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Aug. 4, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 4, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #2
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And I have one more Planned Parenthood video that I want to play for you.
And of course, we had a caller just now from St. Paul, Minneapolis area.
His wife worked at Planned Parenthood.
Hey, he said, they do more than abortions and throw baby parts in a bunch of bags.
I mean, they do some great work there at Planned Parenthood.
Look, there's all kinds of rejoinders to that.
I mean, a lot of rotten people have done good things in the midst of their evil.
But anyway, this is the audio of the video that I read from transcript.
Unidentified male buyer here and a female buyer are speaking with a Planned Parenthood worker.
This is the woman that came in and joined the other Planned Parenthood babe Melissa Farrell.
It's the one who opened the door and started talking to the buyers.
This video is behind the scenes at a Planned Parenthood clinic, and they are asking if they can see an intact cadaver.
The buyers, they've had it referenced for them.
They've had an intact cadaver referenced by Planned Parenthood people.
Oh, yeah, intact cadavers there.
And then we just line items and whatever you want.
You want an arm, some legs, lung?
We'll check.
And this is the portion of the video where the Planned Parenthood worker shares just how worn out they all are after such a long day.
Are there any fresh specimens from today that we can still look at?
We had a really long day and they're all mixed up together in a bag.
Yet if I would have known 10 minutes ago, I would have saved something.
You know what?
It's not like we need something today, but if we could get a visual today of it, that would be a good thing.
Is that possible?
Yeah, let me see.
That one's probably frozen.
Yeah, I think we could probably arrange that.
I think I have one that's probably frozen.
And once again, ladies and gentlemen, we're talking about human beings here.
It is what it is.
It's an overworked phrase, but there.
I just wanted to play the audio support for what I had read to you earlier from a story about this, the latest fifth video, Center for Medical Progress, Sting Operation Against Planned Parenthood.
A new Fox poll out yesterday, last night, shows Donald Trump is just soaring.
Trump is gaining ground on everybody in the GOP field and over Hillary and Hillary in the sense, a couple of polls.
That's a Fox News poll, NBC poll.
And in both of these polls, Hillary, the bottom is starting to fall out identically, exactly as it started to happen in 2008.
And that's why the Democrats are starting to push out these stories about what a great guy Biden is and those gaffes that he makes, why they're just more, they just make him more lovable.
That's old Joe.
I mean, telling a guy in a wheelchair to stand up, you know, Joe to meaning by it, that's just Joe.
He's still the same sensitive, good-hearted, big-hearted guy that he's always been.
He just makes these gaffes, and you know, it's kind of cute.
It's kind of just Joe.
So they're setting this up.
They're setting everybody up for the entry of Biden into the race because make no mistake about it, Bernie Sanders may be drawing these huge crowds and he may be knocking down the house.
But the Democrat Party is not going to, at least using as much as they have power here, control here, they're not going to let him get the nomination.
Not unless he starts renouncing some of this hatred for big business.
I mean, he's gone beyond the acceptable in the Democrat Party operations manual.
In the Democrat Party operation, in the owner's manual, there are examples of approved ways to rip business and still telegraph to business that you really don't mean them any harm, that you're just talking.
But Bernie has gone way beyond the owner's manual guidelines.
And the Democrats know that he's serious in his anti-business rhetoric.
And the problem is that the Democrat Party has become the party of big business.
The Democrat Party has become the party of cronyism.
And the Republicans want in on that.
That's what they want.
It used to be that the Republicans used to have this tight relationship with big business.
But now that it's become full-fledged cronyism between big business and government, that's what the Republicans want.
They want those chances.
They want those opportunities.
They want the power, be able to sit there and become cronies and make government crony deals with business for everybody's mutual benefit.
Now that that's the order of the day, now that that's the way it happens.
For all these years, the Republicans have been trying to make everybody think they're not the party of big business because it was a bad thing.
But now that the rules have changed and now that it's out in the open, I mean, if you're a Democrat and you benefit from everybody thinking you got the best of intentions and you love people and you only care about whatever you do is perfectly fine.
So cronyism has become, as far as everybody's concerned, accepted.
Not crony capitalism, crony socialism, just cronyism.
Just a mutual association between government and select businesses, not industries, although it may be industries at times, but select businesses.
A business gets in bed with a president.
It's cronyism.
The government protects that business and in the process hurts that business's competitors.
The politician benefits from all of the money and support from the big business and gets immunity from the charge that he is anti-free market economy.
If you're in bed with big business, everybody still thinks that big business is capitalism 101.
So if you're in bed with big business, cronyism or otherwise, how can anybody call you a socialist and make it stick?
Because big business isn't socialism.
Maybe not, but it could be fascism.
But whatever it is, it's cronyism.
And the Republicans want in on it.
And that's why the Democrats love it.
And Bernie Sanders, if he ever became president and had a chance, he would end it.
I mean, he would really, he would give action to what other Democrats only voice.
I mean, the Democrats love to stand up and rip Wall Street and rip big business, but that's just for your consumption.
They don't actually do anything about it.
Wait a minute, Rush, wait a minute.
What about Dodd-Frank?
Yeah, yeah, but who did Dodd-Frank actually end up hurting?
It hurts the consumer.
It hurts the consumer.
It bottles up regulations.
It hurts the consumer.
Some businesses have been hurt by it, but not all.
Just like Obamacare, there are certain exemptions and waivers and this, that, and the other thing.
But cronyism is cronyism.
And the Republicans, they want a piece of this action.
They want to be in charge of the money.
There's no thought now to reducing the size of government or getting rid of department here or a department there.
I mean, you could look at it.
Let's take a department.
Just to illustrate my point here.
Reagan.
Reagan actually, at one time, made an effort at closing the Department of Education or energy or education, which he failed.
But at least he gave lip service to it.
When did the Department of Education come into being?
When did it start?
And do you remember the president who started?
I'm not sure.
I don't remember.
All I know is it's fairly recent within the entire scope of the history of the country.
Now, let me ask you this.
We have a Department of Education that's sacrosanct.
They can't cut it because it's the children.
But what do they do to further education at the Department of Education?
What happens?
Do they actually do that or do they impede it?
Any teachers there?
Any professional teachers there?
Who are these people at the Department of Education?
What do they do?
You're never going to get rid of these things, especially now that cronyism has come into being.
Cronyism is now accepted as just a government way of life.
Okay, Jimmy Carter recreated it in his own image and gave it new power, but it existed before Jimmy Carter.
I just can't recall who.
He might have started it.
I'm not sure.
But the point is, what does Jimmy Carter know about education?
I mean, nobody's against it.
That's not my point.
Would Jimmy Carter know how to teach people anything?
It's like there might be better examples.
I mentioned Department of Energy.
Does the Department of Energy make any?
They don't.
All they do is tell the people that know how to do it what they can't do.
Right?
That's all the Department of Energy does, is tell the people that are experts in creating energy what they can't do.
Peter principal, I don't know, whatever you want to call it, but we have people rising to the top of incompetency at the so-called federal departments that don't know diddly squat.
And Obama fits that to a teeth.
I don't think there's anything he knows how to do other than community organized.
And he knows cronyism.
Cronyism to Obama is protectionism for himself.
And he's engaged.
And I'm just, my point is: the Republicans want in on this.
That's why they want their committee chairmanships in the Senate.
They want to be in charge of the money.
But there isn't my overall point is that gone from all of these discussions, political arguments, debates, is the concept of reducing all of this and making it smaller and getting it out of people's lives.
I mean, a couple of candidates come along, may provide lip service to it, but it's just the exact opposite.
Now, this is the reason.
Now, I've not lost my place.
This is the reason why Bernie Sanders isn't going to be the nominee, because he would rip this crony.
He really would try.
He's not just uttering lip service to get Democrat votes.
He really believes it.
Hillary, Biden, whoever, Al Gore, they would all give lip service to being anti-business, but they're in bed with everybody in business.
Clinton, I just saw that he's speaking at the Department of Education, and I think I printed it out too.
There is some educational institution, nonprofit, that's paid Bill Clinton $16 million for speeches over a short period of time, number of years.
I forget what the number of years is.
But this is a cesspool, and all these people are in it with each other.
And the idea that the Republicans are pro-business, the Democrats are anti-business, is a formulation from way back when that everybody still tries to make everybody believe, but it isn't true.
The Democrat, Obama owes his election to Wall Street and to major American corporations.
And yet the Democrats are the biggest anti-corporate talking crowd you'll ever run into.
But it's all just for show in order to placate the lunatic fringe base.
Now, the fact that we're talking this way, Bernie Sanders means that Hillary is in trouble.
She is continuing to lose.
And in fact, in the latest analysis of this data, her favorability with white women is plunging.
It's the Wall Street Journal NBC News poll.
Many Democrats have long hoped that Hillary Clinton might expand Obama's electoral coalition by drawing in more than white women voters, or more white women voters.
Hold Obama's coalition of the African Americans, hold his coalition of the Hispanics, hold his coalition of the young, and build on women as the first female candidate.
Get all these white women supporting her and build on the Obama coalition.
But the problem is, white women are abandoning her, and these other groups are just not that excited.
This new poll suggests that Hillary may have a tough time pulling off this expansion of support from white women.
She's losing ground with white women and many other important slices of the electorate amid a spate of reports about her email practices, her speaking fees, and foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation.
Mrs. Clinton, of course, is a white woman.
She was raised in the suburbs and earned both college and law degrees.
She's fared well among voters with similar backgrounds in previous polls.
But this month's poll shows that she is losing ground fast with every group, but especially within the group of white women.
Now, by a five-point margin, suburban women have a negative and overall negative view of Hillary Clinton.
Now, I don't pretend to know the explicit reasons, but I have a theory.
And I think it's these emails.
In part, I think it's also her dryball, dull personality coupled with her arrogant condescension of expectation.
I just saw the clock.
But this email business, I think it's hurting her more with people than anybody inside the Beltway understands because I think this is something, despite it being tech, that more people understand than Washington gets credit for.
And while Hillary is in trouble, Donald Trump is soaring on Slay the Nation Sunday.
He said he tries to pay as little in taxes as possible for two reasons.
Number one, I'm a businessman, and that's the way you're supposed to do it.
Pay as little in tax as you can so you have more for yourself, shareholders, or what have you.
The other reason is I hate the way our government spends our taxes.
I hate the way they waste our money, trillions and trillions of dollars, waste and abuse, and I hate it.
And that is another Trump-ism that's going to resonate.
Here's Daniel and the Bronx.
We head back to the phones.
Hello, sir.
Great to have you here.
Hey, Rush.
Thanks for having me on.
I'm a very big fan, so I appreciate getting the chat with you.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Well, I called to talk about Trump.
Could I make a quick comment on the Democrat primary, just listening in the lead up to you taking the call?
Yeah, just there's not much time here, so just launch.
Sure, sure.
I'll be quick.
Berry Sanders, what he's going to do is introduce the term socialist into the lexicon a little more favorably.
For years, when we say they're socialistic, they say, no, we're not.
No, we're not.
The value he brings to the Democrats and the left is making that a little more acceptable.
As far as Biden goes, I predicted back in February 2014 he'd be the nominee because it's basically eight and more years of Obama.
Obama's ground game is everything.
He can hand it over to Biden.
And just like you said, the press would love him.
I put it out in Twitter February 2014.
You guys watch.
The press will tout him as exactly what we need because he's so approachable and honest and likable.
And that's what the American people want.
So I'm with you.
I see it happening.
And again, Obama, you know, he'd love eight more years.
He can't get that with Hillary.
She's her own person.
Biden can be under his thumb a little bit.
So Obama, if he throws everything behind Biden, forget about it.
Press gets on board, and we've got eight more years.
And because you think Biden is loyal to Obama, he will not do anything to upset whatever Obama's put in motion.
Exactly.
And I think, you know, with the ground game and the activism happening in the grassroots, Biden will be beholden to, you know, hey, you know, but then over here, we still have Hillary dumped again at the altar.
And we're back.
Rush Limbaugh, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Can I revisit a little recent history?
Way back during the beginnings of the current campaign, and I'm just going back months.
It isn't very far.
In fact, it's probably not much further back than March.
Hillary had not announced anything because remember she was still accepting paid speeches and she had made a decision she wasn't going to announce her presidential perspirations until she had finished her schedule of paid speeches.
But all the talk about the upcoming Hillary campaign was in full swing.
And I'm sure that many of you will remember on a daily basis my expressing my boredom and my lack of interest in Mrs. Clinton, that it's old news, that I'm sick and tired of talking about it.
I'm sick and tired of being upset about it.
I'm sick and tired of being excited about it.
I'm sick and tired of people being scared of her.
All of this stuff.
I went through it each and every day.
And I begrudgingly reported the news about Mrs. Clinton.
And the drive-bys were all excited.
And everybody was just, oh, man, it was the greatest thing.
Here comes the new 2016 presidential campaign.
Now finally time to give it to Hillary Clinton.
It's time to put the wheels in motion, put it all in progress so we can begin the official coronation of Hillary Clinton.
I was yawning and telling everybody how much I didn't care.
Because I had, ladies and gentlemen, a thought in the back of my mind.
And I still do.
And I see everybody now catching up with me.
Back in February, March, I'm tired of Hillary.
I'm bored about it.
I'm openly telling you I'm resenting having to talk about her.
And the American people are starting to catch up with me.
If these polls are any indication, the bloom is off the rose.
And I remember asking, probably not enough times, but I'm going to ask it again here.
Something that has always guided me in imagining Hillary in the 2016 campaign.
And that's what happened in 2008.
We had the same run-up in 2007 that we're getting here in 2015 about Hillary Clinton.
And we were told, it's hers.
It's her turn.
We're coming off these horrible eight years of Bush.
And it's time to reward Mrs. Clinton for all she's done for the Democrat Party.
And pretty much what that was, was sticking with and staying loyal to her husband.
If she hadn't done that, he might have plummeted.
He might have fallen.
The Democrat Party might have taken another, but Hillary hung in there.
She endured the cheating, most cheated-on woman in America.
She endured the humiliation.
She hung in there.
So it was her turn.
Pecking order, her turn.
And then something happened.
A young, clean, articulate black guy came along.
And right at the beginning of this, half the Democrat Party chose him.
The other way of looking at it is half the Democrat Party abandoned Hillary Clinton, who they were told Turnit was.
Okay, so if half the Democrat Party abandoned Hillary Clinton in 2008, why, I ask myself, is this year going to be any different?
Why is 2016 going to be the different?
What has changed between Hillary bombing out in 2008 and seven, eight years later?
Where has she gotten better?
I don't see any evidence of getting better.
I see years and years of incompetence on display.
Secretary of State, Benghazi, Russian reset.
Now these emails and the server and it's lost and half of it's gone, whatever it is with that.
There's nothing that Mrs. Clinton has done in these eight years to distinguish herself.
The biggest, best, biggest thing she got going for her is that there's a capital D next to her name on the ballot.
And now look what's happening.
I, once again, am being borne out.
Now, all of a sudden, where's the excitement?
The excitement on the Democrat side and even with the drive-by media is, man, who could it possibly be besides Hillary?
So now we're talking about Bernie Sanders, and he's drawing crowds at the tens and in some cases hundreds of thousands.
Now Biden has entered a race, and this was a no-brainer.
Once we heard that he was told by his son on his dying deathbed, Dad, you've got to do it for me.
Well, that's all we needed to hear.
Biden's running.
Just a question of when.
And now they're setting the table for that.
And Biden's going to keep everybody guessing till September.
But all this means, it isn't going to be Hillary.
It means once again that Mrs. Clinton is not a fait accompli, and she's not the chosen, and she's not going to get coronated, and she's not the favorite.
And it happened in 2008.
Why should it be any different?
Now, if she had distinguished herself as Secretary of State, if she had done wonderfully great things, won the Nobel Peace Prize or done something, just anything.
But look at what's come out about her.
She got all this money.
She's perceived as a money-grubbing, typical rich person, the way Democrats look at rich people.
Wouldn't even announce her candidacy till she finished her paid speech schedule.
And this woman gets $250,000 a speech.
This is not average ordinary American people, Democrat union member stuff.
But my point is, what happened in 2008, why should we expect it to be any different in 2016?
And the whole process has started to repeat itself.
Now, one thing, this survey with the white women, this is a fascinating thing because at the upper echelon of the Democrat Party in the Hillary Clinton sector of that party, the belief has been, yeah, okay, we got upstaged by Obama in 2008, but that was a pecking order kind of thing.
And what they decided then, first black, oh my God, they saw the gold mine in being the party of the first African American.
Oh my God, there's so much tied into this.
The president can never be criticized.
He can get to do whatever he wants.
He'll be nothing but sympathized and empathized with.
Nobody will dare criticism because nobody will want to be called a racist.
And then the Hillary camp said, hey, we can do that too.
I'll be the first female president.
And it'll be the same thing.
Nobody can criticize Hillary.
She's a woman.
There'll be war on women.
That'll be sexism.
So the Republicans will have to shut up.
Conservatives will have to shut up.
And Hillary will have an open field.
And that was the thinking.
And then after Hillary, they're going to do the first Hispanic.
And they're looking at Julian Castro or whoever, somebody that maybe not yet known, but this is their game plan.
But the problem is the very people who are supposed to be going, yay, over the first female president are the ones dropping out.
White women.
And so this whole notion of the pecking order, this whole notion of it's her turn, the whole notion of we owe it to Hillary for everything she's done.
If that's true, why do other people keep popping up?
If the Democrat Party wanted Hillary Clinton to be president, just don't doubt me on this.
And by the way, the Clintons are still very powerful running this party.
Even though Obama's the president, Clinton still have a lot of power here.
And if, I'm just saying, if the upper echelon of the Democrat Party wanted Hillary Clinton to be president, then Bernie Sanders would have been talked down, and there wouldn't be any of this talk of Biden.
But that's apparently not the case.
My only point, I'm sorry to go so long in this, but the only point, Hillary's not inevitable, like everybody has assumed.
There's no reason to be afraid of her, like everybody on our side seems to be.
Because it's becoming quite obvious that history is repeating itself, 2007, 2008, now in 2015, and the stories of the day.
And by the way, they could be setting it all up for a giant, giant recovery and Hillary smoke in the field.
Always a possibility.
It's like these four hostages in Iran.
Let me give you a prediction on this.
And if others have made it, I'm sorry.
I haven't heard it because I haven't had much news on lately.
I have a feeling, despite all this bluster from the Ayatollah hominy, because we see the vote in Congress on the Iran deal is getting dicier.
I mean, there are more and more Democrats announcing they're not going to vote for this thing.
It's getting precarious.
So what do you think the next thing to happen is?
I raise my hand.
I know, teacher, what is it?
The Ayatollah hominy will release the four American hostages.
And it will be after a great, it'll be said to be, following a great diplomatic series of maneuvers by Obama and Kerry, the four American hostages be released.
And I think this has been set up from the get-go.
I think part of the Iran deal, I can just hear Kerry and Obama talking to these guys.
Now, what I want you to do, you know, you hold those prisons.
You don't let those guys go.
You keep them in there till long after this deal's done.
But before the vote.
And then if you need to, you release those so I get the vote.
In other words, I think a deal's been struck.
The Iranians, if necessary, to get Congress to approve this thing, will release these four Americans.
Kind of masterful, actually, when you stop and think of it.
So I think that's going to happen if this deal continues to bleed supporters in Congress, which, if you believe the drive-bys, it's beginning to bleed supporters.
Looks like it's in trouble.
Now, on the other hand, Obama said, I don't care.
I don't need a congressional vote on this.
I've got approval at the United Nations.
It's not a treaty.
Oh, by the way, you hear what Kerry said about why it's not a treaty?
Oh, this is juicy.
I have to take a break.
Wait till you hear what Kerry said as to why this Iran deal isn't a treaty.
Anyway, you just keep a sharp eye on the release of those four hostages that Iran for Americans is holding.
And then that will turn around a lot of no votes on the Iran-Nuk deal, particularly on the Democrat side.
And to Houston, we go.
This is Robert.
Robert, great to have you with us on the Rush Limbaugh program today.
Hello, sir.
I want to rush.
It's a real honor to talk to you, sir.
Thank you very much.
Listen, it seems to me the Democrats have to explain one really glaring inconsistency in their support for Planned Parenthood.
Follow me and tell me if I'm wrong.
A majority, or at least a measurable percentage, of these are black babies that are being aborted.
A large majority, I think 80%, vote Democrat.
So these Democrats are supporting Democrat voters, future Democrat voters, being aborted.
If we Republicans were as racist as they say we are, wouldn't we support that also?
I mean, that's from a racist point of view.
That's kind of.
Just look, a couple of things here.
Planned parenthood does not divulge who they are aborting.
Nobody, they don't brag about it, and the Democratic Party doesn't brag about it.
I'm sorry, Democrat Party.
We know the numbers.
We know that two-thirds of planned parenthood offices and clinics are in African-American neighborhoods or nearby.
But all we can do is extrapolate.
I don't know if somebody, if there's data on the number of abortions by race and ethnicity, I don't know of it.
And that's key.
The Democrats don't have to get away with anything because nobody thinks about that.
Nobody's, I don't even think Al Sharpton thinks about it.
I don't even think the Reverend Dax thinks about it.
Abortion is just what it is.
It is in a silo.
It's self-contained, and nothing else about it matters other than it must happen.
And if anything, anything at all gets in the way of it not happening, whatever that is, is going to be dealt with and swatted away and blown up.
So if somebody came along and tried to, wait a minute, do you African-American, you Democrat voters, do you realize that two-thirds of the kids being aborted in this country?
That isn't, if somebody did come along and say it, I don't think, now, just my assessment here, I don't, I don't, folks, if what they're doing now doesn't get a rise out of anybody, what the hell else is?
I mean, if the Senate can't even vote to defund it based on what now is known, and by the way, it's always been suspected what's going on in these clinics.
You can't have 1.3 million abortions a year in this country and have it not be pretty messy and not be pretty yucky.
Okay, so these videos come along and they offer detail.
To many people, it's simply confirmation of what common sense tells you has to be happening in there.
But it doesn't matter.
It's the sacrament.
The Democrat liberalism is a religion.
You're not going to talk them out of it.
Just like you're not going to talk a Christian out of believing in Jesus Christ.
And you're certainly not going to do it by telling them Jesus Christ is something other than what they think of him.
You're never going to get anywhere doing that.
And going after abortion on the basis of who is being aborted to the Democrat Party, they're nobodies.
They're clumps of cells.
They're unviable tissue masses or whatever they say to make sure they don't think about what's actually happening in there.
I mean, another way to look at this is, and I have said this before, the Democrat Party is aborting itself.
It's aborting its future.
It knows this.
Why else do you think they're all for madcap open-border immigration?
They've got to replace the bodies somewhere.
And as a party, they have made it a sacrament that a woman can do with her fetus whatever she wants to do, and you can't say a word about it no matter what happens in there.
But they still have to replace the bodies.
So, amnesty.
I mean, we've had however many abortions, 1.3 million a year is the number since 1973.
You're not going to replace them all with amnesty, but we're talking about anywhere from 11 to 20 million people here who, if they are granted citizenship and can vote, then Democrats are lessening the depth of their problem.
And by the way, the number of green cards being issued, wait till you hear this stat.
So that's two things I got to look up here.
I got to look up John Kerry's explanation for why they don't do a treaty and the number of green cards.
So I'll open the next hour with those two little factotum factoids.
United States of America will issue more green cards than the populations of Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina over the next 10 years or fewer.
That is an incredible number of green cards.
And then you couple that with Obama's amnesty, which he's going to see to it happens incrementally while nobody's looking.
And whatever the Democrats are losing via abortion, a lot of ground to be made up with immigration.
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