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April 13, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 13, 2015, Monday, Hour #3
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Yeah, hang on here, just looking at something on the tube.
You know.
This Carly Fiorina.
She's a sleeper.
I'm telling you, there's something percolating there.
Carly Fiorina is a different person from 2008 when she was part of the McCain campaign.
She is on fire out there.
And I don't know have any idea what's going to happen.
If this woman, if Carly Fiorina would happen to win the Republican nomination, long shot, but she didn't go for it.
What if she ends up as the VEP?
What if she's picked to be VEP?
Would that blunt any of the so-called gender wars the Democrats hope to run?
And believe me, they do.
We have we have officially transitioned in the media at the Democrat Party from race wars in America now to gender war.
Now we're back to war on women.
And that's what the Hillary campaign represents.
Every time I see Carly Fearina, she is fearless out there.
She's going after Hillary, she's going after the Democrats.
And I think effectively.
Anyway, uh greetings and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh EIB Network, excellence in broadcasting 800-282-2882.
The email address, L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
When I first saw this story, I thought it was real because I could believe it.
It turns out it was from the Onion, which means it's satire.
The headline of the piece, Hillary Clinton to Nation, do not screw this up for me.
After several seconds spent sitting motionless and glaring directly into the camera, former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton reportedly began Sunday's video announcing her presidential bid by warning the nation not to screw this up for her.
Listen up, you idiots, because I'm only gonna say this once.
I have worked too damn hard to let you morons blow this thing for me, said Clinton, repeatedly jabbing her index finger toward the viewers at home, while adding that if they thought she was simply gonna sit back and watch them screw her over like they did in 2008, they were out of their freaking minds.
Seriously, quote, seriously, don't you dare even think about it.
If you dunderheads can just get in line, we can breeze through this whole campaign in 19 months and be done with it.
Or if you really want, we can do this the hard way.
Because make no mistake, I am not messing around.
You got it.
Clinton then ended her announcement by vowing to fight for a better future for all working class families like the one she grew up in.
This is the onion.
The onion normally doesn't make fun of leftists.
And they just nailed her in this.
I'm telling you, they got it.
This is the nurse ratchet.
That's what she was really saying.
That's why I said last week that her campaign slogan, no surprises this time.
You know what that really means?
Okay, no sleepers, no unheard of African Americans.
Don't give me don't any you Hispanics don't even think about it this time.
This is mine.
It is mine, it is all mine.
I am owed this, and the American people, you too, do not mess this up for me this time.
I think they got it.
Hillary Clinton to Nation, do not screw this up for me.
Wall Street Journal headline, Clinton campaign's challenge, make her likable.
In route to victory in the 2008 presidential race, then Senator Barak Hussein O memorably described his chief rival Hillary Clinton as likable enough.
The Clinton 2016 campaign launched on Sunday afternoon has set a goal for itself to show that she is likable, period.
And to that end, her aides are planning a different sort of campaign this time around.
Mrs. Clinton will be meeting with small clusters of voters in diners, coffee shops, and private homes designed to make her look good and them look bad.
She won't always have a prepared speech in front of her.
Her advisors predict voters will see a less scripted, more disarming candidate than was on display eight years ago.
So they're gonna put her out there in a little five or ten minute doses, hoping she can act.
Without cards, without notes, without a prompter.
Just little five to eight minute snatches a time.
Hoping she can act nice and likable until they pull her back, take her back to the bus, you know, fan her off, reapply the makeup, debrief her, let her get it out of her system, how stupid she thought they all were, how dumb and she has to keep doing this,
then send her out for another ten minutes or she can fake it as though she's interested in these people and likes them and cares to hear what they have to say, then they bring her back to the bus where she can vent again about how stupid and insulting this is to have to meet with such obvious idiots in the diner.
And it's a cycle.
They just keep repeating, hoping that at the end of this, it will make her appear likeable.
Now here's, you know, my my take on this.
How long has Ms. Clinton been in a public scene?
Twenty-three years?
Give or take.
Twenty-three, twenty-five years.
You would think that after that many years, you wouldn't have to fake like ability.
If she was likable, we would know by now.
After twenty-five years, we would know.
It's not as though she's been a wallflower.
She's been a senator, she's been Secretary of State, she's been First Lady.
She's been out there doing all kinds of things.
She's not, she's not hiding hiding or have been hidden.
You would think that after 23 years of trying to find something likable, they would admit futility and give up.
But no, they are continuing to beat their heads against the wall.
They are going to double down on this woman who is really not accomplished.
I mean, it's it's tough to say not accomplished when you're talking about a senator and a secretary of state, but the fact of the matter remains that if her last name were Rodham, nobody would even know who she is today.
The odds are certainly she wouldn't be as well known as she is if it weren't for the fact she married up.
And you realize how that is anathema to feminists.
Hillary Rodham today is who is that?
Hillary Rodham Clinton?
That's why everybody knows who she is, because she married up.
And the feminists, that's not part of the script.
You don't get where you are as a woman by marrying up or marrying anybody other than another woman.
That's okay.
They've been trying to make her likable.
They've been trying to erase this nurse ratchet thing for 23 years.
What makes them think they're going to be able to do it this year?
I'm genuinely curious.
These aren't the first set of Hillary Clinton aides to grapple with the likability factor for a quarter century the Wall Street Journal story.
For a quarter century, Clinton's staffers at one time or another have cast about for a formula that would broaden Mrs. Clinton's public appeal and combat perceptions that she is an unsympathetic nurse ratchet in an insane asylum.
Archival records released over the past year by the Bill Clinton library and massage parlor are dotted with memos from aides looking for fresh ways to improve her image.
Is my point.
They've been trying for 23 years.
Why, after 23 years do you have to?
Why after 23 years do you have to make her appear likeable?
It must be because she isn't.
Starting in 1992, when her husband first ran for president, Democrat polsters sent a memo to Bill Clinton's campaign addressing the need to reduce voters' discomfort with Hillary and show that she is more than a tough political wife.
The Hillary Stack is features all kinds of stories.
Like this.
CNN asked Rand Paul, are you going to be as mean to Hillary as you are to female reporters?
Did you know that?
Sterley's laughing himself silly.
They did.
Meet the press Chuck Todd.
Who I guess you know, Chuck's got a new career.
He he's coming to female Democrat damsels in distress.
First it was Savannah Guthrie on the Today Show.
And now he's riding to the rescue of Hillary Clinton.
He was interviewing Rand Paul and Meet the Depressed yesterday.
And he he noted, you know, you've got a tendency to get prickly and mean with reporters.
And uh it's been men and women, by the way.
But are you gonna be as mean to Hillary as you have been to female reporters?
Anyway.
Brief timeout.
I still have uh some Obama sound bites.
Remember, don't forget the first story we had today.
Thomas Friedman.
Thomas Friedman saying one of Obama's strengths.
He has the ability to see America as the Iranians do.
We are supposed to be comforted by this.
That Obama is such a great president because he has the ability to see America through the same eyes as the Mullas and the Ayatollahs in Iran.
Make sure that that guy on line three doesn't go away.
All right.
He doesn't know he's on line three, right?
So he doesn't know that I'm talking about him.
You make sure he hangs on.
Colleen and San Juan Capistrano.
Great to have you, California.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, you're still cool.
Thank you.
Means a lot.
Oh, listen, I called to tell you it's driving me crazy.
It's um nobody's running on that none of the Democrats are running against Hillary.
It's obvious that the DNC promised Bill that if he gave the speech of his life to back Obama at the Democratic convention, that they would commit to back Hillary, and that means the money.
Remember, he said in his speech, you know, Bill with his ego.
He said, I couldn't have done it better than Obama.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I remember that.
And I I I remember doing a double take when when I heard it, because oh because Clinton was actually trying to acknowledge that he was a bigger, more effective guy than Obama when he and I couldn't done it better than this guy.
And if I could have done it better, nobody I I do remember, but I gotta tell you, I'm not so sure that the Democrat National Committee is what this wrapped up for her because Martin O'Malley is thinking about getting in and Biden's thinking about it, and uh Elizabeth Warren, she's on the fringes in more ways than one.
But this O'Malley guy, the former governor of Maryland, is uh said to be looking at an announcement sometime next month in May.
Well, that's because the Democrats are now running scared, seeing that Hillary is she's out there now, and we now people are really seeing what she is.
Yeah, uh And while I have you on, I've got to tell you, Fox is going Fox is really making a mistake.
I had to turn them off for the last three days because all they talked about every ten minutes was Hillary.
Hillary's going to announce.
They're making her bigger than life.
Well, uh, yeah, I I I but but they have a news operation at Fox, and and and that is the narrative of the day.
She's the next person to announce, and it's uh it's it's Hillary Clinton, and they they can't ignore it.
No, they can't ignore it, but they were making it bigger than they were for for the Republicans.
Oh.
Well, wait till Jeb officially announces and you'll see, they'll fix it.
Yeah.
They will.
What's everybody laughing at?
Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day, Rush Limboy here behind a golden EIB microphone.
Back to the phones here in just a second.
Some some news items that I want to get to today, at least mention before the program ends.
Just to reiterate this one, this is a story from the New York Post.
ISIS is hiring.
A job advertisement has surfaced online aimed at supporters of ISIS who do not wish to fight on the front lines.
ISIS needs employees in addition to frontline soldiers and fighters.
Omar Hussein, a British jihadist who fled the UK to join ISIS in Syria, has posted ten positions that ISIS is looking to fill.
He was writing on behalf of the group under the name Abu Saeed Al-Brittani.
And he explains that while not wanting to be a soldier is a sign of weak faith.
There nevertheless is much work to be done, even if you are afraid to kill or wage jihad.
Number one on the list of available openings at ISIS is press officer.
They need a spokesman.
And they're actively looking for a spokesman.
They have the job posting on various internet sites.
They have a media center.
Folks, I'm not making any of this up.
This internal media position would provide support from the masses as Western news outlets continue to release loads of negative propaganda about ISIS.
ISIS wants a spokesman that can rebut all the negative PR out there.
In addition, ISIS is looking for teachers.
And they are looking for bomb makers.
ISIS has actually posted job openings online for these three positions.
Okay.
And when I saw it, there were three names that came immediately to mind.
If they're looking for a press spokesman or press secretary, how about Marie Harf?
How about Josh Ernest?
How about uh Jen Pasaki?
For teachers.
You know, you could combine the teachers and bomb makers into the same job if you hired Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dorn.
Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorn are bombers from way back.
And they also, Ayers now runs, essentially runs education in Illinois.
And Ayers and Bernadine Dorn have views of the United States of America that are not identical.
I mean, they're certainly sympathetic with those in ISIS.
Did you hear that Obama blamed global warming for his daughter's asthma attack?
You didn't hear that.
Obama claimed, this was uh uh back on uh over the weekend sometime.
Obama claimed that global warming was to blame for a one-time asthma attack that happened to his daughter Malia when she was in preschool, way, way back.
There's only one problem.
That's according to the mother, Michelle Obama, the attack occurred while they were at the circus.
It turns out Malia has a peanut allergy or had, and it was the peanut allergy that caused asthma.
And that's the fact.
Now, normally that's all it would be.
But look at what's happened here.
Here we have a story from her ancient childhood about Obama's daughter.
And in order to advance the agenda, he blames a one-day, one-time asthma attack on global warming years ago.
And it turns out it was nothing more than a peanut allergy.
Shameless.
Shameless.
Philip Buchanan, number 31, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, first round draft pick 2002.
He has written a book offering warnings to athletes about going broke despite multi-million dollar contracts.
Philip Buchanan says that when he was drafted, his mother began to demand money.
Philip Buchanan said that his mother told him the bill for raising him was one million dollars and she wanted it paid back right away, and she was serious.
Soon after the draft, she told me that I owed her a million dollars for raising me for the past 18 years, Buchanan told Foxsports.com.
Well, that was news to me.
If my mother taught me anything, it's that this is the most desperate demand a parent can make on a child.
The covenant of having a child is simply that you give your child everything possible.
Your child owes you nothing beyond a normal amount of love and respect.
There is no financial arrangement.
If you get old and infirm and your kids are around to help you out at that point, then you're lucky.
It's not written in the social contract.
So Philip Buchanan did not give his mother a million dollars.
And he's serious.
His mother demanded a million dollars as soon as he got his signing bonus in uh in 2002.
Now he did buy her a house, which turned out to be more expensive than he expected because she started demanding money for upkeep.
Not only for the new house, but on her old house, which she decided not to sell.
He says, Yeah, I bought my mom a house.
I advised her to sell the old one that I grew up in when I put a new roof over her head when I bought her new house.
But my mom had other plans.
Instead of selling my childhood home, she decided to rent it to my aunt.
So I had to finance my mother, the budding landlord.
Only this wasn't an investment.
It was an encumbrance because I did not share in my mother's profit making scheme.
For the next seven years, I continued to make mortgage and maintenance payments on both homes.
Now, eventually, Philip Buchanan stopped giving his family money, but he says he lost several hundred thousand dollars before he reached that point.
His book is called New Money, Staying Rich.
And it is designed to teach others who come into money at a young age how to say no.
Isn't that amazing?
I I um I personally can't relate.
There my my uh I I don't know any parents who would do that.
But I don't doubt this.
I'm not saying it's inconceivable to me.
I'm just I personally don't know of any such instance.
But boy do I believe it.
People come into money like this who've never had it, and all of a sudden all kinds of demands are made, not just parents, but everybody in the world in your past look at you wouldn't be where you are if it hadn't been for me, paving the way for you.
Remember how I got you out of that jam in junior high?
They got worth at least 1,500 bucks.
Success has many fathers.
Failure is an orphan, and guilt tripping, people is a commonly used technique.
I just I thought that was it's actually kind of sad, really.
And even after even buying her house, he didn't get any appreciation.
He didn't get any gratitude.
It was just something that he should have done because she thought he owed her.
Anyway, here's uh here's Mike in uh in Northridge, Illinois.
Great to have you, sir, the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, how are you doing?
Good.
You blew my mind when you said you'll be married up.
I did.
Yeah.
How did you?
Right.
Tell me what would you think, you know.
I just can't believe it.
Well, if you're thinking the only way you can marry up is financially.
Yeah, she didn't do that.
I mean, she was the breadth.
All right.
All right.
She married up in the sense that she gave up her own life to be hitched to his because his was the life going someplace.
And she even politically, I mean, you know.
The guy, I mean, he was uh he was a dirt bag.
I mean.
Now here look at it.
What when I say she married, my only point is if she hadn't married the guy, you wouldn't know who she is today.
True.
The odds are you wouldn't know who she is.
If her name had been Hillary Rodham, she'd have been some feminist activist, probably working as a lawyer for Planned Parenthood, or so you wouldn't know who she is.
She wouldn't be running for she would not be entitled to the presidency to do.
That's what I mean by marrying up.
She's acting, she's entitled to the presidency.
Like Philip Buchanan's mom demanded a million dollars from him for raising him.
She's demanding the presidency for making sure Clinton's presidency was not destroyed by hanging in with him.
Now I can see where you think Hillary didn't marry up, and it's an Arkansas Hayseed.
She had to leave the cultured Northeast and head to the backwater swamps of Arkansas and live there for a while while he ran around on her.
She's the most cheated on woman in the world, by the way.
Well, that may be a stretch, but certainly the most cheated on woman in America.
Really?
Give me another name then.
What, Elizabeth Taylor?
I don't know.
I think it's the other way around.
Give me somebody.
Just give me a name.
Somebody who's more cheated on Hillary Clinton.
Uh, Elon Woods.
Well.
Oh.
Bill Cosby's wife.
I don't even know if you could look at that.
Yeah, I guess you had to.
I mean, we've got to be honest and consistent.
Okay, so there's a contest for it.
She may not own the title outright.
All right, all right, all right.
I I I'll grant that.
What I mean by marrying up was she decided to abandon her life as Hillary Rodham and become his life.
His life was going to determine what happened to them.
That's what I mean.
You think financially, obviously not.
I don't know how much she had when they got married, but clearly she had to go to work at Roe's law firm to make six figures because he was making 25 grand as governor.
Now I read a story this morning in show prep.
I don't know where this comes from.
It might be uh Morris.
Give me Dick Morris's source for this.
I don't know who it is.
Somebody said that that Bill and Hillary, way, way back at Yale.
I mean, way, way back in college, made a pact with each other, a 20-year plan.
And the 20-year plan culminated with him being elected president and her being first lady, and them working together to make it happen.
And they made they accomplished that.
And so now it's been expanded to include her being elected.
I have to take a break because of the constraints of time.
We'll be back.
Don't go.
Steve Wintergarden, Florida, you're next.
It's great that you waited and hello.
Thanks, Rush.
Couple things about Rubio.
I've supported him.
I no longer do.
Number one, I never hear establishment Republicans slam him like they um like they did the Senator from Texas, his name escapes me off can't because I'm a little nervous.
Ted Cruz.
And also, he Ted Cruz, thank you.
And also, didn't Marco Rubio make that statement about illegals paying taxes that that would fund the border fence?
And now the illegals are going to get these exorbitant tax refunds.
Does that mean that money will not be going to fund the border fence?
Uh yeah, I feel like saying what border fence.
Right, exactly.
But you said that.
Um he's folks, he's calling to confirm.
We had a story politico in this in the uh first or second hour that the Tea Party uh is very angry at Rubio.
And I had not, you know, I I I knew there was some, but the political story makes it sound universal.
And so what's happening here, Steve's calling to essentially confirm the political story and tell us why.
And that's because you think he goofed up on immigration.
But you also said something interesting.
You said that the Republican establishment does not go after him the way they go after Cruz.
What does that make you think that he's not as Tea Party as you would like him to be?
That's correct.
We sent him there to be a fighter against these people.
And if he were fighting against them, they would not like him.
That's an interesting take.
Well, Rubio is supposed to announce tonight.
I guess there's nothing he could say tonight.
I don't have time for an answer, because I gotta go to break.
I guess there's nothing he could say tonight that could change Steve's opinion or anybody else in the Tea Party that feels that way.
What if Rubio runs and says, hey, our immigration laws are not broken.
They just need to be enforced.
We don't need massive new laws.
Wonder how that would play.
Because that's right, by the way.
Anyway, uh great to be with you today, folks, and we'll see you tomorrow.
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