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July 2, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 2, 2015, Thursday, Hour #3
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Talent on loan from God.
You have to say God.
Otherwise, it doesn't have any impact.
It's a talent on loan from God.
Anyway, that's me.
I have it.
Rush Lynn Baugh, Excellence in Broadcasting.
We're doing Open Line Friday on Thursday today because taking tomorrow off, celebrate the independence of the country.
Eric Erickson will be here as guest host.
So whatever you want to talk about, it's free and fair game.
800-282-2882.
And if you're just joining us, I peppered the audience with a couple of questions today, in addition to anything else.
And by the way, I need to elaborate on something.
Let me get to that first.
Because I haven't found a way to actually express what I'm talking about.
Everywhere I go, the question I get from Republicans is who I think the nominee is going to be.
Which is okay.
I mean, it's a natural thing to be interested in, and I am too.
But I just, to me, that's not even 40% of what people ought to be interested in.
And I've got to find a way to explain to people what I mean by this.
I think for most people, it just, it starts and stops with a nominee that can win.
Now, crucially important, that is.
I mean, I'm not denying that.
But that's all anybody ever asks me.
Who do you think the nominee is going to be?
Who can beat Hillary?
It starts throwing some names around and you get people's reaction to it.
And that's always interesting, fun, and sometimes puzzling as well.
But I just, I don't know.
To me, it's not even half the story who the nominee is going to be.
I mean, I don't know.
I need to work on this, folks, because it's so I don't think the problems plaguing us are going to be fixed with an election.
Certainly not just one election.
And I guess I get the impression that people think all we have to do is elect a Republican and things will be okay then.
We'll still have Obamacare, but that's okay.
We'll have a Republican president.
And we'll still have the perversion of culture going on.
That's okay.
We'll have a Republican president.
We'll be in charge.
Everything will be okay as long as we have a Republican in the White House.
Then it makes all this other stuff okay.
And I just don't see it that way.
But again, that's just me.
Well, that's the impression I get.
If a Republican presides over it, it's not as bad as if the Democrats are presiding over it.
It's not that.
It's almost as though if we elect a Republican and all this stuff doesn't matter anymore.
And that's just not at all the case.
I mean, who the nominee to me is is more important than in terms of what he's going to do after he wins is more important to me than can he.
The canny is a can the nominee win?
Well, that's a no-brainer.
You have to have that be the case.
But what happens after that?
And it seems to me that I guess most people's objectives seem just beat Hillary, just beat the Democrats, and that alone equals victory.
That's it.
And that doesn't say a word to me.
Beating Hillary or whoever the Democrat nominee is, that's step one.
That's not mission accomplished.
I guess that's what it is.
I get the impression a lot of people think mission accomplished if we beat Hillary or whoever the Democrat nominee is.
Now, that's not even close to mission accomplished as far as I'm concerned.
It's just step one.
Anyway, anyway, the questions I ask the audience: do any of you think that the Republican presidential candidates or the Republican Party are being hurt, harmed, irreparably or otherwise, by Donald Trump and what he's doing and how he's doing it?
And the next question, we just, our last caller just addressed this, and it was, I thought, a very thoughtful attempt.
Question is: Are you surprised by the lack of any public anger, protest, uprising, refusal to accept the assault on traditional American culture that has been ongoing for years and was affirmed in one sense by the Supreme Court earlier?
You could put it another way.
What is your reaction to the apparent public acceptance of all of this?
Because it looks to me, and I'm not trying to, these are not designed to be leading questions.
I'm not trying to get you to answer in a way I want to hear it.
I'm genuinely interested in what you think.
But when I don't see any opposition or hear any, I am left to assume that there is, for the most part, public acceptance of this.
And I'm curious to know if that's how most people see all of this.
Eh, it's no big deal.
Rush.
It's not a big deal.
If that's the reaction most people have, I'm curious to know.
So there's the two questions.
Other little news items here before we head back to the phones.
You know, you've got Trump out there saying that Mexico is sending the worst people they have to immigrate to the United States.
They're sending criminals.
They're sending rapists, purse-snatchers, muggers, drug addicts.
And of course, the drive-by media is literally beside itself.
In fact, I want to go back and grab a soundbite from earlier in the program.
I want you to grab number five.
This is Trump.
He was on CNN talking to Don Lemon.
And Don Lemon said to Trump, Why did you have to say the Mexicans were rapists, Donald?
I didn't say about Mexico.
I say the illegal immigrants.
You look at the statistics on rape, on crime, on everything coming in illegally into this country.
They're mind-boggling.
If you go to Fusion, you will see a story about 80% of the women coming in.
I mean, you have to take a look at these stories.
And you know who owns Fusion?
Univision.
I read the Washington Post.
I read The Fusion.
I read The Huffington Post.
And that's about women being raped.
It's not about criminals coming across the border or entering the country.
Somebody's doing the raping, Don.
I mean, you know what?
I mean, somebody's doing their thing as women being raped.
Well, who's doing the raping?
Who's doing the raping?
Natural question.
I mean, Lemon says, hey, I've read those stories.
I'm seeing all the stories about women being raped.
Why did you have to say to the Mexicans?
Well, Don, who's doing the raping?
The stories are about female immigrants coming to the country being raped and assaulted and so forth during the trek.
And this is the way the libs look.
Liberals look at this stuff as isolated because there's women being raped over here.
And as far as they're concerned, it must be happening on college campuses because that's what they read on the Huffington Post.
Do you realize how many, by the way, I had somebody, you know, yesterday made the point that millennials swear by the New York Times and some of these other really fringe, untrustworthy, obviously bigoted, biased news organizations.
And I had some people email me.
How do you know?
Why do you think that's the case?
I'll tell you how I know it.
The people I'm talking about, the 18 to 34-year-olds, do not watch television news, folks.
They get everything on their devices.
They watch television on their devices.
They watch video on their devices.
They want to watch HBO, Showtime, whatever it is on their devices, and they get their news on devices.
And most of them get their news from Facebook or Twitter, which is simply somebody reads the New York Times in the morning and repeats and posts what's in the New York Times, and that's how it happens.
Or they subscribe to news aggregator sites, sites like Flipboard.
There are any number of these things.
I'm running a beta right now of iOS 9, the next software coming up for the iPhone and the iPad.
And there's a new feature.
Apple is attempting to come up with their own version of Google Now.
And I'm not going to go into great detail about what that does, but one of the new things, you have your homepage.
It used to be that if you dragged the home page right, you would get a brand new page, and that was the search page.
That is now missing.
In iOS 8, the way you get the surge is you drag down from any homepage.
Well, they've reestablished the search page left of the number one home screen or homepage.
And that is where your frequent contacts are.
And just it's where they're going to attempt to find out what you do before you do it.
And the bottom half of that is the latest news.
And without, I know it's beta, without fail, without fail, every day, all day, it's either the Huffington Puffington Post or the New York Times.
There's three different sources in every three different news stories.
And two of them are always the New York Times or Huffington and Puffington Post.
Others are Yahoo, some are USA Today.
But nothing that you read, no Breitbart, no Fox News, no take your pick of what you would read on the web.
Well, it's the same thing with all these young people.
The places they go to get news, the New York Times is the lead newspaper that all of these websites offer.
So the millennials are even, the millennials are not going to the New York Times website per se.
Some of them probably are.
But the apps and the various other places they go to get news supply what the New York Times.
And then the Huffing and Puffington Post is number two.
The Huffing and Puffington Post, by the way, is the equivalent of Air America succeeding, which it didn't.
But I mean, that's how oddball, off-the-charts extreme it is.
But to a lot of people, it's mainstream.
So that's what I mean in answer to the snarky questions.
How do you know they read the news?
I know because I look at what they look at.
They don't have to be told that the New York Times is the world's greatest newspaper.
They didn't grow up.
Just the places they go to get news, that's what's there.
Any number of these news aggregator sites.
That's why I suggested when I found out Apple was going to do this, that they've hired Drudge.
They really want to know Apple thinks different, they do different, they do different things.
But then Drudge, as the Drudge page is everything.
There's New York Times stuff on the Drudge page, but other things that nobody else cares to link to or post.
Anyway, I don't need to spend more time on that.
I'm just answering your question of how this all happens.
They're not reading the newspaper.
They don't go to Starbucks with the actual newspaper.
They go with their iPhones, their iPads that are, I mean, some of them, I guess, use Samsung, whatever.
And they click on their social media apps, and right there it is.
What's the latest in the New York Times?
And then what happened on the Daily Show?
And then the Huffing and Puffington Post.
Anyway, here's Trump.
And he's out there and he tells Don Lemon, Don, who's doing the raping?
I mean, if you've got all these women being raped, somebody's raping them.
Who are the rapists?
And Lemon doesn't go that far.
As far as he's concerned, he's seen the stories of women being raped, and that's all he needs to know.
Women being raped equals America is bad.
Women being raped equals women are discriminated against in America.
And as far as he's concerned, he probably thinks it's happening on campus because the news sources that he believes report that there's a rape crisis on campus when there isn't.
So he was totally befuddled by Trump's question.
Well, Don, who's doing the raping?
Well, now add to this mix, Obama.
Obama has now weighed into the town hall in Madison, Tennessee yesterday.
Obama referred to some illegal immigrants as gangbangers, adding further that those criminal migrants should be deported as quickly as possible.
Well, now will Macy's start boycotting Obama?
Will NBC refuse to cover any more Obama public appearances?
He just called illegal immigrants gangbangers.
What is a gangbanger?
Well, it's not good.
Obama said what we should be doing is setting up a smart legal immigration system that doesn't separate.
Here's this Olimbaugh theorem again.
What we should be doing?
You've been president.
You're into almost your eighth year here, bud.
What do you mean what we should be doing?
He's still acting like he hasn't been elected yet or acting like he hasn't been inaugurated yet.
So as far as Obama's concerned, the immigration system is a mess because somebody else made it a mess and he's out there campaigning on what it needs to happen to fix it.
And it's the mess that it is because of him and the Democrat Party.
Yeah, he says, so what we should be doing is setting up a smart legal immigration system that doesn't separate families, but does focus on making sure that people who are dangerous, people who are gangbangers or criminals, that we're focusing on a strong border and deporting them as quickly as possible.
Now, Obama didn't call them rapists and criminals, but like Trump did, but gangbanger and criminals and deport.
So will CERTA refuse to sell Obama a mattress now?
Will NBC refuse to cover Obama?
Obama's behaving here like an out-of-control bigot with these comments, is he not?
Macy's?
I wonder if Macy's would welcome Mrs. Obama on a shopping spree.
See, the difference is Obama's a nice guy and Trump's mean.
Yes, Obama's nice and Trump's mean, and that's the difference.
Now, we know that Obama's administration has been freeing criminal illegal aliens from detention as quickly as possible.
I mean, we're talking about six figures, the number of imprisoned illegals that Obama has turned loose.
And one of the facts I had a story yesterday, I didn't get to it, that it was making Hillary Clinton happy because she's got this big policy idea of allowing felons to vote.
Anyway, Trump has declared victory on immigration as Obama admits that some illegals are gangbangers.
That's the point here.
Trump has been bound to president.
I don't know what he's doing.
He's out there calling him gangbangers.
He's essentially echoing Trump.
Is that reported that way in the drive-bys?
Okay, I'm going to get to the phones quickly.
Just a couple of soundbites here first.
We heard earlier today from, it doesn't matter who, it just, whenever we hear, it could be Chris Christie.
This happened to be the college Republican say, the chairman of the College Republicans Association, whatever.
He said, we must, as Republicans, we must react to all of this that's happening with dignity and respect.
We must be tolerant, dignified, and respectful.
We must not, because if we don't act dignified and respect, meaning if we don't just tolerate all this and shut up and let it happen, then the millennials are going to hate us and never vote for us.
It's amazing how this happens.
Meanwhile, the left, they don't have to be dignified at all.
They can go out and destroy people.
They can lie about people.
It can make things up about people.
They can be undignified, disrespectful.
Never hurts them.
Latest example.
And this George Takai, who's considered a nice guy because he was on Star Trek.
Star Trek was a very popular science fiction show, and so he's got to be a really cool and nice guy because he's an actor that was on that show.
He says, nice guy.
He's got to be a nice guy.
So he was on some YouTube channel being interviewed about gay marriage, and he had just finished reading Clarence Thomas's dissent.
And this is what he said.
He is a clown in blackface sitting on the Supreme Court.
He gets me that angry.
He doesn't belong there.
For him to say slaves had dignity.
I mean, doesn't he know that slaves were in chain, that they were whipped on the back?
If he saw the movie 12 Years as a Slave, you know, they were raped.
Wow, that's dignified.
That's respectful and totally misunderstanding.
But I'm sorry, George Takai couldn't carry Clarence Thomas's school books, judicial robe, or jock strap.
Take your pick.
But he wasn't finished.
My parents lost everything that they worked for in the middle of their lives in their 30s.
His business, my father's business, our home, our freedom, and we're supposed to call that dignified, marching out of our homes at gunpoint.
I mean, this man does not belong in the Supreme Court.
He is an embarrassment.
He is a disgrace to America.
Something really set this guy off about what Justice Thomas said.
I don't believe Justice Thomas said slavery was dignified.
There isn't.
Regardless, George Dakai is a nice guy.
See, so he can say that.
That's not disrespectful or undignified at all, you see.
Okay, folks, I went looking during the break here to find out what it was that George Takai is so righteously undignified, disrespectfully angry about.
And I found it.
Would you like to hear what Justice Thomas wrote in his dissent?
Here it is.
Slaves did not lose their dignity any more than they lost their humanity because the government allowed them to be enslaved.
Those held in internment camps did not lose their dignity because the government confined them.
I think Takai, one of two things.
He either purposely took it the wrong way just so he could get all self-righteous and indignant because Takai, who's a nice man, of course, he was on Star Trek.
How can he be anything other than cool and nice, right?
I mean, that's why Takai's a nice guy's on Star Trek.
And everybody loves Star Trek.
And he's cool.
The truth is, Takai is one angry man.
George Takai, in my, I'm a nice guy, too, in my estimation.
George Takai personifies my theory that no matter how much the left gets, they're never satisfied.
And they're not happy.
They're winning everything and they're angrier and angrier.
They're winning everything in sight and they're miserable.
So miserable, they're looking for reasons to be angry.
The other explanation is that Takai is not cultured enough to understand what Justice Thomas was saying.
Justice Thomas, when he writes, slaves did not lose their dignity any more than they lost their humanity, is complimenting them.
Justice Thomas is writing praiseworthy of people.
No matter the injustice done to them, they did not lose their dignity, their self-identity.
He is complimentary.
He is praiseworthy.
Now, Takai either doesn't have the culture himself to understand that or is simply looking for an excuse to pop off.
And if you listen to what Takai says, what do you mean?
Dignity?
Why, slaves got chained on their backs.
What's the dignity in that?
He didn't say that.
He didn't say their treatment was dignified.
He said the way they comported themselves in the midst of this inhumanity was dignified.
The ultimate compliment.
Now, does George Takai really not have the depth of character to understand that?
Or is he just looking for a cheap shot to get some outrageous comment publicized and noticed?
Which do you think it is, Mr. Snerdley?
You'll take B, just looking for an opportunity to pop off.
Yeah.
Well, but yeah, he wants everybody to know he's a big activist and so on.
I'm going to tell you something.
This is to me what Justice Thomas wrote there to me is actually beautiful and an attempt here at presenting people as genuine champions of humanity.
They remained dignified.
They held on to their dignity while being so ill-treated and mistreated.
That's all he's saying here.
Think otherwise.
You think Clarence Thomas would actually write, anybody would actually write that slaves lost their dignity and didn't and were undignified because it would be insulting to people.
I mean, compare slavery to prisoners of war, if you will.
Prisoners of war are always, look at the way McCain is treated and heralded.
All prisoners of war are automatically assumed to be, we make movies about them.
Their spirit, their triumph.
That's all Thomas was doing.
That's just amazing to me.
But yet there has to be anger.
There has to be all this angst.
I have to get noticed.
I have to pop off.
We had a call yesterday.
We have time to finish.
And I asked if we could call the man back.
He graciously gave us our number.
We're calling him back.
It's Nelson in Pittsburgh.
Nelson, you're a young Latino, correct?
Yes.
And what Nelson called about yesterday was that the Republican Party needs to make a move here to capture Latino voters early.
I think you said you're 30, and you were really on to something, and I just ran out of time, and I wanted to continue the conversation with you.
So basically, let's start again with what you originally called about and go from there.
Yeah, absolutely.
I appreciate you calling me back.
The way that I see it, Rush, is just that as a conservative voice, and I am Hispanic, and I do fall into that millennial generation.
We really need to get into that mindset of getting that candidate ready to roll.
We need to vet our candidates early to close that gap on misinformation.
And that's where I was getting with your example of Katie Couric and the aha gotcha moment versus Ted Cruz and asking him about some questions that really don't pertain to what we need as a president.
We're looking for somebody that's going to be leading our country and stand for our values.
We don't care about their Cuban cuisine knowledge.
We don't care about any of this little stuff.
I really don't care if Hillary Clinton does not know how to operate a fax machine.
I really don't care about any of that.
Is the person going to be standing for our values in the right way?
And that's what we, as Latino voters, we're looking for.
And being a millennial, you're absolutely right.
You nailed it right on there.
I get a lot of information from Drudge Report.
I get on Facebook.
I get all the news feeds from New York Times.
Yeah, they're not the Bible, but it's a news feed that I get.
And whether it's clickbait or not, I choose what to read and what to acknowledge.
Well, the story about Ted Cruz and Katie Couric, Katie Couric had Cruz on, and she thought that she was going to get him with a gotcha question.
I forget the specifics of what it was, but Katie Couric assumed that the Republicans were guilty of doing some stupid, crazy thing.
And Cruz informed her that, Katie, do you know who really was the author of that?
And her face just fell.
And it was classic.
It was like all birthday.
Yeah, it was Cruz who informed her that it was the Hillary campaign that started the whole birther movement against Obama.
And Katie Couric thinks, of course, that some extremist conspiracy kook Republican did it.
And Cruz pointed out to her that it was Hillary.
She was clueless.
She had no idea.
And that's when I mentioned to you that the other guys that interviewed Cruz were asking him what kind of Cuban food was his favorite and what kind of Cuban songs did the family dance to at night in the Cruz home and all that, trying to prove he was not authentically Cuban.
And the point is that in each of these instances, wherever Cruz goes, there is an effort to disqualify him and discredit him with Republicans, not with the Democrats per se.
They think that's already done.
And your point was that all of this is a side issue when it comes to people your age determining who to vote for.
And you think Republicans are missing the boat in focusing on Hillary doesn't know how to use a fax machine.
Not going to convince anybody in your age group not to vote for her, right?
Right.
And even more so, Rush, I believe that just look at the media, the liberal media.
Look at Katie Court's nonverbal communication when Ted Cruz was explaining it.
That, I think, was the most telling of it all.
She crossed her arms almost as a, okay, so what else are you going to try to deflect?
That's not the point.
I mean, I think we're a lot smarter than what the media portrays us to be.
Meaning Latino voters.
Exactly.
Okay, so what do the Republicans need to do, do you think?
I mean, we've got 14, 15, 16 of them, whatever candidates that are running.
And it seems like that for 80% of them, Nelson, 80% of them think that they have to come out in favor of Obama's executive amnesty on immigration if they stand a chance to get Latino votes.
Is that right?
I just stand on the issue.
On the issue, you know, you're looking at 54 million Hispanics in the U.S.
A lot of people are even, you know, they come in from Puerto Rico, from other places in Latin America.
It's not just Mexico, and that's that perception that really bothers me.
We're looking for a candidate that speaks our voice and not looking for specifically a Latino candidate.
I mean, you can even use the Google and get on Jeb Bush, and he speaks very eloquent Spanish.
We just need to be talking to somebody right now that has the sense of direction to say, you know what, I know we made mistakes in the past.
We really need to reinvigorate the party and stand for our values.
And the way to get to the millennials is by going on social media, getting on Facebook, getting on Twitter, talking about the facts, not deflecting, and just be straightforward with the issues.
That's simple.
It's nothing extraordinary.
Just be real.
All millennials are looking for is somebody that's real, authentic, that sticks to the cause they stand behind.
Well, social media is the place in recent years where all of the damage to Republican branding, if you will, and individual Republicans and conservatives has taken place.
That's where they're destroyed.
That's where the trolls in the Twitter sewers happen to be who launch all this drivel and BS about Republicans and so forth.
And the people on social media, they eat it up and they believe it.
It's the printed word, even though it's Twitter or Facebook.
It's published.
It's printed.
It's not somebody saying it's printed.
They automatically believe it.
And Republicans are not famous for being on Twitter, Facebook, and knowing how to use it.
If you're reading Twitter or you're going through your daily route through all of these things that you access, what do you want to see from Republicans on these places?
What do you think they need to do to counter what's being done to them there?
They just need to stick to the facts.
They should really just get out there the way that the conservative movement is, the way what we represent, not stick to the, oh, let's see what we can get.
That's one thing that, oh, there are a couple of candidates that are trying to do it now, but that has been missing.
The Republican Party has not been articulating a particularly conservative agenda.
Well, look, Nelson, I appreciate your time second day in a row.
Thanks for letting us call you back.
And I'm interested to see and hear from you as we go forward here.
If you think any progress is being made in reaching the people you think need to be reached, got to take a break, folks, and be back after this with more.
Here's Barbara in Canton, Ohio.
Barbara, I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you here on Open Line Friday and Thursday.
Hi.
Hi.
How are you doing?
Fine, Dandy.
Thank you.
You know, everything I ever learned about politics, I learned from you.
You're the greatest teacher in the world.
And I love you.
Thank you very much.
And I also love Donald Trump.
And the reason I'm calling is I stopped shopping at Macy's bingo just like that.
Stopped shopping.
I closed my account.
And I could call every day and keep closing as far as that goes.
Just to let them know I'm closing it.
Anyhow, the one question that you had, why you thought the Republicans, nobody was saying anything about anything.
Why is there no anger protest uprising against any of this?
I mean, it's the culture being ripped apart.
I don't know, but in the first place, who cares about Emmett Smith and George Pataki?
That's what I'd like to know.
They're not saying anything because I think they're trying to watch him sort of standing by, trying to watch him get himself in trouble and then get kicked out of this thing or something.
But I think he's big enough and bold enough to stand his ground.
He's their biggest competition.
Well, you know, even if, even if, and there's still a lot of people think Trump's not serious candidate, he's got something else up his sleeve here.
Even so, if he's not a serious candidate, he's still showing the way.
And he is providing the Republicans an opportunity if they're wise enough to see it.
Hey, folks, thanks so much for being with us today.
Sadly, we are out of busy broadcast time, but we'll be back on Monday.
And the trusted and loyal Eric Erickson will be here tomorrow.
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