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June 18, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 18, 2015, Thursday, Hour #3
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Back we are, Rush Limbaugh behind the Golden EIB microphone for yet another hour of broadcast excellence here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network coming to you for the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
And remember, as long as I'm here, it doesn't matter where here is 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, for you golf fans out there, not necessarily for those of you in the Stick to the Issues crowd, I've been watching the U.S. Open here on a live feed.
I've been streaming it on one of my monitors.
Not watching it on TV.
I've got CNN and Fox on the TV.
And this is the first year that Fox is doing golf.
Usually the U.S. Open is televised by NBC, Johnny Miller and Dan Hicks.
But now it's Fox.
But that's not why I've been watching.
I've been watching because I've heard such horror stories about this golf course where they're playing the U.S. Open, Chambers Bay.
And I have to tell you, I haven't been paying attention to what I'm watching in terms of score and who, because I think the stream that I've got going is Phil Mickelson's group.
So I really don't know how anybody's doing.
And I wouldn't, because of spoiler alerts, tell you anyway.
And it's going to be going to 11 o'clock tonight.
It's in prime time because it's out in Seattle.
So not everybody's even teed off.
And the last tea time of the day is 4.30 Eastern Time.
So you get home tonight and watch this thing in prime time on Fox.
But this golf course looks impossible.
It's a genuine Lynx course like you would find in Scotland or Ireland or the UK.
It looks dead.
Even the greens, you can't tell the difference in the greens and the fescue rough half the time.
It's fascinating.
These guys, I've been watching Phil Nicholson, Anhill Herrera, and Bubba, Bubba Watson.
The first hole was incredible.
Both Phil and Bubba Watson's second shots rolled off the green 70 yards away.
They hit the green.
Look at it right there.
I mean, you can't, it's incredible.
It's just, it looks like they're playing in a desert where they painted some of the sand green.
But not all of it.
Anywho, ladies and gentlemen, it is that time of year that we creatively refer to it around here as tea season.
More specifically, it's two if by tea season.
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Here is here, James, in Pine Lake, Georgia, as we head back to the phones.
Great to have you.
Hi.
Hey, how you doing?
I'm doing great, sir.
Thank you.
Listen, I think that Trump has got a very good chance of getting elected president of the United States.
You do?
I do indeed, because I think that low-information voters, the same people that put Obama into office, he's got name recognition with them that they never heard of Ted Cruz or any of the others, but they've heard of Trump.
They watch him on the apprentice, and he's saying stuff that they want to hear.
They don't know about all the weird proposals he's made over the past.
Wait a minute.
What kind of weird proposals?
Confiscating people's wealth to pay off the national debts.
No, no, not quite just.
Proposed a one-time surtax of 14.25%, just a one-time deal.
Just a one-time deal.
That's right.
Yeah, but that's not the Democrats confiscate people's wealth.
That's not what Trump proposed.
Trump, yeah, right.
Okay.
I'm just saying that people who don't identify as Republican or Democrat are going to, they know who he is, and he's saying things that he's saying what they want to hear.
And like I said, they don't know about all the weirdness that he's proposed in the past.
Okay.
Some of what you say stands to reason.
I mean, you're talking about low-information people, and they do watch and like The Apprentice, and they associate you're fired.
And they associate a guy who takes no nonsense.
A guy, look, I'll tell you what, where Trump goes, crowds follow.
I mean, he does seminars on business at business schools in public.
He does draw crowds.
There's no question that he does.
Paid crowds.
He's got a lot of name recognition.
And, you know, I think that he stands a good chance.
I mean, look, how shocked were you that Obama got reelected?
Because I was floored.
Well, like you said, it's the same people.
No, that's a great question, actually.
And I was shocked until I saw the exit poll data.
And then I knew it was over.
But I'm like everybody else.
I really, and this is a major mistake that a lot of us made.
I really did believe the polls were wrong.
I really thought the vast majority of these people in this country were informed.
And I thought the opposition to Obamacare alone would be enough to defeat Obama.
And I was looking at the 2010 midterm turnout.
I said, I discounted the polls because I figured they were miscounting people.
But that presidential turnout, the people that voted for Obama were people that don't even know the details of Obamacare.
That's your point, really.
Right.
Right.
Low-information voters don't vote in the midterms.
Right.
So, you know, you get, you know, we got Congress, we got the Senate, but we lost the White House again.
And again, you know, big turnout of people that.
Well, here's another thing.
Here's another thing.
You know, the House Republicans are working overtime to help Obama pass this trans-Pacific partnership trade deal.
And it is a sellout of Republican voters.
This is actually one of the most amazing things.
The Democrats have worked very hard to defeat this.
And I know a lot of people who have said to me, Rush, do you realize the debt of gratitude we owe the Democrat Party for saving this country's sovereignty?
Because they stopped this trade deal.
Friends of mine who believe that it was the Democrats who saved the day on this thing by defeating it.
Here you have the Republicans working overtime to help Obama pass this thing.
Now, let me ask you a question.
James, do you wonder why that's the case?
I think that the Republican Party, the Republican establishment has sold out their base.
And I'll tell you right now.
Yeah, but to who?
To whom have they sold out?
They've sold that.
They're only in it for the money and the power now.
They don't represent us anymore.
Well, I know a lot of people think that, but I mean, I've got a specific answer to this.
The Chamber of Commerce is running the Republican Party right now, and the Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber of Commerce, has been stealthily taken over by a bunch of liberals.
The Chamber of Commerce is why the Republicans are pro-amnesty and pro-ultimistic.
Why do we want open borders?
It's so that we can exploit.
The left wants to exploit immigration politically, and the right wants to exploit them economically.
You know, they want a permanent, well, you've said it before.
They want a permanent underclass of cheap labor Democrats.
And so I really don't think that I voted Republican all my life, and I'll tell you right now, if somebody like Jeff Bush gets the nomination, I am not voting for that guy.
I voted for his dad.
I voted for his brother.
Not again.
What about Trump?
I mean, let's say you're right about Trump.
Let's say Trump.
I don't know.
I wouldn't vote.
Oh, my God.
No.
Hell no.
I wouldn't vote for Trump.
Well, wait a minute.
Trump probably is not going to go along with this immigration stuff that you just described you don't like.
Yeah.
You wouldn't vote for Trump.
Okay, Ted Cruz.
I like Cruz.
Scott Walker.
I like Walker, yes.
Marco Rubio.
Rubio got burned on the border.
I like Rubio, but again, you know, open border Republicans, big government, open-border Republicans.
No, thank you.
Carly Fiorina.
I don't know that much about her.
She's the one that ran against Jerry Brown in California, is that right?
Yeah, but she's a different person now.
Since she has broken away from the McCain-Romney cabal, Carly Fiorina is sounding as conservative as anybody in the race is.
And she's doing something nobody else in the, well, very few are doing, and she's going for Hillary's throat.
Yep.
How about I haven't been paying that much attention to her?
Well, start.
You'll be pleased.
How about Lindsey Gramnesty?
No, hell no.
Again, he's a big government, open-border Republican.
Rick Perry.
Yeah, I like him.
Like him.
Okay, so you guys are highly successful in Texas.
How about Dr. Ben Carson?
Again, I don't, I haven't paid a lot of attention to Carson.
I understand he is a fantastic human being.
And if he got the nomination, I would vote for him.
Okay, so there's five or six here that you would have no problem supporting.
But if it's Trump, if it's Jeb, you're out of there.
Yeah, I'm not.
I'll vote third party or just sit it out.
No, third party.
We have another, I'm in Georgia.
If we have another primary where I have to vote for Mike freaking Huckabee in order to prevent the worst option from getting in, I'm just not going to do it.
Oh, boy, do I hear you on that?
Oh, do I?
Oh, you do.
You are right on the money on that.
Well, I appreciate that, Rush.
I've been listening to you for 24 years.
Well, that's why you're right.
I'm old listening to you.
Well, I'm glad that you're out there, James.
I know what you mean.
If I have to vote for Mike freaking Huckaberry in order to keep somebody.
Yeah, I know.
Yeah.
Well, at least there's hope for you because you've got four or five here that could inspire you.
By the way, folks, I just was told that there's an overwhelmed with traffic at RushRevere.com and that there's a slowdown at the shop.
It's just traffic.
And if you just be patient, everybody will get in.
It's just an abundance of people trying to get on the same time.
We've got an incredible array of server array in order to handle massive demand like this.
And it's even being stressed.
So just hang in there and be tough.
There's nothing wrong.
Just a lot of traffic.
Now, about this U.S. Open, let me put it this way.
If you're not watching this thing in high def, by Saturday or Sunday, you're not going to be able to see the ball rolling on the fairway.
There isn't going to be enough contrast.
And you can't tell the difference other than the flag, the green and the fairway.
It looks just like your average British Open in July when they haven't had any rain since 1944.
Now, it's the way they set it up.
Nothing's wrong.
The USGA set it up this way.
I'm just telling you, if you're watching this thing and if you don't have high def yet, there's going to be some holes.
You're not going to be able to follow the ball.
It's the best way I can describe this course, the way it looks to you.
I referenced this soundbite earlier in the program, and I want to play it for you now.
John Heileman, he's the co-host with Mark Halperin of a TV show on the Bloomberg Network called with all due respect.
And they're all excited about the Pope Francis encyclical, where the Pope basically signs on to the Democrat Party view of climate change.
Now, they didn't know when they were having their little orgasm over this.
They didn't know that the Pope has also tied climate change to abortion.
You have not heard this?
I mentioned the first part of the program.
Let me read this to you.
For Pope Francis, and it's only one place right now, National Journal.
It has not appeared in the media anywhere else yet.
For Pope Francis, caring about the environment goes hand in hand with taking a strong stand against abortion.
Since everything is interrelated, concern for the protection of nature is also incompatible with the justification of abortion, the papal encyclical says.
How can we genuinely teach the importance of concern for other vulnerable beings, however troublesome or inconvenient they may be, if we fail to protect a human embryo, even when its presence is uncomfortable and creates difficulty?
I mean, the Pope has thrown them a curveball change up like they didn't know was coming.
All these environmentalist wackos are out there celebrating, giving themselves high fives because the Pope has joined them.
And then he basically said, you cannot be an environmentalist wacko and be pro-choice at the same time.
If you're going to care about God's creation, the planet, if you're going to care about every plant and every animal, the climate, how can you not care about every baby in the womb?
Wait till they find out.
Wait till they, I mean, the Pope, this is pop-a-dope.
This is a pop-a-dope movie.
It is an absolutely, I have to applaud the Vatican on this because they're all just celebrating and they have no idea yet, most of them still don't, that to fully embrace the Pope, they're going to have to also agree with him and become anti-abortion, which they won't do.
Because they don't reject the idea of God-created earth.
Or they don't accept the idea.
They reject that.
So here's Heileman on this Bloomberg show last night, all hot to trot over the papal encyclical on climate change.
And Halperin asks her, Okay, look, for all the Republican candidates out there, how big a risk is it for them to say to the Pope, who is popular, stay out of politics?
It's insane to take on Pope Francis, not just because they might not get into heaven, if there is such a thing, but because he's super popular, and also because he's right.
The planet is getting hotter, and you can be a denial if you want, but it's going to be very hard, I think, for someone to become president of the United States in 2016 who is a climate denier.
It's not in line with science, and it's not in line with where the growing segments of the electorate are.
Wrong and wrong.
There is not a consensus of independent science.
The consensus of scientists has bought and paid for.
The American people do not, by a majority, sign on to the whole notion of man-made climate change.
Most of them rank it down at the bottom when asking what issues are important to you.
The earth is not warming.
We're in the midst of a 10-year cooling cycle.
But how about this statement?
I mean, you're not going to be elected president if you're a climate denier.
Meaning, you're not going to be elected president unless you become a socialist, unless you embrace the UN.
You don't have a prayer of being elected president.
Now, again, these guys don't know.
This was last night.
They do not know that the Pope tied abortion to this.
The minute they find out, the Pope is not going to become their buddy.
The Pope is not going to remain their buddy.
The Pope is once again going to become an extremist, and they're going to have to bifurcate this.
They're going to have to say, well, the Pope's right over here, but they should stay out of politics when it comes to abortion or some such thing.
You watch.
Won't be long.
Be right back after this.
We're back.
Great to have you here, folks.
Rush Limboy and EIB Network, White Plains, New York.
Hey, Rich, great to have you, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, mega golf lovers, dittos.
Thank you, sir, very much.
It's pretty obvious that the Republican pundits don't like Trump, but I've never seen such a display of animus as I saw yesterday by Dana Perino on that show, The Five.
And she was using Eric Bowling as her whipping boy when Bowling was not even making a full-throated endorsement of Trump, just trying to bring out some of the positives.
And she went bonkers.
I mean, it was ugly, Rush.
I've never seen anything like it.
Really?
Dana Perino?
Oh, it was shocking, Rush.
It was.
You got to go back and watch it.
She was out of her mind.
She went so far as to accuse Bowling of sucking up to Donald because he wanted to be on The Apprentice.
She actually said that.
Hmm.
Now, what surprised me, it doesn't surprise me that Dana Perino would have that attitude about Trump.
But she, on that show, and I haven't seen it in a while, but on that show, she has the everybody on that show has a character or a persona.
Her persona is of the wise school teacher or school marm watching in amused amazement at all the others as they say incendiary things.
She tries to come off as the reasonable, almost moderator.
Sure, she's the kumbaya person.
And there was no kumbaya in her yesterday.
Well, you know, she's in the Bush camp, and that has got to be a factor in this.
But she was not the only one.
I read you that piece of National Review yesterday that they just, I mean, I've never read anything like that about a Democrat.
It insulted Trump's wife.
It insulted his kids.
It insulted Trump.
It insulted his hair.
In fact, he announced going down an escalator if that wasn't symbolic of his whole campaign.
It was brutal.
It was also funny.
But so you, well, did you interpret this as dissension in the ranks on the five or something else?
Oh, absolutely.
It was a complete departure of protocol for her.
I just read a couple of, I got on a website, and a lot of people feel exactly the same way that she needs to take a timeout.
She needs to go wherever what's his name went for a while because she was that out of line.
And Bob Beckle?
He was going to.
Yeah, Bob Beckle.
She used to go wherever Bob Beckle went for a little while.
But somebody described her as needing a timeout.
I mean, it was really completely out of character for her.
And I think it was a Freudian slip that shows exactly what she is.
She's a rhino, you know, through and through.
She's no real conservative.
Well, I know a lot of people think that.
Republican establishment, I mean, clearly her loyalties are understandably with a Bush political apparatus, and that would mean Jeb in this environment.
But I tell you, you know, I know what you're talking about, but here's the thing.
While you may have a couple people you found on social media who think, whoa, wow, Dana would overboard, most people are going to say, man, that was great television.
Especially if it broke the mold.
Especially if it was out of character.
Look at you.
It happened yesterday.
You're still 23 hours later calling here to talk about it.
And so the people in charge over there, wow, that was great TV.
I'll tell you what, you'll find out if today there is some reference to it.
And if she says, you know, Eric, Eric and I are buds, and it just got a little heated yesterday.
Well, we love each other, right, Eric?
And if Eric's, oh, yeah, no problem.
Then you'll know that there was something to it that might have been upset.
If they don't address it today, then there's no sweat.
You just watch.
You've got to learn how to watch this stuff.
In addition, just being an impassioned viewer or even a dispassionate viewer, there's a way to watch this stuff to understand what about it is real and what isn't.
And I'm here to help anytime anybody has a question about this stuff.
So, Rich, I appreciate the call.
I really do.
Okay, folks, remember our sweetsteaks.
Rushrevered.com is how you shop at Two If My T. Have a great rest of the day.
We'll be back here tomorrow.
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