's the main driver.
I think it's the main answer.
Uh I I think it is you're you have a valid point.
They think that everybody knows the media's rigged, but that's the way it is, and you gotta play according to the way the game's being played.
If it's rigged and you want to win the game, you gotta play the game, and you can't run away from these people.
You can't cry bias because that looks cowardly.
So you've got to face them.
You've got to face them on their turf and on their terms, because if you don't, um, you will be said to be unserious and unworthy.
But I think there are other reasons that propel this.
And I think they're born uh sadly in naivety in many regards.
I think that there is this belief, despite the knowledge of bias, despite everybody knows that George Stephanopoulos is a Democrat activist.
I think there are a lot of guys that you know what I can change his.
I can show him I'm not the kind of Republican he thinks they all are.
I think there is this compulsion.
I'm not singling out pens, but all of them.
I'm not a racist, and I can prove it.
I'm not a bigot.
I can go on his TV and I can show them, and I can make them like this bill.
I can make them understand the bill in the I can make them see the light.
I can change them.
They can't do anything of the sort because that's not possible.
The media is not interested in what they have to say.
The media is never interested only to the extent that they can arrange a gotcha.
You know, one of the greatest casualties of this whole thing is a public impression that has been created, which is this that Indiana is filled with businesses that will not serve gay people.
Indiana just loaded with them, just loaded with them.
That's why we need to be vigilant.
And the fact of the matter is the media, in order to find some of these businesses, practically have to go walking down the street knocking on doors.
Because it's not an issue.
If there is an issue, it is the other way around.
It is the businesses being discriminated against.
But nevertheless, the idea here that Indiana is all of a sudden populated overwhelmingly with anti-gay zealots is a story that is false on its face,
but is a circumstance and a situation that is being created here, right in front of everybody's eyes, when the absolute truth is that the media is having to work very hard to find any businesses that do refuse to serve gays or gay weddings or whatever is on the table.
Frank in Ewing, New Jersey, thank you, sir, for waiting, and it's great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Raj, thanks very much.
What do you think of this idea?
What if service providers like florists or wedding cake bakers included a limit of liability agreement as part of contracting for their service?
And the agreed to limit is usually the cost or the price that the person paid for your service.
So for example, if you hire a house inspector before you buy a house and he misses something major, and then later on you have to pay thousands of dollars to get it fixed, the only thing you can get back from your inspection company is what you paid them for the inspection.
So the day before the wedding, you call up and say, forgot the baker cake.
The limit of liability says you owe them $400 or whatever.
And if they refuse to sign in the beginning, you have a reason not to do business.
Sounds awfully convoluted.
Sounds like an incredibly complicated process for people that have to spend all of their waking hours just keeping the business open.
Well, I'm sure there must be some form you fill out when you, you know, contract for the flowers.
Walk me through walk me through this, okay?
I I I'm gonna pretend to be a gay couple.
Okay.
I'll eat a lot for dinner tonight, and I'll pretend to be two people, okay.
I'll do both parts.
I mean I'm gonna be a gay couple, and you own a flower shop, okay, and I'm walking in, and I say, Hi, I am marrying myself a week from Saturday, and I want you to provide the floral display.
So as part of the floral display, undoubtedly there's like some form to fill out that say you want some petunies, you want some pansies, you want some whatever, and what sizes, what shapes, and what kind of arrangements.
No, no, don't assume.
Tell me, you're the business owner.
You're not sure.
Right.
So I'm giving I'm gonna I'm we're working on what you want, and we fill out a form, and then I have you sign it that says this is what I will provide.
And on that standard form just is the limitation of liability, saying, in the event whatever um that I can't perform the service, then the limitation is the four hundred dollars.
Okay, so you tell me that the it uh you want me to sign a limited liability agreement that says if you fail to provide the flowers for my self-wedding, that I am only uh that you are only uh subject to X amount of financial penalty or what have you.
Right.
Those kind of things are in contracts all the time.
Or like and I think the florist and the the customer, you, there would all already be some sort of form to sign.
This would just be an additional line on there that says, by the way, limitation of liability that you agreed to.
Okay, okay, and then the day before, but you've known all along you're not going to bring flowers to my wedding.
You've known how how would you know that?
You can't judge me.
Because that's the example you gave.
You said then the day before the wedding, you all of a sudden you can't get there.
So you call the customer and say, sorry, you know what?
The dog died, and I can't get there today.
You're and but all you can't do anything to me because you signed a limited liability agreement, and I'm only liable for whatever the cost of flowers are, and here's your money.
Exactly.
So you want the business owner to actually pay for not providing the flowers.
Well, they probably already gave me the $400 for the flowers.
Uh as an advance.
Right.
As an advance.
So I'm just giving it back to them.
And there, and I'm sure there's already forms that they have them sign anyway today.
It would just be a little extra.
I guarantee you what your limited liability agreement would then qualify as anti-gay discrimination.
Well.
Whether it was or not.
Well exactly right.
The truth doesn't matter.
You're dealing with hard cold rational fact, and you're you're up against activists who are intent on subverting you no matter what you do.
And they know that when they leave and go out to the media complain about the treatment that you gave them, you are going to all of a sudden be the bad guy.
And the fact that you might have a signature on a limited liability agreement isn't going to count for anything with Joe Q, low information voter who hears about this on TMZ.
I knew you'd find a hole in it, right?
Well, that's why you are electricity.
I'm not trying to find a hole in it.
Well, I'm I I'm uh you God bless you, like you're like everybody else.
You're dealing with this as though truth and and fact and uh common sense matter, and none of those are really relevant in what's going on here.
People are being targeted specifically.
You mean to tell me that in Indiana, a gay couple getting married can't find a flower shop that will service them.
Of all the potential flower shops in Indianapolis, a gay couple finds one that has a religious objection, how do they even know?
And then when they find that out, they go there.
So they're walking in the door hoping that they will be rejected.
They're not even walking in to really get flowers for their wedding or a cake.
They're hoping to be rejected so that they can then create a news story like this.
Why in the world would if there's if there's 25 bakeries, you're getting married, you want a cake for your wedding or birthday, or whatever it is.
There's 25 bakeries, and one of them is owned and operated by Christians who you think if you uh if you can even find this out who are opposed to gay marriage, why would you go to that one?
There's only one answer.
You're trying to create an issue.
You are trying to find somebody to discriminate against you.
You're actually fine with being discriminated against.
You want to be discriminated against, so you have an issue.
Your feelings aren't hurt.
You're on the verge of a gigantic success story here.
Your feelings are not hurt, you're not feeling like a second-class citizen.
You walked in there hoping that you would be rejected.
You walked in there hoping they would discriminate against.
You were hoping that these Christian zealots would in fact continue to be Christian zealots and send you packing.
If you really wanted flowers for your wedding, you'd go someplace where you knew they wouldn't have any problems servicing you.
Am I wrong about this?
I mean, uh I mean, in these in there are that's right, that's right.
There are rainbow stickers in the door now in some of these places.
Yeah, the rainbow sticker means come on in.
Front door, back door, whatever.
Come on in.
Quick timeout.
Back after this.
I did a little research here, and our last caller whose uh idea was a limited liability claim.
It won't work.
The left has already thought of that.
What?
It won't work because under under uh uh uh 42 U.S. code 1983, there is no limit on actual damages in civil rights claims if they can be proven.
It's uh 42 U.S. Code, Section 1983, civil action for deprivation of rights.
No limit on damages if the uh claims can be proven.
Discrimination claims can be proven.
So that idea is out the window.
Yeah, you know, I've got I've got a whole stack here on this on this new host of the Daily Show, this uh this uh Trevor.
Yeah, Trevor Noah.
Uh man oh man, this guy's classic, folks.
He's an anti-Semite.
He is he he doesn't like America.
He makes no bones about it.
Uh and and people are comparing him to Obama on the left.
He's is is uh half white, half black, he's uh comes from uh racially mixed families just like Obama.
And but this guy's stepping in it with all these old tweets of his, and now he's come out, and I'm I'm I'm kind of reluctant to talk about this because I know what's gonna happen.
If the more he gets talked about, the more Comedy Centralist says, Well, this is the right hire.
We are, you know, we need to move Stewart out next week and put Trevor in there right now while he's hot.
And and they are standing by whatever he says here in these tweets, and these tweets, they are anti-Semitic, they're anti-fat girl, they're anti-Jewish women.
I mean, some of these things are really meat spirit.
Violence against women, he talks about enjoying an uppercut to a woman that disrespects him.
So he's out with an apology, saying that's not really him.
He said it's just it's not fair to judge especially a comedian on just a few tweets.
That really is unfair.
And so he's he's doing his best to say that's not me.
I love that apology.
That that practice doesn't matter.
Athlete X, celebrity Y, Hollywood actor Z, they get involved in something that's really rotten and horrible and despicable, and their public apology position is that's not who I am.
Really?
Well, who was it?
Who wrote those tweets?
Who hit the send button?
That wasn't me.
That's not who I am.
I don't regularly rob liquor stores or whatever is being accused.
It is him.
It's exactly who he is.
He hit the send button.
He meant to send that stuff out.
I think his biggest problem is he's not funny.
And he's supposed to be hosting a fake news comedy show.
Well, I know it worked for Jon Stewart, but that that's where the writers can come in and pick up some slack and maybe be the case with this guy.
But I do, I have a whole stack of we've got sound bites.
Uh, listen to what?
Grab grab somebody number two.
This is uh Trevor Noah.
This is May 13th, sorry, March 13th, so just a couple of weeks ago.
Uh he's doing a stand-up performance in London.
Flying into America particularly has been the worst.
You go through different lines, there's extra checks, you know, especially if you come from what they consider a high-risk Ebola region, uh, which is apparently the whole continent.
Uh coughing on each other in one big hut.
Uh I don't really blame them, because look, the truth is most Americans don't know much about South Africa.
So uh well, they don't know much about Africa as a whole.
Uh most of them don't know much about anything.
This guy's perfect.
Living all of his material is what liberals would really say about America if they thought they could get away with it.
This guy's got it all, I think.
I think he's gonna be huge.
I think Trevor Howard is gonna be huge.
He may be bigger than Stuart.
Trevor Noah, I said Trevor Howard.
Trevor Noah, Noah Trevor, he's gonna be bigger than Stuart.
He may already be.
This guy is perfectly willing to talk about his dislike or even hate for America.
You realize how many leftists are going to eat that up?
Well, but he's how's he going to stand out of the competition?
Because he's from South Africa.
Remember what they said.
We need the perspective of somebody from a different hemisphere.
It's one thing to have a Native American hate their country.
Anybody can do that.
But if you can find somebody from South Africa who lived through apartheid who says America's worse, Nirvana.
Added credibility coming from South Africa.
Added credibility not being an American.
Well, Piers Morgan didn't make it because he sounded snotty.
When you listen to Piers Morgan, you wanted to clear your throat and blow your own nose.
I did anyway.
Piers Morgan came across as snooty.
He came across as almost an elitist.
Is a media guy.
Trevor Noah here, he's he's just your average run-of-the-mill escapee from apartheid.
And he thought he got out and he ended up an American.
He's in worse shape.
It's made to order.
Don't doubt me.
You wait.
He thought he was escaping apartheid, escaping racism, escaping bigotry.
He lands in America and feels compelled to walk through JFK saying, hands up, don't shoot.
I mean the left is going to love this guy when they get to know him.
The novelty will wear off in about a week.
No, I don't think so.
They got another one, John Oliver on HBO.
He's another leftist British import who also is making a name for himself, ripping apart every American institution he can, and they love him.
You wait, Snerty, don't doubt me on this.
Don't, don't, don't doubt me.
You're you're getting you're stuck.
You're applying audience and media standards from from 50 years ago that no longer apply.
Anyway, here's Art Springfield, uh, Oregon.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you, Diddle.
Uh, just want to talk about the religious restoration act.
I think this is something the Republicans should run toward, not away from.
If you look at a lot of the minority groups, uh, both African American and Hispanic, they're very much uh pro-religion.
And if you look at the Defense of Marriage Act, how many states it passed?
This this whole homosexual uh rights thing, I don't think is a winner for the Democrats at all, and the Republicans should force them into a corner.
Well, they think it is because of the millennials.
They think that it's a winning issue because young people are totally in favor of gay marriage.
Totally totally into anything gay.
Millennials love it.
They can they can think that, but when you look at the Defensive Marriage Act, how it passed, and if they're worried about an election or the upcoming presidential election, you gotta look at the uh public perception and uh what's gonna win you the majority.
And if you look how the Defensive Marriage Act in every state, they have to get it thrown out through the court system, not the uh the voting booth.
Well, I I know what you're saying.
You're you're basically looking at numbers and you're thinking they're far more voters who are going to be sympathetic with something like the Indiana law than not, and they're only going to be known on election day.
But I'll tell you something I am finding out there, and that is, and it just happened with this case in an email I got or a call.
What I'm finding is that Republican voters are very quick to abandon Republican candidates who are destroyed by the media.
Even when they know the media is being unfair when the media's lying about them, when the media is totally making it up, if the candidate can be destroyed by the media, the voters will give up on the candidate.
I've seen it happen over and over again.
So that's that's one thing could work against your theorem.
A sociology professor at Occidental College.
Her name is Lisa Wade.
And Occidental is...
Obama went there.
He's an alumni, Occidental College.
Lisa Wade, the sociology professor at Occidental, says if you have an understanding of economics, if you've been taught economics and you understand it, you are probably going to be a bad, mean, selfish, uncaring person.
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