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July 16, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 16, 2015, Thursday, Hour #3
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You're sure you've got Audio Soundbite 26?
All right, good.
So how long will Major Garrett last now at CBS?
Snirdly just asked me, so how long is it going to be before they get rid of Major Garrett?
That's a good question.
You know, they got rid of Cheryl Atkisson.
Cheryl Atkisson had the audacity to try to report what actually happened at Benghazi.
You know, tried to actually get to the bottom of what happened there.
And remember, the regime, she thinks that the regime hacked her computer.
So it's not an outrageous question.
How long does Major Garrett have at CBS?
I mean, you heard Charlie Rose.
Hey, Major, you know, we've all asked questions we regret.
We've all gone over the line.
You want to rephrase that question, Major?
No, and he doubles down on it.
So it's an interesting question.
We just had a caller with a really, really great memory recall reminding us we'd been there.
We've been here before.
It was back in 1994, Bill Clinton announcing that he secured.
All you can do is laugh at this stuff at some point, that Clinton had secured an end to the North Korean nuclear deal.
And here it is.
It's Audio Soundbite 26.
This was October 21st, 1994.
And tell me, folks, how familiar this sounds.
This is a good deal for the United States.
North Korea will freeze and then dismantle its nuclear program.
South Korea and our other allies will be better protected.
The entire world will be safer as we slow the spread of nuclear weapons.
The United States and international inspectors will carefully monitor.
Sorry.
Folks, the fact of the matter is the North Koreans are still testing nuclear weapons.
They're still launching missiles.
They're lousy at it.
They don't know where their missiles are going, but they launch them.
And they're still developing their nuclear program.
And even Madeline Albright, in days and years subsequent to this major announcement, Madeline Albright has actually gone on TV to talk about what reprobates the North Koreans are for cheating and how we can't trust them and how we did trust them and how there's reprobate people.
It's amazing.
And this is all, Clinton did this for Legacy 2.
It's just to say they did it.
And they know that they've got the drive-bys on their side and all this stuff is going to be forgotten.
And Obama's doing the same thing.
So we've been here.
We've been there, done that.
And I'll tell you, the North Koreans cannot hold a candle to the Iranians.
And the North Koreans are bad guys.
Don't misunderstand.
But the Iranians, you know, North Korea wishes they were the Iranians.
So it's just, it's the same modus operandi.
Anyway, greetings.
It's great to have you back with us.
The telephone number, you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882.
It's an AP poll.
Hillary Clinton's standing is falling rapidly among Democrats.
And voters view her as less decisive and less inspiring than just three months ago when she launched her campaign.
This, according to the latest AP poll.
The survey offers a series of warning signs for the leading Democrat candidate.
Most troubling, it says here, for her prospects are questions about her compassion for average Americans, which is a quality that fueled Obama's White House victories.
So apparently, in the AP story or in the AP poll, Hillary does not show well on this whole idea that she cares about the little guy, that she understands the little guy.
Now, I have a different take on this.
I think Hillary should be congratulated on this 39% number.
I mean, if you look at the nature of her illegal, unethical, and robotic behaviors with regard just to her unauthorized email server, destroying evidence under subpoena, selling access to the White House and future White House, selling access while she's Secretary of State, taking all of this money.
She is raising more money, making speeches than some people will earn in a 10 or 12-year period, and she's out there trying to make herself come off as just an average, ordinary little guy.
I think the fact she's at 39% is worth celebrating.
She ought to be at 19%.
She ought to be congratulated on still being at 39%.
That's an amazing feat, given all the negatives that there are.
She's a terrible speaker, either behind a podium or off the cuff.
Her emails reveal her to be a technological dunce.
And I'll tell you, you know, you talk about the young vote, millennials, and so forth.
The one thing that they are noticing about Hillary, and I think this that I'm going to tell you here in a minute, accounts for why Hillary is not performing well in polling questions asking about how much she cares about the little guy.
You know, the millennial generation, do you remember a couple of years ago, I passed on to you something that I saw, and I knew it immediately.
It was a trend, and it bothered me, by the way, for the economy.
But it was all about how millennials don't care to own cars.
They have other concerns.
And they don't care to own this.
They don't care to own homes.
They don't care to own things.
The millennials are in a renting mode for practically everything.
One of the reasons is they don't have any money.
They don't have the money to buy a car, especially millennial college graduates.
They're so in debt.
They don't have the money to buy a car, much less buy a house.
They're not getting jobs that are in careers that are going to feature career growth, income growth, and so forth.
And so their big deal in millennial economics is renting.
For example, millennials love Uber.
They live and things like Uber.
Millennials are living on their smartphones and their iPads.
They increasingly do not watch television.
They watch video.
They watch video on demand on their phones or on their tablets or on their laptops, but they're not buying big screens and they're not sitting themselves down in front of them.
Some do, but I mean, the trend is away from longtime traditional behavior.
I mean, this is a generation that is not interested in getting on the ladder of success and climbing it and reaching the same goals that you had for yourself.
You might have defined the American dream as homeownership.
It's not.
The American dream for them is home rentership.
They don't want the hassles of owning.
They can't afford it anyway.
They have a basic temporary throwaway type existence.
Their attitude is, why own something?
It's going to be, I mean, these are technologically oriented people.
Their phones are outdated every year.
They look at everything in society as being out of currency in a year or 18 months.
Everything's a throwaway.
You don't buy something and hold onto it for a long time in their world.
Well, Mrs. Clinton has made a point of being critical of Uber, for example.
Now, you may not know it, but that is enough to alarm a politically oriented millennial who happens to think Uber is one of the greatest things ever to come down the pike.
Now, the reason Mrs. Clinton opposes Uber is because Uber is not unionized.
And her union buddies, which give her a lot of money, are totally opposed to Uber and things like it, Uber and Lyft.
I mean, millennials don't even, when they look at renting an apartment, they go to Airbnb, they don't call MLS or ALS or whatever the multiple listing service.
That's an ownership.
They're priced out of it anyway.
When millennials look at a Maps app on their phone, you know what they look at?
Transit directions.
They don't look at driving directions because they don't drive.
Why do you think Apple is making a big deal of adding transit directions to their Maps app this fall?
Because millennials love riding the bus.
They love Uber.
They love getting on a subway.
Well, they may not love it, but they're not getting in their cars driving.
Mrs. Clinton represents things that I don't think the young people have anywhere near the adulation for Hillary that they did for Obama.
Hillary just does not pull off hip.
She doesn't pull off young.
She doesn't pull off with it.
She doesn't pull off cool.
She's none of those things.
In front of a podium, behind a podium, speaking extemporaneously, writing her book, talking in general, she just doesn't pull it off.
She doesn't look it, and she never will look youthful and hip and all that.
Not to these people.
So Hillary's going to bank on the fact that the young will not show up and vote.
She's going to align herself with her union buddies because that's where her donations are going to come from.
And I think that it's all being reflected in this polling data of Mrs. Clinton.
Now, not just among young people.
I think people across the board have problems with Hillary.
So I think Hillary may be, and I'm going to admit to you, this is wishful thinking, but Hillary may be one of the first Democrats to actually be figured out as phony and not as hip and cool and with it as most young people think old Democrats are.
And Hillary is not of their generation, and her daughter isn't either.
Her daughter, you know, Chelsea cannot be said to be a typical millennial.
Chelsea lives in an $11 million apartment, a $10 million house over here, and gets paid $600,000 a year for not doing anything at NBC.
So Hillary's daughter is not your typical millennial.
So Hillary is not even exposed to it.
Hillary's still, she and her husband are both still stuck back in the 90s, actually.
And in Hillary's case, she may be stuck further back.
But being at 39% in the polls, largely, I think, well, I don't know if it's largely, but that area of the polling data where she's doing very poorly when asked if people think she cares about people like them.
You know, Obama won that one 81 to 19 in exit polls over Romney in 2012.
Hillary is underwater on that question in this AP poll.
And I think it's the Utes.
I think it's the millennials that are recognizing that.
And to the extent they're being polled, they are the ones saying so.
So I think a tip of the cap to Hillary, given all the negatives, she ought to be at 19%.
The fact that she's still at 39%, that's probably something that she should be celebrating instead of worrying about.
But of course, they're not looking at it that way.
I mean, Hillary's an ex-hippie, but she's not hip.
Hillary has never been hip.
She's trapped in a, I think, in a 1930s mindset, if you want to know the truth.
And when you run around saying that your hero is Eleanor Roosevelt, and you run around saying that when you were in the White House's first lady, you ran around looking for the ghost of Eleanor Roosevelt for inspiration.
That's not exactly the kind of stuff that's going to relate to the fast technological on-the-move throwaway culture that we have growing up among us now.
Anyway, brief timeout, my friends.
We'll be back much more straight ahead after this.
And let's see.
Dana Bash, audio soundbite number seven.
Dana Bash, this is yesterday.
CNN, by the way, destroyed, tried to destroy Major Garrett.
He used to work there.
Major Garrett used to be a reporter for AP.
Then he went into TV at CNN.
Fox hired him from CNN.
He goes to Fox.
He stays there for a while.
Then ends up at CBS.
He's originally an AP print reporter.
And CNN yesterday just launched into Major Garrett for his insolence and the way he asked that question of Obama.
Here's Dana Bash yesterday afternoon on CNN's newsroom.
You do want to be tough, but there's a fine line, especially maybe I'm old school, standing in the East Room, a fine line between asking a tough question and maybe crossing that line a little bit and being disrespectful.
So I think that that happened there.
Disrespectful.
That's what you people are supposed to do is hold truth to power.
It wasn't any disrespect.
It was a question.
And what is it?
Where does it matter where it is?
Dana?
Yeah, I was in the blue room, you know, and I'm in the East Room, which is blue and yellow.
And you're not supposed to be insolent in there.
It's a special room in the White House.
All kinds of honors and medals are bestowed there.
You're not supposed to be, I think it was disrespectful.
Don Lemon.
Don Lemon wasn't even on CNN.
He was at home.
He was watching on TV.
And then he came back.
And he went on the air at CNN and he said this.
Let me tell you, basically what he was saying was, man, look here.
Are you out of your damn mind?
That's exactly what the tone.
That's exactly where I thought he was going.
Are you crazy to put the question in that form?
I was at home watching it going, wait a minute.
You know, it was a little out of school.
So Don Lemon's at home.
He's watching Obama's presser on TV.
Major Garrett stands up, asks the question, and Don Lemon says, are you out of your damn mind?
That's what he's, his attitude toward Obama was, Obama, are you out of your damn mind?
How do you leave those four Americans?
Man, I thought it was really overboard.
These people, I don't think they realize.
Maybe they do, but I don't think these drive-by types realize what a bunch of sycophants and groupies they sound like and look like.
Maybe they do, and maybe they don't care.
Do you hear what Bill Maher said?
Bill Maher said that Major Garrett may as well have just called Obama the N-word.
I'm not kidding.
That's what Bill Maher tweeted out.
Hey, you know what?
He could have asked that question a much more effective way, just called Obama the N-word.
That's what's in Bill Maher's mind.
That's not what's in Major Garrett's mind.
Exactly right.
Bill Maher's telling us what's in his mind about this.
And here's Gloria Borger, formerly of Newsweek, now with CNN.
This was also on CNN's newsroom.
She was asked a question by Pamela Brown, the fill-in anchorette.
Do you think it was an unfair question, Gloria?
When you look at the language and the way it was loaded in this question, capitulation, are you content?
There are different ways to ask questions.
And I wouldn't have answered that way because I think it was unfair.
It was loaded question.
It was filled with disrespect.
And besides, the question made Obama look bad.
And that's not what we're here to do.
We're not here to help Obama look bad.
We're going to cover that up.
So I would have not have asked the question, nor would I have asked it in that way.
So back to the phones we go.
Brandon, Birmingham, Alabama.
Welcome, sir.
Glad you waited.
You're next.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
I had a quick question.
I'm 25, white male in Alabama, and we've been talking about millennials on the show and their perceptions of reality.
And one of the perceptions of reality they have is that they do not have a bright future in America.
America doesn't have a bright future, and the people in it don't.
I was curious as to whether you see anything in the economy or culture that contradicts their perception of reality.
Well, what a great, great question.
Your question is actually a great opportunity for me.
No, it is.
It is because I am well aware that not just millennials, but practically everybody that's conscious and pays even scant attention to what we call news today would be excused if all they did was have negative perceptions.
I mean, if you watch the news today, if you're a consumer of it to any degree whatsoever, you can't help but be overwhelmed by the pessimism and the doom and gloom.
And of course, there are alternatives to that.
Still is the United States of America.
And we're going to have a different administration at some point down the road.
But Brandon, if you can't, hang on through the break here, and I will get more detailed when we get back.
Now, back to Brandon in Birmingham.
Brandon, let me tell you what I've noticed when I look at polling data, particularly millennials, people your age.
And it frankly distresses me.
They recognize that things are not right.
Recognize things are not good.
They recognize that this isn't the America that they thought they were going to grow up into.
The problem is why, when I read the polling data, the millennials say that they have simply lost faith in the country.
And when pressed further, they actually, in majority numbers, say that they believe the country's best days are behind us, that we've finally caught up to that moment in time.
It just happens to be when they are alive, that the country's economy can no longer provide better for the next generation than the previous one.
And it's just the quirk of fate, luck of the draw, they happen to be alive when the country's in decline.
And they just conclude that that's what's happening.
And it's frustrating because while they're right about some of their assessments, they are entirely wrong about why.
It's a total mistake and a big error to lose faith in the country.
The country, as it exists right now, is a product and a result of policies that have been implemented in Washington and in some states that have had a deleterious effect on individual liberty and economies and any number of things that would constitute making a better life.
The government's grown bigger.
For the government to get bigger, the place where you live and work has to get smaller.
The government doesn't produce anything.
It only takes.
The government doesn't create wealth.
It only redistributes it.
So while there are plenty of things to be negative about, the country isn't one of them.
It's the current bunch of people running the country.
Now, I know if I say it that way to the wrong group of millennials, they'll automatically discount me as thinking I'm just a partisan guy trying to criticize Democrats and I'm not taking the situation seriously, but I am.
I'm taking it terribly seriously.
I would love to tell you that better days ahead.
And frankly, I think they are, or I wouldn't be wasting my time anymore.
I remain optimistic about the future because that's always been the smart bet in this country.
We've been here before.
We've been in 1929.
We've been here in a number of other intervals where we've had really downturns in the economy.
Late 70s was arguably as bad as it is now.
And we have always rebounded.
And I think we will rebound again.
But this is a deep hole.
And it's a deep hole because of the policies that have been implemented.
They're going to have to be undone in whole or in part.
But more than that, I believe the country is a result of the people who live in it.
And even though we've lived in the past where there have been punitive tax policies, punitive economic regulations that have made success harder, and people have overcome them.
Entrepreneurs have found their way around them.
And then we've had new politicians elected that have different philosophies and reduce some of the regulations and open up the pathways of freedom even more.
I think it's going to happen again.
But I'm not going to be pollyannish about it.
It's not going to happen if everybody just sits around and waits for it to happen.
But whatever you, before I go any further, I'd probably be wise to get your reaction to all that.
You think I'm full of it?
I don't think you're full of it.
I mean, the only point I would make about all this, and I actually line up somewhat with millennials, even though I don't agree with them on how we're getting where we are, and even though I'm part of their group, I mean, we need to acquire some self-awareness and realize that, like you said, we are part of America and we influence what happens to it.
But when I look at politics, I look at what goes on in our capital, conservatism can't even win the argument of what a budget cut is.
Okay, so a cut in Washington, D.C. is something that reduces the rate of growth.
Can't argue with you.
Now, if the conservatism can't even win the argument and define accurately what the word cut means and implies mathematically, how can we change any of this?
Well, you may not be able to change budgeting.
Let me go at this a different way.
Let me talk to you about the way people live.
I happen to think, based on what I've seen, this is not a guess, I think most people, let's just say a majority, it may be a small majority, but I think a majority of people who don't even know it actually live their lives closer to conservatism than liberalism.
You're concerned about your kids, or you will be.
You're not going to get up and go down the neighborhood and give your money away.
You might vote for somebody to do it, but you're not going to do it yourself.
You're going to work hard.
I think you care.
I can tell by listening to you, you care about solid foundations on which you can build your life.
You're worried about people telling the truth and so forth.
And this, Washington is Washington, and what happens in Washington is gobbledygook.
And you're exactly right.
There's never been a cut in anything.
While they all talk about the draconian cuts that have taken place, there aren't any cuts.
And conservatism doesn't win arguments in the media.
But conservatism does win every time it's tried in the real world.
Conservatism is the best way to live your life.
Conservatism is the best way to raise your kids.
Conservatism is the best way to advance economically.
Conservatism is the best way to be content and happy.
Have you ever found a happy liberal?
Have you ever found a content, laughing liberal who's happy at what things are?
They're always miserable.
They're angry at something, and they're always wanting to change somebody else's mind about something.
And I think this is the power people have over government.
We all have to live with the government we have, but we don't have to be imprisoned by it.
For every, you know, you talk about that, we can't even win the argument of what a budget cut is.
Okay, fine, but you know what it is.
You can't treat your own personal budget that way.
You have to live within it.
You have to live within your means, and you do if you're responsible.
Try to take a reasonable amount of debt.
Don't overextend.
I mean, you try to do the right things here.
And I think that people engaging in the normal activity of living as responsibly as they can, as earnestly as they can, can overcome what happens in Washington.
I don't think that liberals are people that get up every day and are totally slavish to what government is doing.
Conservatives are very much aware of it, but our focus is how to not be impacted by it, how to not be affected by it, how to survive despite it, and then tell other people how and let that be an inspiration to other people.
Living your life as an example for other people to see can have more power and impact than you will ever know.
You may never know the number of people you influence simply by the way you live your life and the way you communicate with people about what you think.
There's real power in that.
And that power is liberals sacrifice that power.
They give it all away to government to determine people's lives, to determine people's futures.
And to the extent that millennials have been raised to think that government has all the answers, if government's got them depressed, they're going to be depressed.
If everybody thinks government holds all the answers to your success in life, you're never going to be successful because government doesn't care nearly about you as much as you care about yourself.
So while Washington screwed up, and while there's very little honesty there, and there's hardly any competence, it doesn't mean that you can't survive, thrive, and overcome within the universe that is your life.
You do not have to be imprisoned by that.
Some of it you do, tax rates and all that.
Like, I don't want any pollyannish here, but I'm just in a bottom of a shotgun.
The country's not finished yet, is all I'm telling you.
That's my personal opinion.
We're not finished yet.
And even if we do get to the point that it is finished, you realize there are going to be some people that prosper anyway.
Why not be one of them?
I agree.
And I would love to be able to tell you that you're dead wrong and that all of your millennial friends are dead wrong about their pessimism.
What I would really love to tell you is learn the founding of this country.
Really learn it.
Really study the people who built this country and founded and made it happen.
Find out what it took.
Really dig into American history.
Get outside yourself and your misery for a minute and really find out.
Go back and find out what some things, real hardship that people have had to overcome in establishing this country, in sustaining this country, in defending this country, in growing this country.
And realize it can happen all over again.
It can happen repeatedly.
What you have to overcome is having lost faith in the country.
There is no reason to lose faith in the country.
There is a lot of reason to lose faith in Washington, but Washington isn't the country and doesn't have to be.
And by the way, let me clarify something.
Conservatism will win the argument every time.
The problem is in Washington, we don't have anybody arguing it.
In Washington, we don't have anybody talking about it.
In Washington, we don't have, you millennials, you don't know what it is to have a conservative on the ballot.
You've never had the chance to vote for one.
You've had a bunch of people telling you they're conservative, but they're not.
You haven't had it yet.
You haven't run into somebody who can cleverly, clearly articulate it.
Some people running for president today can.
And as the campaign goes on, you'll hear them.
Conservatism will win every argument that actually occurs.
Liberals, most of the time, won't even show up.
And if they do, it's to try to trash and destroy the conservative, not win the argument intellectually.
Conservatism does not lose the argument.
Side by side, liberalism will outdo conservatism, outdo liberalism on the ground every day of the week.
And the United States, no matter how you slice it, is still the best chance for economic advancement in the world.
Four Marines shot dead in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Ah, geez.
Open line Friday tomorrow, folks.
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