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April 14, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 14, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Okay, so you know how ridiculous this is getting.
And it just confirms everything I told you yesterday.
This is a this is just boring as it can be.
It's same old, same old.
That's I finally figured out why this Hillary stuff.
I mean, who wants to go back and relive that stuff all over again?
And to show you how bad it is, Mark Halperin, actually is trying to tell people that a great example of the newness, the newness of Hillary Clinton is she had a she had a burrito at Chipotle.
Yeah, and nobody had ever seen her eat a burrito before.
And the politico, same thing.
Hillary Clinton, just an unrecognized burrito bowl fan.
So the Hillary Clinton's new and hip and is not an old retread because she had a burrito and nobody had ever seen her eat a burrito before.
Just I don't know, folks.
It's gonna be a long campaign.
I can just tell you that right now.
Great to have you here.
It's uh Rush Limbaugh and the EIB network at 800-282-2882 and the email address, El Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
Do you know where Jordan Spith went to eat after his master's victory?
Wait till you hear this.
He went to Chick fil A. Can we hear it for Jordan Spieth?
Chick-fil-A.
Remember when when uh Bubba Watson went to the Waffle House, they gave him all kinds of grief for that.
But but but but Chick fil A, we all know about them and their right wing tendencies.
Just and it made news.
It made news.
That's where he went.
Media suspicious.
Media conflicted.
Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, is the finale.
Not just the season finale, but the big finish finale of the TV show Justified.
You watch that?
Anyone in there wants justified?
Oh, you're not?
I can't believe it.
Nick Cersei's show?
Snerdley, you're not watching Nick Cersei's show.
You've been watching less TV.
Yeah, you should be watching less news.
This is a great show.
Anyway, it comes to its uh it's it's big six season finale tonight.
10 o'clock on I think it's I think it's FX.
And get this headline.
Nigeria Marks first anniversary of Boco Harram's schoolgirl kidnapping kidnappings.
You know, some people mark the strangest anniversaries.
Who would want to remember an anniversary of 200 some odd plus schoolgirls being kidnapped by a militant Islamic group?
But I guess whatever puts you on the map.
That's the point.
It's the first anniversary of the hashtag that Michelle My Bell Obama kicked up.
Um and I guess what was that?
Bring back our girls, give back our girls sometimes so much for the hashtag in this one year since Barak sorry, Boko Harem kidnapped those girls.
They've done a lot more.
And uh and a lot worse.
And just a sad thing.
Uh see the fate of the hashtag.
And I I remember when this happened.
I remember when they made the hashtag, and I kind of poo-pooted here.
And you remember I was ripped over the coals all throughout the drive-by media for having no compassion.
And I simply said, Do you really think this is going to get them back?
A hashtag campaign, let's be honest, a hashtag campaign is no different than wearing one of these ribbons.
It's how you say you care, but it's not how you get anything done.
But that's again one of the hallmarks of liberalism.
You don't ever have to get anything done.
You just have to show that you care.
All right, Marco Rubio is the latest to enter the Republican presidential sweepstakes, serious man, powerful message.
I wonder If with his speech last night he was able to bring back any of the Tea Party voters that had abandoned him.
I wonder if people say, well, time will tell.
Only time will tell.
Something else interesting too, that Jorge Ramos, who is the I forget which network.
Is it Telemundo or Univision?
Jorge Ramos or Ramos the largest audience, Hispanic viewers in American TV noted that it is Republicans who have nominated two Hispanics or have two Hispanics in the field.
Univision seeking the Republican nomination.
The first to be Ted Cruz and the second Marco Rubio.
And it's the same old that he's an identity politics guy.
That kind of thing matters, but at least he pointed out that the Hispanic entrants are on the Republican side.
Don't know what impact, if any, it'll have too soon to say.
But one thing we know is that Marco Rubio is a serious man.
He has a serious message.
And he has uh he has a very unmistakable joy in spreading that message, in informing people of it.
He knows how to deliver it.
He knows how to deliver it live.
He doesn't have to announce on Twitter.
He doesn't have to announce with a series of posts on social media.
He can do it live in front of real people with a real camera.
And he's an emotional speaker.
In fact, at some point last night, a couple of points, it looked to me like he almost might tear up.
Now I know Rubio has lost a lot of luster with some people on the Tea Party side because of his flirtation with the Chuck Hugh Schumer gang on amnesty and immigration.
And you may be chalked up two things.
Chalk it up to novice naivete, uh trying to get his feet wet and establish himself within the power circles of the Senate.
Uh, or another explanation for it could have been that given his Hispanic heritage, he almost had to, in the sense of identity politics.
Uh if he had any chance at all of securing any votes from that sector, he had to come out in favor of it.
But whatever he's walked it back now, and we'll just see how this is all going to play out with Tea Party people.
I it looks like, as you're gonna hear in the soundbites coming up, but to the extent that we can believe it, it looks like the Clinton campaign seems to be more fearful of Rubio than anybody.
Now, they are admitting that, so it is doubtful.
You have to judge their actions, not their admissions.
But you'll hear it, and you judge for yourself whether that uh is the is the case.
The one thing about Rubio, whether you disagree with him on what he did with Amnesty and walked it back or not, he does not have a likability problem.
He is he is instantly likable.
He's motivational, he's he's inspirational in a Reagan-esque way because he has that family story, and he relishes telling that story.
He thinks it's inspirational.
It was to him, and he wants it to be for everybody.
He is a great communicator, significant communicator, has a conservative message.
Just over here, he has that misstep on immigration with the Tea Party.
Time will tell if that can be overcome.
Now we will see also if his policies match his rhetoric.
His rhetoric is great, his persona is great, his energy is great, it's a natural leader, it appears.
And there will be a certain number of people who will relish and enjoy making Marco Rubio their champion.
He's not gonna have to ask them, in other words, he's not gonna have to do a Hillary's.
I want to go out, I want to be your champion.
I want to be your champion of everyday people.
He's not gonna walk into Chipotle.
By the way, somebody, you need we need to get that security tape in there and look for one more thing.
You know, Chipotle is a favorite of young millennials and say they don't know, leftists, I don't know if you'd say it's leans one way or the other.
But it's a cafeteria-style place.
Well, I know you love it.
I know because when I first pronounced it Chipotle, you screamed at me.
I didn't know it was Chipotle.
I'd never heard it pronounced, so I just, you know, I when I don't know how something's pronounced, I look at the way the word's written and take everything I know about the English language and give it my best guess.
I didn't see any accent mark over the E. I didn't think it was French, so I pronounced a Chipotle.
And Dawn started screaming, Chipotle!
Chipotle!
Okay, okay, Chipotle.
So I've since learned a little bit about the place.
There are no waiters or waitresses.
You walk in there, you walk through the line, sort of like a cafeteria, you pick what you want, and as such, there's a tip jar.
Right?
There's a tip jar in there.
And I would be interested to learn if Mrs. Clinton put anything in it.
I mean, she's out there representing the little guy.
She's out there campaigning against the rich.
Oh, speaking of that, the latest data from the Tax Foundation.
We finally reached that point where half.
One half of all tax revenue is paid by the top 1%.
The bottom 80% pay something like 15% of the total tax burden.
The top 1% are paying 50% now.
And it is climbing.
It has been climbing ever since this data has been kept.
And Mrs. Clinton is in the 1%.
And Chipotle has a tip jar.
And we know that there are cameras in there because we got the picture of Mrs. Clinton.
Who goes in there dark glasses?
Wearing your poo-poo.
No, Moo Moo.
Wear your Moo Moo.
You go in there with Huma.
You're wearing your Moo Moo, you get your dark glasses on, you go and you order a burrito, and you can't wait for the media to say, Wow, look, that's the new Hillary.
Why, we've never seen her eat a burrito.
And nobody knew who she was.
She gets out of this van, she traversing Iowa.
She didn't stop to talk to anybody.
I thought this is an everyman tour.
I thought this is a tour where Killary Clinton was going to meet the people that she's standing up for, and she representing that she's doing everything she's doing for the little guy, doing it for them.
And she slithers into Chipotle, doesn't get recognized, doesn't seek to be recognized.
Well, maybe you know, you never know.
Wearing the dark glasses is a favored technique of celebrities trying to hide.
But most candidates choosing to walk into a place like Chipotle.
The last thing they would do when they got in there was order something to eat.
The first thing they would do would make the rounds.
Table to table.
Hi, I'm Hillary Clinton, and I'm representing you, Mr. Everyman.
I know you're just an average ordinary America, and you're eating an excrement sandwich because of George Bush, Rushlin Born and Republicans, and I'm here to give you a little mustard or mayonnaise for that excrement sandwich.
And I would love your vote.
She didn't do that.
She went straight to the chow line, ordered her new burrito.
Looks like she's standing next to Huma there.
Did she pay for?
Who paid for it?
You know, celebrities like that are famous for walking around with no money and no credit card because they're just so accustomed to somebody else picking up the check.
The Clinton's really rate high on that scale.
But I would like to know if she left anything in a tip jar.
Because that would be an indication if she understands what average ordinary the everyman that she's to represent.
I mean, that's that's where the people that work at Chipotle, that's where they make a little extra.
Tip jar, and I didn't haven't heard a word about whether or not she visited the tip jar, whether she put anything in it or not.
Take a brief time out, we'll come back and let you hear some of what Rubio said during his announcement and lots more, 800 282-2882.
if you want to be on the program, we'll be right back.
And a good thing, the timing, Hillary announcing in her invisible state of the art, high tech.
Supposed to be high tech way on social media, nothing live, nothing big, nothing extravagant, just uh a low-key rollout, and there's Rubio last night, which is a stunning contrast.
His announcement versus uh versus Hurst.
Oh, you know something else?
Rubio being ripped by the drive-by media for announcing at 6 p.m. last night.
Or around 6 p.m.
And the drive-bys are saying, nobody does that.
Nobody does that.
Everybody announces during the day.
Everybody announces around one or two o'clock or sometimes three after the limbaugh show, but nobody announces at night, and then they figured out why.
Rubio announced at night around 6 o'clock to make sure he was the lead or one of the lead items on Fox News.
And the drive-by said, that's not, that's not smart.
Of course he was doing that.
He's pandering to these conservatives.
That's what Rubio's doing.
And that's cheap.
And it's obvious.
So whenever whatever Hillary wants, Hillary, whatever she does, this is why this stuff bores me, folks.
It actually does more than bore me.
It irritates me to no end.
It just does.
I I'm reaching the uh not quite there, but I'm reaching my saturation point on the whatever you want to call it, unfairness, bias, the whatever it is, with the media being a joke, and not even the media anymore.
It's just the Democrat Party.
And I'm kind of filled up with playing the game.
I've kind of had it with treating them as the media, rather than just flat-out Democrat operatives, which is what they all are.
And then following the templates and the narratives they set everyday disguised as news stories.
They are reduced to claiming, hey man, look at Hillary.
Wow, she's so new!
We've never seen her eat a burrito before.
And here comes Rubio announcing his candidacy in a truly unique way.
Close to prime time at night, and they rip him for and they're ripping him for a lot of things while praising Hillary, and it's just transparent as heck.
And it's it's it's almost to the point of becoming a waste of time to even chronicle this because I think it's so patently obvious to everybody.
Some quotes from Rubio's speech, just to highlight, he says, this election's not about what laws we will pass, it's a generational choice about what kind of country we will be.
Just yesterday, a leader from yesterday began a campaign for president by promising to take us back to yesterday.
It's a great line, he's talking about Hillary.
Yesterday is over, and we're never going back.
The family, not the government, is the most important institution.
We must change the decisions we are making by changing the people who are making them.
This stuff is pointedly good.
Our very identity as an exceptional nation is at stake, and I can make a difference as president.
That will reverberate positively with lots of people.
I am humbled by the realization that America doesn't owe me anything.
Now, I haven't...
I haven't had a chance to see every bit of drive-by media reaction to the remarks that Marco Rubio made last night.
But I'm going to predict to you that in the coming days, and as the campaign heats up, that statement is going to draw more and more attention.
It will become more and more focused upon, and Rubio will be attacked for the statement and for what he intends it to mean with people.
This is going to be the equivalent of a dog whistle comment, they will say.
This is going to be the equivalent of Rubio speaking in code to his racist, sexist, anti welfare buddies.
I am humbled by the realization that America does not owe me anything.
The word choices there stand out to me anyway.
He could just as easily have said America doesn't owe me anything.
America doesn't owe any of us anything.
But he didn't say that.
He said he was humbled by the realization that America doesn't owe me anything.
That's a bit different than just making the blanket statement.
I'll explain as the program unfolds.
He says, I heard some suggest I should step aside and wait my turn, but I cannot.
If we fail, they will be the first generation of Americans to inherit a country worse off than the one left for their parents.
Talking about his kids back after this.
Okay, let's get to the audio son bites.
Well, I know that Rubio has been using the line America doesn't owe me anything, but I owe America everything.
You know, that's his take on ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
Uh now, I don't know how often the drive-bys have heard him use that line, but I guarantee you they're going to hear this.
They have now, and it's just a question of you know what they choose to zero in on where.
And I'm just, for you Rubio fans, I'm just giving you a little heads up here.
That they are going to zero, they're gonna zero in on all of it.
I don't mean to say that they're gonna leave him unscathed, but this this line.
I am humbled by the realization that America doesn't owe me anything.
That's gonna be viewed as an attack.
That's gonna be viewed as code language, dog whistle to uh certain types of mean spirited extremist Republicans who don't care about anybody else.
It's gonna be said to be targeted at the rich and so forth.
And particularly the part about which is I am humbled by the realization.
Because he's saying two things, it's not just America doesn't owe me anything.
That's that's one thing, but now he's throwing down the gauntlet with the I'm humbled by the realization, because that means that a lot of other people don't have any humility, and a lot of other people have all these selfish expectations that they are owed something.
So he's he's laying down a character marker in that statement as well as a policy belief.
And it's when conservatives start talking character and morality that the left gets their backs up and their red flags go up because they know they have no defense.
So that's uh that's when they begin the all-out politics of personal destruction.
And I'm just predicting to you that that will be one of the early things, well, maybe not early, eventual things they get to as they begin the process of disqualifying Rubio in the eyes of low information voters, which essentially they've already begun.
But let's listen to the speech itself in uh in soundbite format.
It was in Miami at the Freedom Tower, announcing he's running for president late in the evening around 6 p.m., timed in order to make the lead news items on Fox News all night.
This election is a generational choice about what kind of country we will be.
Now, just yesterday, a leader from yesterday, began a campaign for president by promising to take us back to yesterday.
Yesterday is over.
And we're never going back.
We must change the decisions we are making by changing the people who are making them.
We have edited, we have edited the applause, as we always do in these mites because it's extensive.
And uh, and it was lengthy.
Here's the next.
I live in an exceptional country where the son of a bartender and a maid can have the same dreams And the same future as those who come from power and privilege.
I've heard some suggest that I should step aside and wait my turn.
But I cannot.
Because I believe our very identity as an exceptional nation is at stake, and I can make a difference as president.
By the way, I can tell you uh firsthand, personally, he has believed this for a while.
This is not a campaign slogan.
This is not something that they put together at campaign headquarters that they think will resonate resonate.
He really believes this.
He really fears for the future of the country.
He fears the whole concept of American exceptionalism is in the process of being lost.
The business about waiting your turn.
I don't know where that comes from.
Uh if anybody had been waiting their turn is Mrs. Clinton's in 1992, and it was finally her turn in 2008.
And they got a big shock and a big surprise.
Some skinny guy from Illinois came along after making a great speech, people thought in 2004, and they just swept her aside.
They swept aside the aging female, and instead chose the young, vibrant, clean and articulate.
Joe Biden, thank you.
African American.
The Hillary campaign slogan, unstated this year is no surprises this time.
Talk about waiting your turn.
The waiting your turn thing never works out.
Bob Dole was the nominee in 96 because he waited his turn.
McCain was the nominee in 2008 because he waited his turn.
The worst thing that can happen is when your party decides to reward you with a guaranteed to lose presidential nomination to get you out of the way because it's your turn, and here's payback for all you've done for us.
Walter Mondale, Walter Mondale was a was a uh it's it's his turn kind of guy, 2000 uh in 1984.
There was no way that Walter F. Mondole was going to be elected president no matter who he was running against.
He'd been a loyal vice president of Jimmy Carter.
He'd been a loyal Democrat from the Democrat former Labor Party in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
He'd done well with Hubert Humphrey and all that.
It was time to get him his payment at a time everybody knew he had no chance, so let him win the nomination, get him out of the way.
Don't waste a lot of big money donors on the guy.
And that's what waiting your turn means.
I don't know that Rubio meant it that way.
Waiting your turn in his context might mean, you know, wait, Marco, you haven't been in the Senate long enough.
You need a little bit more seasoning there, Marco.
Need a little bit more experience.
Of course, they never said that about Obama.
In fact, some of the drive-by criticism of Rubio.
Are you ready for this?
Some of the criticism of Rubio, and you'll hear this too coming up at the sound bites.
He doesn't have the fame that Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush do.
He does not have the fortune.
He does not have the wealth, he does not have the money that Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton do.
And he does not have the experience.
Does anybody remember any of that being said about Obama?
And see, that's again, that's a great example of the kind of thing I'm getting tired of.
For 25 years, don't misunderstand what I'm saying.
I'm not tired of the job, folks.
I'm tired of uh of getting trapped and lured into following the news is presented by the drive-bys.
You know, every time there is a the mistreatment by the media of a Republican.
We all say that would never happen with a Democrat in office.
To the point that everybody knows it would never happen with a Democrat in the office.
And vice versa.
And yet it remains uneffective or ineffective.
It remains ineffective in persuading people's minds.
My point is everybody that pays even a little bit of attention to this knows the media is unfair.
They know the media is call it biased or selective, whatever term you Want to use.
Most people know it.
Pointing it out, pointing out the hypocrisy, pointing out how the media treats Democrats totally differently than the way they treat Republicans.
Another example.
Here's Dingy Harry, who says he's got a friend that told him that Romney hasn't paid his taxes in ten years.
Media says, Oh, really?
Who's your friend?
I don't have to identify him for you.
Doesn't matter who my friend is.
It's what my friend says that's important.
Romney hadn't paid his taxes ten years.
Media says, Do you have any proof, Senator Reed?
No, I don't.
But I'm not required to.
You need to go to Romney.
He is the guy who has to prove he didn't he's paid his taxes because I got a guy who says he hasn't.
The media dutifully says, you know what?
That's a good point.
We will.
We will go demand that Mitt Romney prove he's paid his taxes in the last ten years, and Dingy Harry says, good, because you know we're all working together here to force Romney to produce his tax returns so that we can have it documented how filthy rich he is, which is really what we want to do.
The media says, fine, and it's a great tactic, Dingy Harry.
Thank you for accusing him.
And now we'll go demand that he prove that he has paid his taxes.
Now, if Mitch McConnell were to stand up on the Florida Senate and say he has heard that Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton have not paid their taxes in ten years.
The media would demand immediately that Mitch McConnell prove it.
They would want to know who his source is.
They wouldn't dare go to the Clintons and demand the Clintons prove it simply because Mitch McConnell has a friend who alleges it.
It's that kind of difference.
Everybody knows exists.
And it remains one of these things that uh seemingly is ineffective in persuading people.
And by persuading them, the objective here to be would get people to realize the media is lying, biased, and not listen to them, and not be influenced by it.
The objective would be that when Dingy Harry says he's got a friend who told him that Mitt Romney hasn't paid taxes in ten years, the desired result would be that most of the American people would say, come on here, grow up and not pay the attention to it.
And ignore it and basically understand that Harry Reed's lying through his teeth.
But with all these examples over all these years that that's how the game is played, it seems like nobody is actually influenced by it, even though they know it.
So we keep pointing it out.
We pointing out the hypocrisy, we continue to point out the disparity, the unfair, whatever it is.
All for naught, it seems.
So what I'm saying is there has to be another way of going about this.
There has to be another way of dealing with it.
And one of the ways I have determined would be don't appear with them.
When Good Morning America calls you, understand it's not Good Morning America.
It's the Hillary Clinton campaign calling you because George Stephanopoulos is a good morning America, and that's where he really works, is the Hillary campaign.
Or the Bill Clinton war room.
And so you would no longer be invited.
You would no longer, you no more accept invitation to be interviewed by Hillary Clinton's campaign consultant.
So why would you accept an invitation to be interviewed by Hillary's campaign consultant, disguised as an anchor on Good Morning America?
And the same thing goes for whoever it is that moderates these debates that are yet to happen if the Republicans fall for this business of letting Clinton campaign operatives moderate their debates.
And is it we're told but rush that look, that's the way of the land.
Everybody knows it, and it's just it's an obstacle to Republicans have.
It's reality that the Democrats don't.
And the Republican, everybody knows it, and therefore the Republicans have to prove they can overcome this unfairness.
Really, why is that the case?
Why the Republicans, it's apparently been required of the Republicans for 35 years that they demonstrate they're willing to deal with this unfairness.
It seems like they've demonstrated for a number of decades they're willing to do it.
The point is it doesn't seem to help them much.
It remains an obstacle That has to be overcome.
I know it's a it's a challenging exercise to come up with alternative means here of reaching the American people.
But one of the ways, this this is a great field of candidates that the Republicans have who can reach the American people by going over the heads of the media, and they should not be afraid to do so.
Back with more in a moment.
Welcome back, Rushlin Book, Cutting Edge of Societal Evolution.
Okay, so some know it alls think that uh I am wrong when I think that when I say that most people understand the media is biased.
Let me make it even worse than that, then.
As I'm gonna stand by my contention after all these years, the vast majority of people understand.
Well, I mean, we're not the people of this country are not that brain dead and dumb.
The problem is actually much deeper.
And it goes to Republican branding.
The people that understand the media is biased, support it because they think the Republicans deserve to be mistreated because of what they've been told about the Republicans all of these years.
So they support the bias.
They applaud it.
They consider the media to be on their team.
The Republicans are the enemy.
And I don't mean that in just a choice of words.
They have actually grown up to listen to the Republicans and to watch the Republicans being portrayed as the enemy.
The media stacked in favor of the Democrats, and most people in the low information crowd end up supporting that because they think that's fair.
Because that's what's necessary in order to tell the truth about the Republicans.
I think the problem here, whatever we discuss it to be media bias or branding, the problem is always going to circle back to the Republicans themselves.
If you want to find where the problem exists, and whatever you want to call it, branding or what have you.
This is why so many of us are constantly imploring conservative elected politicians to be fearless in their conservatism.
Most Americans will support conservatism because even now the majority of Americans live their lives that way or want to.
So an actively cheerful, charismatic, these are not easily done, by the way, I understand that, but somebody who doesn't have to say, you know, I'm a severe conservative, as a means of trying to convince people.
Somebody really is, who doesn't need a teleprompter, doesn't need note cards, doesn't need meetings, doesn't need advisors to tell them what they believe.
A genuine conservative who is in his heart and mind and can articulate it, is the best weapon yet in changing the Republican brand.
What is conservatism?
Conservatism is all about everybody's life getting better.
Conservatism is all about everybody being respected.
Conservatism is colorblind.
Conservatism has nothing to do with identity politics.
Conservatism is rooted in love of people and high expectations of everyone.
Conservatism believes that everybody, if things are moved out of their way, can be much better, can accomplish more than they think they can.
The left is the exact opposite.
The left doesn't believe any of this about people.
The left believes the worst of people, and therefore they put themselves in this uh equation where they are needed in order to help people even survive.
Conservatives believe people will thrive on their own if obstacles are cleared out of the way and they are motivated and inspired with high expectations.
And it's all rooted in love of people.
Now you get somebody who can articulate that is running for office, and you can dispel all these branding problems and all the other things that go against it.
But it's going to require something like that.
That's why this field, by the way, the 16 Republican field, it's kind of exciting to me.
We'll be back after this.
Have to take a brief break here at the uh top of the hour.
We have more Marco Rubio.
And of course, we still have to get to your phone calls.
And whatever we have to mention about Hillary.
Yeah, so.
Yep, yep.
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