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Aug. 14, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 14, 2015, Friday, Hour #3
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I'll tell you how we'll find out about the millennials.
You wait.
If they are into equality and this sharing economy and all of that stuff, then they should never accept a pay raise or a promotion.
Right?
If they accept a pay raise or a promotion, I mean, what the hell does that do to equality and sharing and all that?
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
A fox is running it.
Report Democrats in panic mode over Clinton email.
Controversy.
And a picture of Biden up there and Al Gore.
As the Democrats bench.
Wall Street Journal, Kemberley Strasso, the Clinton ship takes on water.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh Open Line Friday.
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Before getting back to the political campaign, I've got some audio sound bites coming up here.
Carly Fiorina and then Dan Rather on his thoughts.
That's always fun.
Just Dan Ratter and his thoughts, period.
This bite happens to be Dan Rather and his thoughts on the Republican establishment and Trump.
And then Chris Christie.
And then Ben Carson, who has a great, great op-ed today at the Hill.com.
This man is so far ahead of the room.
It's incredible.
And I'm going to attempt to translate something.
It's not hard to understand.
It's just such a different way of thinking than other people.
Positively so that I can't wait to explain it to you.
There we have some Jeb Bush coming up.
I'm just trying to spread the airtime around equally here.
Happy to have you with us.
But first we before we get to all of that, there's a story in the UK Daily Mail.
And it I mean it's it's beyond sad.
And it is one of the best illustrations yet of just how screwed up humanity has become.
Here's the headline.
Parents sue hospital for psychological trauma of failed abortion and for the cost of bringing up an unwanted daughter, who is now 14.
Who, the 14-year-old daughter, supports the lawsuit, claiming she knows she wasn't wanted, but she wants in on the lawsuit action.
Elisa Balundi, now 14, survived an abortion when her mother fell pregnant with her accidentally when she was 43 years old.
The parents are from Ramini, Italy.
And they are suing the hospital that carried out the abortive procedure, the abortion procedure, to sue her for 700,000 pounds in order to pay for their daughter they didn't want.
The father Giuseppe Bellandi said the doctors brought her into the world.
They should provide for her study and her indispensable needs until she's 18 and can provide for her own.
So the parents, mother goes in for an abortion, the abortion's botched, the baby's born, and the parents say, hey, we did not want this.
The doctor screwed up, they should pay for what it cost to raise this kid.
The kid is saying, I agree with that.
I wasn't wanted.
It's a burden for my parents.
The doctors ought to pay for it.
Elisa Balandi, 14, a child, always knew, has always known she was a mistake.
And she supports her parents in this lawsuit.
Those are the bullet points of the story.
Here's how it begins.
Elisa Balandi is a smart and beautiful teenager, according to her doting father.
How doting can the guy be?
Like many 14-year-olds around the world, her favorite band is One Direction, and she loves singing.
Elisa dreams of one day being a lawyer or a psychologist.
And it's not hard to understand why, because in many ways, she's very different from many teenagers.
She has had to come to terms with the knowledge, not only was she a mistake baby, conceived when her mother had already passed forty, but that she survived both a miscarriage and a failed abortion.
And if that were that not bad enough to deal with, her parents are suing the hospital, claiming that a botched operation caused psychological trauma to Elisa's mother and father.
In a case that has shocked Italy.
Giuseppe and Aurora Balandi, who live in the Italian beach town of Romini with Elisa, the 14-year-old, are demanding 700,000 pounds.
It's a million euros in compensation for not just the psychological trauma of having a second child, but the material deprivation it caused their lifestyle.
They want the money that they would not have had to spend on this unwanted kid.
And the kid thinks they should have it.
Daily Mail story says that Elisa, the 14-year-old, who is mature beyond her years, supports their decision to sue and insists she has always felt loved.
The failed abortion took place in 2000 after the couple, who already had a grown-up son, unexpectedly discovered they were expecting a baby.
The Balandis were told it was medically necessary to save the life of Aurora, 43.
They also felt that they could simply not afford another child.
With grim acceptance, they agreed to the termination.
But by the time they discovered the termination had failed, it was too late to repeat the procedure under Italian law, which forbids abortion after 21 weeks.
So the doctors brought her into the world.
They should provide for her study and indispensable needs until she is 18, says her parents.
It's her right.
The pregnancy and birth were problematic.
The couple successfully sued the doctors responsible for the physical harm to the mother.
They've already received 120,000 euros in damages back in 2008.
And then seven years later, the couple who claim they are still struggling financially as a result of the birth of the unwanted Elisa are taking a hospital in Alessandria to court.
This is where the botched termination took place.
How sad is this?
I know what you're saying.
Russia's not sad at all.
These people are making it up.
They just want the money, and they're acting like they're sad and they're acting like it's distressing and so forth.
It's not sad, it's just a bunch of money grubbers.
No there are those of you reacting that way to the story.
Could well be.
I don't know.
In uh in the Vatican City, the half a million Catholics have signed a petition urging Il Papa.
Pope Francis to condemn same-sex marriage as unnatural, and a rule out allowing divorced believers who remarry to receive communion.
The filial appeal on the future of the family, launched by a group describing itself as an alliance of lay Catholics and pro-life organizations, has also secured the backing of more than 100 senior clerics, including many bishops from the developing world, and the American Cardinal Raymond Burke, an arch conservative who has been sidelined within the Vatican hierarchy since Francis was elected two years ago.
Pope urged to condemn same-sex unions as unnatural.
I doubt it.
Doesn't seem to weigh be the way things play out here.
Okay, to the audio sound bites, Carly Fiorina relentlessly hitting Hillary Clinton.
Carly Fiorina doing her best.
And by the way, her polling numbers have been such she has now moved in to the top ten.
And if it holds, of course, she would be in the next prime time Republican debate.
Oh, speaking of which, there's news here today.
The next Republican debate's October at the Reagan Library being moderated by CNN and Jake Tapper.
There's going to be another Republican debate in January, moderated by Fox.
So that's going to be on the books, and you can imagine the fodder that's going to occur before that one happens, the buildup.
Anyway, Carly Fiorina was on Fox and Friends today, and she was asked by Steve Deuce.
So at the end of the debate last week, you talked about how we should look at Hillary Clinton.
As we look at the news this week, that they have turned over to the FBI her email server.
Now turns out the server's blank and wiped clean.
What does that tell you?
The old adage comes to mind the cover-up is always worse than the crime.
So exactly right.
We now know that her server went to an IT company somewhere in New Jersey, and they spent a lot of time from 2013 on making sure the server was clean.
It is, as I said last week.
She has lied about her emails.
She has lied about her server.
She also lied about Benghazi.
But the more we hear, the worse this gets.
It certainly broke every rule in the book at the State Department.
It may well turn out to be criminal.
Okay, so that's Carly Fiorina on Hillary Clinton CNN last night, Don Lemon speaking with host of a TV show called The Big Interview.
This would be Dan Rather about the presidential race.
Don Lemons said, have you ever seen anything like this Trump stuff?
You ever seen anything like this in all of your years covering politics?
I have not.
I'm fond of saying I've been to goat ropings and space shots and been covering presidential campaigns a long time.
I've never seen anything like this.
He'll run stronger longer than a lot of people think, and many Republicans fear.
He's definitely tapped into something.
And I know that the other Republican candidates see him as sort of a sun-powered perpetual motion all-American bullshine machine.
But a large section of his party doesn't see him that way.
All right, so uh Dan Rather thinks he's in for the long haul.
You ever heard of uh uh goat roping?
Can't say that I have either, but uh Dan Rather.
He'd been to one.
And I'm fond of saying I've been to goat ropings and space shots, and I've been covering presidential campaigns a long time.
I've never seen anything like this.
He was around when the Perot phenomenon was happening.
Would he not?
How many of you people think that the Perot thing is vastly different from what's happening now?
How many of you think it's much of the same thing?
I mean, Perot.
Can you anybody say third party?
There was no pledge from Perot.
I mean, Perot, you know, when you look at the differences in Perot and Trump, snurdly off the top of your head, can you cite any?
I know it's an unfair question because there are some things, but yeah, Perot didn't Perot didn't brag about how rich he was, but but he did in his own way.
And others others did it for he didn't he didn't do it exactly as Trump does, but when when I'll give you an example.
He's out there describing how the federal government wastes money.
And hell, hell, Larry, you know they're running around and they burn all these 737s and 750s.
Hell, you don't need all that.
I have two of them myself.
What you need to do is get a bunch of Lear 55s, you can save about 150 billion dollars getting rid of the f well, how does he know that?
So it was it was subtle.
But it was the same thing.
And I think there was a how many of you in this audience, let me just ask you, I know I can't see your hands raised, but how many of you think that Trump is in this to win it?
That's the big question.
Sturdly, you think Trump's in this to win it?
Snurley says he don't know.
Don, do you think Trump's in this to win it?
Dawn thinks he is.
Brian?
No.
Don't know or don't, you don't think he's in it to win it.
Brian doesn't know.
And I can tell by the way he's saying it, he doesn't care.
So how many of you think Trump's in this to win it?
I can tell you Perot was never in it to win it.
And that was a huge.
That was important to me.
How do I know that?
How did I know that you mean?
Because it was born out to be true.
He quit when he looked like he was going to win.
I knew I predicted he would get out.
I predicted if it looked like he was going to win, he would get out because he didn't want to win.
I mean, what was the thing he somebody he didn't go somewhere or somebody didn't go to his event because some daughter was getting married or some such thing, and it was one of the I happened to find out what Ross Perot's reason for getting into the race was.
And it was personal.
I got a lot of respect for Ross Perot.
You can't take his achievement away from him.
You can't take um, you know, he's he's a unique uh genuine American in a whole lot of ways.
But I knew he did not want to win the presidency.
And I've that first speech he gave at the National Press Club that got all this I'll never forget Christopher Hitchens.
The late Christopher Hitchens was on C-SPAN the next day of some author's hour or some such thing.
And Perot the previous day, they televised a speech he had given a National Press Club where he just railed against the irresponsibility of Washington and the spending and how he would fix it, and they're flying around at 730 savings, Larry's there, 50 savings.
Get rid of all that, just get similar.
55, that's all the people running our government need.
They don't need to stand up in there.
You got room to sit, that's fine.
That's fine for everybody.
Nobody else to stand up in the airplanes.
Why should they?
All right, fine.
The next day on C-SPAN, when it was time to take calls, every call to Christopher Hitchens was about Ross Perot, and he had no idea what had happened.
So he's getting all these questions from C-SPAN viewers who had seen Perot the day before, maybe a couple days before.
And about 30 or 45 minutes into this, Hitchens said, uh I'm very much uninformed here.
There's something happening on totally unaware of.
I don't know.
He was there to talk about his book, and nobody cared about that.
They wanted to talk about what they'd seen Perot do.
But I Perot didn't do that speech to win that.
He didn't even wasn't even thinking about running at that point.
And he I know that he didn't intend to win.
I don't know that about Trump.
Anyway, not a big deal.
You have to take a brief time out.
Sit there, folks.
We'll be back after this.
Don't go.
Okay, it's overnight Friday back to the phones.
We go to Northwood, Connecticut.
Charlie, I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
It's an honor, sir.
I hope I'm not taking somebody other country using their air.
You know what I mean?
Uh yeah, I feel uh the same way as you.
I'm already laden with guilt here, knowing that I'm breathing some.
I know I won't sleep tonight.
All right.
If uh Hillary and the Democratic Party are saying that the Republicans are waging war on women, why are all the abortions that are being done by planned parenthood are mostly female?
Who's who's doing the war?
And why are they all mostly in black neighborhoods?
Uh are they trying to uh keep the race down?
Well, in fact, that is uh a comment that Dr. Carson has made in uh uh I think a couple of days ago, three days ago, he's been commenting on that very fact that planned portion, planned parenthood clinics, two-thirds of them are in African American neighborhoods.
And he's been point blank.
Look, on your on your question about global warming and abortion and so forth.
Uh I know you know this, but since you asked, I have to answer the question.
You know, I mayor of Realville, you asked the question, I'm gonna answer it.
Why is abortion not considered a war on women?
Because the war on women doesn't exist.
It is an entire fabrication of George Stephanopoulos and the Democrat Party.
And it is designed as a build-up on the old, it used to be called a soccer mom phenomenon.
It's all rooted in the fact Republicans don't care about women.
And uh except rich women.
And it's just to further this narrative that's been out there.
And the Republican Party doesn't successfully push back against it.
And so it survives.
You come up with every example and more, like you just did, Charlie, isn't going to matter until the Republican Party decides it wants to kick it and obliterate it out of reality.
The saga continues!
Ha ha ha ha!
Yeah...
And it's a long core woman in a black dress.
It's a Holly's.
This would be what, 1971 or 72?
Right around there.
Dr. Benjamin Carson has a piece of the hill.com, how to resolve America's Social Ills.
Exercise the mind's power to choose, he says.
I'm going to read some excerpts of this because it's fascinating.
He begins this way.
Although most of my professional career has been dedicated to studying the physiological dimensions of the human brain, I have always been fascinated with the role that the human psyche plays in our perceptions of ourselves and the world around us.
So much so, in fact, that as an undergraduate, I majored in psychology, and at one point strongly considered becoming psychiatrist before ultimately making a decision to pursue a specialization in neurosurgery.
Now I mention this because it frames the discussion that I want to begin about the dimensions of the problem of race in this country, what I see as the best approach to transcending race as an issue that divides us and prevents us from moving forward as one nation under God.
As a child growing up in a poor family headed by a single mother in the inner city of Detroit, I became intimately familiar with some of the social pathologies that plague these communities.
Poverty, poor education, criminal recidivism and involvement with the prison system, and the pernicious cycle of teenage motherhood.
Like many of today's inner city youths, I too faced a situation in which I did not have an abundance of positive male role models.
And during those times there was certainly no well-trodden path from the mean streets of Detroit to college and a successful career as a neurosurgeon.
I mean, the path wasn't there.
But there were certain intervening events that were pivotal in helping to change the course of my life.
Now the first was my mother.
She could barely read herself, but she forbid my brothers and me from watching television.
She insisted instead that we read books.
Reading opened up a new world for me, a lot of new worlds, and fertilized my imagination, fueled my aspiration to go beyond the confines of my physical environment.
The second major intervening event was my acceptance of the wisdom of God.
An incident in which I attempted to stab a classmate out of anger, forced me to confront a dysfunctional attitude that, if unchecked, would impede my ability to succeed in school or realize my dream of one day becoming a doctor.
I prayed to God to guide me in becoming more tolerant and forbearing.
Now hang on a minute.
It's more than that.
Just stick with me on this.
There were certainly other societal and institutional dynamics that contributed the course of my life.
And it would take.
My mother did from time to time accept welfare assistance When ends didn't meet.
But she also worked two or three jobs.
She was ingeniously resourceful.
Societal changes concurrent with the civil rights movement helped to break down barriers and open doors for me that might not have otherwise been available.
But the major factor in how my life has turned out was and is my attitude and ability to choose the object of my concentration.
My views on race in this country start from that perspective.
While I advocate for a colorblind society, I'm by no means blind to the reality of racism.
But again, it comes down to a matter of focus.
I believe that if we focus on what divides us rather than what unites us, we impede our ability to transcend differences.
We impede our ability to work together constructively toward a better future if we focus on what divides us.
And how can we miss that focus?
I mean, the government forces that focus on us.
The Democrat Party insists on we focus on what divides us.
And they do it as a matter of I'm by the way, this is my words, not his.
They do it as a matter of policy.
It is a technique.
It's one of the things they use to keep people divided.
They don't want unity.
They want divisions.
They want people at war with one another.
They want to be able to say there's racism, there's discrimination.
They herald the things that differentiate us.
They celebrate those things that divide us.
And what Carson is saying here is, it's much harder to do but focus on the things we have in common.
Because I realize government can play a role in providing a social safety net, and it's one of the things that I really love about our country.
But I am much more focused on how high we can rise than how far we can fall.
The government spent more than 19 trillion dollars on the war on poverty since 1965, and yet the social pathologies plaguing our society are far worse today than they were when I was a kid growing up in Detroit.
It points to the fact that the progressive model has failed and it's past time that we try something new.
So, for example, rather than attempting to fight against poverty, which we have demonstrated we lose.
We've had the war on poverty, a war against poverty for most 1965.
Instead, we should be encouraging growth rather than focusing on the differences.
Rather than focusing on dividing lines and focusing on the negatives and what people don't have.
Focus on fixing it, focus on growing it.
The mental shift may be subtle, but it has profound implications for how we approach public policy.
The assumption that people are poor grounds them in a mentality that reduces agency and creates more dependency.
More tragically, it obscures the reality that there is an abundance of opportunity that is out there and ready for people who want to avail themselves of it.
But you try talking about that, and how long is it going to take before you're told you're out of touch and don't get it?
Happens to me all the time.
When you have a solution to people in trouble, so I don't get a job.
Oh, easy for you to say, as though it's an insult.
But it's a fix.
It's a solution.
And there's certain people that just don't want the solution that don't want the fix.
And you know it as well as I did.
It's a whole race industry.
There's a little global warming industry, all kinds of industries on the left where the worst thing that could happen will be a solution.
So anyway, he continues to talk about how he has focused and tried to help others to focus on solutions, fixing escapes, whatever, rather than dwelling on the differences and telling each other how rotten our country is.
Focus on the differences, point out the worst, and then say, boy, this country's horrible woman.
That's not going to solve anything for anybody.
And he wants new models in public policy that depart from all these things that have failed for 19 years.
He's advocating civil society, including the corporate sector, education community, religious establishment, invest in people, not programs To empower them with tools and the ways to get out of the circumstances they're instead of finding people to blame for it and focus on that.
Which is another thing a Democrat Party does.
So in other words, take Detroit where he grew up.
What's the Democrat Party do?
They spend all their time trying to find the people responsible for it if they have to make it up and point fingers of blame at them.
Rather than I mean, there are real people in Detroit who are living in inadequate conditions, and instead of focusing on that, focus on who's to blame for it to score political points.
That's why I say conservatism is an intellectual application.
It involves fixes, it involves solutions, it requires participation on the part of those that uh need the assistance.
And the minute you go there, the left is going to hammer you for being heartless, mean spirited.
And that's what Dr. Carson's up against and fighting against in the way he thinks that or where he thinks these solutions reside.
Here's Peter, Chatham, New Jersey.
Welcome, sir.
Glad you waited.
Happy to have you on the program.
Hello.
Well, thank you, sir.
Uh, a couple things.
First thing, real quick.
Uh, you talked about people on the bench yesterday.
I don't want anybody off the bench coming in.
Leave them on the bench.
The other thing is.
Okay.
What is Obama trying to get out of all this?
In his legacy.
To get his legacy, he's got to get somebody in there as a puppet, and that's Biden.
Biden makes it happen.
Oh, everybody saw how wonderful it is.
But Obama did.
If he bails and fails, well, it's Biden's fault because he couldn't bring it forward to the end.
So it's a uh I don't care about uh Hillary or any of those other people.
Until you know who Obama's gonna be behind.
What just happened there?
NSA monitor Yeah.
Hello?
Yeah, right here.
Oh, hi.
Did you hear anything that I say?
Yeah, I don't know what happened there.
Somebody's trying to call you.
I didn't do it.
I don't have the ability to do it.
I don't have any touchstones here.
I couldn't do what just happened there.
That just happened again, and it's not me.
It's not me either.
I don't know what the hell.
Yeah, it's gotta be on your end.
Somebody's picked up the phone and they're horsing around with you.
Okay, deal.
There it goes.
Look, I know what you're saying.
I know what you're saying.
He's talking about the Democrat bench, and he said, I don't want anybody on the bench.
They're on a bench for a reason.
I can't play.
Okay, I don't want anybody on a bench.
He says Obama's gonna be protective of his legacy.
That means he's gonna need a sycophant.
That means it's Biden.
But he doesn't want to wait until Obama makes it known who he chooses.
And I don't know that Obama's gonna do that.
A lot of presidents don't.
Of course, he's broken precedent after precedent after precedent, so uh well, we think we know that he doesn't want Hillary.
I don't think he wants Hillary.
I don't think he wants anybody that's gonna unravel his precious uh legacy or his policy implementations or whatever.
That's why you may say, well, how's he gonna do that?
Well, he's gonna stay in Washington for one thing, and he's I guarantee you folks, the first move, whoever the next president is, if there's a move made to change Obamacare, who's gonna be in the nightly news?
Lead story complaining about it.
Barack Obama, right there with Lester Holt, or whoever the hell else is hosting the news.
You watch this where that's gonna be something we've not seen before.
It's another these age-old presidential traditions are gonna be blown sky high.
We're not gonna be rid of Obama even after 2016.
Baton Rouge, Paul, we got less than a minute, but I wanted to get to you because you've held on for so long.
Hi.
Hi, how are you doing?
Good.
The reason I'm calling this because I'm I want to get your opinion on a possible scenario that could play out regarding the Trump candidacy.
Go.
To me, something just doesn't seem right with Trump running as a Republican given his affiliations with past Democrat candidates.
But before I get to the theory, I want to get to the reasoning behind it.
First off, everything is that uh dealing with the Democratic Party should have some kind of deflect And distract distract strategy behind it.
And I think the Democrats realize that Hillary can't be elected.
With all these scandals hitting her.
Obama's Justice Department is just now beginning to go hardcore after her regarding the survey issue.
Something that should have happened a long time ago.
And I think they want to get rid of her.
And you think they would like Trump?
Well, we have Trump out there back in the world.
You know, that's a toss-up.
Jeb Bush or Trump.
What do you do?
That's a that's a good point.
No, I'm still depressed.
No betas.
I knew there wouldn't be any new betas today.
There never any betas on Friday.
That means Tuesday, but that's it's a long shot.
Look, we're gonna be waiting out of September 10th.
Just like everybody else.
Screw it.
I'll just go hit the heck out of golf ball tomorrow, that's all.
Anyway, folks, have a uh have a great weekend out there.
And uh, we'll be back here on Monday.
Not going anywhere, be right here.
Sit tight.
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