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June 30, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 30, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Okay, you probably heard this before.
This is not by any means my idea creation.
Well, I'm gonna use it, I'll remind you of it again.
Let's say we decide, and that we've tried compromise, and we've tried working together, we've tried bipartisan just doesn't work.
And so what we decide to do is give the Democrats half the country and the Republicans half of the country.
And we draw a line.
Somewhere down the middle of the country, wherever we doesn't matter where we draw the line.
And on one side of the line, everybody is Republican.
On the other side of the line, everybody is Democrat.
How long is it going to be before people want to cross over?
And who is it that will be first to cross over to the other side?
There's no question about it.
The arrangement would not work because the Democrats would try to climb over the wall within a week.
And it would become an immigration problem that we Republicans would have.
We'd have put Sheriff Arpayo in charge of it.
But I don't think it would work.
I think the Democrats would dig tunnels, they would grab onto drones, they'd fly drones over the border to whatever they could because that there, and I dare say there are few, everybody volunteers, by the way.
You get to volunteer what side you're going to live on.
You're not assigned.
If you're Republican, you go there.
Say you're Republican, that's where you go.
Say you're Democrat liberal, you go over there.
Independents, got to choose.
Gotta choose a side.
Moderates got to choose a side.
You can't live half the time in both places.
You got to choose.
And there's no question what would happen.
The Democrats would be the first to try to escape their half of the country.
What percentage of the people living on the Democrat side of the country would even work?
And of those that do work, how many of them would be willing to share what they get?
You'd have an exodus.
The plan wouldn't last a year.
And there's no doubt about that.
And you can, I don't care who you pose this to.
And the meanwhile, if things are as they are now, I I don't know.
There might be some screwball Republicans who want to change sides because they figure they chose wrong in the first place.
Who knows?
I mean.
But it wouldn't be anywhere like the mass exodus of Democrats to the Republican half of the country.
And you know who'd be leaving?
Who do you what kind of Democrats would be the first to try to get not the politicians?
The rich.
Rich Democrats be the first to leave.
And well, it is the politicians.
They'd be the first to leave, but then what would they do?
The minute they got to the Republican side, they'd start trying to corrupt it.
Just like the Yankees leaving the North going to the South today do.
And they leave liberalism because they can't pay the property taxes, the income taxes, they take their liberalism, they go to these states like Texas and Florida, and other places where there's no income tax states, and they demand everybody live the way they want them to live.
Anyway, greetings and welcome back, folks.
It's great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh on the EIB network at 800-282-288-2.
Our buddies at Newsbusters found a story in the UK Guardian on June the 27th that Pope Francis's call to action on climate change has resulted in some radical alliances.
The UK Guardian reported that the Vatican added pro-Occupy Wall Street activist Naomi Klein to a growing list of activists for its upcoming environmental conference.
Now, this conference is designed to implement the global warming ideas in the Pope's encyclical.
This is the conference that five different people who oppose the whole notion of man-made global warming were denied an invitation to attend.
And I found this out after being impugned and criticized by Cardinal World.
Uh The Bishop of Washington, D.C. was on Fox News Sunday a couple of Sundays ago.
And Chris Wallace played a soundbite of me for him and asked for his reaction.
And the soundbite was of me saying that the Pope's encyclical basically is telling people to vote for the Democrat Party.
And Cardinal World said, Well, isn't it wonderful?
We live in a country where anybody can say what they think.
Free to express their minds, even when they don't know what they're talking about.
Isn't it wonderful, Chris?
What the Pope is saying, and what Mr. Limbaugh doesn't understand.
The Pope is saying, let's all gather and talk about this together.
Let's gather the human community and solve the problem together.
Which of course it's not what the Pope is saying.
The Pope, the Vatican is denying people who disagree the opportunity to attend this conference.
Now who is Naomi Klein?
She's just one of a number of activists.
She's some Occupy Wall Street, but there's other things about her too that are attending this thing.
I mean, this is what do you hear?
She is, she's scheduled to speak, Naomi Klein is July 1st at a press.
That's tomorrow.
That's right, July 1st at a press conference for the People and Planet First Conference, hosted by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and the International Alliance of Catholic Development Organizations.
The conference will focus on the practical implementation of the Pope's encyclical.
Naomi Klein told the Guardian, a lot of people have patted the Pope on the head but said he's wrong on the economics.
I think he's right on the economics.
The holistic view of the encyclical should be a catalyst to bring together the twin economic and climate crises.
Now, Naomi Klein has a long history of economic and environmental meddling.
She described her own economic view as as intellectually cataclysmic.
For conservatives in a November 2011 piece for The Nation magazine, according to her, drastic economic changes would be necessary to address climate change.
And arriving at these new systems is going to require shredding free market ideology that has dominated the global economy for more in other words, the woman is a Marxist and she is joining the Pope and attempting to make his global warming encyclical reality by destroying the free market ideology, which is capitalism.
So she's just an example of the kind of people that are being invited.
Okay, NBC and uh and Donald Trump.
NBC's fired Trump.
They cut they cut ties with uh with Trump and the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants on Monday after Trump made comments insulting Mexicans earlier this month.
The pageants are part of a 50-50 joint venture with NBC Universal for the English language broadcast that together have in the past attracted 13 million viewers.
They will no longer err on NBC to the recent derogatory statements made by Trump regarding immigrants.
Now, as Trump is pointing out, NBC is standing by, as Trump says, the lying Brian Williams.
They stand by tax cheat Al Sharpton.
Still has a show on their sister network.
But they are dumping Donald Trump because he talked about building a border fence.
And NBC thinks he was very, very insulting to Mexican people.
The decision by NBC was announced four days after Univision said that it would not air the Miss USA pageant on July 12th and severed ties to the Miss Universe organization.
Trump's lawyer said that he will sue.
Now, didn't the head of Univision publicly compare Trump to uh Dylan Roof?
Now I think he's apologized, but he still has a job.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
This is uh in Chicago's the sh the uh City Club Chicago yesterday.
Trump spoke with reporters about NBC's decision to fire him.
There's no law against smoking in your own house.
They've tried it in a couple of counties in Maryland.
I knew that NBC's stance on immigration is very weak.
Very weak on immigration.
I'll be suing Univision.
Maybe I'll be suing NBC too.
We'll have to see.
I'll have to see it.
But I said a long time ago, when I come out with a strong immigration stance, and I'm very strong on borders, and I'm very strong on crime, that maybe I'll lose NBC along the way, and if that happened, that's fine.
I'll just have to probably bring a lawsuit against him.
And then he wasn't through, had this to say.
They think it's like Mother Terracis coming across the border.
Okay.
This one says 80% of Central American women and girls are raped crossing into the United States.
Well, I said drug dealers, I said killers, and I said rapists.
He did.
I mean, I remember the speech.
I remember his speech.
He identified what he thought were the kind of people crossing the southern border.
And he acknowledged there are probably some some decent people in the group, too, but he did describe them.
I thought it was magnanimous of him to do that, but he he said probably some good people in there.
But he described them as racists, purse snatchers and muggers and uh and killers.
What he's what his point was in Mexico's not sending us our best people.
Mexico's not sending us their best people.
We're not getting the best and brightest of Mexico coming across the border here.
So last night on CNN, Don Blackhole Lemon spoke with the National Hispanic Media Coalition President Alex Nogales about Trump's remarks about illegal Mexican immigrants.
And uh Don Lemon said, Are you surprised to hear Trump doubling down on his original comments?
No, he's being an irresponsible person by saying whatever he wants to say whenever he wants to say it to justify what he has already uh said, uh, that terrible racist rant about Mexicans in very specific terms.
So I'm not surprised.
That's what he does.
Right.
And Don Lemon says, well, d do you think that these comments hurt the entire Republican Party?
See, this is another trick.
So here you have Trump out saying what Trump says, as the media immediately wants to lump every other Republican in the same camp.
And they never do this with Democrats.
You have some Democrat out there saying some wild and crazy thing, and they never Is this going to be uh bad news for all Democrats?
But anyway, this is what Nogales said in answer to the question if he thought these comments would hurt the entire Republican Party.
What what do you think he's gonna say?
What do you think Nogales is gonna say?
As far as I'm these guys already believe the Republican Party's garbage.
I mean, this interview begins with a guest who already thinks that, no matter whatever else.
Anyway, this is what he says.
Of course it does.
It makes him look like this is the way to go.
That this is a way that they should be talking as well, because Trump is leading the way with this, as you have noted.
They have been very quiet about this issue.
Tell us very specifically if they agree with Trump or if they disagree.
I think it's only fair that they should, as candidates, right.
So now it's incumbent on every Republican to come forward and either agree with Trump or denounce him.
You better, you Republicans, you better all come forward and do so.
Now, I think a lot of Republicans probably would feel like doing it anyway without being commanded to by some Democrat.
Anyway, Ted Cruz was on Fox and Friends today defending Trump.
Brian Kilmead said, How do you feel about Trump's comments that the drug dealers and rapists that are coming across the border?
When it comes to Donald Trump, I like Donald Trump.
I think he's terrific.
I think he's brash, I think he speaks the truth, and I think NBC is engaging in political correctness that is silly and that is wrong.
I don't think you should apologize for speaking out against the problem that is illegal immigration.
I recognize that the PC world of mainstream Media.
They don't want to admit it, but the American people are fed up.
Right.
So back to CBS this morning, Charlie Rose speaking with Bloomberg politics co-managing editor John Heileman about Trump.
And Charlie Rose says, how is Trump connecting with voters with all of this, uh, Mr. Heileman?
A part of the Republican Party that is very open to the argument that foreigners are a problem.
We should have protectionist trade policies, we should keep immigrants out of the country.
That set of policies and that temperament, give them hell kind of temperament, is what attracted a lot of Republican voters, the Pap Buchanan back in 1996, where he won the New Hampshire primary.
Up in New Hampshire, there's still a pocket of those voters there who like Donald Trump, and there's a pocket of those voters across the country who also like Donald Trump for that reason.
Oh man, you see where this is going.
So now we're back to the Fox News channel, the five.
Yesterday afternoon, the co-host Tom Shalou, speaking with co-host Geroldo Rivera, Haroldo Rivera.
Harola Revere was on the five.
Well, okay.
Anyway, Shalou said there to Haroldo, I don't understand what Trump's doing.
I never took him as seriously as a candidate anyway.
Always seems like it's self-promotion.
But what is this, Haroldo?
He broke my heart with this thing.
I cannot begin to tell you how hurtful his comments about Mexican immigrants, every poll says they commit fewer crimes than citizens and to label them drug dealers and murderers and rapists when uh there are 500,000 undocumented immigrants in New York City in the five boroughs.
You never hear about them raping in the Latino community.
I cannot overstate how this has been received so sourly, so badly by so many people.
I begged him in two tweets.
I haven't spoken to him, he's been ducking me.
Yeah.
Well, okay, for that's latest on Trump and uh and what people are thinking about him.
When we get back, I'm gonna take a break.
We get back, I'm gonna go back to the grooveyard of forgotten favorites to August of 2007 and uh prove to you that when I issue you a warning and make a prediction, do not doubt me.
By the way, welcome back.
Uh Rush Limbaugh here at the EIB network at 800-282-2882.
Have you heard that the mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, wants to ban smoking inside rental homes to start.
He wants to ban smoking inside rental homes.
I have been predicting for I don't know how long that this is where all of this anti-smoking frenzy is headed.
That you aren't going to be able to smoke in your own home, ultimately.
Somebody that lives three doors down from you is gonna complain they can smell it.
They're gonna complain to the city council or whatever, and you're gonna get shut down.
And in fact, I had just such a call, made just such a prediction five years ago, and I guess August of 2007, and he did not believe me.
There's no law against smoking in your own house.
Well, they've tried it in a couple of counties in Maryland, and it's next if you let them into the car.
Damn right it is.
There's no question.
Now we're back to my original point, which is that only really kind of a paranoid red winger which is a liberal plot in this.
Some things are obviously sensible.
Some things are not.
And no one is suggesting in any real way, or is it ever become close to being a reality?
Wrong.
I am suggesting it, and you're blind to it.
It is not paranoia when evidence already exists of the trend.
You're not honestly seriously suggesting that there is a trend to ban smoking within private homes.
I'm telling you, it's coming.
It's been tried.
Okay, you're talking about one place, one person making one complaint.
I wouldn't call that a trend.
Well, Michael, this is how liberalism spreads.
Once they start this stuff, it never goes like gay marriage is going to happen in this country.
What I'm saying is when you see it, quote, spreading in quote, that is right-wing paranoia.
No, no.
It's not right-wing paranoia, it's stopping it.
It's making sure it doesn't grow.
It's making sure that these powers, these liberal ninnies, nannies, and do gooders, do not get foothold and traction in trying to tell everybody else how to live, including in their own homes.
In New York, for crying out loud, you can't you have to ban trans fat at the grocery store as well.
You are blind if you don't see what's happening here.
And exactly how liberalism advances.
Now, the mayor of New York wants to ban smoking inside rental homes.
Now, granted, those are not privately owned homes, but somebody owns them.
The renter doesn't.
But it's that's just the next phase.
After you get that done, then you move on to the owners, the people live in their own properties not being able to smoke inside them.
And there's no doubt this is the way this is going.
And you see, I'm labeled here by this caller as uh what, right wing paranoia.
See a liberal plot.
By the way, what's the old phrase, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
Being paranoid does not disqualify what you're saying.
But it's not paranoia.
In my case, it's knowledge.
Did you hear this five years ago?
Did you hear me tell this guy it's like gay marriage?
It's going to happen in this country.
Five years ago.
Five years ago, I'm telling you, ten years ago, you would have been laughed out of a polite conversation if you had told people that gay marriage was going to be the law of the land inside of ten years.
Just ten years ago, you would have been certifiable.
Talent on loan from God.
Your guiding light, Rush Limbaugh, serving humanity, Mark in Orlando.
It's great to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Rush, what a pleasure.
Uh that previous caller is missing the point where you and Catherine are such generous people.
I remember when you matched the what, two million dollars that the letter had raised in the auction for our soldiers, and uh and what you give away, your books, your two of IT.
And yet the media portrays you as being controversial, and that gentleman has in his mind that you're controversial.
Whereas the Clintons go take a bunch of money from foreign countries for their global initiative, and they're okay.
That's what this gentleman is missing, is how the media will portray Rubio as being rich for an $80,000 boat.
Trust me, it's got to be a 21 to 23 footer.
You don't get much for 80 grand anymore.
By the way, you reminded me of something I've done, I've even done more investigation on this Rubio story.
And it turns out that the Rubio campaign liked the story the New York Times did on his fishing boat, 84 grand, because they thought it made him look like a real guy.
And my point is our people don't even understand how the media is smearing them.
You can take a look at what people think of Rubio's wealth here as a result of that New York Times story, average ordinary Americans think that Marco Rubio lives in a 12 million dollar house.
Exactly.
And that's what the media has done.
And that poor gentleman who had called a couple times ago that was missing the point.
He thinks that, yeah, it's okay to have money as long as you do right with it, but here you are doing right with it, and he's been led to believe by the media the other people do, and and it's it's way off base.
Thank you for for trying to educate the American people every day in defending our Constitution, Rush.
Thank you.
You're a good man.
Appreciate that very, very much.
Yeah, the um that's a you know, it's it's a dilemma because when you have a guy like that, the Clinton says money, yeah, but they give it away.
They help people.
Controversies, that's what you do.
You can't take that person aside and say, can I explain to you what anything you you you say about yourself in that situation is considered ill-mannered.
It just doesn't it it I don't know that anybody has a way of effectively correcting people who who have such uh erroneous conceptions of how other people are.
You look at the Koch brothers, the Koch brothers, let's let's talk David Charles Koch is a little quieter than David.
David Koch lives in New York.
David Koch gave a cancer hospital in New York, I forget 25 million dollars, I think it was.
It might have been $125, I don't know, but it was more money than anybody else has given.
And the reaction from people that worked at the hospital was to demand the hospital give it back.
Because David Koch is a reprobate.
He's a Republican, and he's actually not.
Well, he's a libertarian, votes Republican, raises money for Republicans.
But they didn't want the money because he didn't really mean to give it.
He was just doing it.
Because he knows people know how he really is.
They know what a bad guy really is.
So he's just giving that money to try to convince people he's a nice guy.
What's he to do?
He didn't do anything.
He just continues to be philanthropic.
I mean, that's that's one of the things that uh David Koch has well, all of them.
I mean, there's a bunch of Koch brothers, and they're all wealthy and they are all philanthropic, and they all are generous and do more for other people than the Kennedys and the Clintons and the Democrat Party combined.
But even when you tell people they don't want to believe it, it doesn't matter.
It goes deeper than the actual behavior of being philanthropic or charitable.
It goes deeper than that.
I mean, the Clintons are out selling bribes.
The Clintons are selling bribes to foreign countries, selling influence when Hillary's Secretary of State.
Hillary Clinton is openly lying about what happened in Benghazi.
Hillary Clinton hasn't done one thing competent.
But for some reason, and this is this is spanned many generations, and it's just I mean, you talk to people that grow up in Democrat houses and you listen to what they think of Republicans, particularly if they grew up in a union house household and what they think of Republicans.
I mean, it's so deeply ingrained that any amount of real world evidence doesn't sway them.
Look at how easy it was to convince people that Mitt Romney is practically an inhumane murderer who didn't pay his taxes.
Look at how little effort was required to convince people that was all true.
And Romney never even once tried to refute any of it because he knows it's a pointless exercise.
It's just like the allegation of racism.
I'm not racist, I've got plenty of black friends.
You know how that doesn't work.
That's mocked and made fun of.
Any evidence that you offer that you're not what the media and the Democrats accuse you of just convinces people that you really are that stuff.
And nobody has devised a method.
Nobody's devised a technique to refute it and rebut it.
Now, in the case, if everybody I know on the so-called Republican conservative side, whatever philanthropy they engage in or charitable giving is not for anything other than the act itself.
They're not trying to image build, nor are they trying to counter lies that are said of them.
They actually are oriented toward philanthropy, charity, and good works.
And yet it's their motives that are impugned from the get-go simply because of the label that attaches to them, in this case, Republican or conservative.
And I know right in the middle of the mix is the media.
But my only my only point here is you've had the point of telling you the story about this campus reform video.
If you miss, let me briefly review this.
Campus Reform set it's a website, one of a good guys, one of ours.
They set up an easel and a giant uh poster board near the White House.
And on the poster board were pictures of four or five mansions with the price tag underneath each one.
They ranged in price from five million to fifteen million dollars, And they purposely stopped millennials.
Clean cut looking, average ordinary, everyday, just good quality millennial types.
Who owned the houses?
Who do you think owns these houses?
And the two most mentioned names were Marco Rubio and Dr. Ben Carson.
And I didn't know at the time the New York Times had done this story on Rubio and his $80,000 fishing boat.
Because that story happened when I was out on uh out for a week on vacation.
So but stop and think of it.
Even a story on an $80,000 fishing boat convince people that Marco Rubio is one of the that's the first name that popped into their heads.
And apparently the New York Times is a Bible to millennials.
Whereas to you and I, it it's actual birdcage.
Filth.
We don't believe anything in it because we know the bias and prejudice that goes into putting that paper together every day.
Young skulls full of mush just eat it up.
They swallow it, they believe every word of it.
When these millennials, and they they were male, female, black, white in their 30s, when they were told that every one of those homes is owned by the Clintons, they could not believe it.
And further, they didn't want to believe it.
They had no idea.
No idea.
They were they were floored when they found out the Clintons owned every house on that on that poster board.
And just one young little millennial woman said, Oh, oh, that that that may affect the way I vote.
The others, no, get out.
Get Clinton's!
No way!
No way.
Clintons have enough money to no way.
Not possible.
As I say, we will link to the video here at Rush Limbaugh.
We probably already have.
Link to it at Rush Limbaugh.com.
It wouldn't be enough to play the audio for you because it's they get four or five minutes.
And we can't play that much time go by but without pictures, so I have to tell you the story.
But now that you've heard about what it is, you can watch it, you can see it.
Marco Rubio lives in a house he put on the market a year and a half ago for six hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
How do you arrive at Marco Rubio?
Everybody in politics.
And that the question was, by the way, politicians own these houses.
There was a there was a qualification.
They asked which politicians you live in these houses, these houses.
Rubio?
Even a story with the $80,000 fishing boat?
Anyway, the Rubio campaign, I'm told was very happy with the story.
They have no idea how that story was actually absorbed by people who read it.
Or $80,000 fishing boat.
No.
For some sad reason, it doesn't work that way.
Chase in Daphne, Alabama.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Great to have you on the big program.
Hello.
Rush Limbaugh, God bless you for all you do.
Megative mega lifelong dittoes, sir.
Well, thank you.
I appreciate that very much.
Yes, sir.
My question for you is I saw on Fox and a couple other sites.
The Obama administration is pushing for people making 45,000 or more or less a year to become eligible for overtime pay.
And as a guy whose only regret is never being able to vote for Ronald Reagan.
I kind of want to know what the catch is.
What is the let me I'm looking, I've got a soundbite on this, if I can find it.
And we can actually hear what it is.
Grab audio soundbite.
I wonder if we've got two.
Hang on just a second.
I'm sorry to waste time like I've got twelve.
Twenty and twenty-one?
Let me see if I can find twenty and twenty-one very quick.
Um grab number twelve.
Um Chris Cuomo today talking with uh White House domestic policy director Cecilia Munoz about Obama's overtime plan, and he says, You're doing what the private sector says you shouldn't do.
Don't mess with wages.
Let business decide what the right pay scale is.
In the 70s, more than 60 percent of the salaried workforce was covered by overtime.
We're going back to a point at which salaried workers can expect those kinds of protections.
Ultimately, that's good for the economy.
If the business community wants to argue that the salary threshold should be set as it is now, at a level which is below the poverty rate for a family of four, I just think it's really hard to argue that that's good for the country, good for workers, or good for the economy.
I don't know.
You start talking about trying to recreate what was happening in the 70s, and that's Jimmy Carter, and that's stagnation.
Uh but again, it's it's meddling.
I I don't really know what the uh what what what what the catch is with this other than government meddling.
But the the the who is talking overtime.
We just we've got an um unemployment rate of 42 and a half percent real in this country.
Anyway, uh look, Chase, we'll talk about this more tomorrow, because I'm really out of time today, but I'm glad you called.
Well, we just had a call on hold of them time to get to, but it's uh it's it's about how the the Pope's global warming encyclical is what being mandated, taught in Catholic schools in Atlanta.
And it will be.
Okay, we'll have that guy on tomorrow.
Yeah.
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