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July 13, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 13, 2015, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
El Chapo.
Or is it El Chapo?
El Chapo.
So El Chapo gets out of jail a mile long tunnel, one and a half kilometers, ventilated, built right under the Mexicans in their Mexico City jail.
Nobody knows how the drive-by are marveling, folks, over what an engineering feat it is.
Just like they used to marvel, oh, how Bill Clinton lied to them.
The drive-bys are just stunned and impressed beyond all measure.
And how El Chapo built his uh his escape tunnel.
El Chapo, the biggest drug lord ever.
Greetings, my friends, and uh great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh back at it.
Brand new week broadcast excellence, 800-282-288 to the email address El Rushbo at EIB net.com.
And I'll tell you what, El Chapo is mad at Trump.
Now imagine this.
Here's El Chapo, whose actual name is Joaquin Guzman, not to be confused with any other Guzman that you might know.
Joaquin Guzman, he's head of the Seneola cartel.
It's the largest cartel out there.
It is the cartel of cartels.
He flees this Mexico City prison.
And the first thing he did was get on Twitter to start bashing Trump.
He starts calling Trump a midget.
He starts threatening Trump.
He tells Trump he will regret his words.
He'll be made to eat his words.
He's threatening Trump because Trump criticized Guzman's escape.
My gosh, if you've been in jail for a year and a half or however long he's been in jail, and you run the biggest drug cartel in the world, the first thing you want to do when you get out is send a tweet to Donald Trump.
I mean, this is you kidding, you could not you couldn't write a script.
Anyway, we'll get into details of that.
Folks, there's another there's another story out there that is being dwarfed by everything that I want to touch on and mention.
Actually, two there's two or three of these kind of stories that are out there that are just being dwarfed.
Remember, I'll give you an example of what I'm talking about.
The week that we have Supreme Court decisions on gay marriage and uh uh Obamacare, there was a third Supreme Court decision that maybe is worse than those two.
And it was it was about the court granting uh legality and and permission uh to integrate neighborhoods based on racial quota, not economics or some sort of thing.
It was a horrid decision.
And it didn't get much play because it was overshadowed by the soap opera characteristics of gay marriage and uh and Obamacare.
Well, there's another story, interestingly enough, it's about suburbia and neighborhoods, and it's something that National Review writer Stanley Kurtz has been warning about in articles and books for years, and it is about Obama's war on suburbia and his attempt to basically uh eliminate suburbia by taking away those aspects of it that make it an enclave away from urban areas or cities.
And I want to spend some time today getting into this because this is a uh it provides an egg it's it's interesting interesting uh object lesson in how this could backfire big time on the left, as it has.
There's a test case for this, and I know I haven't set the table on this, so just bear with me for a few minutes here.
But they tried this in Westchester County, New York.
Westchester County, New York was a left-wing liberal enclave like most in the Northeast are.
And the Republicans basically run the place now because voters had a huge backlash to government efforts to change the makeup and structure and uh uh think what busing was, think of it now in terms of housing is what this is.
Take the same principles of forced busing and convert those to housing from urban to suburban areas, from um uh poor areas to rich areas, uh except you're not bussing people to go to school, you're actually moving them to the neighborhoods with so-called affordable housing.
It's a bit more complicated than that.
But the the point is that it's something Obama has waited until late in his second term to do, because this is something that that uh would cause if if people knew it was going on and knew it was intended, it could cause the same kind of backlash that Obamacare has caused, and in fact, has, as I say, in Westchester County, New York.
So that's one thing that I'm gonna get to before the program ends today, uh, if I can.
I don't want to make any promises because we're loaded with all kinds of the second thing, and this is this is a this is a little throwaway that I doubt anybody is gonna make a big deal of.
This little story here's on Fox News.
Obama to be first sitting president to visit federal prison.
Okay, so it's good.
Obama's gonna go visit federal prison.
Yeah, president's go place.
No big deal.
Nothing to see here, no story.
What's the big deal?
Ah, but that's not the right way to look at this.
President Obama set to tour Oklahoma's El Reno correctional institution on Thursday, becoming the first sitting president to visit a federal prison.
The White House said last week, Obama will meet with law enforcement officials and prisoners when he meets and visits El Reno, a medium security prison that's home to 1,300 inmates.
He'll be accompanied by Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Charles E. Samuels.
So what rush?
Big deal.
Ladies and gentlemen, I just want to pose some possibilities to you.
What is one of the campaign planks in a future Hillary Clinton campaign platform?
Is it not her desire to extend the right to vote to felons?
The Democrat, she's not alone.
The Democrat Party has had as an objective felon voting rights for quite a few years.
The Democrats need every vote they can get from amnesty for illegal aliens to felons to any any number of so-called disenfranchised groups.
Now, felons can't vote as a matter of statutory law, and it's considered now discriminatory because when you add another fact that the Democrats keep hammering, and that is the jails are filled with people who have no business being there.
These people have committed victimless crimes, usually drug crimes.
They are largely African American, and that is because this is a racist country, and the white majority has done everything it can to put as many black men in prison just to get them out of circulation, and they're not guilty, and they've never been guilty, is the assumption.
And it's another example of Republican Party meanness or extremism or racism or what have you.
And so here's Obama going to visit a federal prison, first president ever.
Let's wait and see what he says to the prisoners.
But I'm not, I wouldn't be surprised if down the road that certain prisoners are gonna end up being pardoned by President Obama at the end of this year and at the end of his last year in office,
but a lot of them perhaps possibly pardoned this year, and an effort made to extend the right to vote to our felon community, as the lingo goes.
Last week, I pointed out, made the observation, Obama is flooding the zone, literally every upsetting, disorienting thing that he can do to put existing pressure on traditions and institutions and blow them up, he's doing.
And this would just be the next one in line.
You've all heard of Cloud Pivon, these two professors at Columbia University who had a an idea and a theory that you could just destroy the United States and then pick up the pieces and start again and do it right, in their view, by just overwhelming the welfare state.
Just put as many people on the welfare state as possible and just bankrupt the country.
Just make this grease it.
Just turn this country into Greece, make it impossible for the government to survive as it exists, paying welfare benefits, and you do that by getting as many people as possible on any form of welfare that you can.
And it's done for the specific purpose, according to the Cloud Pivon theory, this is the Cliff Notes version.
The purpose is to flood the zone with people who are not productive, who are not working, who supposedly have been victimized by the existence of this country since the days of the founding.
You put them on the public doll, the government eventually implodes because it can't provide for them.
This creates unrest and dissatisfaction among the populace who can't get food, who can't get water, who can't get cell phones, who can't get their big screen TVs or whatever it is they want, and they riot.
And they raise hell.
And the country falls apart.
This is the long-term theory, and then the left gets to rebuild this country from scratch after this theory is played out.
Well, this is kind of clowned.
The Cloud Piven was always an attack on the government from outside.
Now it had to have its participants inside in the various bureaucracies and Congress, in order to either create regulations or write laws and a president in there to sign them that would create this massive welfare state.
But this, if if there is, for example, and this is all speculation, I'm just but you know what I am.
I mean, I'm I'm the canary in the in the uh in the in the coal mine for this country.
And I'm the guy that's trying to warn everybody before it happens, what's going to happen.
I'm trying to un I'm the guy trying to give everybody a heads up.
And I don't mind being if some of these things don't uh happen, that's that's great.
I mean, I don't mind being wrong about some of these predictions.
But if this if this visit to a prison leads to a bunch of prison pardons and leads to felons being able to vote, then what we've got here is essentially Cloud Pivan from the inside.
I hope this doesn't happen, but given what we know about Obama and the modern-day Democrat Party, and the uh the anger and rage that they still harbor for this country, despite the appearance to us anyway, that they're winning every day.
Their rage and anger just continues unabated.
There is so much abuse of power, so much, and there's so little opposition to it.
There's so few people who stand up and say stop.
It's gotten to the point where it's impossible to keep track and much less pushback.
There's just a bit of speculation here.
Uh, but but when I saw the story, Obama first sitting president to visit federal prison.
What what's the point?
I mean, he's not running for re-election.
He will not benefit from a felon vote if it happens.
What's the point here?
Is he going to go apologize?
What is the point?
Why would you go if you want to address prison reform?
Uh, Why do you have to go to a prison and talk to the inmates?
Maybe you want to go apologize.
Can you see that?
Can you see Obama apologizing to some who are incarcerated?
Not by name, but he gives a speech before an assembled gathering of prisoners and says, uh no, many of you feel you're here.
Uh unjustifiable.
And I agree.
Can you can you hear this?
Well, he's he's gone around the world and made such statements about the country.
What's to stop him from going to a prison or two?
I mean, if you buy into the left-wing theory that prison is nothing more than a Republican elitist creation to get rid of people you don't like who have not broken the law.
Remember, according to people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, most of the people in jail have not broken the law, particularly most of the African American men have not broken the law.
It's a miscarriage of justice.
This is their big point.
And you know Obama agrees with that, or if he if he does it, he will say that he does.
Why go to a federal prison otherwise?
So it's going to be Thursday.
I don't know if how much earth shattering will happen on Thursday, if anything at all, but I just I'm gonna keep my eyes on this.
Because one of these things that gets hardly any note, particularly with everything else.
El Chapo, the Donald Trump presidential candidacy rolling on, and the media totally absorbed with it now.
I mean, you'll hear in the audio sound, the media is totally absorbed with Trump and what he's doing.
And so is uh so are many in the Republican Party.
But in the midst of all that, one of the most qualified Republicans made it official.
Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, who, as you know, if you listen regularly to this program, we have touted Walker's qualifications time and time and time again.
Here is a man who is conservative.
You know what he said, by the way, in his speech?
Tell me, name for me any other candidate, and there may be some, I just can't recall the top of my head.
Name for me any other candidate who's made this point.
Scott Walker said one of the first things he's going to do is build on and shore up the Republican conservative base.
That's that's somewhat unique, folks, because most of the Republicans are talking about the need to go beyond the conservative base.
And at the very least, making themselves sound like they're taking it for granted, but that the conservative base isn't the key to their plans.
But Walker says the conservative base reaching out to it, energizing it.
Walker believes that there are.
Oops, I just saw the clock.
I will not lose my train of thought, but I have to take a brief time out.
Sit there, be right back after this.
Hi, how are you?
Welcome back.
El Rushbow here, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
One clarifying comment.
Um, it it the the prison vote is actually what Obama and the Democrats are looking for.
I in some states, felons can now vote uh after they get out of prison and after a certain amount of time has gone by.
What the Democrats want, what Hillary and Obama want is for felons to be able to vote in prison.
And that's why he's going there.
He's going to this Oklahoma prison, one of the reasons it was meant to be the kickoff of Obama's efforts to let out more drug dealers and users, victimless crimes.
I don't know how drug dealers can be said to be involved in victimless crimes.
But this is something the Democrat Party, Obama's been threatening to take action on for years, and that is to get rid of these what they think are insane prison sentences for victimless crimes.
And this trip to this Oklahoma prison is designed to kick off Obama's efforts to begin that Process.
And that's why the El Chapo escape perhaps is not happening within the best time frame.
Because this is essentially what Obama is seeking.
He's essentially wanting to let people in jail, out of jail, under the premise that many are there unjustifiably.
And in the process, he gets to blame America for being unfair and who knows, uh bigoted or racist or biased or whatever reason these people are unjustifiably in jail.
He wants to be the agent that begins the process that would see their release, and then expand the felon vote to include those in prison.
Now here comes El Chapo, the number one drug kingpin of the world escaping, which timing-wise not the best for Obama.
So I just wanted to clarify that so there was no confusion about that which I was momentarily ago saying.
Back to Scott Walker when we get back here.
No, no, remember, folks, we had a story, excuse me.
I'm just a little hoarse today, but I'll get through it.
I don't know how long, if it's a few months ago, you'll remember this when I mentioned it to you.
We had a story about how the Democrats are missing a huge percentage of their voting block because they're in jail, or because they are ex-cons.
And it's one of the problems that Obama and Hillary are trying to fix, and George Soros as well.
The study in the story that I'm talking about found that, see if you remember this, that Democrats would still control Congress if 15% of their base were not dead or in jail.
And uh I you may not remember it, but I clearly do, and it it dovetails right alongside right there with Hillary, who is well known for this.
Felons should be able to vote push.
And so is her husband Bill.
I mean, this is a big deal for the Democrat.
Why do you think, you know, they're aborting their base to the tune of one million babies a year.
They need to replace this somehow.
And in the old days, when people improved their lives as they got older, maybe start out in lower middle class, kept working, and eventually made it up to the middle class and the upper middle class.
Remember when there was upward mobility in the U.S. economy?
As that happened, the Democrat Party lost people when they became more self-reliant and self-sufficient.
You've heard the old saw that you get older, you become conservative because you become more mature and aware of how hard it is to earn what you have and how easy it is the Democrats want to take it away from.
Well, that upward mobility, there isn't much of it anymore.
And this is why there is so much angst in the country.
There just isn't.
And the millennials don't think there's any.
And that's why they're all saying in poll after Paul, they've lost faith with the country.
When it is specific Democrat Party policies that are responsible for the flat line that has become the U.S. economy.
So the Democrats have to get voters from somewhere.
They have to replace the ones they're aborting.
They have to replace the ones that are in jail by giving them the right to vote.
And they they need a permanent underclass of people that are incapable of self-reliance because they're not educated any other number of reasons, and that's why amnesty, the voter registration movement.
And those three things are working together to shore up the Democrat Party future.
And that's it it all dovetails together.
And remembered in the Democrat Party, the status of the country is irrelevant to their power.
Their power comes first.
And it is in the middle of all this that we find ourselves.
Now back to Scott Walker.
Scott Walker very flat out says that his first order of business is going to be shoring up the conservative base, reaching out to the conservative base.
Scott Walker believes that there are a lot of Americans who live their lives as conservatives, but they don't vote that way for the usual reasons.
He thinks they are what we used to call the Reagan Democrats.
And he thinks that he can go get them.
Because he has met them as governor of Wisconsin.
He's traveled around and he's campaigned.
And he uh he's told stories and speeches of meeting people who say to him, for example, in fact, he told me once, he said, I'm I ran into a guy who told me that uh he didn't know he was a conservative.
He didn't know he was a Republican till talk radio came along.
And he thought he didn't know what he was.
And he thinks there are a lot of people out there that live conservatively, want to raise their kids, and by that I mean the values that we associate with conservatism.
He thinks there are a lot of people out there, but they they're either independents or they're reluctant Democrats, uh, and because of whatever branding or other issues, that they just don't vote Republican.
He thinks they can be persuaded to vote Republican.
He thinks they can be told that uh he is their candidate and the Republican Party is their home.
So that's one of the uh outreach efforts that he's gonna make.
In addition to all of that, Scott Walker has a track record.
Scott Walker doesn't have to tell you what he will do if he's elected because he all he has to do is point to what he has done.
He just signed into law another budget in the state of Wisconsin.
Wisconsin is a blue state.
He just signed a budget which eliminates tenure.
He just signed a budget which gets closer to balancing the budget of the state of Wisconsin.
He's done remarkable, he has implemented a conservative agenda against everything the Democrat Party has to throw at him.
And he's beat them three different times, which we've heralded here quite often and talked about it quite often.
So he's he's the one guy in the race with a conservative track record, the one guy in a race that has shown how to defeat the media and Democrat coordinated attacks on conservatives.
He's shown how to hang in and be tough.
Uh, and so he's he's he's the one guy that has something other than promises to make.
Now there are other factors, too, uh, in presidential races that are impossible to account for.
You never know how somebody's gonna come off to others on TV, for example, which is a big deal now.
You don't know what's going to happen in debates.
You don't know if there's going to be a dark horse.
Nobody knows what's really going to become of Trump, how long Trump's going to hang in.
Uh the media is obsessed with Trump right now.
They're obsessed, they're convinced that Trump's destroying the Republican Party, which they want, by the way.
They would love nothing better than for that to happen.
You've got some Republican establishment types now getting very, very worried that all these assaults on Trump are going to lead to him going third party.
And if he goes third party, you can say hello to Hildebeast.
Because that's what's going to happen if any of these guys goes third party.
It's hello, Hildebeast.
But here's one thing, folks, those of you who are for the Trumpster, this is something I need you to hear me say.
I need you to actually hear this.
We are told that in a standard, ordinary everyday campaign, it's fair game for all the Republicans to go for the grand prize, and in the process of a primary, it's impossible not to attack your opponents.
You have to.
You have to beat your opponents.
Sometimes the attacks, even within the party get pretty vicious, but they're never so vicious that when it's all over, they can't unify.
And it's a very fine line.
It's a very close line, everybody has to has to watch.
You can't go so overboard in criticizing anybody that if they get the nomination, you can't walk it back with credibility.
Well, I'm here to tell you that is happening with Trump.
You've got people on Fox, you have Republican Party establishment types, you've got Republican consultants who are Out there now saying things about Trump that will be impossible to walk back.
Meaning they're going so overboard in their criticism of Trump right now.
That if Trump happens to stay in this, and if Trump wins this, these people are not going to be able to just automatically rally, which is what everybody says the party does after the nominee's chosen.
We rally around the nominee, we unify, and we go forward.
Some of these people have said such over-the-top things that it's going to be very hard for them to walk it back.
Not saying that people wouldn't try to.
What, examples?
Well, uh I don't know.
I'm reluctant to mention names here, because it's not my point is to focus on individuals, but let's let's just pick a name.
Let's just say uh I don't know.
Um, since he doesn't, let's just use Brett Bear since he never does this anyway.
Everybody knows I'm not talking about him just using him as a thing.
Let's say Brett Bear for 10 nights in a row on Fox just goes after Trump in in in ways that make it obvious that he would never support Trump, Trump's danger here, Trump's this, Trump's whatever it is he says, and then Trump wins.
How does Brett Bear all of a sudden unite behind Trump?
Not don't anybody call Brett Bear and say I'm accusing him of this.
I'm just using the most objective guy I can here as an example, so as not to tie anybody to it.
But it's it's really a fine line.
Everybody has to walk within the party during a primary.
That is why when these things all go on.
I'll give you a better example.
You remember when Huckabee got together with McCain and basically pulled a rug out from Romney in 2008.
This happened in West Virginia.
Romney was on the way, and then all of a sudden Huckabee decided to get out for all of his delegates at the time, happened to West Virginia, I think, to McCain, which put McCain over the top.
At that point, Romney could have just launched on those two guys, and he could have told everybody what a bunch of reprobates he thought they were, but he didn't.
He didn't go personal, he didn't go overboard, didn't go over the top because he knew he was going to seek the nomination again, and he couldn't say things in the heat of that moment that it would be impossible to walk back at a later date, such as, Mr. Romney, you said that John McCain would be the absolute worst thing that ever happened to this country if he got elected.
How can you support him now?
That's something they won't do.
Well, they are doing with Trump is my point.
A lot of Republicans are doing it to the point that they can't walk it back.
And that, if Trump is ultimately serious about this, that just gives him maybe even more desire, energy to go third party.
If Trump is aware that all of these other Republicans, or enough of them, are saying such outrageous things that they can't walk him back and eventually support him if he becomes a nominee.
If they're making it clear they won't support him if he becomes a nominee, which is the same thing as saying outrageous things you can't walk back, then that just further might push somebody to uh to third party.
So look, I again, just for clarification, I use Brett Bear as an example precisely because he's not the kind of guy doing any of this.
It was just as uh as an illustration.
The brief time out here, we continue with much more ill rushbo, not to be confused with Il Chapo, here on the EIB network.
Don't go away.
Look at here, folks, you're gonna take a phone call in the first hour of the program on a Monday.
Make a note.
This never happens.
It is Frank in Delmar, California.
I'm glad you call Frank.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Well, thank you Rush for taking my call.
I I I was shocked our granddaughter Amaya staying with us, and we wanted to listen to you, so we turned you on this morning.
And you start talking about uh Obama's next step is to commute sentences for people in federal prisons.
We all kind of chuckle about that.
That's not going to happen for a while.
And then I get an alert on my phone.
And it says Obama has just commuted 48 sentences for federal prisons.
Shocking.
Wait a minute.
You, your granddaughter wanted to listen to the program.
Yeah.
That's cool.
And then you heard me talking about Obama perhaps commuting prison sentences, and you actually said they'll never do that.
Well, we sat around and said, like you, we agree that it will come probably uh, you know, towards the end of the year or towards the end of his term.
Oh, okay.
I misunderstood.
I thought you said as you heard me say it that you and your group didn't agree with me.
Okay.
Oh no, oh no.
No, no, no, we agree with you.
Okay.
Well, it wouldn't have been a problem if you did.
I mean, mo most people, when I make these predictions, think I'm nuts until they come true.
And they always do.
Yours came true in minutes.
Seconds.
I, too, in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers have that very story that you got your alert about.
By the way, what kind of phone do you have?
Uh I I have an Apple iPhone.
I've got one of the older ones.
Uh you got one of the older ones.
And so you, but you got an alert, so you obviously have some sort of a notification system set up.
Well, the story I have some ABC news, and the headline is Obama commutes sentences of 46 people convicted of non-violent crimes.
And it's it's just an alert, just an alert, just like you, don't have the full story yet.
It's an AP alert, but but ABC News has it published here.
So isn't it amazing how that works?
L Rushwo makes a prediction and bam.
Right then it happens.
Yeah, I kind of thought, Rush, that maybe Obama, as I'm sure he does, is listening to you.
And uh, you know, it was it was unfortunate because you kind of beat him to the punch.
And so he wanted to come out right away and uh clear up his uh his prediction.
So I mean Well, that'd be not I don't think Obama listens.
I'm sure he's got people that do, but I don't think he does.
But this couldn't have been this had to be something in the works.
This is all part of what's leading up to his appearance at the prison on on Thursday.
This is all I'm sure this has been planned uh for days, if not weeks.
Maybe the exact date of today was was uh a last minute decision.
But this is not something they just decided to do because they heard on the most listened-to radio talk show in the country, uh, a guy talking about it.
But I appreciate the story.
I appreciate the story.
I'm glad you got the alert.
Uh Frank, thanks much.
Who's next?
Uh let me grab care.
Oh, Nathan, Tampa, Florida.
Hey, Nathan, great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Good to talk to you.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
I heard you just say something um about the Republicans not having a chance to or not being careful about what they say so they don't have to walk it back later.
But um, and I kind of like what Trump's doing uh right now.
I like that he's telling the truth.
But he's also telling the truth about the other candidates.
He's saying what he thinks, and they would be hard for him to walk back if um somebody else is the nominee.
So I'm wondering what do you think?
Um what scenario do you want right now?
Do you want all the other Republicans not to say what they think about Trump and at the same time Trump can't do that?
Oh no.
I have a no, no, I that this is it's a good question because you it's a logical conclusion.
You okay, if I'm warning people about saying things you can't walk back, then I must have some idea of what I want to have.
No.
Um I'm just making observances right now and quasi predictions.
Uh of course, uh, you're probably talking about well, among others Jeb Bush, when you talk about things Trump is saying that he would have a tough time walking back.
Don't forget Trump is Trump.
I think Trump, if he wants to, will be able to explain anything later on that he says about Jeb.
He goes, Jeb called me, Jeb told me I was right, Jeb and I finally agreed, Jeb's a great guy.
That's that's vintage Trump to do it then.
Trump, I don't think I have a problem walking back anything he said.
Um that's not that's really not the major concern.
The major concern is if one of these conservatives gets the nomination or looks will the Republican Party rally around him?
You know, it's not just Trump, folks, that some of these so-called conservative media types are saying things are going to be difficult to walk back.
It's not just about Trump.
You know, so the w will the Rhinos who want another McCain.
Let's be, they want another McCain, they want another Bob Dahl.
If they don't get that, will they support a conservative if one happens to be the nominee?
Okay, brief break here to uh top of the hour, and we roll right on, folks.
Lots of stuff still ahead, jam-packed.
We always are.
Trick is gonna be getting to all of it.
Let's get started on the rest of it.
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