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April 14, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 14, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #3
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We are back.
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The telephone number, if you want to be on the program's 800-282-2830, email address of Rushbow and D.I.D. The chairwoman of the Democrat National Committee is Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz.
And she called Marco Rubio a prune wrapped in Tenzel today in an attempt to rebut the idea that he makes a fresh contrast with Hillary Clinton.
Now when you've got Hillary in the equation and she's not the prune, then somebody's perspective is off.
This is the thing that the Democrats fear the most, if you if you ask me.
What the Democrats are trying to pull off here, you're going to hear this in the soundbites coming up here in uno.
Democrats are trying to replicate what they've done with Obama.
First African American president, historic, and therefore above and beyond criticism.
You can't criticize the first black.
Why?
Well, we feel sorry for them in the first place.
They've been so mistreated and maligned as the original minority in America.
And the left does.
This I I the more I think about this, the more convinced I all I all I need to see is your average ordinary media person coming to the defense of an African American.
And I know I'm looking at somebody who really does look at them and see incompetence.
And they see people who need help.
They see people who can't do things on their own.
And as good liberals, they are the ones that can come along and provide the needed boost for little minorities and not just racial, by the way, minorities that cannot do it on their own because the decks are so stacked against them.
But I really believe that it's the soft bigotry of low expectations that the left throws on all of the minority groups that support them.
That informs and inspires their treatment of them.
They feel sorry for them.
They really think that they are incapable of success on their own.
Need help, need a boost, what have you.
So here comes Obama as the first African American president.
And he is immune to any criticism for that because it's built in.
Any criticism they're gonna they're gonna accuse of of originating in racism.
They're gonna charge any critic with being a racist, which is supposed to silence all the critics.
They're supposed to say criticism is invalid anyway because minorities have been so beaten down for so long in this country that we need to cut them some slack.
They're allowed to make mistakes, they're allowed to be wrong about things simply because they've been so discriminated against.
So it's kind of a double whammy.
Now they've seen how successful this has been in silencing opposition to Obama at the elected Republican level.
Elected Republicans, scared to death the media, scared of the racist tag, have basically shut up and have have avoided any substantive or otherwise criticism of Obama.
There's exceptions, of course.
And Democrats are trying to replicate that whole thing with Hillary.
It's why I said last week the gender wars have begun.
We're now moving on from race wars, sponsored by the Democrat Party now to gender wars and a revival of the war on women, and they want to pull out the same thing.
Mrs. Clinton, above and beyond, and immune to criticism because any such criticism is unreal.
It's only rooted in sexism and hate.
But then along comes Ted Cruz and along comes Marco Rubio, and both of them are Hispanic.
That means they are minorities as well.
And they are young.
Side-by-side comparison, they are young, they are energetic, they have not been on the public scene for 25 years, they're not Buying support, they're not faking Twitter followers.
They're not manufacturing anything.
They're just going out and letting it all fly.
And they're being who they are and letting the chips fall as they do.
And the contrast is striking.
So here comes Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz with talking points for the media.
In which she says that Marco Rubio looks like a prune compared with Hillary Clinton.
My manners and class and dignity caused me to exercise great restraint here.
But if if you want to talk about if you've got two people pictured side by side and one of them is a prune, and it isn't Hillary, I'd I'd say your perspective and your eyesight.
Young, handsome, articulate Marco Rubio, a prune.
So let's go to Sound by 24.
We have this afternoon on CNN Wolf Blitzer speaking with the chief political analyst there, Gloria Borger.
And they're worried.
They're worried about Rubio side by side with Hillary.
Does he risk Marco Rubio by suggesting Hillary Clinton may be too old?
Or even Jeb Bush may be too old.
Does he risk alienating the people who actually go out there and vote in the biggest numbers, which are older Americans?
There is no evidence that younger voters would not vote for somebody who's older.
Also, one thing you have to consider with Hillary Clinton is that she's a woman.
And there are lots of younger voters who are attracted to the gender issue and think, okay, it's time for a woman, so I don't really care how old she is.
She's the most famous woman in the world, one might argue.
And yeah, I care about her ideas, so who cares about her age?
Now, you might I hear that a little differently than some of you might be saying that they're actually ripping Rubio and praising Hillary.
If you look at the way they're having the look at what they're having to assume here.
First off, Wolf Blitzer, does Rubio run the risk of alienating the people who actually go out there and vote in the biggest numbers, older Americans?
When is the last time Wolf Blitzer or CNN cared about older voters?
They're always focused on the youth vote, aren't they?
Now all of a sudden, they're trying to prop themselves up.
They're trying to talk themselves into feeling good about Hillary because Rubio might have insulted older voters.
Oh yeah.
And he needs those older voters.
They're hoping.
They're hoping that Rubio's screwed up because what they know is side by side, there's no comparison.
And then Borger has to chime in.
Hey, Wolf, you know, there is any evidence that younger voters wouldn't vote for somebody who's older.
Yes, the hell there isn't.
Have you ever heard a movie Logan's Run?
The hell there isn't.
This is what every aging candidate fears is what the youth vote's gonna do.
But to Gloria Borger, oh, we don't have any evidence of that.
No, no, no.
And Hillary's such a big star.
She's the most famous woman in the world.
I'd say that's Monica Lewinsky, but it's a toss-up, take your pick.
Still, they're having to talk themselves into this.
Clearly they're worried about it.
Let's move to Ron Fournier.
Special report with Brett Baer last night, fill-in host Shannon Bream said there were some people that thought that Hillary, by making her announcement yesterday, might steal some of Rubio's thunder, but it sounds like that she actually gave him a little bit of ammunition because he used it to go after her directly, linking her to yesterday, and saying point blank that yesterday is over.
They really are.
And I think uh Hillary gave him an advantage.
So every time he said yesterday, yesterday, yesterday, pass, pass, pass, he miles have said Clinton Clinton Clinton, Bush, Bush, Bush.
This was a not too subtle hit at Jeb Bush as well.
I do agree it was very Clinton-esque, very aspirational, very forward-looking.
What Clinton-esque.
So anybody good at politics is Clinton-esque.
So Rubio is Clinton-esque.
They're right about this, though.
Yesterday, yesterday, yesterday, no question was that a reference to Clinton.
Maybe to Jeb Bush, too, but clearly a reference to Clinton.
I think these I think these guys got it wrong.
I don't think that Hillary going first helped herself at all.
Hillary going first with this so-called Twitter rollout.
We now know that over half of her Twitter followers don't even exist.
She's buying with taxpayer money, by the way, when she was Secretary of State.
She bought all these Facebook likes.
She bought them.
38 bucks alike is the going price.
It's what we've been told that she paid.
So Rubio goes out, does a traditional announcement, but at an odd time.
He goes out around 6 PM.
And the drive-by's criticized that.
That's not how you do this.
Proves he doesn't know what he's doing.
This proves his youth and inexperience.
You don't announce at 6 o'clock, and then they said, wait.
Wait a minute.
He announced a six, that means he's guaranteed to dominate Fox all night.
Ah, damn.
So then I start criticizing that.
Because he wanted to dominate Fox.
If you ask me, it's rather smart.
After all, he's first got to win the Republican primary.
Fox News is where the majority of Republican voters happen to get their news.
It's happened to they don't watch CNN or MSNBC.
Nobody else is either.
So it's quite smart for Rubio to make his announcements so that he would dominate the nighttime news cycle and discussion topics on Fox News.
And by the way, he also did on CNN and PMSNBC, which the drive-by is conveniently ignored.
Here's Mark Halperin.
Now this is last night on Bloomberg of their show All Due Respect.
And he's talking to John Heilman, the co-host of the show, who says the interesting thing about him here, people now forget because we talk about him so much as an establishment candidate, but he was a Tea Party guy originally.
That actually gives him some kind of power.
You think of him against Bush all the time, but he's really actually more in the in the Scott Walker mold.
He can straddle both of them in a way that Bush is a straight establishment candidate.
If you held Bill Clinton down and pumped him with Truth Serum, he would tell you that besides Bush, the candidate right now who they think is the most dangerous for Hillary Clinton is Marco Rubio.
Okay, so here we have Mark Halpern and Ron Fournier, both saying that if you get Truth Serum in them, that Rubio is who the Clintons fear the most.
Up next, the forehead last night on Anderson Cooper 97.
He said Rubio's been compared to uh Obama back in 2007, young first-term senator, not a lot of experience, great speaker.
But at this time, eight years ago, Obama held 26% in early voting.
Rubio is at six percent uh forehead.
Do you think he's got a real shot here?
I do.
I really do.
This guy's got a lot of talent.
He has a really compelling personal story, as does Barack Obama.
It's an all-American story.
He's bilingual.
He's from the closest state in the last presidential election, Florida, which Barack Obama only won by less than one percent.
I wouldn't count him out at all.
I mean, I think he's got a ton of talent.
Let's see if he can develop that talent and actually perform now that he's on the track.
Well, well, well.
Now what are we to make of this?
Are they telling us the truth?
Are they really more worried about Rubio than anybody else?
I've never heard the forehead as respectful of any Republican candidate as he was there with Rubio.
I mean, Ted Cruz's another Hispanic, but you wouldn't have the forehead or anybody else getting anywhere near praising him the way they just did Rubio.
I know what I I know what some of you Tea Party people are saying.
Let me tell you, I know what he I know what you're thinking.
You're thinking they like him because he was for amnesty originally, and they think he still is.
And the establishment likes Rubio because he really made it clear he was one of them.
He first came out, gets elected to the Senate, and immediately jumps on this uh the the they used him, in fact, the establishment corralled him into supporting Amnesty as a means of trying to quell the Tea Party, and you think that he fell for it, and you're thinking the forehead and the rest of these guys look at Rubio as more of an establishment type in truth.
Uh that may be one of your fears.
But is the forehead of these guys being truthful?
Are they trying to head fake everybody?
In other words, do they really think that Rubio would be the easiest of all these people to beat, and so they're gonna pump him up.
You doubt that.
Now, one thing that we know, one thing that I think has been proven, demonstrated they will always tell us who they fear most.
Now, not in so many words.
You can tell by who they attack, who they try to destroy.
Now, in this case, they're not trying to destroy Ruby, at least not openly.
So you don't think that this is a setup.
You don't think that they actually think beating Rubio would be easy because they know he's lost Tea Party support, and they know how important that is.
They know he's lost chief party support, so let's go out, let's praise him to the hilt.
Let's get him nominated because that's the easiest guy in this bunch we can um they don't want to face Jeb.
So let's go out and let's get these guys to get Rubio nominated, because that's who we think we think they're really afraid of him.
You think they you think four heads being truthful there?
You do.
All right.
Well, we'll throw it to the crowd and see what you think.
Gotta take a brief time out back after this.
Don't go.
And to Charleston, South Carolina next.
Hi, Mark.
It's great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello, sir.
We pronounce it Charleston.
Charleston, Charleston, very well.
Very well.
I'm happy to have you on the phone from Charles.
Happy to be on the phone.
I'm a longtime listener myself, probably 20-plus years.
Only difference between me and the other guy.
I started when I was like six years old.
Wow.
So I'm I'm speaking to you as a millennial.
You were mentioned talking earlier about millennial uh and millennials political views, and I think you had a good sentiment.
Uh our views are different from that of the baby boomer generation, our parents.
Uh, but I don't think it's just that we tend to be more liberal.
I think it's that our political views are constantly changing.
I mean w we're the we're the folks that want to have our cake and eat it too.
You know, we we want lower taxes and and we're okay with smaller government until certain things are impacted, like student loans, because most of us do have student loan debt.
And so we don't want to see those things those things cut.
But we are probably more likely than any other generation to switch parties.
Which is another strange political view of ours, which is all the more reason we as conservatives have to do a better job at educating and re uh reaching the millennial generation to show them what kind of policies work.
So I I think you're right.
Our our political views are different, but I wouldn't say that we're just liberal, because I'm not.
I'm a conservative, I've been a lifelong conservative.
But our political views are in constant change, and we do have a very high distrust, the inherent distrust uh of the political machine as we know it and see you have nailed something here, let me interrupt you.
You've nailed something I know to be true, and I want to tell you what's a crying shame about it.
There are two factors.
Now, one that you think that you you uh you want it uh your cake and eat it too.
You cannot outdo your parents in that.
The baby boomers are the most self-focused, self-introverted, self self me, me generation has ever, ever been, because they had it easy compared to their parents and grandparents.
I know I'm one of them.
So you guys in the millennials, you do not set any records in wanting your cake and eating it too, or whatever you said.
The second thing is, and this is crucially important.
How old are you?
Did you say you are, Mark?
Twenty I'm 27.
27 years old.
I am here to tell everybody, a 27-year-old has yet to experience a genuine conservative Republican president, never had the chance to vote for one.
Absolutely, I agree.
Yeah, we we haven't.
You know, the first time I was able to.
It's worse than that.
You haven't heard it articulated properly and well by any political candidate on the Republican side.
And that's all the more reason the conservative party has to do a good job at reaching out to the millennial generation.
Well, it is why more than that that's of course true, but it's also why the vast majority of of millennials happen to trend left.
That's all they know.
In your adulthood, that's what you've been treated to in the media and politics.
You've grown up thinking Republicans are embarrassing.
They're backwards, they're oofs, they're all these horrible things, they hate gays, and you love gays.
They hate gay marriage, you think, and you love gay marriage.
This is what millennials are all for.
Whatever you want, be free, be love, be this, be that, whatever you want to do.
But the key is you've lost faith in the political system.
You think the political system doesn't work, and you are only half right.
You've got all their student loan debt.
coming of age where for the first time in many generations, it's not automatic that there is a yellow brick road for you out there to get on career-wise.
It isn't there.
You're coming of age in the era of Obamacare, where people's jobs are being reduced to 30 hours.
You're coming of age where the focal point of everybody's life is whatever it takes to get health care, and everything after that's gravy.
And where you claim the political system isn't working.
What you've lost faith in the political system when what you really should be losing faith in is the Democrat Party and liberalism because that is the political system you've grown up in.
But you don't see it that way.
You see it, maybe not you specifically, Mark, but people your age look at it as the country not working.
The country political system equals the country, and it's not working for you.
You don't associate the failure with the Democrat Party, because that's all you know.
You don't know an alternative.
And it's time that changed.
And that's what this Republican campaign could provide you.
L. Rushball, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
This has been one of the things that has has worried me.
Nah, worry's too strong a word.
It's frustrated me.
As I see millennials are not happy.
They're irritated, they're unhappy, they feel let down, they they admit that they did their futures are not what they thought.
They have all the student loan debt.
They don't have jobs, much less careers.
But they're blaming it on a country.
They think the country's best days are over.
And there's the reason for this.
They've never had a chance to vote for a conservative president.
And there really has not been in Republican electoral politics anybody that articulated on a consistent and daily basis.
Conservatism in a way that makes it a viable alternative to whatever they're familiar with growing up.
In fact, what they've been treated to is hearing Republicans and other conservative media people saying, yeah, the era of Reagan is over.
So they've even been told to discount that.
Millennials have been taught that whatever great was Reagan isn't, that's old cat now.
They never hear FDR era is over.
They never hear the era of JFK is over.
But they hear the era of Reagan is over.
And as such, they've heard that liberalism is good, that it's fair, that it's compassionate, all this other happy horse malarkey.
And yet the country in their minds just isn't strong.
And they do not.
They don't, they don't have the knowledge base or any uh point of reference to make a comparison, to understand that it's the Democrat Party that is falling apart.
It's the Democrat Party, it's it's it's liberalism that isn't working.
They don't even associate that.
They don't associate the policies of the left with their current melees, because they've never heard that anything about what the left is doing is bad, because there hasn't been any elected Republican conservative saying so.
They've been afraid to, particularly during the last six, seven years of Obama.
So you really can't blame them.
That's one of the things I'm hoping that this massive conservative field in the Republican presidential primary might accomplish is the articulation, presentation by likable people who are nevertheless going to be destroyed by the media.
I understand that.
But Conservatism is going to be front and center.
And it's going to be an opportunity for many millennials in the first time in their lives to actually hear what it is by people running for office who want to implement it.
It's kind of profound when you stop and look at it that way.
They might have heard conservatism on the radio, don't misunderstand that, but that's not the same.
We're not running for office here.
Nobody else on radio is either.
And nobody on radio has power to implement any of these things that we discuss or believe in.
So they haven't really heard the alternative to what is now.
To them, what is now is what is.
And gee, it isn't working.
And as far as they're concerned, the first time in American history, it isn't working.
Maybe the country's had his bit.
They don't associate any of this failure, melees, with a Democrat Party, which is where they ought to put all of it, because if anybody is to blame for the melees and all the other things going wrong, it is the policies of the Democrat Party.
I didn't even argue.
Here is Victor Silver Spring, Maryland.
Great to have you, sir.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey Rush.
Hey, I remember something you said back in the 90s, and I have never forgotten it, and it affects me.
Hillary reminds every divorce man of his ex-wife.
And that is absolutely true.
I cannot stand to hear her voice, because she reminds me of my ex.
Yeah, I remember that, Victor.
I think I said second ex-wife, but it works either way.
It really does.
Especially when you hear that screeching.
I am tired of hearing people say, and we are not patriotic.
We we are in the matter and that kind of screeching and and caterwalling, exactly right.
Every guy has heard it at home.
Yeah.
That's what Mrs. Mary did all the time because she was never satisfied.
Uh Ms. Mary?
Yep, that's what Tom Maher calls her.
Oh.
Oh, okay, okay.
Ms. Mary.
Well, nevertheless, the you that that statement does go way back to the 90s.
You're right.
I haven't used that statement in a while.
So I'm glad I'm glad you you you dredged that up there from the grooveyard of forgotten favorites.
Thank you for talking to me today.
You bet, Victor.
Thank you.
Uh thanks very much.
Yeah, that that is that first or second ex-wife right now.
I did, I said that.
Hillary Clinton reminds every divorced man of his ex-wife.
Or second ex-wife, or both.
Or or what have you.
Yeah, the feminazis didn't like that.
They hated that line.
That that line.
They said that was a sexist, bigoted typical thing that would come out of my mouth.
They just hated it.
Here's uh here's Dennis in Paris, Kentucky.
Dennis, great to have you.
Glad you waited.
Welcome to the big program.
Hello.
Hey, hey, Rich.
I've uh I've called you once before, but it's been quite a while.
Uh I've been listening to you.
Welcome back.
Uh I'm I'm glad to be back.
Um I I think my my first thing I want to say is that the only thing that could ruin Rubio and maybe Cruz is if uh the Republicans consultants or the strategists get involved in their campaigns and change their message.
You you can feel that that are you can tell that they mean what they say.
They they have they have evidence to show them that conservativ conservatism works.
Right.
I do in my own life.
I know it works.
Uh I uh uh Ronald Reagan was was it for me.
I mean, when he died, it was it was like I lost a family member.
Uh the funeral and uh my wife and I both watched her.
Let me ask you a question.
Well, since I got you here, Dennis, and you're actually you've thought about this.
Let me ask you a quick question.
I don't mean it is not a trick question, it just came into my mind.
Okay, okay.
And if you don't have an answer for it, no sweat, because I know I'm hitting you right up uh side head with this.
But when you like you appreciate conservatism, you just said it works.
It works.
What is the thing about it, do you think, that is the most frightening to people who don't like it or who are afraid of it.
What is the thing about it that scares people the most?
Whether they're right or wrong in it, what do you think it is?
I think it's that we we, when we talk to them about it, we tell them we're right and they're wrong.
And and liberals, my whole family are liberals, they're all Democrats.
Um I've found that I I can I can barely go to some family functions anymore because my wife and I get attacked every time we go.
Um, there's there's no question that one of the one of the characteristics that irritates a lot of people is when you are dead certain you're right, that can be threatening to some people.
It can be off-putting, because a lot of people are not that sure of themselves.
And they think that somebody who is a little strange.
And they almost take that as being close-minded.
Being sure of yourself, being confident in your beliefs, has morphed into closed-mindedness.
Being undecided and open-minded about everything means you're brilliant.
But I think there's something else about conservatism to the people who think they know what it is, that scares them to death.
And let me explain it this way.
Not long ago on this program, I said that conservatism is rooted in finding the best for everybody.
Conservatism is all about people being whatever they want to be, using whatever ambition, talent they have to be the best they can be.
That's what we want for people.
And I think that scares a lot of people, because I think to uh people are not conservative, the whole concept of self-reliance scares the pants off of them.
And when they hear me or anybody like me, any of you say, we only want the we want people to be the best they can be.
Conservatism is established so that people have the freedom to be the best they can be.
Most people not conservative do not believe people can be the best they can be without help, which in this day and age translates to government help, which translates to some form of government assistance.
Americans with disability acts, social security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, whatever.
A lot of people think they can't be the best they can be on their own.
And that conservatives are in this draconing belief that if you're on your own and you don't make it, too bad, too bad, see you later in the gutter.
They think conservatism does not equal compassion because compassion to them is defined by how many people are being helped by the government.
And they hear conservatism as wanting to get rid of government, reducing the role of government, reducing the size of government, which to them means less assistance.
Now, what we conservatives know, and most everybody else knows this too.
It's just a matter of whether they will admit it to themselves or not.
Most people, if they invest in themselves, and get the old recipe of hard work and industriousness are going to become much more in life than if they sit around and wait for other people to help them get there.
Because nobody cares as much about you as you do.
Don't care what your average Democrat politician says or your civil rights leader says, there's nobody who cares as much about you as you do.
They're too busy caring about themselves.
But I believe that the idea that you can be the best you can be scares a lot of people into thinking they're not going to have help.
And the conservatives don't want them to have help, that it's every man for himself, that it's survival of the fittest.
This is what they've been told.
And many people do not have self-confidence.
Many people are not self-starters.
Many people are not of the belief that they can amount to anything without connections, without assistance, without help, without loans or what have you name it.
And I think that's the primary thing that scares them.
You're right that an attitudinal being dead certain will be off-putting to certain that that's just human nature.
And I've discovered that to be true in my entire career.
That doesn't change anything.
I'm not going to go soft on my convictions just to not scare people.
But when you get down to the actual philosophy of conservative, because of the way conservatism has been presented to them, because the way it's been described is every man for himself, and if you fail, you fail, and you're on your own, and you got no assistance out there.
If you end up in the gutter, you're in the gutter.
You're on your own, buddy.
We're not helping you.
And that's of course not at all what conservatism is.
Conservatism is a belief that everybody has greatness in their potential.
Everybody can be better than they think they can be.
And conservatism is rooted in a belief that people need to be inspired, that people do need help in learning they're capable of more than they believe they are, or capable of, and so forth.
But when it comes to actually self-reliant on your own, that scares a whole lot, particularly after so many years of being conditioned by the Democrat Party.
You've got to take a break here on a little long, my friends.
Back with more after this.
Don't go anywhere.
There's another way you can look at this, and that is that some people would think, probably do think that conservatism is telling people to grow up.
And the liberals say you don't have to grow up.
You'll be our children.
We will treat you as our children, and we will take care of you.
And conservatives are saying, no, no, we're not going to take care of you.
Europe, your time to grow up is now.
Time to take care of yourself.
And people don't want to.
They don't want to give up what they think is the security blanket of the Democrat Party as their parents or taking care of them.
It's the fear of conservatism, I guarantee you, is rooted somewhere close to there, folks.
Democrats are the party of grown-up children, adult children.
They're not grown up, they're adult children in uh in many ways.
Thank you so much for joining us today and being with us.
Always appreciated.
We'll be back here revved and ready to go, same time tomorrow.
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