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July 27, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 27, 2015, Monday, Hour #3
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All of it.
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If I don't tell you about it, it's not worth knowing.
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Here is an audio soundbite of what I was told happened.
I didn't see it myself, but I was told it happened on Fox last night at 7 o'clock.
The Fox report, normally it's hosted by Harris Faulkner.
I never would quote Harris Faulkner here.
Don't be alarmed.
She wasn't there.
The fill-in host was Julie Banderis.
The guests were John LeBoutlier.
I love saying that name.
John LeBoutlier, a member of Congress from New York.
Doug Shoan, the Democrat pollster.
And let's see, Cadell was on this show.
Let's see, Cadell show.
Yeah, John Laboutlier.
And listen, the question was, do Democrats have a plan B if Hillary blows up?
What is it?
Kerry wants to run.
This Iran nuke deal, which Al Boer wants to run.
Is that true?
Yeah, that's what I'm hearing.
We have talked about Kerry doing this Iran nuke deal.
In his head, he thinks he's going to get the Nobel Peace Prize and use that as a springboard.
I think that's really plausible.
That's Doug Shoan.
I think that's certainly plausible.
Man, if that happens, you talk about depressing and dispiriting.
John Kerry get a Nobel Peace Prize.
I mean, it's bad enough when Obama got his on the cum.
And now this.
And Laboutlier is who's saying that Kerry is going to win that peace prize and then use that as a springboard to run for the presidency again.
Something Shoan thinks entirely plausible.
We have Hillary here.
She's weighing in on Huckabee.
You know, Huckabee's saying the Iran deal is close to marching the Israelis to the doors of the ovens.
And that comment has not gone over well.
And a number of people in Washington are claiming that Huckabee had better apologize or quit.
And Huckabee is actually trying, I think, to repeat the Trump strategery, which is not doubled down on it, but not deny it and certainly not apologize for it.
Hillary is in Des Moines.
The drive-bys are all excited.
Apparently she's doing a speech today.
And you should see CNN.
I mean, they're treating this like it's a once-in-a-lifetime eruption, and we have to stop everything we're doing to watch it.
Is that kind of that big a deal?
They ran up to her at a campaign event.
The drive-bys found Hillary, and they asked her what she thought of Huckabee, saying that the Iran nuclear deal, that Obama's basically marching the Israelis to the door of the ovens.
Comments like these are offensive, and they have no place in our political dialogue.
I'm disappointed, and I'm really offended personally.
I know Governor Huckabee.
I have a cordial relationship with him.
He served as the governor of Arkansas.
But I find this kind of inflammatory rhetoric totally unacceptable.
Why is she personally offended?
Oh, well.
No, no.
I know why she would say she's personally offended.
Look at, I'm the mayor of Rebo.
She says she's personally offended.
I know why she'd say so.
She's courting the Jewish vote, but she can't be personally offended.
She wasn't being talked about.
Well, what am I missing here?
Anyway, same old, same old.
We'll see what happens with Huckabee, the huckster, and others.
Now, Trump, Trump, once again, is doing something that no Republican's doing, and that is getting on her case and had these four inspectors, or two inspectors general, saying that they want an investigation of Hillary's email and her server and all that.
By the way, I saw something.
Forgive me, I didn't print it and note where I heard it, but I read it.
But I read that this thing didn't happen, that the inspectors generally are denying it.
Have you seen that anywhere?
Don't bother looking for it.
You won't find it in time for me to use it.
I wouldn't even know where to tell you to look.
But it was something, you know, I just omnivorously, voluminously absorb stuff.
And it was in the show prep time yesterday.
I just, I can't remember, but it was somebody saying that this hasn't happened, that it's a totally made-up thing.
But anyway, Trump's hitting her on it.
And he's outside of Carly Fee Arena, he is the only one doing so.
Honestly, it's step by step.
I haven't focused on Hillary.
The fact is that what she has done is criminal.
I mean, what she has done is criminal.
I don't see how she can run.
Because if the prosecutors, who are all Democrats, by the way, and that's, you know, part of the problem with fairness here, they're all Democrats, so they're protecting her.
What she did is farther than what General Petraeus did, and he's gone down in disgrace.
I mean, you know, what he did is not as bad as what Hillary Clinton did, and it's similar, but it's not as bad.
I mean, she got rid of her server.
He never did anything like that.
Now, what he's talking about, Petraeus, you know, had this affair going with the babe who was writing a book about him.
And he ended up giving her classified information about things.
And it was discovered, and they threatened Petraeus with all kinds of hellfire and damnation if he didn't go away and not promise not to run against Obama, whatever it was.
That's what Trump's talking about.
But then somebody in the Scott Walker campaign must have said something about Trump because now Trump is going after Scott Walker big time, talking about what a mess Wisconsin is.
And I have to tell you, this is, you know, Walker's one of the stars of this Republican field, in my opinion.
But Trump is demonstrating here, if you're going to go after him, if you're even going to offer a one-word insult about him, he's going to come back at you.
He's not going to let it go.
And this was during a campaign event in Oscaloosa, Iowa on Saturday.
He was up in my office four months ago, five months ago, giving me an award.
Give me an award.
And I like Scott Walker.
He's a nice guy.
But today, one of his people hit me.
And I say, why is he doing that?
The person's a stupid person.
But why is he doing that?
Hit me.
And I said, hey, now the gloves are off.
Okay, that's what he said.
The gloves are off.
If your guy's going to hit me, stupid person.
I don't care if he's going to hit me, then the gloves are off, Governor Walker, and I'm coming right back at you.
And this is how this is kind of the way leftist bullies operate and always have, and they have succeeded in intimidating Republicans.
I think Obama comes to mind.
Anyway, here's the story.
You found it at Time magazine.
Well, that's not where I saw it.
Inspector General says Hillary Clinton emails.
No, no, this is not.
Clinton and her current former aides have not been named as targets of the investigation.
Scope of the investigation request has not been revealed.
That's not what I saw.
This is what I saw said there is no investigation, that the whole thing has been made up, that the Inspectors General did not ask for an investigation.
That's what I saw.
And I only saw it one place, and I don't read kook sites, so it wasn't some fringe place.
I just don't remember what it was.
This is Time magazine.
Federal officials have requested an investigation into potential compromise, classified info, Hillary Serber.
Clinton or current former aides have not been named as targets of the investigation.
And the scope of the investigation request has not been revealed.
That's close to what I saw, but what I saw said there isn't any investigation of Hillary.
Now back to this Uber story, because all I did on it was give you the de Blasio quote, and this story is rich.
Wall Street Journal, progressive New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and socialist mayor Paris mayor, socialist Paris France mayor and Hidalgo found common cause on a shared threat while attending a recent climate change conference at the Vatican.
Now stop and think it.
Here these two socialist wackos are at a climate change conference at the Vatican, and they get all fired up about Uber.
And de Blasio says the people of our cities don't like the notion of those who are particularly wealthy and powerful dictating the terms to a government elected by the people.
As a multi-billion dollar company, Uber thinks it can dictate to government.
Mr. de Blasio, you've got to, the people of New York and elsewhere see your association with the taxi cartel as exactly what you are claiming.
Particularly wealthy and powerful people dictating terms to a government.
But the big point for me here is what de Blasio is actually saying, here it is.
That's right.
Talking points memo.
DOJ, no, we were not asked to launch a criminal probe into Hillary Clinton's emails.
This is what it is.
This is exactly what I saw.
And the date of this thing is, well, yeah, it's a Friday.
It's late Friday when this thing hit.
We were not asked to launch a criminal probe into Clinton's emails.
And the story was that these two inspectors general did and demanded and wanted, and that story ran all weekend.
Okay, so now you know that I did see it.
But the point about this de Blasio thing is this is rich because here he obviously believes that government is the center of everybody's life and that citizens don't like anybody dictating to government what government has.
No, if there's going to be the dictating, the government's going to be doing it, not the people.
The people don't get to tell government what to do.
That's how screwed up this guy is.
But that's what modern day liberalism is.
This is what they all believe.
Constitutions, smonstitutions, boulder dash.
There is dictating.
The government gets to dictate.
People elect the government to tell other people what they can and can't do.
It's not the other way around.
It's not governed by and for the American people or what have you.
But as the journal writes at Gordon Krovitz piece, before Mr. de Blasio could return from Rome, he learned that people really don't like when politicians try to take away their favorite app for getting around the government's taxi cartel.
De Blasio was forced to drop his plan to limit Uber to a 1% annual increase in cars far below the current rate.
Now, it's hard to see, I'm reading from the piece here in the Wall Street Journal.
It's hard to see why de Blasio thought this would be good politics.
Two million New Yorkers have downloaded the Uber app on their mobile devices.
That's 25% the city's population.
And it's more than twice the number of people that voted for de Blasio.
So more people have the Uber app than voted for this clown.
But it's easy to understand why he views Uber as an ideological threat.
A tipping point is in sight where big government politicians can no longer deprive customers of new choice made possible by technology, whether for car rides, car sharing, or home rentals.
De Blasio's experience should encourage other politicians to sign up for the innovation.
Boy, this is so, so on point.
Technology does hold the key to overrunning these libs.
What's fascinating about this, folks, if you look at, say, millennials as a group that you would want to teach and open their eyes about the perils of big government, the problems of big government, and how big government impairs them and limits their freedom, this is it.
This is the story.
This is the case.
Uber, because they love Uber.
Now, most of them probably think Uber is a nice progressive liberal company because it's young and hip just like they are.
And they don't understand government going after it.
All they know is that Uber is there when they want it.
Uber gets them where they want to go.
They get to use their phone to get it all done.
Whenever they want to do it, they have to stand around and wait for a cab that's dirty, being driven by somebody they can't understand.
It may stink in there.
They don't have to put up with any of that.
And they can be in touch with the driver, or he'd say, I'm five minutes away, meet me wherever.
It's simple.
It really, really works.
And here come big government mayors trying to shut it down.
And with that story in the right teachers' hands, a whole bunch of people can be shown what they have not been taught elsewhere in school.
What big government liberalism does to individual liberty and freedom.
Think about this.
Uber has become a wedge issue.
Now, there's a mayor of London named Boris Johnson.
He's conservative.
He's doing this the exact opposite way de Blasio's doing.
Boris Johnson said, you are dealing with a huge economic force, which is called consumer choice.
And the taxi trade needs to recognize that.
Now, the mayor of London told a gathering of taxi drivers in London, I'm afraid it is a tragic fact that there are now more than a million people in this city who have the Uber app.
And the cabbies objected that Uber drivers were undercutting their prices.
Johnson said, well, yeah, they are.
That's called free enterprise, you guys.
And that's what competition does.
Competition lowers prices for the consumer while giving them more choice.
And liberal big city mayors want to deny that choice and keep prices high Because they are in bed with the existing taxi cartel.
Presidential candidates are divided on Uber as well.
Hillary Clinton implicitly criticized Uber in her campaign speech on economic policy, saying the so-called gig economy is raising hard questions about workplace protections and what a good job will look like.
Now, the gig economy is another way of talking about independent contractors.
Your job is a series of gigs rather than being an employee.
And the government wants you to be an employee.
You know why they want you to be an employee?
Because then they get to withhold their taxes from you.
They get to withhold your Social Security.
And they get to demand that you have health care.
When you're an employee, they have total control over most of your money.
When you're an independent contractor, they don't.
Here you go.
Here you go.
Marco Rubio has a chapter in his presidential campaign book called American Dreams.
And the chapter in his campaign book is called An America Safe for Uber.
And he describes explaining to a college class that he taught how Miami had banned Uber cars.
As my progressive young students listened to me explain why government was preventing them from using their cell phones to get home from the bars on Saturday night, I could see their minds change.
Before I knew it, I was talking to a bunch of 20 and 21-year-old anti-government activists.
So it's a big deal.
Government-enforced cartels, like New York City has with the cab industry.
You know the price of a medallion?
You have a cab.
And they limit the number of cabs in the city, obviously, and they limit the, that's part of the protection scheme.
They limit the number of medallions.
And there's not one medallion per cab.
You'd have a medallion owner could have a fleet of 20 cabs.
It just depends on who's able to make what deal.
But there is a finite total number of cabs that gets increased every year based on a formula, so forth.
But they're in bed with the city government.
And the city government, it's protectionism.
And they try to keep competitors out, protect the prices of the cabs, the fares.
And Gordon Krovitz at the Wall Street Journal says these government-enforced cartels are the ones that fall faster and harder to disruptive innovation than most businesses do.
Because when change comes, it's more dramatic than in industries that already have competition.
But if you have a business that is protected by government, city government, state government, town council, federal government, whatever, then you don't face competition.
Well, if you do face competition, it's really hard on the competitors.
It's made nearly impossible.
So you do not learn the rigors.
And when change comes along that they can't control and this kind of technologically driven innovative change in the hands of millions of people, a government like de Blasio, he can try, but he can't stop anything.
He's going to be overpowered by the numbers.
And those people, those cartels fall faster and harder because the change is dramatic and they're not prepared to deal with it.
The fate of taxicabs is a warning to other regulated industries that new technologies always give customers more choice and better price.
Citizens can always make choice to vote for candidates who embrace innovation and those who don't.
Here's Bill Robbins Air Force Base in Georgia.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Thank you, Rush, very much.
Rush, I need you to explain to me why I should even bother voting for the Republicans in 2016.
I know that if Trump pulls out, my wife, my son, and my daughter aren't voting.
If he goes third party, regardless, they're going to vote for Trump.
Me being a longtime listener and understanding that third party is a guaranteed loser, I'm still going to show up in both of the Republicans, but I will not, as you used to put in the 90s, be voting for the Republicans, be voting affirmatively.
With everything you've been discussing today, the first hour of your monologue, I think the Republicans don't fear me as a voter.
They think they've got me, so they can say anything and do anything they want, and I'm still going to show up like a little drone.
I think if Trump pulls out, you're going to see a lot of Republican information.
Wait, wait, just say, hold on.
You just said something that I want to explore with you.
You just said the Republicans take your vote for granted.
They just assume that you're going to show up like a little drone, right?
Let me ask you a question, Bill.
All of you.
Seriously now.
And I am not trying to depress anybody.
Understand, that's the last thing I want to do.
And I don't want anybody thinking negatively, but we deal with what is.
Can you tell me, since the Republicans won the House in 2010 and the Senate last year, can you show me, can you tell me where you see any evidence that they have won in their behavior, in policy?
Do you see any difference in when they win or lose in what they say or do?
None at all.
Okay, now that's important because what I was going to say to you, I don't think they even, when you say look at you as a bunch of little drones and just expect you to fall to the line and vote for them, the point is nothing changes when they win.
I mean, they still act like they haven't won anything.
They still don't oppose Obama.
They don't try to stop Obama.
They don't do anything.
I don't see any evidence of the victory.
And the frustrating thing for people like you and all of us is you vote on the premise that you are voting for an opposition.
And particularly in 2014, that was a stop Obama midterm election.
It was stop Obama.
And you even have these Republicans using that phraseology shortly after the election to convey to us they got the message.
But there isn't any effort to stop Obama.
There's no effort to stop this Iran deal.
Immigration.
Well, they act like they're a monopoly.
Like, where else are you going to go?
And I think they already have their agenda.
They already have what they want to do.
My point is, I don't think they even care about winning.
It doesn't change anything.
When they lose, they still are going to get what I mean.
They don't suffer when they lose.
They're still there.
And I mean, they may lose office.
Some of them may lose office.
But when they win, nothing changes, at least in modern times.
I'm talking about the last five, six, ten years, maybe, Max.
It's just weird.
Well, other than your show, where do I go for motivation and enthusiasm?
I mean, really, I'm not being fake here when I say, Rush, if it wasn't for you, if it wasn't for you, I wouldn't follow any news, any media, nothing, because there's, I mean, Fox has totally alienated me with their pundits saying, Hillary, you know, I've been hearing since, oh, wait, Hillary is unbeatable until she's beatable.
You know, Trump is going to implode until he doesn't implode.
I mean, so to me, they have, you're the only one that has any credibility.
I don't think you really understand how much credibility you have.
And the only reason why I am showing up in 2016, and I've been voting since the New Hampshire primary in 84 when I voted for Reagan when I was 18, you've the only one that's kept me motivated or at least not enthused and motivated, but at least showing up since 08.
And right now, I'm like, you know, I'm having a really, really hard time deciding, you know, what am I going to do in 2016?
Because if Trump pulls out, I mean, again, I'm not dissing the other candidates, but if Trump pulls out, I don't know what I'm going to do.
I know what my family's going to do.
Now, here's, look, I can relate almost 100% with what you're saying.
I mean, I can translate what you're saying.
I know the depths.
I mean, you feel we're losing and there's no end to it.
And you're tired of it, but you know you're not the one.
You're doing everything you can, but the people you're voting for are not doing anything.
And you don't know what else you can do.
And so you're starting to think that what you're doing is pointless.
And you're just going to tune out and try to live your life as best you can, unaffected by all this stuff, rather than go through every day ticked off, mad, depressed, or what have you.
Now, I look at this, I feel the same way some days, but I look at it as an ongoing process that defeat is never final.
It's never ultimate because there's always the next day in politics and there's always the unknown and the unpredictable.
Who would have predicted Trump?
I mean, as recently as a month ago, the smart money all said Trump's not going to run.
He's just promoting the apprentice.
He's not going to run.
He is never going to release his financial data.
He's not nearly as rich as he brags about.
He's not going to admit that.
Trump isn't going to.
Trump's done all of that.
Now it's, he's going to implode.
You just wait.
It'll be by September.
The thing that might happen here, and I look, folks, do not ever think of me as trying to offer you false or phony optimism, but it's a proven fact that people see.
People witness.
People learn.
And it is, make no mistake, that there are people within elected Republican politics who are seeing what Trump is doing.
And it could well be at some point that somebody is going to try to emulate it, somebody that has a more traditional political career or history.
And I know on the other side of that is, but that person's likely going to be bought by the establishment or harassed or corrupted or what have you.
But even with that, in this current Republican field, if Scott Walker's the nominee, I'm going to be as enthusiastic as I've ever been.
And if Carly Fiorina is on the ticket, I would be as enthusiastic as I've ever been if Cruz is somehow involved.
I mean, there are reasons to be hopeful here.
I know it's close in terms of getting to the point of no return, but even that is a bit extreme because we've been more divided and more partisan.
The Civil War, we're not nearly there yet.
And everything we came out of that, we came out of Great Depression.
So the great concern is for your kids and grandkids and what kind of country are they going to grow up in?
Will it be free?
Will they be free?
Will they be free to be the best they can be and use all the talents that they have?
You know, time will tell on this, but I don't think any defeat is permanent.
And at some point, this current crop of Republicans is going to be gone for a whole host of predictable reasons.
But having said all that, I'm not going to try to talk you out.
If you want to sit out, if Trump's not, then I'm you have had it.
But I'm not going to do that.
I couldn't.
I don't think I can't envision a point where I say it's worth giving up the fight.
It's worth too much.
And I know that cyclical generational change happens.
I don't want to harp too much on this Uber thing.
I don't want to make it bigger than it is.
But who would have ever thought when Uber started that it would end up being a valuable, teachable technique for young people to learn about what big government really means?
Who would have ever thought that?
My only point is that things happen that you can never predict.
And I don't know that Uber is going to prove massively beneficial in that regard anyway.
It has the chance to.
Opposition is not just going to sit down and let it happen.
But anyway, I just, I draw also faith in the fact that I think we have learned here.
Don't forget that Washington Post poll from last week that I cited.
It was the poll that shows people do not like a majority in the 60 percentages do not like the social direction this country's taking and do not support it.
This is all happening against the will of the majority.
Trump is illustrating that that majority is willing and can be motivated to act and so forth.
I just look, it's a wordy answer, but I'm just saying there are reasons to not give up the fight.
And the biggest reason is the country is just too great, and it's the only place it's the last best hope of humanity.
And I just, I don't want to be part of a group that gives up on that.
Too many people have, I mean, really sacrificed for it.
Too many people are dead.
Too many people have lost their lives.
Too many people have given up everything they had to preserve.
I don't see caving or quitting or giving up as an option, no matter how frustrated I get.
Because if everybody decided to do it, then the other side would win.
Okay, folks, I'm going to have to beg your indulgence again.
The air conditioning details tomorrow.
And more details on the barbecue aroma escaping your property, getting you in trouble in Austin, Texas.
More details on that.
I'm just not going to be able to get to it today.
But here, dovetailing with what we were just talking about, there's things happening out there that you're not going to hear about in the drive-by media.
Campus reform, headline, Democrat National Committee speaks to empty college Democrat event.
They had a big conference, a major, major, it was at University of District Columbia, College Democrats of America annual conference.
They only filled the first two rows.
Normally the place is overflowing.
Hillary Clinton had an event like this and nobody showed up.
Speakers emphasize the important role that millennial voters can play in the political process by getting out the vote, engaging fellow students on campus.
There were 24 people there to hear it.
There's not this magic allure for Democrats among the millennials, folks.
Conventional wisdom is wrong again.
I'll save this.
And I promise I'll do the air conditioning details and the barbecue.
There's even more weird stuff like that that I haven't even mentioned.
I'll save it all for tomorrow.
Also, tomorrow, the 13 things mentally strong people do not do.
13 things mentally strong people do not do.
Thanks for being with us today.
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