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July 8, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 8, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
The Department of Homeland Security is saying no sign of malicious activity at the New York Stock Exchange, where trading was halted earlier because of a tech issue.
And that's all they said.
Now there's a lot of stuff going on.
United Airlines was down today.
They had to ground their entire fleet because of a tech issue.
The Wall Street Journal, last I heard was down.
Its site is down because of a tech issue.
And the ChICOMs, I'll tell you the stock market is got a lot of people scared today.
Readings, folks, great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network and the Limbaugh Institute for advanced conservative studies.
The stock market's scary because look, folks, the one thing everybody there knows.
If they stop for a moment and be honest with themselves, the stock market roaring along here really has there's no reason for it if you try to link it to an accompanying uptick in the U.S. economy just isn't there.
The U.S. economy is not percolating along at a level that would uh indicate the stock market doing what it's doing.
And we all know why.
The Federal Reserve has been priming the stock market.
It's what quantitative easing is.
And so it's it's it's it's built on a flimsy foundation, and everybody involved knows it, and that's why just the briefest momentary glitch in anything can cause an outright panic or fear.
Now, one of the things that's also weighing in on this, as best I can tell, and I'm not, by the way, a professional or expert in this.
So I all I can do is pass along things that I have read, and of course, then I apply my expertise in analysis, but the ChICOM stock market is really plunging.
The ChICOM stock market has lost something like three trillion dollars in value in just the past couple of three months.
And the ChICOM government has done everything any Keynesian economist can think of to stop the plunge.
Nothing the ChICOM government has done has stopped the plunge in the ChICOM stock market.
They've tried everything and nothing's working.
Well, we could tell you that that was gonna happen.
Uh the you know, garbage in, garbage out.
Uh the fact of the matter is that if if the Chinese stock market is plunging to the degree that it is, it's one of two things.
It's either a massive correction taking place, which some of the smart money thinks is going on because a lot of this has been primed, folks.
Around the world, these stock markets are going through the roof, but there isn't any accompanying economic activity in well, the Chicom economy has been a little bit of an exception, but it maybe it hasn't been growing at the 9-10% rate that they've been reporting that it's been growing at.
So, uh, you've got all of these factors that are contributing now to great sense of unease.
You had Obama out.
It wasn't long ago, by the way.
I mean, just within the past month or so, Obama went out, made a speech, and actually started claiming credit for all of the value in the stock market.
Obama claimed credit for all of the gains in the stock market since he became president.
And it's interesting that the U.S. domestic stock market decline pretty much began right after Obama gave that speech.
You know, we're dealing with massive egos here.
And these massive egos on Wall Street don't want to hear some kid from Hawaii who has no idea how to do what they do, come along and claim credit for it.
And so there's uh there's that factor.
This technical glitch, I mean, this could be anything.
Uh they claim they're dealing with a major technical issue, but the Department of Homeland Securities is in nothing to see here.
United Airlines grounded earlier today because their whole fleet because of a tech issue.
The Wall Street Journal down.
So this could be Chinese hackers.
Um It could be Hillary Clinton monkeying around with the server in her Chappaqua basement and not knowing what she's doing.
And after that interview she gave yesterday, she I ever I hate to say, did I ever call that?
Folks, we're going to get to that, but that exactly the only thing newsworthy about the Clinton interview was the way she looked when she lied.
That's that's it.
That's the whole story.
And that the drive-byers are doing their best to build it up and pump it up, but over there, way over there is Bernie Sanders.
And Bernie Sanders has got legitimate real infectious support.
He's got all kinds of big crowds, energetic, real energetic crowd, nothing phony, fake baloney about them, and they're they're just going nuts for Bernie.
And then if the biggest fear on the Democrat side is if Biden decides to run, and Dick Morris writes a little bit about this at the Hill.com today.
If Biden decides to get in, he basically freezes Hillary.
Hillary cannot run against Biden without running against Obama.
And she can't run against Obama and pull that off.
Well, because among the Democrats, Obama's loved and adored.
Obama hasn't done anything wrong, so Hillary thinks she can do better.
You know, she'd have to pull off what JFK pulled off in 1960.
JFK was an amazing campaign, by the way, they campaigned against uh Nixon.
Uh the country was roaring in the 1960s.
Well, in the 5960 country was literally roaring.
We had a post-war baby boom.
I mean, the economy was as good.
People were buying houses, all kinds of brand new appliances, people were buying them.
It was literally booming.
And Eisenhower figured, okay, you know, when Eisenhower, it's one of my all-time favorite lines.
When Eisenhower figured out he couldn't shoot Congress like he could shoot the Nazis, he said the heck with it.
And he went on play golf down at Augusta and in Palm Springs, and the country just roared.
It was just you might have some individual Democrats take issue with it, but JFK came along and about the only thing he could do was acknowledge how great things were and then say he could do even better.
And then talked about the torch passing to the new generation.
And that and the dead vote in uh Chicago and West Virginia pulled it off.
So Hillary would be faced with much the same kind of challenge.
But I'm gonna broom all of that till later in the program because Hillary's old news.
I mean, I may be fun to talk about so far for some people.
Hillary and her campaign is old news, and it'll clearly wait until later in the program.
To me, there are things far more important.
There are some seriously cool teaching moments, teachable moments that have occurred just since we were last together.
There are myriad examples that I can show you to buttress a point that I want to make.
I read a piece today in the was it the Federalist.
I think it's the Federalist.
Yep, the Federalist.
The new totalitarians are here.
You ever have you ever sat around been thinking things, silently thinking things?
Maybe to a couple people, you tell them what you're thinking, and then all of a sudden out of the blue, you come across a piece, an article or something that says exactly what you've been thinking, but you haven't verbalized or have been able to verbalize.
That's what this piece does.
It draws the distinction between authoritarians and totalitarians.
And it doesn't mean totalitarians in the sense of murderous dictator regimes.
It's totalitarian in a different sense, but it's clearly applicable to what is happening in this country.
Fact, this story even uses the example of that reprobate, George Takai going after Clarence Thomas as an example of the neototalitarianism.
I want to explain that to you.
And then in the midst of all of that, we have got to acknowledge, particularly in light of what we discussed just yesterday.
We have got to acknowledge the overwhelming accomplishment.
The blinding achievement of Donald Trump in this way.
Remember, folks, it was only yesterday.
This is key now.
It was only yesterday that I cited for you something I had seen on Fox yesterday morning during the Bill Hammer show.
They had their political director out there, Chris Steyrwalt come out.
And he was uh they were they were talking about the latest developments in the Republican presidential campaign with Trump and so forth.
And one of the points Steyerwalt made well, Trump is Trump, and it's cool, it's fun, and so forth, but the problem Trump is having is that he, no matter what he's talking about, gets ignored because he is the issue.
Trump has been unable to make himself not the issue.
And so whatever it is he cares about, nobody's talking about.
Instead, they're talking about him.
Well, in less than 24 hours, that has all changed.
Look at what Donald Trump has done.
Donald Trump has single-handedly, in terms of electoral politics.
Now, a bunch of us who have been saying similar things, doing similar things, but none of us are running for president.
And none of us are being covered by the media day in and day out with every syllable we utter.
Donald Trump has changed the entire debate on immigration.
And he is not the story today.
The story today is sanctuary cities.
Have you seen how many Democrats are now standing up and raising their hands and speaking out against them?
Including the senior senator from California, Diane Feinstein, just a moment ago, issued a statement saying she opposes sanctuary cities.
But that's just one aspect of it.
People are now demanding answers about all these criminal aliens.
I have a story.
Where do I put this?
Something like 41%.
Now here it is.
Illegal immigrants account for nearly 37% of federal sentences in fiscal year 2014.
41% of all prosecuted federal crimes occur in five districts near the Mexican border.
So the attention is now focused on criminal acts committed by illegal immigrants.
People are now demanding action on that.
They are demanding something be done about sanctuary cities.
And all of the open borders people, I don't care where you find you, you find them in the Wall Street Journal editorial page, you can find some of them at Fox News, a lot of them in the Republican Party.
They are on defense today.
Exactly what 24 hours ago was said hadn't happened, somehow has.
Everybody is now focused on, and when I say everybody, I mean the drive-by media, Democrat senators, everybody is now focused on the exact complaints Donald Trump has raised about our immigration system.
But I want to point something else out.
Look at what it has cost Donald Trump.
You know, I've been asking in the past couple of days, is there a silent majority out there?
Why don't they stand up?
Where is the outrage?
Where's the uprising when little bakeries are shut down, when photography shops are shut down, when massive state governments put gag orders on average ordinary citizens?
Where's the opposition?
I've been asking, where is it?
I know it's there.
It's afraid to show up.
It's afraid to pop up.
You know it and I know it.
People see what's happening to your neighbors, they don't want to have it happen to them, they shut up.
Donald Trump didn't shut up.
Look at what this has cost him.
And just one issue in just changing the focus and changing the focus, and I don't know how long it's going to last, but just one issue.
Look at what it has cost Donald Trump.
Look at the abuse that he has taken and had to take.
Look at how much business he has had to lose.
Although Trump in classic Trump fashion has issued a press release today saying that all of this is actually increasing his business.
He genuinely is one of a kind.
But the the three of the largest companies that have abandoned Trump and have attempted to impugn and damage his reputation are media companies of NBC.
You have Univision and then the gutless wonders at ESPN.
And then you had Macy's.
And then you had the PGA of America.
And then the USGA of America.
And you have all of these companies that are telling Trump, sorry, pal, we can't do business with you.
I don't know of a single other person in the Republican field who would not have caved already after the first of these.
Donald Trump was on Greta last night and said, I don't care how much this cost my companies, I want to save my country.
Now, I don't know how long his campaign's gonna last, and I don't I don't I don't pretend to know that he's in this for the long haul.
But I all I'm telling you is that yesterday and every day prior, whenever there was news about Trump, it was what a creep, what an egotist, what an extremist, how politically incorrect, how mean, whatever.
It was about him today, finally.
And even beginning last night, the news is about the issue he has been calling attention to.
It's amazing, I think.
You don't see this.
A single human being change the entire debate on a single subject.
It shouldn't take this.
It shouldn't require somebody to have to lose and lose and lose money in their businesses.
It shouldn't require somebody losing their reputation.
It shouldn't require somebody to volunteer to take this kind of abuse and their families as well, just to have a discussion about an issue.
Especially when it comes to immigration.
There's no defense for what's been happening.
There's no defense for open borders.
There's no defense for criminal activity.
There's no way, common sense under the sun that anybody should be able to defend anything happening regarding illegal immigration.
I have to take a break.
Be right back and continue this.
Sit tight, folks.
Don't go away.
By the way, folks, Rush Limbaugh.com is up and running.
The important stuff, unaffected.
Wall Street Journal, I think it's back up, but it was down, the stock market down, United Airlines down, fine.
Rush Limbaugh.com up and running was never down.
The important stuff is solid.
Now back to immigration and Donald Trump.
You know as well as I do that for the last what, 10 years, illegal immigration, whenever it's polled, has always had a majority of people opposed to illegal immigration, to amnesty of any kind, but particularly executive amnesty, such as that proposed by Obama.
What are the Republicans been doing?
What policies guide the Republican establishment?
Very simple.
The establishment, the Republican Party thinks, in order to be elected to the White House, they have to somehow go out and get 25 or 30% of the Latino vote.
And how do they think they should do that?
Well, by not opposing Amnesty, by appearing to support immigration, endless, even illegal immigration, by being pro-Latino.
Has it helped them, hasn't done diddly squat for them.
And as long as that remains the policy of the Republican Party, they are never ever going to link and connect to the majority of the American people on this issue.
Here comes one man, Donald Trump.
And again, I want to stress.
Look at how much he has lost.
I think it's temporary.
I think he's going to get it back and then some.
But he's still.
Nobody wants to get the abuse Trump has gotten.
Nobody wants to see themselves talked about and treated and written about the way Trump has been.
Nobody wants to take the abuse that Trump has received has been a warning to every other Republican.
Don't you even think about joining Trump.
Don't you even think about trying something like this?
But Trump was undeterred, and he has changed the focus on this entire issue to the issue.
And not him.
We'll be back.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rush Limbaugh behind a golden EIB night network.
And I'll tell you something else, Trump has introduced now.
He's going after common core because he's going after Jeb Bush.
So he's moving beyond illegal immigration and sanctuary cities and illegal immigrant crime.
But it is look, I can't emphasize this enough.
The way is being shown here.
Now, predictably, all of the mouthpieces of the Republican establishment are still out denigrating Donald Trump.
They are criticizing him and saying this is not the way you get things done in politics in America today.
It's a clown type operation, and it isn't going to last, and you don't run around out there, you don't call the whole Republican field clowns like Trump is doing, and it's not serious, and most people look at Trump as a clown and don't take him seriously, fine and dandy.
They can think that all they want.
The bottom line is I can't think of any other Republican who has put any Democrat on defense about anything having to do with illegal immigration.
But now you've got Democrats standing up wanting to be counted among those who oppose this whole sanctuary city business.
When it comes to providing sanctuary for known criminals, rapists, muggers, purse snatchers, and whatever.
Diane Feinstein, a number of them are popping up.
I don't know of any other Republican who's done that.
I don't know any other Republican who has been able to change the debate on this issue to what the majority of the American people want.
For the last six years, we have been governed by a regime governing against the will of the American people on the big things, including the little things, but like Obamacare's never had majority support.
Amnesty, illegal immigration, never had majority support.
Economic policies, to the extent people have any idea what's going on, this would never be voted for either.
And yet it's been happening.
Anyone out there want Iran to have nuclear weapons?
Didn't think so.
All of these things are happening.
They were never voted for because the people sitting in power today never told us this is what they were going to do.
They can't say that this was what they were elected to do unless they lie about what it is they're doing, which they do.
But Trump going after common core, government-run education, calling it silly, and a number of other things.
Trump put out a press release in response to all of these businesses canceling their deals with him.
And it's typical Trump.
Let me read it to you, as only I can.
The dissociation of ESPN and NASCAR with a Trump organization was covered by the press in headlines all over the world, as though it was a major setback for me.
Really?
Well, what were the losses?
One NASCAR banquet in a magnificent ballroom at Trump National Dural in Miami, for which I will keep their very substantial deposit, and I'll rent the ballroom to somebody else that night.
In other words, I'm going to get two fees instead of one.
And by the way, he says, NASCAR has already apologized to me.
Now, in the case of ESPN, they canceled a simple golf outing at my course.
Trump National Golf Club in Los Angeles.
By the way, I have played that course.
We shot one of the Hank Haney episodes on that course.
It was the episode at Al Michaels.
And boy, is it actually down in uh Los.
Well, you need meal money to get down.
It's not actually Los Angeles, it is, but it's wait.
I can't think of what it is, but it's gorgeous down there.
The views of the Pacific Ocean.
Trump was there.
He said, you know, they talk about Pebble Beach.
Pebble Beach, Pebble Beach.
Look at Pebble Pebble Beach.
Pebble Beach has a little bay.
Pebble Beach has got a little sound.
Look at what I got.
The Pacific Ocean.
I got a better knives, I got better forks, I got better T's.
This is the best club in America.
It's typical Trump.
And ESPN was slated to have a tournament there.
I think it's in association with their SBs that happened on July 15th.
And so Trump says in his press relief, at least in the case of ESPN, they canceled a simple golf outing at my course, Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles, overlooking the Pacific Ocean, perhaps the most valuable parcel of land in all of golf.
Likewise, ESPN lost a large deposit.
I will now let people use the course on that.
It's a public course, by the way.
I'll now let people use the course that day, receiving substantial additional Greens fees income.
Again, I get two fees instead of one because of ESPN's cancellation.
So that's the big deal built up by the press on ESPN and NASCAR, a banquet and a golf outing.
Headlines blared all over the world.
ESPN and NESCAR dropping Trump.
Give me a break.
All of this because of my strong stance on illegal immigration during my run for president.
Make America great again.
That's the last sentence in the press release.
He's not running around with his tail between his legs.
He's not running around with an attitude that indicates an apology is soon forthcoming.
He's not running around scared.
He's jamming it right back down their throats.
But the big deal is he's not acting intimidated.
And in that's not the big deal.
The big deal is how he's changed the focus of the debate.
He told Greta Van Sustran last night that uh making America great again is more important to me than my company.
We've got some audio sound bites of that coming up here in just a second.
But first, Cybercast News Service, according to data released by the U.S. Justice Department, 41 point, yeah, Palos Verdes is where course uh Trump's course is.
Rancho Palos uh Pallos Verdes.
It's beautiful.
Anyway, according to data released by the U.S. Justice Department, 41.7% of the federal criminal cases that U.S. attorneys filed in U.S. district courts in fiscal 2014 were in the five U.S. attorney districts that sit along the U.S. Maiaco border.
In fact, the five districts that sit along the border, those for Southern California, Arizona, New Meico, Western Texas, and Southern Texas, were the top five in the country for criminal cases filed in U.S. district courts.
Well, that's not a coincidence.
And that's not just happenstance or accidental.
Nearly half of all federal prosecutions have to do with illegal immigration and crimes committed.
In association with the Office of the U.S. Attorney for Western Texas led the nation last year in filing criminal cases in U.S. District Court, according to the U.S. Attorney's Annual Statistical Report for fiscal year 2014.
During the fiscal year, U.S. Attorney for Western Texas filed 5,008 criminal cases in U.S. district court.
Here's the contrast.
There are 17 U.S. attorneys districts that sit in the contiguous 48 states along the Canadian border of the Great Lakes.
Those 17 districts which run from the Western District of Washington to the District of Maine filed a combined total of 5,257 criminal cases in 2014.
Bottom line, one U.S. Attorney District in Texas filed more criminal cases than 17 districts on the Canadian border.
That means that all the federal criminal cases filed in U.S. district courts spanning the Canadian border from Washington to Maine did not equal the criminal cases filed by one U.S. attorney office in Western Texas.
Now, obviously, the offenses people are convicted of in federal courts are not local crimes, but federal ones, and according to the STAT report, the top category of offense for those found guilty in U.S. district courts nationwide, fiscal year 2014, immigration offenses.
Well, finally, I can't tell you the number of years sitting here behind a golden EIB microphone reporting this particular crime committed by an illegal immigrant or that one all over the country.
Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arizona, you name it.
Stories were frequent.
But the debate on the subject never changed.
Prevailing opinion always remained.
We need to grant them amnesty.
We need to have them come out of the shadows.
So, But then this murder took place.
San Francisco.
And around the same time, two or three other outrageous crimes committed by illegal immigrants, combined with Trump refusing to be intimidated and being talked out of the issue, instead staying focused on it, has changed the entire debate on immigration.
As I say, he uh has now started talking about common core as well as part of the criticisms leveled at the presumed front runner.
And that would be Jeff Bush.
A brief timeout.
We'll get some audio sound bites on this end so that you can put that in the mix.
Coming up after this.
Don't go away.
Ladies and gentlemen, I cannot emphasize enough, and I'm by the way, I'm not, in fact, I'm doing the opposite sucking up.
I'm not sucking up here.
I can relate, is why I know how big a deal this is.
The amount of abuse that Donald Trump has taken, the efforts that have been made to destroy him, the ongoing efforts to harm damage and from their perspective, destroy Trump's businesses.
It has been serious, it has been an onslaught, and he has not buckled.
And I'm telling you, you um, whatever you think of Trump and all of this, try to keep that in perspective.
Most people would have buckled long ago.
Most people would have cried, Uncle and begged forgiveness of the new totalitarians long ago.
I have uh an incredible amount of admiration and respect for just this aspect of what Trump has done.
I don't I I know it seems easy to comprehend this, but this is one of those things that, well, most people's reaction is something well, Trump's rich, he can afford it, it's no big deal.
You wait till it happens to you.
Those who have had this happen, I know some of you have, be the IRS, somebody, your employer, somebody's trying to do real damage to you.
You know how difficult it is.
In this case, have a try to imagine the entire country coming after you as represented by the media.
And then all these giant corporations and their sanctimonious CEOs trying to gain favor with the left and the Democrat Party by joining the hit parade against you and still hanging in there and not buckling.
Here is Chester in San Diego.
Chester, hi, great to have you on the program of the EIB network.
Greetings, sir.
Thank you, Russ.
I've been listening to you for since you came on the air.
And I wanted to say that well, I could not use the stand Donald Trump.
I'd see him on show, hair everywhere.
I'd shut him off.
I'd never listened to him, but I heard his speech in which he talked about the illegals and there being criminals and murderers.
And I told my wife right then, what he's saying is what everybody I work with believes.
I'd vote for him right now.
And what was it about Trump you didn't like?
Well, you know, let me guess.
Let me guess.
By the way, I can be wrong.
No, no, there's no wrong answer here.
Well, you didn't like the fact he's a braggart that he was uh Yeah.
I guess I never listened to him long enough to really know.
I couldn't stand what he looked like.
Yeah.
I couldn't stand his attitude.
That's a lot of people.
But what he what he said on TV is what I agree with.
I live in San Diego.
Forty percent of the kids in San Diego schools don't speak English.
I go down to South Texas.
75% of the population of South Texas is non-English speaking.
Right.
And then somebody makes the idea suggest, you know, maybe we should teach them English, and they call you a bigot.
Uh-huh.
For suggesting such a thing.
If they want to, they don't want to.
They have their own culture and they don't want our culture.
Exactly.
Well, that leads me to another point.
Dr. Crowdhammer, we had a soundbite from Charles Crowdhammer yesterday in which he criticized Donald Trump for I can't remember his exact word, but but he basically he was criticizing him for tarring and feathering an entire ethnicity.
And what he meant by that was that during Trump's original speech when he said that Mexico's not sending us their best, they're sending rapists and murderers and so forth.
I don't know about you, but I never once assumed that Trump was talking about all of them.
I mean, I have a little common sense here.
I mean, there is this thing called understanding and the benefit of the doubt and all, and it just was unreasonable to think Trump's talking about all of them.
He's talking about way too many of them.
I mean, if there's a wave of illegal immigrants pouring in, and a bunch of them are committing crimes, and you point it out, you're not tarring an entire ethnicity.
But the opponents of Trump and the opponents of doing something about this took it that way.
And I never did.
And I just it's it's it's beyond my ability to understand why somebody would think anybody would think that Trump was talking about every single immigrant.
There's just that defies common sense.
And then people, well, you go back and look what he said.
He didn't say some.
Yeah, but he didn't say all either.
He said they're not sending their best.
They're sending rapists, murderers.
What he said is undeniably true, as is evidenced just in the past three days.
The crimes committed by illegals, Sanctuary City, San Francisco, and then the one of Laredo, Texas, and then there was a third promenade with a hit and run, and then the ball peen hammer attack, and then the The murder.
And don't forget it's San Francisco.
In that particular case, when the media first had their chance to interview the PERP, the interpreter and the journalist at ABC 7 Eyeball News tried to coach the guy into admitting he felt remorse.
Into admitting he felt sorry.
That they knew.
They knew how bad this was.
Anyway, Chester, I appreciate the call.
And I knew I was going to get sound bites, but I said I was, but I didn't.
Uh took a telephone call instead.
Still uh lots to do here, folks, on the new totalitarians.
Again, one of these things I read and I said, damn it, that's exactly what I've been thinking.
So what I've been trying to say in my own words and haven't gotten there.
So it came at uh just the right time.
Back after this.
Don't go away.
LA Times has a story today, Census Bureau data.
As of July 1st last year, 14.99 million Latinos live in California.
14.92 million whites.
So the number of Latinos now outnumbers whites in California.
But like Chester said, they're not all coming here to join our culture.
And we will be back.
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