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April 22, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 22, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day, Rush Limboy and the EIB Network.
And the Limbo Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, telephone number 800 282882.
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Well now, this is somewhat interesting.
National Journal here has a has a story on uh the Republican primary field.
And it's they get it right.
And they're confused.
It uh it confuses them.
They're trying to figure out what does it mean.
And let me explain.
The uh writer of the story, Josh Crashauer, and the headline, Marco Rubio's biggest problem is not Jeb Bush.
The drive-by's the conventional wisdom is that since Rubio got in a race, since he and Jeb are both basically Floridians and in a political sense, that they're going to be going for the same money, that they're going to be seeking the same voters, that they're competing with each other in addition to the field.
And the National Journal says, you know what, that isn't quite right.
The drive-bys have not got this analyzed correctly.
They conclude that Marco Rubio's biggest problem is Scott Walker.
But the reason they say so is that I don't know quite how to say this without sound like a braggadocious oaf, and I'm not trying to, but they they they're confused here because they correctly point out that I have championed both, Walker and Marco Rubio.
And they don't know how to analyze that.
That's pretty much it, right?
I mean, they don't know what that's going to ultimately mean.
You know, normally they think a media guy like me would pick somebody and go with it, but you know, I just go day to day, and if a candidate says something that I think is praiseworthy, I say it.
If it's Rubio today and Walker tomorrow and Ted Cruz the next day, then I say that.
The drive-bys hear that as confusion.
Oh my God.
I mean, Limbaugh's touting all these guys, which scares them.
It because it it it widens the area occupied by the enemy that they have to defend or or attack here.
Uh and it's this it's so it they're they're kind of figure out how does this all jibe with the with the conventional wisdom.
Meanwhile, Jeb Bush is out there talking, and one of the things that Jeb Bush says, what do you think he said the best thing Obama has done.
There seems to be a need on the part of some in the Republican Party to constantly praise the opposition.
This need to praise the opposition, I guess to show that we're not racist, and I guess to show that we can be bipartisan, that we can be cooperative.
Uh that the Democrats are not our enemy.
It's perfectly fine that we are their enemy, but it can't work that they are ours.
And so we feel this compunction to go out and say praiseworthy things about the opposition.
And Jeb, this is an establishment way of thinking, and Jeb's right in there.
I'll tell you what, he said the best thing, the most laudatory thing.
The best thing Obama's done as president is maintain the NSA level of spying.
Particularly the metadata, the mining of the metadata on phone calls all over the country.
Jeb says that has been very wise, as a very smart thing that Obama has done, and it's uh it's indeed praiseworthy.
Now we come over here, grab audio soundbite number 10.
We all know our old buddy here, Luis Gutierrez.
I'll tell you where I first became acquainted with Luis Gutierrez shortly after he's elected to Congress.
He's from Illinois.
Shortly after he did a piece on 60 Minutes in which he confirmed a previously stated theory of mine that I'd been mentioned many times here on the air, and that is, and it's true.
It's really no great mystery or conspiracy.
But what happens with all the freshmen in both parties is the leadership brings them in there.
And they're given the lay of the land.
And the leadership says, in this case to Gutieris, okay, you're you're new here.
You want to become big in this party?
You want to become an important member of the House in the Democrat caucus?
You want a plum committee assignment, maybe a chairmanship?
Yeah, yeah, of course.
CC, yes, I do.
Well, then here's what you have to do.
Whatever we tell you to do, you do it.
We want you to vote a certain way, you do it.
If it makes it look like it's not in your in your district's best interest, bite the bullet and vote the way we say it.
We'll take care of you at re-election, we'll make sure you get money, don't sweat it.
But if you don't do that, you can say goodbye to this place in two years.
We'll go out there in Illinois, we'll find somebody to run against you that'll take your place that'll do what we want.
Well, Gutierrez went on 60 minutes and admitted this.
It had long been assumed by everybody, but he actually admitted it.
This led me to extend an invitation to him to be interviewed in the most widely read political newsletter in America, the Limbaughter, and he agreed.
And a couple of days, maybe the day before he pulled out.
Because I was on the air talking about it coming up.
I'm sure somebody in the Democrat leadership.
When would this have been?
Was it Tom Foley Days?
It would have been after the Fort Worthless Jim days, Jim Wright.
When when this all went anyway, since then Gutierrez has abandoned all critical talk of the Democrats, and he has become their point man on Obama on uh on uh Obama's executive amnesty.
Luis Gutierrez is the voice in the House that is supporting Obama and setting things up and going on television and encouraging all of this, criticizing Republicans.
So in Chicago, yesterday at the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics, Representative Luis Gutierrez spoke, and during the QA, an audience member said, Look, if if you're gonna see one of these Republicans contenders win,
who do you think on the issue of immigration would you be able to work with best in trying to forge some sort of bipartisan consensus on comprehensive immigration reform?
We'd have to stay with the Bush family.
The first Bush?
The second, actually.
Um thousand to two thousand and eight.
Um he tried.
He tried twice, uh, two thousand and six and then two thousand and seven.
And he's talking about W there.
Uh so he's saying, well, obviously we've got to stay with the Bush family.
We gotta stay with the Bush family on immigration.
I mean, George W. Bush, and he's right, tried twice for comprehensive immigration reform, and he's convinced that Jeb would continue the Bush family tradition in that regard.
So I just I just getting it out there, what's happening, folks.
I'm I'm I'm not stating an opinion of it.
Don't need to.
Just tell you what's happening.
Jeb praising Obama's maintaining the NSA spying program.
And Luis Gutierrez saying, hey, if Jeb wins on the issue we care most about, we can work with him.
Yesterday on um a radio program, Jeb Bush appeared, and he was asked the following question.
If you were elected president, would you undo President Obama's executive orders on immigration?
The DACA and DAPA, yes, I would.
It's possible that by the time the next president arrives, the courts will have overturned those.
I think the better answer is to fix the immigration problem.
It's to solve it the way the regular order way, which is to go to Congress, have a proposal, work on a bipartisan fashion to fix a broken immigration system.
We could control the border, we could narrow family petitioning, expand economic immigrants.
It would be a catalyst for high sustained economic growth, which is this country desperately needs.
So what he would do would undo Obama's uh the the DACA and the DAP of the DACA's the dream thing, dreamers for the most part, and then replace them with uh with with immigration reform, which would lead to an expansion of economic immigrants.
So that's what that's what Jeb is uh is saying about that.
As I mentioned, it's Earth Day and a bunch of anniversaries here on Earth Day.
One of them is Elian Gonzalez.
It's been fifteen years since Elian Gonzalez asleep in his aunt's home in Miami.
You remember her, the lovely and gracious Maris Laisis?
Maris Lacius, as pronounced by Gloria S. Defon.
Yeah, it was uh 15 years ago, and young Elian Gonzalez was asleep, and he was taken into custody by U.S. federal agents, and I'll never forget the picture of the agent storming into that little house.
That agent looked like he's barging in on the Symbionese Liberation Army.
I mean, gun was cocked, loaded and aimed.
The guy had the gun gloves on, the goggles, the helmet, the vest, all there for a 15 or for a what, a five-year-old kid.
However old he was.
Six.
Sorry, six years old.
He was taken into custody in the early morning hours of April 22nd.
The agents burst into his room, guns drawn, scooped him up, got him out of there before the Cuban exile community could stop before they had even awakened and had their first cigar.
Eric Holder was Janet Reno's deputy at the time.
Janet Reno was the attorney general who ordered this.
She'd even flown down there to offer to babysit.
Ellie Eric Holder was uh was her deputy at the time, and he was the person in charge of this entire operation.
Now, just to remind you why this situation even existed, Elian Gonzalez's mother died while trying.
Let me read this as ABC News writes it.
Ilion Gonzalez's mother died while trying to escape the harsh economic situation on the island by boarding a homemade raft with 10 other people and Elian, trying to escape the harsh economic situation on the island.
I should I should first point out that young Elian Gonzalez is now twenty one, and he has become a full-fledged propagandized member of the Cuban state.
This is from the article, Elian Gonzalez told reporters at a youth congress in Ecuador in 2013 that it was the economic blockade imposed by the American government that caused his mother to risk her life and his so desperately in 1999.
The economic blockade.
Do you know who refers to our embargo as the blockade?
Fidel.
Fidel Castro has always called it a blockade, and the reason is there is no television in Cuba other than what they want you to see.
He has the citizens of Cuba envisioning a flotilla of American warships off coast, offshore, blockading any arrival from the United States into Cuba.
That's why the word blockade and not embargo.
Fidel has purposely wanted his people to believe that it's a military blockade, not an economic one.
And so when I saw that Elian Gonzalez was using Fidel's term for the embargo, that's all I needed in order, he means fully propagandized.
And I didn't even really need to know that to know that, but it confirmed it.
But listen to the way this is written.
His mother died while trying to escape the harsh economic situation on the island.
That's not why his mother died.
His mother died trying to escape the tyranny of the Castro regime.
Right?
But yet ABC News has to write this as though Elian Gonzalez's mother died because of us.
Because of the harsh economic policies of the U.S., the blockade.
Every other country on earth trades with Cuba.
So if they want to say that the blockade is the reason for Cubans' misery, economic misery, then it's not, doesn't say much for the other nations in the world.
If Cuba is in the mess it's in only because it doesn't trade with the U.S., then what does that say about the UK?
What does that say about Canada?
What does it say about Saudi Arabia?
They trade with all these people.
Just don't trade with us.
Anyway, I just, it's a long roundabout way of pointing out how the media just can't help blaming us.
When it's the Castro brothers, it's the Castro regime that causes people to risk their lives fleeing the island.
It's not the U.S. blockade.
And the American media knows that.
Here's a picture of the twig that uh is all that remains of the tree.
Reminds me of Maya Angelou, the River Zirac and Z, the poem she did for Clinton's inaugural.
They uh they they planted a tree for the gentle giant in uh in in Ferguson in a public park.
It was uh planted in uh I guess January, and it was in honor of the gentle giant who robbed a convenience store and attacked a cop.
And angry supporters are angry, and they are issuing threats.
Camo V TV in St. Louis interviewed one man who said, I can't understand why somebody would want to cut down the tree.
What?
They want to start something back up again up in here.
It is.
It is a travesty, is it not?
I mean, try to honor the kid, the young man, the gentle giant, plant a tree in his honor, and somebody comes off and vandals comes along and just leaves nothing but a twig there.
Do you hear about what happened with David Letterman?
David Letterman was warming up his audience one night recently.
Normally another comedian goes out to warm up the audience, but sometime Letterman does it.
And he went out there and he took QA with members of the audience.
And the first question came from a college student of some kind.
And his question had to do with what advice Letterman would give to this year's graduates.
Hey Dave, you know, I'm a college student, I work in a staff of a professor.
What advice would you give this year's graduates?
And Letterman said, treat a lady like a whore and a whore like a lady.
No, yes, he did.
That's it's retreat.
It's right here in the at page six.
In the New York Times.
That's what he says, treat a lady like a whore and a whore like a lady.
The host shot back.
That's what it says here.
The joke, which is a version of oops, my foe just saw the clock.
Now, as a person in age similar to Letterman's snurdly, you reacted in shock.
Have you never heard that?
That's actually philosophy from bygone generations.
It's in the in a modern era when you're supposed to be since Letterman's supposed to be in the Illuminati.
He's supposed to be in the crowd that gets it.
Letterman's supposed to be Mr. Hip.
Yeah, Letterman's supposed to know everything about what's cool to what's not cool.
Letterman's a guy that has people on to talk about the people that screw up.
Letterman's a guy that sits in judgment of people that don't get it.
And here he is articulating one of these old saws from generations gone by.
If you know people, 6570, go up and ask them about that phrase, and they will have a story to tell you about it, and they will tell you that it was it was advice, uh, that it was a joke, that if uh there are all kinds of philosophy attached to this.
But of course, in the modern era, it is just insensitive, it's unacceptable, it isn't funny, no way no how.
It is borish, it is mean, it is probably racist and bigoted and all of those other things.
And and Letterman was just stunned, apparently.
And listened to some of the quotes from the people of studio audience.
The source for the story at page six said, I turned to my wife and I was like, what?
I mean, it was like the first joke of the evening, and it seemed like an odd choice when the zinger fell flat, Letterman tried to recover by urging future alums to eat a lot of salad and always be nice.
Several fans who passed by the theater on Tuesday night were outraged by Letterman's comic mismire.
Younger people watch his show.
This is a 41-year-old man saying this, folks.
Younger people watch his show.
We already live in a culture that objectifies women.
It's just not right to make a joke like that.
This is a high school teacher in Pennsylvania, 41 years old.
Jerry Stockton, a retiree from Virginia, called the crack disrespectful to women, and women should never be disrespected.
My daughter's gonna go to college September, and I worry how guys will treat her.
Guys like Letterman making jokes like this, it's got me even more worried.
So this Letterman story it fascinates me.
Treat a lady like a whore and a whore like a lady.
No, no, no, no.
I understand that in in this era, that is totally verbot.
That's you don't go anywhere near it.
You don't even act like it's funny, you don't even act like you've ever heard of it.
You are you have to act outraged, your sensibilities have to be profoundly terrifically offended.
Uh otherwise they're gonna come after you.
That Letterman gave away his age in this.
There was a day, way, way back, ancient times in this country, where people believed this and thought it was funny, and women laughed at it, by the way.
I mean, it just didn't come out of clear air.
There is philosophy in this.
In fact, this joke even is attributed to a creator.
1930s screenwriter Wilson Meisner is actually credited for creating this line, this joke.
But the audience members at the Letterman show were just outraged.
Forty, forty-five years old beside themselves, could not believe how insensitive Letterman was.
And they were worried what a joke like this could cause to happen to their daughters going away to school on campus.
It's a new era.
Here is Steve somewhere in Indiana.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Ross.
How are you doing?
Very well, thank you.
I uh Well you changed my life about five years ago.
I started listening to you.
I actually voted for Obama the first time, and then my eyes were opened.
But anyway, earlier you were talking about how people throw away food.
Well, what let me restate that because that's a good point.
The uh the government is claiming that the average American wastes uh 21 pounds of food a year or some such thing, and it's not necessary because expiration dates are wrong.
So the government is going to start encouraging people to ignore expiration dates and just keep eating stuff.
Don't throw it away.
Right.
Well, I've been a trash man for going On 20 years, and I've picked up several different towns, very large towns.
And uh Yeah, I noticed that when you go into what I would say is a low rent district.
That let me help here.
That's another phrase that would you don't say it that way.
You you went to an economically challenged district.
Okay.
Low rent area, that's that's unnecessarily judgmental and uh is quite unhelpful.
So you economically challenged locale.
Let's say that that's where you went.
Okay.
Well, on those days I noticed on those routes that there was a lot of food being thrown away.
Wait, and in the low rent district, they were throwing a lot of food away.
Quite a bit of food, yes.
And then you would go to a neighborhood that wasn't as economically challenged.
Yes.
And there wasn't that kind of waste going on.
Wow.
What did what do you think?
What does that say?
Well, I'm assuming that if you have to work for your money to pay for the food, you're not gonna throw it away.
Oh, yes, yes, the whole the old saw about appreciating it.
Correct.
So you think that explains it?
The people that work for their money have greater appreciation for it.
How about the possibility that if they're working for it, they don't spend as much, and they don't buy that much more than they need in the first place.
Well, I'm sure that has a lot to do with it, also.
Uh could be, could be.
Um it's an interesting observation.
We, of course, here on the EIB network are drawing no conclusions, ladies and gentlemen.
It's just interesting uh data points.
That a 20-year-old trash hauler has observed that in the low rent areas that he visits, there certainly is more thrown away food than in the um uh shall we say uh less economically deprived areas.
And from that we can each draw our own inclusions, conclusions.
Yeah.
On the other side of the glass, they're they're making look tiptoe rush, tiptoe go real slow here.
I've gotten nowhere near.
Um Earth Day, Duke University study has found natural variability impacts global warming.
Oh bad news for the climate change crowd here.
Researchers at Duke, this is the Duke Lacrosse case, Duke.
This is the Duke where all those faculty signed on and believing that the lacrosse team had mistreated the dancer.
This I mean, Duke is it's it's a liberal institution from top to bottom.
Researchers at Duke University say that global warming is not progressing as fast as it would.
Under the most severe scenarios outlined by the UN's intergovernmental panel on climate change.
In other words, the computer models are not correct.
Global warming isn't happening anywhere near like the models said that it would be happening by now.
Researchers at Duke looking at 1,000 years of temperature records found that natural variability in surface temperatures over the course of just 10 years can account for increases and dips in warming rates.
Now, for those of you in Rio Linda, natural variability, variability in surface temperatures means it gets hot down cold.
They're just the natural, you know, one day it's 75, the next day it's 80.
A natural difference.
The next three may be down in the 70s.
Natural variability.
In other words, nature.
Researchers found that nature over the course of a decade can account for increases or decreases in warming rates.
The researchers said that This variability, nature, could be caused by interactions between the ocean and the atmosphere, or other natural factors like the weather.
Yeah, the weather could be the sun, imagine could be a factor.
The global warming crowd tells you the sun isn't, though.
No, no, you're not allowed to talk about solar energy, sunspots, storms on the sun, none of that is relevant to global warming.
Even though the only engine of heat is the sun, it is off limits.
Anyway, the researchers at Duke say that trends over just a 10-year period do not show very much long-term warming at all.
And there's no evidence whatsoever to suggest that long-term warming over the next 100 years is going to be anything even noticeable.
Abnormal.
Duke University.
Researchers, i.e.
scientists.
And there's a consensus of them.
These researchers, there's a consensus of these people that there isn't any warming going on.
Patrick Brown, a doctoral student in climatology at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment said if that message gets out, then I think there'd be less back and forth arguing about these short-term temperature trends because it doesn't really matter that much scientifically.
Oh, Mr. Brown, I wish I could speak to you.
You're a doctoral candidate.
And what you just said has no relationship to the global warming crowd.
We've gotten your message out for 25 years.
The message that there isn't any warming, and there isn't in the specifically past 18 years, there isn't any, and we've gotten that message out.
And there hasn't been any reduction in arguing.
In fact, what's happening is the global warming crowd is not even pre is not even allowing dissent.
They want to shut up people that do not accept the consensus.
Actually, this is this is encouraging in a way.
Here you have a doctoral candidate, obviously in his mid-twenties, and he thinks he's got evidence.
This is I love this.
This is a young guy, he's got evidence.
He can take the evidence that the global warming crowd, and it'll it'll sh they'll see it and they'll believe it, and there'll be less arguing.
That's not at all what's going to happen.
Because this isn't about science.
It isn't about facts, it isn't even about warming.
It isn't even about the climate.
I have long contended, and our official climatologist here, Dr. Roy Spencer, has not been happy with me over this.
But I've argued with these uh climate scientists that don't buy into this.
You're falling into the trap when you argue science with them.
They don't have any science, they got computer models.
You're losing people can't keep up with the science.
You start studying clouds or whatever aspects of the climate with scientific explanations, you're gonna lose everybody, and that's not what they're using.
This is pure ideology on the march.
And it's got to be dealt with and refuted in that regard.
But the climate scientists who oppose global warming say, well, no, they're they're presenting it as science, and that's how we're gonna refute it.
They're presenting it with scientific data, they claim we got to refute it.
Which I understand.
Uh, but it's all bogus to begin with, garbage in, garbage out, analyzing garbage.
Treating it as real in order to refute it gives it credibility that it does not deserve to begin with.
I'd say oh, Chris Rock was right.
He's not doing stand-up on college campus too much political correctness and hand wringing and nobody laughs.
And now you can't do comedy at the Letterman Show in New York City.
Because there's too much political correctness and hand wringing and fear.
And a lot of other things that Jim Harbaugh would understand, but I'm not going to get into.
Okay, that's it, folks.
We are out of time.
Our busy broadcast today, but as always, it was rocking.
And it'll rock tomorrow.
A little brief 21 hour moment here to uh recharge to re rev. Figure out what happens next, and we'll be back with it.
See you then.
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