Rush Limbaugh Program - June 16, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #2
Aired: 2015-06-16
Duration: 37:30


=== Identifying As Skinny (05:55) ===

[00:00:00]  Okay, so I officially today announce that I identify as skinny.
[00:00:06]  And this day going forward, I am skinny.
[00:00:11]  Now in the old days, people's reaction to that would be to call me delusional and maybe think I needed some help.
[00:00:19]  Today I'm brave.
[00:00:22]  It's a courageous act to identify as skinny when one is not.
[00:00:27]  And I'm sure I will get accolades all across Twitter and accolades all across Facebook and accolades all across the drive-by media for positive thinking.
[00:00:36]  Now that I identify as skinny, and I'm fully expecting that weight watchers and others will identify with me and welcome me to the fold as a skinny since I now identify that way.
[00:00:49]  And the way I see myself is the way I am, not how you see me.
[00:00:53]  And if you don't see me that way, you're the bigot.
[00:00:56]  I'm brave.
[00:00:57]  Greetings and welcome back.
[00:00:58]  Great to have you.
[00:00:58]  Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network.
[00:01:02]  Okay, folks, a lot to do here.
[00:01:04]  We got four more soundbites of Trump.
[00:01:06]  Now, before I alluded to something here, one hour ago when this program began, I just, I asked you to keep something in mind, and that was Ross Perot.
[00:01:17]  Ross Perot burst on the scene as a result of one speech at the National Press Club.
[00:01:23]  It was a luncheon speech, if I remember right.
[00:01:26]  It ended up going to be replayed because it just, I mean, it just, it went viral back in those days.
[00:01:35]  I mean, there was this 1992, so going viral was ceaseman.
[00:01:39]  Stop and think of that, Snerdley.
[00:01:41]  Going viral was ceaseman.
[00:01:43]  Anyway, it did.
[00:01:45]  And all Trump did was talk about the irresponsibility of the current leadership.
[00:01:50]  He didn't rip into parties.
[00:01:52]  He didn't cast himself as a member of party.
[00:01:54]  He just said, we're doing everything wrong.
[00:01:56]  We're wasting money.
[00:01:57]  There's all kinds of things we could be doing smarter.
[00:02:01]  And he made himself out like to be the guy in charge of it.
[00:02:05]  And he was dragged into the presidential race.
[00:02:08]  And I remember from the get-go warning people to be careful about this because I told, and Snerdley, you might remember this.
[00:02:17]  My broadcast partners, I did not get on the Trump or on the Perot bandwagon.
[00:02:24]  And I constantly warned people not to do it and to beware.
[00:02:32]  I said, I don't think he really wants to win this.
[00:02:34]  He'll get out of this if it looks like he's going to win.
[00:02:38]  He doesn't want to be president.
[00:02:39]  There's something else going on, personal animus of George Bush.
[00:02:43]  Something going on here.
[00:02:44]  But this is not who you, and I remember my broadcast partner, syndication partner, took me a side.
[00:02:50]  Look, they thought I was blowing the show.
[00:02:57]  I was catching hell from some people, but they made a great miscalculation.
[00:03:03]  This is one of the, in fact, this turned out to be one of the first solid learning experiences for me about you in this audience.
[00:03:18]  Because back then, it would be safe to say that a majority of people listening to me thought that I should be the one championing Perot.
[00:03:30]  That I not only should be championing, I ought to be running with him or I ought to be part of his organization.
[00:03:36]  I ought to be the lead cheerleaders.
[00:03:37]  And I was the one cautioning everybody, don't do it.
[00:03:41]  Don't fall for it.
[00:03:44]  I even had my own little Perot impersonation, which ticked people off.
[00:03:48]  Anyway, syndication partner Ed McLaughlin brought me in.
[00:03:52]  Very worried.
[00:03:55]  Are you sure you're doing the right thing here on Perot?
[00:03:57]  I said, what do you mean?
[00:03:58]  I mean, your audience, we're worried here.
[00:04:01]  You're losing the audience.
[00:04:02]  I mean, the audience thinks that you are Perot.
[00:04:05]  The audience thinks that Perot is who he is because of you.
[00:04:07]  You need to get out.
[00:04:08]  And I said, I'm sorry.
[00:04:10]  But I can't do it.
[00:04:12]  I don't feel it.
[00:04:12]  Don't believe it, and so forth.
[00:04:15]  And I did catch a lot of flack from the audience.
[00:04:19]  But the audience hung in.
[00:04:21]  They didn't abandon the program, Snerdley.
[00:04:24]  Well, of course they, of course they threatened to.
[00:04:27]  I remember like it was yesterday.
[00:04:30]  And oh, they were calling.
[00:04:31]  I'm never going to listen to you again.
[00:04:33]  I thought you were somebody real, but you've just proven you're nothing more than a member of the establishment.
[00:04:38]  Here's your chance to really get on board with somebody who could really change this country.
[00:04:41]  What are you doing?
[00:04:41]  You're poo-pooing.
[00:04:42]  I remember all of it.
[00:04:46]  Oh, and I started the parodies of Perot.
[00:04:49]  Oh, you know, referring to him as a hand grenade with a bad haircut.
[00:04:55]  They're coming to take me away.
[00:04:56]  Ha ha.
[00:04:57]  Oh, it got even worse.
[00:05:00]  And my syndication party, oh, they were so worried that I was blowing everything.
[00:05:06]  They thought that I was losing every member of the audience that we had built after four years.
[00:05:12]  But I hung tough, and I turned out to be right.
[00:05:15]  Perot got out of the race when it looked like he was going to win.
[00:05:20]  And that just gave everything over to Bill Clinton.
[00:05:24]  He stated he hung in there for some presidential debates.
[00:05:26]  Anyway, I just asked people to remember that when Trump gets going here today, because what if Trump goes third party?
[00:05:34]  He's got enough money.
[00:05:35]  He doesn't have to.
[00:05:36]  He doesn't need consultants.
[00:05:37]  In fact, there's not a political consultant alive today that will have told Trump to say anything he said today.

=== Trump's Political Consultants (15:05) ===

[00:05:45]  There's not a single political consultant working in politics that would have advised Trump to say what he said today or would stand by and watch it said.
[00:05:56]  There's no political consultant on earth in this country that would want to be associated with what Trump did today.
[00:06:04]  So he's not going to get his pick, but if he does, I mean, his money talks, he might hire some away.
[00:06:11]  You never know.
[00:06:12]  But my point is that he can always decide to go third party with his money if it doesn't work in the Republican Party.
[00:06:21]  And if he does that, and this is the idle speculation at this point, if he does that, well, you know what that's going to mean.
[00:06:28]  It means Hillary or whoever the Democrat nominee is.
[00:06:32]  And along those lines, we got a lot of people want to talk about this.
[00:06:36]  If you're on haul, just hang in there.
[00:06:38]  We're coming to you.
[00:06:39]  I promise you, I guarantee it.
[00:06:45]  This is from the Daily Caller.
[00:06:47]  Looked it up here during the break.
[00:06:50]  Between 1989 and 2010, Donald Trump gave $314,000 to Democrat groups and candidates, $290,000 to Republicans, 1989 to 2010.
[00:07:06]  Trump actually donates more to Democrats than Republicans.
[00:07:11]  Now, what he'll say is, well, hell, that's who runs New York.
[00:07:15]  That's where I live.
[00:07:16]  I got no choice.
[00:07:18]  But still, Trump donated more than $4,100 to Hillary in 2002, 2005, 2006, and 2007.
[00:07:33]  His son gave Hillary $6,100 in 2006 and 2007.
[00:07:41]  He gave the Clinton Foundation at least $100,000 according to the Clinton Foundation website.
[00:07:50]  Now, again, what he'll say is, of course, I mean, these are the people running the shows.
[00:07:55]  What's wrong with politics?
[00:07:56]  I had to do it.
[00:07:57]  That's what he said.
[00:07:58]  I had to do it.
[00:07:58]  I got no choice.
[00:08:00]  I'm a Republican.
[00:08:01]  I live in New York.
[00:08:01]  If I didn't do this, I'd be a target.
[00:08:03]  That's what's wrong with politics, and that's why I'm running.
[00:08:07]  You think I like giving money to Democrats?
[00:08:09]  I hate giving money to Democrats, but that's what our politics is.
[00:08:12]  I know how that's that's how he would handle this.
[00:08:20]  Yeah, that's how I keep my money in my pocket.
[00:08:23]  I give to the people who otherwise would take my money away from me.
[00:08:26]  You don't think I got rich by being stupid, do you?
[00:08:30]  He's got any number of ways of explaining.
[00:08:32]  Okay, back to the Trump soundbites here.
[00:08:35]  We pick it up here with number 37.
[00:08:38]  This is classic, folks.
[00:08:41]  Through stupidity, in a very, very hardcore prison, interestingly named Clinton, two vicious murderers, two vicious people escaped, and nobody knows where they are.
[00:08:54]  And a woman was on television this morning and she said, You know, Mr. Trump, and she was telling other people, and I actually called her, but she said, You know, Mr. Trump, I always was against guns.
[00:09:06]  I didn't want guns.
[00:09:08]  And now, since this happened, it's up in the prison area.
[00:09:13]  My husband and I are finally in agreement because he wanted the guns.
[00:09:17]  We now have a gun on every table.
[00:09:19]  We're ready to start shooting.
[00:09:21]  I said, very interesting.
[00:09:23]  So protect the Second Amendment.
[00:09:25]  We're ready to start shooting, Mr. Trump.
[00:09:32]  I lost it.
[00:09:36]  We're ready to start shooting.
[00:09:38]  I just envisioned the actual conversation.
[00:09:40]  Here's Trump on the phone.
[00:09:41]  He got this anti-Second Amendment babe on the other end.
[00:09:44]  And because the two prisoners escaped from the stupid prison, they now have a gun on every table.
[00:09:50]  We're ready to start shooting.
[00:09:53]  Interesting.
[00:09:54]  So support the Second Amendment.
[00:09:56]  We're ready to start shooting.
[00:09:59]  Yeah, let's just keep it rolling here, folks.
[00:10:01]  They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us.
[00:10:07]  They're bringing drugs.
[00:10:08]  They're bringing crime.
[00:10:10]  They're rapists.
[00:10:11]  And some, I assume, are good people.
[00:10:14]  But I speak to border guards and they tell us what we're getting.
[00:10:18]  And it only makes common sense.
[00:10:20]  It only makes common sense.
[00:10:22]  They're sending us not the right people.
[00:10:24]  It's coming from more than Mexico.
[00:10:26]  It's coming from all over South and Latin America.
[00:10:29]  And it's coming probably, probably from the Middle East.
[00:10:34]  But we don't know because we have no protection and we have no competence.
[00:10:38]  We don't know what's happening.
[00:10:40]  This is Trump at his presidential announcement speech describing the kind of people coming here from Mexico.
[00:10:50]  They're sending people who have lots of problems.
[00:10:52]  They're bringing these problems with us.
[00:10:53]  They're bringing drugs.
[00:10:54]  They're bringing crimes.
[00:10:55]  They're rapists.
[00:10:57]  And some, I assume, are good people.
[00:11:01]  Some, I assume.
[00:11:03]  Most of them are reprobates.
[00:11:05]  And because we got stupid leadership, we don't even know who they are.
[00:11:11]  And now here's how he would deal with it.
[00:11:14]  I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me.
[00:11:18]  And I'll build them very inexpensively.
[00:11:21]  I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will have Mexico pay for that wall.
[00:11:28]  Mark my words.
[00:11:30]  Nobody would be tougher on ISIS than Donald Trump.
[00:11:35]  Nobody.
[00:11:38]  I will find within our military, I will find the General Patton, or I will find General MacArthur.
[00:11:46]  I will find the right guy.
[00:11:48]  I will find the guy that's going to take that military and make it really work.
[00:11:54]  Yeah, and this is going to resonate.
[00:11:56]  All of this, all of this, I'm telling you, is going to resonate with people.
[00:11:59]  And here's something else to watch.
[00:12:02]  The more the media hates this and makes fun of it and laughs, the more support Trump's going to get.
[00:12:08]  There was another, we don't have tape on this.
[00:12:10]  It wasn't worth rowing off on tape, but he was talking about beating China, beating Japan, and how we don't have any skilled negotiators.
[00:12:21]  We've got dumb people.
[00:12:22]  We've got incompetent people.
[00:12:24]  We've got losers in every branch of government conducting a nation's business, and they don't know what they're doing.
[00:12:30]  He says, I have the smartest people.
[00:12:32]  I'll get the smartest people.
[00:12:33]  We will never, ever again lose a negotiation with Chinese or with a Japanese.
[00:12:39]  We're going to beat everybody.
[00:12:41]  We'll do very well, my friends.
[00:12:42]  We'll do very well.
[00:12:44]  I promise you.
[00:12:47]  And the final bite, this is his description of returning home to America after international travel.
[00:12:55]  We have to rebuild our infrastructure, our bridges, our roadways, our airports.
[00:13:00]  You come into LaGuardia Airport, it's like we're in a third world country.
[00:13:04]  You look at the patches in the 40-year-old floor, they throw down asphalt and they throw, you look at these airports.
[00:13:12]  We are like a third world country.
[00:13:14]  And I come in from China and I come in from Qatar and I come in from different places and they have the most incredible airports in the world.
[00:13:22]  You come back to this country and you have LAX, disaster.
[00:13:27]  You have all of these disastrous airports.
[00:13:30]  And we'll take a break and get going with your phone calls when we get back.
[00:13:36]  Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, executing assigned host duties flawlessly.
[00:13:43]  And here's Bob in Youngstown as we got started on the phones.
[00:13:46]  Great to have you, Bob.
[00:13:47]  Hi.
[00:13:47]  Mr. Limbaugh, you're 100% on the money with Ross Perot.
[00:13:51]  I remember that conversation.
[00:13:53]  I remember your criticism at the time, and you were 100% correct.
[00:13:57]  And I was on your team at that point where I felt exactly the same way, that this was really much ado about nothing where Perot was concerned.
[00:14:06]  But the difference between Perot and this other gentleman is 180 degrees the opposite.
[00:14:13]  This guy's ego is so big, and he has considered himself to be so right for so long that I genuinely think he wants this, and I genuinely think that he is truly the establishment's worst nightmare.
[00:14:26]  He doesn't need anybody else's money.
[00:14:29]  I was watching Fox News this morning when one of their commentators was interviewing some political know-it-all and he said, oh, well, you know, he's getting into the game too late.
[00:14:39]  The people that know how to run a campaign are all taken up, the good ones.
[00:14:43]  And I'm thinking to myself, he doesn't want any of those people.
[00:14:46]  He has his own people.
[00:14:47]  He doesn't want the establishment.
[00:14:49]  This is a guy that knows how to promote himself and how to promote a campaign.
[00:14:53]  And I think the guy's for real this time only because he's got such a damn big ego that he's going to prove himself right and he's going to be in your face.
[00:15:02]  You know, I think you're very right about something you mentioned when you're talking heads on TV today.
[00:15:09]  Nah, there's no chance.
[00:15:10]  I mean, all the professional people have been hired already.
[00:15:13]  I mean, he's getting in this thing too late.
[00:15:15]  What Trump loves busting is conventional wisdom formulation.
[00:15:21]  And the idea that he can't run because all the best consultants are taken up.
[00:15:27]  That's exactly the kind of thing he thinks is paralyzing politics.
[00:15:32]  Exactly that kind of thinking that you've got to get in this, there, you hire the right consultants.
[00:15:38]  The way he looks at it and what you just said, he doesn't need an advisor.
[00:15:42]  He knows what he thinks.
[00:15:43]  He doesn't need somebody to help him do this or that.
[00:15:45]  He knows how he wants to talk.
[00:15:46]  He knows how he wants to come off.
[00:15:47]  He's comfortable in his own skin and he's willing to put it out there.
[00:15:51]  In other words, he doesn't, I don't think he wants to hire anybody.
[00:15:54]  Is going to tell him how to phony it up.
[00:15:57]  Exactly right.
[00:15:58]  He's got more money than God.
[00:15:59]  And plus, he's got the best of the best working for him.
[00:16:03]  He's got a brain trust that would rival any university.
[00:16:08]  And he's got people that know how to get the job done.
[00:16:11]  These are goal-oriented people that work for him.
[00:16:15]  And believe me, his ego is so big that he wants to just stand up there and say, I told you so.
[00:16:22]  I've been telling you for years.
[00:16:24]  The difference is Perot was really kind of a wallflower prior to him running.
[00:16:29]  You're 100% correct about that.
[00:16:31]  And he really, you were right.
[00:16:33]  He didn't want that job.
[00:16:35]  And he found every excuse.
[00:16:36]  I remember his daughter's wedding was kind of the opening to him finding a way out of running for the presidency.
[00:16:48]  Just the exact opposite.
[00:16:50]  This guy wants it, and he wants to say, I told you so.
[00:16:53]  I've been telling you, and I'm going to show you I'm right.
[00:16:56]  Wait a minute.
[00:16:58]  You are convinced after this speech today that he wants it.
[00:17:02]  Let me ask you a question.
[00:17:05]  I want you to think about this.
[00:17:07]  A lot of the drive-bys are saying, nah, nah, this is not about really running for president.
[00:17:12]  This is just about name recognition, name ideas.
[00:17:16]  Get his name out there.
[00:17:17]  For what purpose?
[00:17:19]  If he's not really doing this to run for president, why does he want to get his name out?
[00:17:24]  What could he possibly want to accomplish?
[00:17:28]  Is he hurting somewhere?
[00:17:30]  Is business hurting?
[00:17:31]  Is his reality TV show on Verger cancellation?
[00:17:34]  What would be the reason that he would do this for publicity only?
[00:17:38]  I truly believe, and I just have to go back to my original statement.
[00:17:42]  He's got an ego bigger than the sun.
[00:17:45]  And he's been telling the American people in Washington for years, you really don't know what you're talking about.
[00:17:53]  You really have no idea how to run this country.
[00:17:56]  You're destroying the economy.
[00:17:57]  You're destroying the money.
[00:17:59]  And I've had enough.
[00:18:01]  I'm going to show you I'm right.
[00:18:02]  And I'm going to get in there and I'm going to kick butt and take names later.
[00:18:06]  And I really think that that's what this is all about.
[00:18:08]  And I'll tell you something.
[00:18:09]  The establishment are probably the most worried people in Washington.
[00:18:13]  He doesn't need any lobbyists.
[00:18:15]  He's got more money than they need.
[00:18:16]  Wait, wait, wait a minute.
[00:18:17]  Wait a minute.
[00:18:17]  One thing.
[00:18:18]  They're not worried yet.
[00:18:21]  They're not taking this seriously yet.
[00:18:24]  They're laughing about this right now.
[00:18:26]  Do not doubt me.
[00:18:29]  They're laughing about it.
[00:18:31]  I mean, you might have a couple of them who take a moment.
[00:18:35]  Okay, what does this mean for me, XYZ, so forth, so on, in terms of just another name thrown in the hat here.
[00:18:44]  But right now, they're all laughing.
[00:18:46]  And none of the quote-unquote professionals are going to give Trump anywhere near even half a chance because he's so outside the formula that everybody says is necessary.
[00:19:02]  And I also, folks, I want to remind you of something else that happened.
[00:19:08]  And I'm not accusing here our old buddy Bob, but Bob seemed to know quite a bit about what Trump's motivation was, didn't he?
[00:19:17]  I don't know if Bob's ever met Trump, but when you listen to Bob talk, he knew exactly why Trump was doing what he was.
[00:19:23]  I found this phenomenon during the Perot era.
[00:19:28]  I had caller after caller after caller telling me why Perot was doing it, what Perot was going to do after he won, everything.
[00:19:37]  And they didn't know him.
[00:19:38]  Now, what it meant was that Perot was resonating so well that these people just automatically assumed Perot was going to do what they wanted done.
[00:19:49]  Hey, we're back.
[00:19:50]  El Rushboard here at the EIB Network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
[00:19:56]  This is Stacey in Fort Collins, Colorado.
[00:19:59]  Great to have you with us.
[00:20:00]  Hi.
[00:20:00]  Hi, Rash.
[00:20:01]  It's nice to be here.
[00:20:02]  I have to start out by saying that I was waiting tables in Fort Collins at Cooper Smith's Problem Brewing the day that you gave your speech for Dance Bake Sale, and I thought what a crazy bunch of people you are.
[00:20:13]  And now, 20 years later, I am a Rush fan.
[00:20:16]  Is that right?
[00:20:16]  You were working in Fort Collins the day of Dan's Bake Sale.
[00:20:19]  That was 1990, some odd.
[00:20:21]  I was.
[00:20:22]  I was standing on the parking garage at the top of the parking garage, and I watched your entire speech.
[00:20:28]  Well, it wasn't much of a speech, as I remember.
[00:20:30]  It was very short, yeah.

=== Catholic Church's Unchanging Shape (07:21) ===

[00:20:32]  But there were like 75,000 people there.
[00:20:35]  It was unbelievable.
[00:20:36]  I'd never seen anything like it before.
[00:20:37]  And you're standing up there and say, what a bunch of kooks?
[00:20:39]  These people are crazy.
[00:20:40]  Yeah, now I'm one of them.
[00:20:43]  And now you are.
[00:20:45]  And I'm talking to you.
[00:20:46]  It's surreal.
[00:20:48]  It's great to have you.
[00:20:49]  I'm calling.
[00:20:50]  Sorry.
[00:20:51]  It's great to have you here.
[00:20:52]  Thank you.
[00:20:53]  I'm calling on a topic I never thought I would be calling about, not politics, but religion.
[00:20:58]  I am a Catholic, and I'm in so much pain today at the possibility that my Pope is spreading Marxist error.
[00:21:05]  I'll refrain from judging him until I've read the encyclical, and I'll hopefully give him the benefit of the doubt, and maybe this is all taken out of context.
[00:21:13]  But it will not shock me if it is true.
[00:21:17]  I think there is, you know, a lot of people are using this as a way and a vehicle to discredit the church.
[00:21:23]  But I want to point out that there is precedence for this in the Catholic Church.
[00:21:27]  All the way back from its inception, Judas was an apostle who chose politics and power over God, and he ended up betraying our Lord with a kiss.
[00:21:35]  And if the Pope chooses Marxism over the mystical body of Christ, you know, this is indeed a betrayal on a scale that we haven't seen before.
[00:21:44]  And it also is a realization of what the Blessed Mother warned us against at Fatima, which was that communism would spread her heirs.
[00:21:51]  So I am.
[00:21:52]  I'm absolutely distraught that I have to come out and defend my church against this.
[00:21:56]  But I hope that people don't use this just to discredit.
[00:22:00]  And it's kind of like the Constitution.
[00:22:02]  You know, we have the bedrock principles of our Constitution, and people pervert and try to use that for their own benefit all the time.
[00:22:08]  So I see the church whose documents have not changed.
[00:22:11]  The teaching of the church is still the same.
[00:22:14]  But people are using her to push their own agendas.
[00:22:18]  Well, here's the troubling thing.
[00:22:21]  Politics, by its very nature, is subject to change.
[00:22:26]  There's nothing, very few articles of faith in real terms in politics.
[00:22:32]  You've got a plethora of different political views.
[00:22:36]  You have elections where people win and lose.
[00:22:40]  Various different theories are implemented and people get to experience the results of those theories.
[00:22:48]  And it's, in many cases, it's hardcore fact.
[00:22:51]  Religion, at its root, is faith-based.
[00:22:55]  And a church is the exact opposite of politics in the sense that politics is designed to bend and shape to the will of public opinion.
[00:23:09]  At least in a democracy or a representative republic, it is.
[00:23:13]  Politics is designed to take the temperature of the American public and react accordingly, i.e., in elections.
[00:23:21]  And there's all kinds of things that get encompassed in politics.
[00:23:25]  The culture is part of politics.
[00:23:28]  But religion is what it is.
[00:23:31]  The Catholic Church is what it is.
[00:23:33]  It's not supposed to bend in shape to accommodate the failings of the flock.
[00:23:40]  It is not supposed to bend in shape so the flock can get away with committing sin.
[00:23:46]  It's not supposed to redefine sin.
[00:23:49]  It's not supposed, the church is supposed to, this is why the left hates it.
[00:23:53]  Correct.
[00:23:54]  The Pope is not speaking ex cathedra.
[00:23:56]  He is not speaking infallibly.
[00:23:59]  He's giving out an encyclical, which is just his teaching.
[00:24:02]  So it goes out to all the bishops, and they can, you know, this isn't, you don't have to believe this to be Catholic.
[00:24:08]  The bedrock principles that you have to believe as a Catholic are the same.
[00:24:12]  So people can try and pervert them all they want to, but they don't change, like birth control and gay marriage.
[00:24:18]  So people can try and, you know, politicize them all they want.
[00:24:21]  But if you really look at the documents and the teachings of the Catholic Church, they are exactly the same as they were going back to Peter.
[00:24:29]  For the most part, yeah.
[00:24:30]  I mean, you've had Vatican I and Vatican II.
[00:24:33]  Which is highly, you know, this has been such a wound to the faith.
[00:24:38]  I'm a traditional Catholic.
[00:24:40]  I hate saying that word, but I go to the, you know, to the Tridentine Mass because I do see the modernism, you know, that has seeped into our church.
[00:24:48]  And it has caused a great deal of pain and suffering.
[00:24:51]  But, you know, the comfort that we have is that we do have these, you know, everything about the church is still there.
[00:24:57]  So if people want to, you know, love the church, they want to be Catholic.
[00:25:02]  The rules have ensure the rules.
[00:25:04]  But the teachings and guideposts of the church are the same.
[00:25:08]  They are exactly the same.
[00:25:10]  The articles are the same.
[00:25:11]  Despite how much people want to change them, they are the same.
[00:25:14]  And that's the point.
[00:25:15]  It is not supposed to bend and shape to popular opinion.
[00:25:19]  Absolutely.
[00:25:19]  And that's why it's valuable.
[00:25:22]  That's why terms like the rock are used.
[00:25:27]  But I know that the encyclical is not a religious article of faith, but the point is, and Catholics are not required to believe it.
[00:25:38]  It's not part of the actual teachings of the church.
[00:25:42]  But if this is true, if the Pope has come out and said that rich, it just sounds like another member nation of the U.N., the U.S. is guilty.
[00:25:51]  Western nations are rich and are polluting the world.
[00:25:53]  They're destroying the climate, and they've got a duty to stop and give more money to the poor and so forth.
[00:25:58]  If the left can get to a Pope and corrupt an encyclical, they're going to be inspired to keep going and try to corrupt the whole thing.
[00:26:06]  Correct.
[00:26:06]  But the church's official teaching on communism is that it was condemned.
[00:26:10]  So, like I said, this is absolutely one of the most painful phone calls that I've ever made to have to defend my church against something Marxist that our Pope has said is I can't even believe I'm living in a time like this.
[00:26:25]  Well, Marxism, in the sense I was making an economic analysis, obviously the Catholic Church has to stand against communism.
[00:26:33]  Communism doesn't believe in God.
[00:26:34]  Communists do not permit belief in God.
[00:26:37]  There's no such thing permitted or allowed.
[00:26:38]  The Catholic Church can never, ever become communist.
[00:26:42]  Correct.
[00:26:43]  But if the Pope is coming out and he's promoting an idea that says that we should annihilate all countries and have a world government, I mean, we are at a scary and spooky place.
[00:26:54]  And I think we have an obligation to speak out.
[00:26:58]  I understand how you're going to make a lot of people nervous because this is the kind of thing that the church has always been a safe haven from.
[00:27:09]  There are exceptions, of course.
[00:27:11]  But never forget, always remember, even the Washington Post story reporting on this encyclical alludes to the possibility that it's totally made up and is a leak designed to harm Il Papa.
[00:27:30]  And this has happened a lot.
[00:27:31]  The Pope is reported to have said something, whatever it is, that sounds way off the beaten path.

=== Trial Balloons and Politics (09:01) ===

[00:27:38]  And people react to it.
[00:27:40]  And then later it is learned, the Vatican announces the Pope didn't say that.
[00:27:44]  It's taken out of context.
[00:27:45]  Here's what the Pope actually said.
[00:27:47]  This is the work of muckrakers trying to create problems.
[00:27:51]  The Pope never said it.
[00:27:52]  It's happened a lot, which is what has made me think they engage in the trial balloon aspect of politics.
[00:28:02]  Float something, see what the reaction is, and then decide later whether to legitimize it or say, no, no, no, no, that's a leak.
[00:28:08]  That's not true.
[00:28:09]  We'll just have to wait and see on this.
[00:28:11]  But this has been predicted, rumored, or what have you.
[00:28:15]  This encyclical, it still hasn't been released.
[00:28:18]  But even prior to today, there has been speculation that what it's reported to be today was exactly what it is and is coming.
[00:28:27]  Anyway, Stacey, so many years after Dan's bake sale at Fort Collins, great to know you're still there and part of us now.
[00:28:36]  We'll be right back.
[00:28:38]  High Point, North Carolina.
[00:28:40]  Scott wants to weigh in on the Trump announcement.
[00:28:43]  Greetings, sir.
[00:28:44]  Great to have you on the program.
[00:28:45]  Hi.
[00:28:45]  Hey, Rush.
[00:28:46]  Really, really awesome to talk to you.
[00:28:48]  I appreciate that, sir.
[00:28:49]  Thank you.
[00:28:51]  On the Trump announcement, I think personally, it was refreshing.
[00:28:56]  Not all the same rhetoric and consultant gobbledygook.
[00:29:00]  And, you know, it was pretty straight talk, a little bit all over the place sometimes, but I can certainly relate to his China talk, love, hate relationship with my situation.
[00:29:14]  But I think the smartest thing about the announcement was not really what he said, but what he did.
[00:29:25]  But what did he do?
[00:29:27]  He ended his announcement about five minutes before the Rush Limbaugh show.
[00:29:32]  Oh, yes, yes, yes.
[00:29:34]  That's exactly right.
[00:29:35]  Something that had escaped my mind.
[00:29:37]  You're exactly right.
[00:29:38]  He knew exactly when to wrap up.
[00:29:41]  I don't know when Bush exactly announced, but how much have you talked about Bush's announcement versus his?
[00:29:49]  Because he ended it at the right time.
[00:29:51]  Well, pretty much.
[00:29:52]  Bush announced after the program yesterday.
[00:29:55]  Right.
[00:29:56]  Which was a very considerate thing to do.
[00:29:57]  The Bushes are very polite people.
[00:29:59]  I acknowledge this.
[00:30:02]  And we're going to get to Jeb's announcement.
[00:30:05]  We get to all of them at some point.
[00:30:06]  I mean, there have been a bunch of them announced that we haven't talked about it.
[00:30:09]  Is it, what, 16 now or 20?
[00:30:11]  Well, I don't even know what the number is, but there's a lot of them in now.
[00:30:14]  Well, he definitely trumped the Bush announcement, I would say.
[00:30:19]  Yeah, I'd have to say that you're right.
[00:30:22]  So you didn't find him braggadocious.
[00:30:25]  That's not off-putting to you.
[00:30:26]  Like when Trump says, hey, I'm really rich, I'll show you here in a minute.
[00:30:29]  And I'm not ashamed to be.
[00:30:31]  It does me.
[00:30:31]  I'm sure it does to a lot of people.
[00:30:33]  But I mean, there are other people in the race that are kind of straight talk, not typical.
[00:30:40]  I mean, Carson is another one up there, not a political, you know, never held office, but, you know, speaks his mind and is very articulate as well.
[00:30:50]  You know, you remind me of something I heard before Trump made his announcement this morning.
[00:30:57]  I saw this on CNN.
[00:31:00]  Some info babe, I don't remember who, was lamenting Trump getting in the race as a clown.
[00:31:09]  And so the real problem with Trump getting in is he's going to make the Republican lower tier look good.
[00:31:18]  And she cited Ben Carson as an example and how unfortunate that is, that Ben Carson is going to end up looking presidential because Trump getting in is a clown.
[00:31:33]  And folks, let me tell you something.
[00:31:36]  This is exactly, It dovetails exactly with what I was talking about yesterday, and a point that I'm going to continue to try to make for as long as we've been doing this program.
[00:31:49]  Dr. Benjamin Carson is one of the finest, most accomplished human beings on this planet who has done more for people than most people in politics will ever do.
[00:32:02]  And he's done it personally, not with other people's money.
[00:32:06]  Dr. Ben Carson is a first-class human being and citizen.
[00:32:13]  He is exactly the kind of person that you could trust running any government institution.
[00:32:20]  You would trust him to babysit your kids.
[00:32:22]  He's just an admirable human being.
[00:32:24]  He has overcome great odds.
[00:32:26]  He's brilliant.
[00:32:28]  He's temperate.
[00:32:30]  There is everything in the world to recommend about the humanity of Dr. Benjamin Carson.
[00:32:36]  And here he is on CNN today, ripped, and said it's unfortunate that somebody like Ben Carson will be made to look serious when Trump gets in as the clown.
[00:32:52]  There is not a single person in the media today that could wear Dr. Benjamin Carson's uniform, whatever uniform he puts on it.
[00:33:01]  If it's a business suit, if it's surgical scrubs, there's not a single member of the media that could do anything close to what Ben Carson has done with his life.
[00:33:10]  But he gets, and he's not the only one, ripped to shreds, denigrated, destroyed.
[00:33:18]  And for what?
[00:33:20]  He holds to traditional values.
[00:33:23]  He believes in morality.
[00:33:26]  He is just a decent guy.
[00:33:30]  And he ends up a target for destruction.
[00:33:34]  And he's not the only one.
[00:33:36]  Same thing happened.
[00:33:37]  Romney, I mean, whatever you think of Romney and his politics.
[00:33:40]  As a human being, there's none better.
[00:33:44]  As a man of integrity, a man of character, there's none better.
[00:33:47]  These people get destroyed.
[00:33:50]  And nobody stands up to defend them.
[00:33:54]  Because then they get destroyed or attacked.
[00:33:58]  And it's exactly that's not, it's one of the many things that's just out of whack.
[00:34:06]  Compared to Hillary Clinton, you know, the other day, last hour, every government worker, every federal employee, every record about every federal employee has been hacked.
[00:34:20]  Does that include Hillary?
[00:34:21]  Has her private server been hacked?
[00:34:25]  We demand to know this.
[00:34:27]  We have every right to know whether her server's been had.
[00:34:29]  The Chikoms get her.
[00:34:32]  They got everybody else.
[00:34:34]  And why did the ChiComs want to hack every government?
[00:34:37]  It's not because they want their credit cards.
[00:34:40]  The TRICOMs don't need anybody's Amex account.
[00:34:44]  They want to be able to collect data on federal employees to either recruit them as spies or blackmail them or both.
[00:34:52]  And that would hold for Hillary Clinton if she becomes president.
[00:34:55]  You don't think the Clintons have things that they don't want people to know about?
[00:34:58]  Even the Clintons.
[00:34:59]  We think we know everything there is to know, but we don't.
[00:35:05]  Did Hillary's server get hacked?
[00:35:06]  Did the ChiComs know everything there is on that server that Hillary doesn't want anybody to know?
[00:35:11]  If they were able to hack every, get past every bit of security, supposedly protecting every federal employee.
[00:35:19]  Here's Mrs. Clinton's little server in Chappaqua or wherever the hell it was.
[00:35:26]  Maybe that's the reason why she's not releasing 30 some odd thousand emails.
[00:35:31]  These are serious questions.
[00:35:32]  But you compare Dr. Carson to the Clintons?
[00:35:39]  I mean, it's not even in talking character, accomplishment, intelligence, credibility, believability, every characteristic that matters, virtue, it's no contest.
[00:35:54]  The Clintons can't even get on the same stage.
[00:35:58]  And yet they're placed there by a fawning accomplice media that's doing the job of running around and destroying literally great, good, fine people.
[00:36:12]  And I think it's just, it's, it's unfortunate how easy it appears to be.
[00:36:20]  It's unfortunate how complete character assassination could end up being for somebody who just, why would you even want to destroy somebody like Ben Carson?

=== Why Ben Carson Matters (01:07) ===

[00:36:32]  Why?
[00:36:32]  All he's done is save the lives of children.
[00:36:34]  I thought that's what mattered to people on the left and Democrats.
[00:36:38]  All he's done, and so much pro bono, brain surgery on young children, that was his specialty.
[00:36:49]  They even made a movie about him, a movie about his life.
[00:36:52]  It was so extraordinary.
[00:36:54]  It was so exemplary.
[00:36:55]  It was so inspiring.
[00:36:58]  Now you've got some no accomplishment twit on CNN claiming that the worst thing about Trump getting in is going to make Ben Carson look legitimate.
[00:37:08]  That's what's wrong.
[00:37:11]  No, no, I haven't forgotten.
[00:37:12]  It's just we're going to get to Rachel Dolezall.
[00:37:16]  I mean, you know everything there is to know there, but you've got to hear some of these soundbites.
[00:37:19]  That's the big deal.
[00:37:20]  Some of the media people commenting on that.
[00:37:22]  That's the fun of it.
[00:37:23]  So we'll get to all of that and still lots of other stuff, too.
[00:37:27]  We don't have enough time to get it all in, but we'll do everything we can.