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July 7, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 7, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Okay, so Donald Trump is hanging in.
He is continuing his assault on the concept of illegal immigration.
And he's not backing off from what he has said about the elements, the Mexican population that are coming here to immigrate.
And there's a bunch of different analyses of what's going on.
One of the more popular analyses is that Trump is actually not helping himself because he has become the subject and the topic of debate rather than the issue of illegal immigration.
And I heard that analysis on Fox.
And it was uh it was meant as a as a uh straight on objective, just pure analysis of what's going on here.
But let's look at it.
Trump is is tr who is Trump talking about?
What is Trump talking about?
Trump is talking about, in his words, he's talking about the subjects.
He's talking about immigration, he's talking about saving the country, protecting the country, making the people a country safe, however you want to describe it.
Trump is not talking about himself on this, which is kind of strange.
Normally Trump is about Trump.
He's often about self-promotion.
Uh most of the time in a in a in a very jocular and almost charismatic way.
And here comes this analysis on Fox, where he's he's actually his own worst enemy because he has become the topic rather than immigration.
Well, who's doing that?
I mean, isn't that one of the favored tactics of the left?
The left never discusses issues with Republicans or conservatives.
The way the left deals with this kind of thing is to go destroy the messenger.
The left can't have an honest open debate about any of these issues.
They said they simply can't.
Obama could never have been elected if he were honest about his intentions.
You think of Obama was honest about what he wanted immigration to be, and that he was going to grant amnesty to however many millions of illegals are in the country to get him elected.
Do you think of Obama if let's say it's 2008, and Obama's running for office, and as part of his campaign, he tells you that the new normal, and I've got it in the stack today, the new normal is this economy.
If he ran for office in 2008 and told voters, folks, our best days are behind us.
We face challenges like we've never faced before, and the best we're going to be able to do is 92 million Americans not working.
The best we're going to be able to do is falling wage.
Do you think he'd have been elected?
He did just the opposite of all that, did he not?
He did what every candidate does, went out there and talked about he's going to be better than anybody ever has at all this.
And he's going to be the one that's going to fix all this.
Well, now that he's done what he always intended to do, open the borders, transform the country, change the face of the country, flood the zone, expand the welfare state.
You think he wants to have an open debate about that?
There's no way.
So here comes Trump pointing out just one aspect of the Obama agenda that is really harming the country.
And rather than debate that, they're trying to debate Trump.
Everybody's talking about Trump, what kind of reprobate he is, kind of mean-spirited guy he is, what does Trump think he's doing?
Why is Trump saying these things?
And then you have all these associates of Trump from the PGA to the US GA to Macy's to you name it, dropping out the uh the NBC Universal saying we're not going to be in business with Trump anymore as long as he's doing this.
Is it Trump making this about Trump or is it everybody else making it about Trump?
You get the impression that that nobody really wants to talk about the issue in either party.
Because what's the issue?
The issue is should we have this kind of an immigration plan?
Do our immigration laws not matter?
That's the issue.
Are we going to continue to let an endless flow of people into this country?
And then after so many years make them citizens?
Is that the new immigration policy?
Nobody wants to debate that.
When the illegals come in and commit these atrocious crimes, uh, that's Republicans' fault, or it's a one-off, it doesn't mean anything.
And yet South Carolina's not a one-off, it's typical.
And Trayvon Martin's not a one-off.
That's typical.
Ferguson, Missouri's not a one-off.
That's typical.
But a woman getting murdered in San Francisco, that's a one-off, nothing to see here.
A six-time D4e killing people, wounding people in a hit and run in tech.
That's a one-off.
That's that's that doesn't count.
Another illegal bashing somebody able to ball pee and hammer, that's a one-off, it's nothing to see here.
I mean, nobody wants to talk about the issue.
Like Eric Holder comes out to us, we're a bunch of cowards.
We don't have a guts to talk about race.
A lot of people are trying to talk about race.
Look what happens to them.
It's not Trump making this about Trump is my point.
Maybe for the first time in his public life.
Trump is trying to stay focused on the issue.
Whatever you think about what he's saying, he's trying to stay focused on the issue.
Over here, you got people say he's he's you know he's killing his own plan because he's becoming the topic.
Who's making him a topic?
That's what the left always does.
And oftentimes they're joined by the Republicans.
And then we have the Republicans saying it Trump's destroying the brand and destroying the Republican Party.
Republican Party got started on that long before Trump entered any presidential campaign.
The Republican Party, let's We talked about this yesterday.
We had a caller yesterday.
Republican Party has had its conservative base in its crosshairs for how many elections now?
The Republican Party, what'd they think of the Tea Party?
They don't want any part of the Tea Party.
Republican Party doesn't want any part of conservatism, conservatives.
They try to say the conservative issues are ruining the party.
The Republican Party believes this notion that to get elected anything, they have to be like Democrats.
So they have to support amnesty.
Their opposition to Obamacare has apparently been verbal.
My only point here is that Trump Trump isn't doing anything that the Republican Party hasn't already done to itself.
That Trump is destroying the brand's kind of comical to me.
I mean, the Republican establishment has made it clear that it is it's almost as bothered by its own base, the conservative base, as the Democrats are bothered by it.
I gave you an example.
Here's uh Dr. Krauthammer.
This is last night in special report, Brett Bear, Fox News Channel.
And Trump's campaign.
And Brett Bear says to Dr. Krauthammer, he is tapping into something out there, Charles.
Is he not?
He's tapping into something out there that is visceral and populist and angry at politicians, Republicans included.
The word offensive is too weak.
It's an insult on an entire immigrant group, and he did not make a distinction between legal and illegal immigrants.
These are eruptions, bar stool eruptions.
And the pity is this this is the strongest field of Republican candidates in 35 years.
You could pick a dozen of them at random and have the strongest cabinet America's had in our lifetime.
And instead, all our time is spent discussing this rodeo cloud.
That's exactly my point.
Now, Crowdhammer, his view is shared by a lot of Republicans.
In fact, some Republicans think that this is all a giant conspiracy.
That Trump has purposely been convinced to do this to destroy the Republican Party.
While it's got the best field of candidates it's ever had, while the Democrat Party is at its weakest, throw Trump in there to totally gum up.
There are a lot of Republicans who believe that that's all Trump is doing.
They look at his donations to Democrats and they think, you know what?
This guy is a Republican in Wolf's clothing.
We don't even believe it.
We've sat there trying to destroy us.
He's out there trying to make what do you this crazy stuff he's saying about Mexicans?
That's going to kill the Republican Party.
But once again, even Dr. Crowdhammer illustrates that it's Trump they are talking about and not his policies or beliefs, philosophy on immigration.
It would seem to me that if you believe that Trump is a rodeo clown, and he's just launching like any loudmouth on a bar stool would.
Well, then tell him how he's wrong on the issue and tell all the rest of us how he's wrong on the issue.
Okay, if Trump's a rodeo clown, and if he's doing all this stuff, why?
Is it because of what he's saying about Mexicans, or is it because of his immigration policies are crazy?
Tell us.
Then I would think if you really wanted to get rid of Trump, either you're Republican or Democrat, if you really want to get rid of Trump and you really want to limit whatever damage you think Trump is doing, then by all means tell anybody who will listen where he's wrong.
And I don't mean about calling Mexicans murders and rapists.
I mean his immigration policy.
He wants to shut the border down.
He wants to deport him.
He doesn't want all of this influx continuing.
Well, tell everybody where he's wrong.
I mean, the best way to discredit somebody is to do that, is it not?
Why is nobody doing that?
Or maybe some are and I haven't seen it.
I mean, I'm not watching a lot of TV here, so I there may be all kinds of people that are trying to.
But they're not making the news.
Let's go to Senator Rubio.
He was on uh Fox with Cavuto, I guess the Fox Bidness Network just today.
Neil Cavuto said we got two bites here from Rubio.
Are you troubled when Trump keeps saying this stuff about you?
What do you what do you feel about it?
Is it being fair to you?
Problem is border security is a very legitimate issue.
Illegal immigration is a very serious issue.
What's happened now is he's made some other comments that are less responsible, and those comments are now what everyone's focused on.
The bottom line is, and so we're let off the hook, all of these people that don't want to have a debate about illegal immigration.
They want to focus on Trump's comments about you know uh Mexicans.
Well, bingo, bingo.
That's exactly I just got the sound, the uh transcript of these Rubio bites during the break at the top of the hour.
Bingo, border security is a legitimate issue, but now everybody's focusing on what Trump said about Mexicans.
So Marco Rubio saying Trump has been a distraction.
Uh well, look, I don't have a dog in this fight yet.
I don't have a side here.
I just, if somebody's a distraction, how do you?
Mm-hmm.
Right.
Well, that's true.
In one sense, if there had just been one other Republican, speaking of immigration policy, in the way Trump is speaking of it, then they wouldn't need Trump.
The fact that he's a lone voice on this, and I'm not talking about what he says about Mexicans, I'm talking about his immigration policy.
You can't ignore the policy aspects of what he's saying.
You can, you mean you have to combine the two.
He thinks Mexico's not sending their best people here.
He says they're purposely not sending their best people here.
He doesn't say it, but Hell, if we could get rid of our criminal class, wouldn't we do it?
The point is, why is Trump the only guy saying this when the majority of the American people agree with him on the policy side of this?
So, but there you have it.
He's become a distraction.
Nobody's talking about the issue.
Seems to be real simple to talk about the issue.
Tell everybody how Trump is wrong.
What am I missing?
Mr. Schnerdley.
Okay, here's Marco Rubio again.
The next question from Neil Cavuto.
Do you think that Donald Trump is hurting your party, Senator?
The comments he's made has allowed people that don't want to have a debate or talk about illegal immigration to distract from the very serious debate on hand, and that is this.
We have a broken legal immigration system, and we have an illegal immigration problem that isn't just composed, by the way, of a porous border with Mexico.
Forty percent of illegal immigrants in this country are coming legally.
We should be focused on that.
And we should not, through outrageous comments, let off the hook those people that don't want to have that debate.
And so all they do is focus on what Trump said and distract from the real issue, which is the fact that we have legal immigration laws that are not being enforced.
Well, now why get mad at Trump?
I mean, if if by the way, this I did I hear this right, 40% of illegal immigrants in this country are coming legally.
Okay, I missed it.
All right, well.
We need to be focused on the issue, but nobody's talking about the issue because of Trump.
Well, why is Trump taking all the oxygen out of the air on this?
Why is that being permitted?
I take a break here, folks, and it's time now to squeeze your phone calls into the program and add that to the mix.
We'll do that when we get back.
you And by the way, uh saw a story on Breitbart.
What Trump is saying about illegal immigrants and Mexicans is not new.
And NBC didn't care in years past.
In his book, Trump wrote a book in 2011 called Time to Get Tough.
And in that book, he held both the Republicans and Democrats responsible for the failed immigration policies.
He cited GAO data, government accountability office data revealing the economic costs of the nation's.
Are you ready for this?
351,000 criminal aliens imposed on taxpayers at the time.
In 2011, there were 351,000 criminal illegal aliens, according to the federal government, according to the Obama administration.
Trump wrote a book saying many of the same things there that he is saying now.
NBC didn't care a whit.
Kept signing up to do the apprentice.
Kept broadcasting his pageants and everything else.
Trump wrote in this book, both sides need to grow up and put America's interests first, and that means doing what's right for our economy, our national security, and our public safety.
According to a government accountability office report in 2011, Americans' prisons housed 351,000 criminal aliens who committed a crime after having already broken the law by coming here illegally.
And then he wrote making taxpayers pay for 351,000 criminals who should never have been here in the first place is ridiculous.
And he did book sightings.
He did speeches based on the content of the book.
But he wasn't running for office.
And so it didn't matter to anybody.
But now he's getting dangerously close to upsetting the establishment's ruling class hierarchy.
Trump noted that even the government's own figures estimated the incarceration Costs of these illegal criminals at 1.1 billion dollars.
And even more staggering than that are the human costs, he wrote.
Trump cited the GAO's figures, which reveal that criminal illegal aliens commit acts that result in an average of seven arrests per immigrant is the point.
He pointed out there's a New York Times 2009 story that reported one out of every three federal prison inmates is Latino.
He didn't just make this stuff up that he's saying now.
He read it in the New York Times and in GAO official report.
Okay, we're back.
Rush Limbaugh meeting and surpassing every day.
Everybody's expectations.
I've been doing that my whole life.
Here's Kyle in Mount Kisko, New York.
Welcome, Kyle.
Glad you waited.
You're up first today.
Hello.
Hello.
It's a pleasure to speak with you.
Um I am particularly interested in um the dialogue that's going on with Trump and Mount Kissko, there was just an arrest made today.
Two day laborers got into a dispute.
One had been deported twice, um, convicted of burglary and assault with a deadly weapon, and he killed another day laborer, and he was just found today in New Jersey trying to flee.
So I'm interested, being that Mount Kissco is home to our lovely governor, and also right down the street from Mrs. Clinton's Chappaqua home.
I'm interested to know if this particular case will be brought to her attention and um sort of used to get her to actually take a stand that sounds reasonable, and if it might come up in that CNN interview.
Oh, fuck!
Ha, ha, ha.
He, he, he.
Let me see.
The chances that Slim and Nunn and Slim just left town because the idea that the CNN InfoBabe is gonna ask Mrs. Clinton about something like that that happened near her Chappaqua home, no chance.
Well, you know my generation lives on hope, so there's always that, right?
Uh what generation are you in?
The millennials.
Oh, you're the mill oh, so you're under 34, around 33, 34, something like that.
Yeah.
Um this is gonna be reported.
I mean, it has been, you know about it, but it's not gonna be reported in places the low information crowd will find out about it.
And Mrs. Clinton's not if the way to look at this first interview, I mean, this is a sycophant interview.
They've they've chosen a uh infobabe who literally worships Hillary.
She's tags along with her, she's been with her to the Chipotle uh incident, talk about how great she was.
If this woman, this infobabe, does anything that ends up making Hillary look small, or embarrasses Hillary, CNN knows that's the last shot they're ever gonna get.
And access is everything to the media, to their heroes.
You know, one way to understand this.
Let me ask you uh Kyle, when you were a kid, were you a sports fan?
Did you have a favorite baseball team, for example?
I'm a Buffaloan, so uh Jim Kelly and all of those, yeah.
So okay, so Jim Kelly and the Buffalo Bulls, and they're out there, and then and you would have were you a big fan, I mean, would you would you have you would have done anything to support these guys?
You would have shown up, and if you would have had the chance to meet them and hang around them, you'd have done it, right?
Sure.
Well, that's the press with Hillary.
Exactly.
They're like sports groupies in that sense.
And they're not gonna, you know, can you imagine you?
Okay, you love Jim Kelly.
You loved him when he took the Buffalo Bills to four Super Bowls.
Doesn't matter they lost.
You'll love Marv Levy, you'll love the even like Scott Norwood.
And then the first chance you have to be around them, are you gonna go in there and and start ragging on them and talking about what a losers they are and ask them why they lost all those games and disappointment.
You're not going to do that, are you?
I hope not.
Well, that's what this woman today's not going to do with Hillary.
The closest, I'm going to make a prediction to you.
The closest it's going to get.
Because they're genuinely worried about Bernie Sanders.
The closest it's going to get is asking Mrs. Clinton about Bernie Sanders.
And it's going to have it's going to be real dicey.
It's going to be very carefully done.
It's got to be done in such a way that Hillary can address Bernie Sanders without appearing to be affected or bothered by him.
Bernie Sanders will be reacted to as though he is a gnat at your backyard barbecue that you stole from your slaves.
You know, I better clarify if people didn't hear yesterday's show, who knows what would become of that comment.
Yesterday's show, we unearthed the news that college professors have discovered that your backyard barbecue, whatever the occasion, Fourth July Memorial Day Labor, just any barbecue.
You had that barbecue because the knowledge and the technique, the ability was stolen from the originators and the creators, who are slaves and Native Americans.
They created, they invented the backyard barbecue.
They invented grilling steaks and hot dogs over fire outside.
They invented it.
Whites came along and just stole it.
That's the news.
So I'm saying Bernie Sanders is going to be treated like a gnat at your backyard barbecue technique from which you stole from your slaves.
If Bernie Sanders is asked about, it's got to be very delicately done.
She cannot treat Bernie Sanders in questioning him.
She can't, for example, say, Mrs. Clinton, you see how well Bernie Sanders, my God, this guy's drawing crowds all over the place.
Are you worried?
Can't do that at all.
That will end any access CNN has.
The questions about Bernie Sanders have to be so innocuous that Hillary can just swat them away.
As though who?
Who are you asking me about?
Bernie Who?
Oh, yeah, I know Bernie.
You know, he's just one of these guys, he's been around forever.
He's just the most fun to hang around with.
He's not a serious guy, something like that, she can say.
Here's uh here's Larry Hubbard, Oregon.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Honor and a pleasure.
I love talking to you, and I love listening to you.
I I just your show keeps me going.
I mean, I hear the opening bars on a bad morning, and it just reminds me, it's like the sun coming up for me.
So just wanted to say that.
Thank you, sir.
Very, very I appreciate that, especially during times like no, no, I really do.
Appreciate and understand.
Thank you.
So the silent majority thing that you were talking about a little bit ago that Donald Trump brought up, I want to suggest to you that there's more to it than than I think a lot of people are thinking.
And my evidence is anecdotal.
Um you talk about the low information crowd.
Well, there's a low information crowd on the conservative side, too.
What I'm talking about is Blue Collar.
Um, didn't go to college.
Um, maybe not even graduated high school.
These are guys that do construction, these are guys that you know are farm workers, uh, buddies of mine, I love the guys, but um have not been involved in politics at all.
They haven't had reason to.
They don't understand it.
Um, I love Rand Paul talking about Texas or uh taxes.
I love Ted Cruz talking about the mistakes the Supreme Court made.
But these guys, the conversation goes over their head, they're unengaged, they're probably not even registered to vote.
But these guys, when we're talking, when I'm talking with them, they're excited about Donald Trump.
They know who Donald Trump is.
They appreciate the language that he's using because the language he uses resonates with them.
It's it's similar to the type of language that they use.
They're unable to formulate a intellectual conversation that the establishment wants everybody to carry on and considers itself there.
No, these guys they like their Bud Light.
They like their Copenhagen, they smoke their cigarettes, but they're disenfranchised.
Donald offers them a way to get excited about the political process.
And I think Key for him, if he is successful, is getting these guys.
Getting these people.
It's not just guys, it's not just males, it's their wives, it's their girlfriend.
Um getting these folks registered and through the polls.
If he makes it through the primary process, I I really got to believe that he's a lock.
I mean, one more bit of anecdotal evidence for you to think about.
Um, some years ago I heard only a quarter of uh Americans wind up going to college or something like that.
So you're talking about fully 75% of Americans have not been indoctrinated in liberal education policies and all that stuff going on.
Where are these folks?
These folks were not engaged with Romney, they weren't engaged with McCain, because they they just felt like they couldn't understand the conversation.
It's not their fault, but nobody has reached out to them.
And you know, I use the term low information voter, not as a pejorative, but really as a as a description of these folks.
I'll tell you, I give these people, and I don't mean to be disagreeing with you here, but I would characterize them a little differently than you.
I think they are completely aware.
I just think they think all of politics and Washington is bogus and rigged, and even the day-to-day news and discussion, I think they think is rigged, and so they tune it out.
Uh and they and they go about living their lives because that's the immediate pressure.
I mean, that's the that's the daily challenge is living their lives, earning a living, supporting their families, and all this political stuff is a side show.
That never the only thing that ever comes out of it harms them.
High taxes, great regulations that limit their ability to work, what have you.
They resent it, so they don't pay much attention to it, but they instinctively distrust it.
That's why when somebody comes along and tuz talk their language like you're saying, it resonates.
But I don't know that the the number of them out there, that is the big question.
And you want to lump them in with the uh low information voters that vote Democrat?
I understand that.
So what you're you're basically saying is that there is a much a potentially much larger silent majority that somebody could tap into that anybody is thinking.
Okay, maybe, but if what you're saying is true, we won't know till election day.
And my only point is this.
You're talking about people, and I understand the guys you're talking about, men and women you're talking about.
You're basically they're fed up and they've just they've they've on a daily basis tuned out of the system.
They're working, they're doing everything they can to make ends meet and all the other things.
But my question where the people that are ticked off by all this that want to do something about stopping it before election day.
I know people on our side work.
They don't come from a formative experience that includes the public protest march and civil disobedience and so forth.
But you look at some of the things that are happening.
Do you let me repeat again, folks?
Do you know what's happening in Oregon and Wisconsin?
In Oregon, two people that refuse to bake a cake, have been fined an amount of money that will close their business, and they have been uh had a gag order slapped on them by local prosecutors, state attorneys, forbidding them to discuss it.
They've had two elements of the First Amendment denied them.
Freedom of speech, freedom of religion.
They have run the risk of further fines by at least informing us of this circumstance.
In Wisconsin, these John Doe investigations are doing the same thing, and the targets are conservatives.
State governments are targeting private citizens and ruining them.
And when people find out about it, what do they do?
Oh, well, that's horrible, and then it's over.
And my only qu at what point, what's it gonna take, if anything ever?
I'm just ruminating, but What's it gonna take for people to do more than say, oh, that's horrible.
And then move on to something else.
Aside from GoFundMe campaigns to help these people, which is significant, don't misunderstand.
But where's the outrage at the people doing this?
Where's the outrage at people who are publicly openly, proudly, laughingly denying people their constitutional rights?
You remember the old adage about Nazi Germany.
You know, one group, what guy sitting around talking.
Yeah, you know, they went for the Jews, and I didn't say that.
And they went for the women and I didn't say that.
And they went for the diamond men, they didn't say anything.
And they went for the construction workers, and I didn't say that.
And they came and got me, and there was nobody left to say anything.
Now I'm not suggesting, I'm just reminding you that all of this stuff happens, and as long as it doesn't affect you, I'm just not gonna get involved, Mabel.
It's just too.
It's too risky.
I don't want to become a target.
I don't want them saying things about me like there's thinking about Trump.
I don't, I don't want that kind of treatment.
I don't want anybody even to know who I am.
So the fear of the state, the state, not Nebraska arcus the state fear of the monarchy, if you will.
It's time to take a break.
I just saw the clock.
Cheat.
Well, here we go.
Another instance of fakery.
It wasn't long that we heard of the name Rachel Doz.
Take two.
Three, two, one.
Wasn't long ago we heard the name Rachel Dolezole.
The nation became absorbed with the idea that she was black.
No, African American.
She never said she was black, but she laid claim to African heritage.
And of course, she was as white as Uncle Ben's rice.
And it led to a long drawn-out discussion over authenticity and legitimacy, and how in the world could it have ever been pulled off when everybody that knew her knew she was white.
And that became debates about whether or not it was legitimate, and if she identified that way, then who are we to say anything in opposition?
Which led me to openly admit that I now identify as skinny.
So any fat jokes from from here on out, I said would hurt my feelings and be very mean.
So I identify as I was trying to illustrate the absurdity of this.
Well, here's another one.
Another professor stands accused of falsely claiming a different racial identity to advance her career.
And yes, it's another woman.
This one is Andrea Smith, a professor of media and cultural studies at the University of California at Riverside, started to draw attention in the wake of the Dolazol incident.
She says that for years she's falsely claimed to have Cherokee blood.
The case is actually maybe a little bit more significant, though, because while Dolezal was a relatively undistinguished academic at Eastern Washington University, this Andrea Smith person is recognized as significant scholar in her field of media and cultural studies.
She routinely appears as a featured scholar at major events.
She's written books that are well received by her colleagues.
Conquest, Sexual Violence, and American Indian Genocide is one of her books, and she identifies her career has largely been defined by her supposed American Indian identity, but it's all made up.
It's all made up, and again, I guarantee you she's the product of corruption at the university.
Got to take a break.
I'm More time on this.
Yeah, well, why did Elizabeth Warren claim to be Foca Huntis?
She wanted to get hired at Harvard.
Well, this babe wanted to advance through the university, says, Hey, I'm Native American, I'm a minority, I deserve what and it happened.
Plus, she probably had her mind polluted by her professors when she was in school.
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