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Aug. 17, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 17, 2015, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Oh man, this could be a blow the lid off day, folks.
This could be a blow the lid off week here on the EIB network.
It's great to have you here.
Been looking forward to it ever since we left on Friday.
I knew it was going to be a big weekend, and it has been.
I knew it was going to be a big news making weekend because the frustration levels inside the Washington establishment, both liberal and conservative, both Democrat and Republic are at their peak.
I mean, they're just frustrated as they can be inside the beltway that Trump isn't going away.
That Trump hasn't imploded.
That Trump in fact continues to build.
They are beside themselves.
And now when that happens, true colors come out.
True colors end up on display.
So we've got the Trump stack, the Hillary Clinton.
So I'm telling you, 80% of show prep today is Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton combined.
And then there are some other things that are somewhat related, totally unrelated, but it's a barn burner of a stacks of stuff here today.
And it's it's going to be a uh an editing and uh well, a couple other kinds of challenges here to uh get it all in.
Looking forward to including you in the process as well with your phone calls.
The telephone number if you want to be on the program is 800-282-2882 in the email address, L Rushbow at EIB net com.
Let me run through some of the headlines of things that have nothing to do with Hillary and Trump just for a minute, just to show these are things that will come up later in the program if I get to them.
James Harrison Steelers.
Number 92.
Came home and discovered that his two sons had beg had been given participation trophies.
And he sent them back to school with the trophies, and he told the school, you keep the trophies.
My kids do not get trophies for showing up.
Trophies are for winners.
Trophies are for champions, and my kids are not going to learn that you get an award for showing up.
There hasn't been a lot of commotion over this, but there will be as uh as this gets out and people learn about it.
The left is going to have a conniption fit over this.
A business owners under attack created a sign in St. Louis.
Phil Schmidt, Schmidt's welding and machine shop in Farmer City, Illinois, put up a sign, congrats Michael Brown.
One year with no criminal behavior.
It was displayed on August 11th and 12th, just after the one-year anniversary of Brown's death, and the left is outraged.
Fit to be tied.
There's Planned Parenthood news of many different stripes and varieties, including the Outfit STEM Express that was buying the uh chopped-up baby body parts.
He has decided they're no longer going to do business with Planned Parenthood.
And a research paper for all of it has found out that there are so many women's health clinics out there that Planned Parenthood wouldn't be missed if every one of them was shut down.
There are so many.
I mean thousands upon thousands upon thousands, and two-thirds of Planned Parenthood clinics are in African American neighborhoods.
Obama wants to move some prisoners at Club Gitmo to Kansas and South Carolina, two red states.
Senators in those states are upset.
The Reverend Sharpton has told black churches to start lobbying for the Iran deal in direct violation of federal law.
Okay, that's just some of the stuff out there that has nothing to do with Trump or Hillary.
And I wanted to get it out there because as you people know, I do not permit myself nor you to be distracted by big news items.
So much so that things that are also interesting or important don't get mentioned.
We do mention them here.
Let's start here with Trump just for a minute.
I want to try to mix some of this in.
There's a Fox News poll out.
And Trump is at 25%.
Now a lot of drive-bys and a lot of political analysts have been waiting for this particular poll or one like it.
All of the since the first debate, since the first debate, they are they have been invested in the fact that that first debate actually was a death knell for Trump.
All of the all of the immediate polling after that first debate was online polling or telephone polling, and a lot of the drive-bys didn't trust it.
They wanted to wait for an actual poll by a news network, and Fox is out and Trump is up at 25%.
Ben Carson, a skyrocketing jump at 12%.
Do you remember the day after the debate I told you who the left said won that debate?
Who?
Who?
Who did I tell you won?
I played two sound bites.
I said this is who the left thinks won the debate.
John Kasich, the left, the left thought John Kasich won the debate, and you know why?
Remember it'd be because John Kasich finally put on display the fact that Republicans do care about people.
That was the post-debate consensus of scientists, political scientists analyzing the Republican debate.
Well, Kasich ends up at 4% in the Fox poll, and he's uh tied there with Rubio.
Now, Rubio and Kasich were thought by post-debate analysts to have done really well, and accordingly would really do well, maybe even skyrocket in polls.
In the Fox News poll, they have it.
Christie's at 3%, Rand Paul's at 3%.
Carly Fiorina went up enough from 2% to 5% to get herself in the next debate.
Scott Walker dropped three, Huckabee dropped three, Jeb Bush dropped three, those three are at Bush's at nine, Huckabee Walker at six.
Ted Cruz up four to ten percent, Carson up five to twelve percent.
And by the way, these results uh closely mirror all of the telephone polling and online polling that the consensus of political scientists rejected while they were waiting for this poll.
And and there's there's sadness out there.
I mean, they really were thinking Trump was gonna buy Snerdley.
Let me not just snurly, I'm gonna ask all of you a uh a question.
What is it about?
Well, not it's not fair.
I have the answer.
I mean, I know what the answer is.
Trump hasn't faded.
He's not even shown any signs of fading yet.
Goes on meet the press yesterday, and have to tell you, the establishment shocked, angry, saddened, came off presidential, had a serious immigration plan.
And the key to Trump's immigration plan is that it almost dovetails exactly with public opinion on immigration.
You know, it's kind of stunning.
How many, we got 16 Republican candidates now, and there's only one of them.
Only one with a unique view or a different view on immigration.
It's Trump.
And Trump's the it's it's obvious that that issue is the foundational issue for Trump.
And I think for Trump to blow this, he would have to change immigration.
He'd have to have to backtrack, he would have to, which he's not going to do.
I mean, but I'm just saying uh all the other stuff, you know, is he conservative, is he liberal?
I don't think I still don't think that people in what we call the establishment or some call it the ruling class inside the beltway, both parties, conservative, liberal, Republican, Democrat, I don't think they have the slightest idea.
What the vast majority of people in this country think about immigration and what's happening to the country, and they don't want any part of it, and of course the establishment is seen as wanting to ramrod their view of immigration down everybody's throat.
Trump's the only guy standing up against it, and every Republican that has been elected since 2010 has been elected in part to stop it.
And if one of them had stood up, if you know, if just one of these Republican candidates, just one of them had come out forcefully for America, on this immigration business, Trump wouldn't even exist as a candidate.
Well, that's not, he might exist, but he wouldn't have such a such a free road in this one issue.
It's it's it's really when you study this, and really not study when you observe it, it's it's amazing.
Sixteen people running for the presidency, and 15 of them are perceived, perceived, I know they would argue with this, but 15 of them are perceived to have essentially the same policy on immigration.
One of them is entirely different from the other 15, and he's the one who's leading.
Now, don't you think people inside the beltway should be able to look at this and put two and two together and figure out what is causing this.
They can chalk it up to celebrity, they can chalk it up to pop culture, they can chalk it up to circus, they can chalk it up, but it's not.
It is due to substance, and it's due to immigration.
And with Trump releasing this comprehensive immigration plan yesterday, you know, all these questions of who's a real conservative have been obviated here.
And even that question, who's a real conservative is up for grabs.
Now, I've got a couple pieces in this uh in the snack of stuff here today.
I think one's at Town Hall, I forget where the other one is, and they just, and they're conservatives, conservative media, and they just excoriate the inside the beltway so-called conservative establishment.
One of them really takes after George Will.
Because I guess George Will really took after Trump last Thursday in a piece.
And Arthur Brooks will have the sound on this.
Arthur Brooks, American Enterprise Institute was on, I guess it was Meet the Press.
No, Fox News Sunday yesterday.
Now, the American Enterprise Institute is long been thought of as a conservative think tank.
Cato is libertarian.
Brookings is to the left, heritage is conservative.
AEI also thought to be conservative.
Arthur Brooks yesterday is talking about, are you ready for this?
The low information voters supporting Trump.
And I saw that, and I really stopped on a dime and did a double take.
Look at who they think low information voters are inside the beltway.
You know, when we talk about low information voters here, what do we mean?
Who do we mean?
We mean mind-numbed Democrat voters.
Mind-numbed pop culture voters who are brain dead, who are not curious, who don't think, who simply absorb whatever they see presented to them by various mainstream media sources and believe it.
But we learn, he learned he used the term low information voter, Arthur Brooks.
Now, I'm not, no, no, no, don't mess.
I'm not getting on anybody for copying that or Steve.
That's not, I'm not that petty.
You know, low information voters out there, yes, it's my concoction, fine, everybody's using it.
Cool.
Point is look who they think the low information voters are.
Look who the inside the Beltway people think the LIVs are.
You people.
According to Arthur Brooks, you who support Trump are the mind-numbed, uneducated, uninformed, low information voters.
And they are confident that you're going to see the light at some point.
That's what I meant about this meant a barn burner weekend.
This is a blow the top off of it weekend.
Uh time we get through analyzing this and adding my own unique flair, color, and analysis to all this.
But this is um it was, you remember when Peter Jennings, after the 1994 election of which Republicans won the House.
First time in 40 years, Peter Jennings did a radio commentary and said that the voters had a childlike temper tantrum.
Remember that?
That's how he explained the Republicans, Mr. Newton the gang, winning the House for the first time in 40 years.
It wasn't due to substance.
Of course not.
It wasn't due to anything that really mattered.
It was just, you know.
The kids had a temper tantrum.
That's exactly how these guys sounded on Fox News Sunday yesterday, talking about the people that support Trump.
You're having a temper tantrum.
They're in an utter state of denial here.
Now there are pieces being written by conservative intellectuals explaining who the real conservatives are and who the real conservatives aren't, and what makes a real conservative, and what constitutes a fake conservative.
And if you support Trump, you are a fake conservative.
And you are dangerous.
And somehow you're going to have to be rescued and brought back into the fold here, but you are under the spell of some Svengali, i.e.
Trump.
So, and then on the Hillary side, it's just as good as things are for Trump, they're just as bad for Hillary.
Uh Ron Fournier admitted, he said six months ago, I was ready to give up journalism to go work for Hillary Clinton and the Clintons.
And today, I'm not even sure I could vote for her.
What are they up to now?
60 classified email, 60 classified emails.
Here's ABC News, by the way, ABC News is reporting that there was a backup server.
Well, of course there was a backup server.
And not only was there a backup server, there are people to whom she emailed back and forth who also have hard drives and servers where many of those emails probably still reside.
Here is my I was talking to a friend of mine in Hawaii yesterday afternoon.
Calls Hillary Hildebeast, and he raised an interesting question to me.
How do we know that Hillary is the only administration official with a private at home email server?
Didn't we find out?
Didn't Lois Lerner doing something with a home email account or some such thing?
Even if she wasn't, the point is, it's a good question.
Why are we stopping at Hillary?
Could it be that there are other people in this regime who've been doing exactly what Hillary did?
Could there be more people involved?
Could there be all kinds of reasons why Hillary's emails have been scrubbed, the servers been scrubbed, people are trying to hide those emails or hide whatever happened here to keep it from being discovered?
Could it be that Obama has his own servers?
Not historically name out.
I have no evidence.
I mean, could it be that Valerie Jarrett has one?
Who says it's well, we do know Lisa Jackson was, that's right, Lisa Jackson.
I think Lois learned her too, but Lisa Jackson's doing private email at the EPA, environmental protections agency.
So who says that it stops with Hillary with this stuff?
And the reason this is a relevant question is because of security.
The ChICOMs have hacked pretty much everything.
You have to think they've hacked Hillary's database.
Anyway, I take a brief time out here, folks.
We uh we're just gonna roll it all out here for you.
You're not gonna want to miss this, you're not gonna want to go anywhere.
Sit tight, we will be right back with.
Okay, so Trump's on Meet the Depress yesterday, and scared everybody, looked presidential, sounded serious, had a multi-point immigration plan.
It was serious, it was intelligent, and the inside the beltway establish establishment is beside itself.
Trump's immigration proposals, not just comprehensive, more importantly, what Trump's immigration proposal does.
It just totally repudiates the bipartisan approach that we're getting from both parties inside the beltway.
That has been the desire of both parties inside the beltway for years.
And everybody knows that it is an immigration plan that is going to result in millions more registered Democrats.
Common sense people, common sense citizens have never understood it.
Policy-wise, it hasn't made any sense for the Republican Party to support Amnesty and make a policy that's the mirror of what the Democrats want.
Policy-wise, it makes no sense.
Party-wise, it makes no sense.
It only makes sense when you learn that it is what big money donors want.
And that's when you learn who it is that's really running the prop Republican Party, the Democrat Party, too, the moneyed people.
It's now we talked about this Friday.
That's not new.
Really, money's always been a determining and deciding factor.
What's new is that the parties are no longer making even any pretence of satisfying public opinion, being on the same page as public opinion.
It is governance against the will of the people on the premise that the people are too stupid to know the right thing to do here.
And so now you don't support amnesty are considered low information voters, right along with the people we consider on the left to be low information voters.
More on this when we get back.
And we're back.
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Let me briefly summarize the Trump immigration proposal that happened on Meet the Press yesterday that just do not doubt me on this.
The release of the Fox News poll and Trump's appearance yesterday has done more to shake up the inside the beltway establishment than anybody realizes.
People assumed that they were already pretty shaken up, and they were, but now it's it's I mean they're starting to get to the point now where Trump could literally genuinely win this man.
They're changing tunes to, you know, from when's he going to drop out, when's he going to step in it to uh-oh.
And I think, you know, I'll say it again, I don't think these people have any idea just how angry, frightened, fearful.
A pretty big majority of the people of this country are that we are losing the country.
And we're losing it because of immigration and a couple other things, but immigration's a biggie.
I don't know how many times I have referenced this over the year, and I'm by no means the only one.
Look at California.
If you want to find the future of the Republican Party and the country, look at California.
There isn't a single Republican in statewide office.
There never will be in the near future, it's not going to happen.
The Republican Party practically doesn't exist statewide.
The economy in California, you talk about inequality, haves and have nots.
It's no more pronounced anywhere in the country than in California.
And you go back, you don't have to go back that far where the Republican Party owned it.
Routinely elected governors.
Those governors became presidential candidates.
And I tell you, when you can tie it to, you can tie the end of the Republican Party in California to 1986.
And that was the Simpson Mazzoli Amnesty, immigration bill.
We're talking back then at 3.9 million illegal aliens granted amnesty.
Since then, it's been curtains for the Republican Party.
Which means constant victory for the Democrat Party, and they have shaped that state, and it's just a mess.
And it's a harbinger of where we're going nationwide.
People of this country do not want that.
And they're scared to death of losing their country, and immigration is the top of the reasons why they think it could happen.
And they see both party in cahoots, parties in cahoots to make it happen.
And they don't understand it.
People that love America do not understand this.
I mean, even when you tell them, well, big money donors say this because they want X, Y, and Z. It still doesn't make any sense.
How does that trump patriotism?
How does that all that matter more to these people, elected officials than patriotism, love of country, America, Shining City on a Hill and all that?
Why does that not matter anymore?
People are combination angry, Scared, and there isn't a single candidate for president addressing the issue in a way that resonates with the American people, particularly Republican primary voters.
Not one until Donald Trump comes along.
And now Trump is illustrating his support, illustrates for any who wish to pay honest attention what is thought of the whole concept of illegal immigration and amnesty and the future of the country it represents.
And people don't want it.
And they've said so in every which way they can, time and time again, and they're not being listened to.
At the same time, Republican officials, Republican Party officials inside the Beltway officials tell us that we can't win the White House anymore without getting additional votes besides just Republican votes.
We can't win anymore with only Republican votes.
We're too small.
We need to branch out.
We need to reach out.
We need to expand our base beyond just you conservative Christians and the rest of them.
We need to get Democrats.
We need to get independence.
We need to.
Okay, fine.
Well, guess what?
Who's doing that?
Who is expanding the party beyond what it is normally thought to be?
Trump of all people.
And yet they're lowering the hammer on the guy each and every day when it is Donald Trump who is executing what the Republican Party says they need to win.
The problem is Trump's getting not the people the Republican Party wants to build their coalition.
But, I mean, the Republicans all say we can't win with just our base.
Well, if that's true, then you need to branch out.
How come – I need to include Ted Cruz in the Trump group on anti-amnesty and so forth.
Cruz and Trump – The others have might say they belong there too, but that's only after they've made adjustments in their original support for an amnesty like program.
But Trump's immigration plan back to it, before I read it specifically from his uh his website, you know, he wants to build a wall and have Mexico pay for it.
He wants to deport all undocumented immigrants.
They have to go.
Now, the inside the beltway people, when they hear that, they cringe, oh my God, that's that's so good.
Don't say that's what Republicans, oh God.
People are standing up and cheering.
They don't want their country given away for crying out loud, and to pay people at the same time.
He wants to do away with, rescind Obama's executive amnesty program.
He wants to triple the number of immigration and customs enforcement agents in America.
He wants to revert to the tariff system that existed prior to the passage of NAFTA.
And he would end the practice of granting U.S. citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants by buy anchor babies.
And I'm telling you, that one has people standing up and cheering.
He wants to make changes in the 14th Amendment so that that cannot happen.
He said that he doesn't said this, but we are cooking our own goose by granting this privilege.
And he wants to do away with it.
And he is in the majority of thinking, as polled the American people.
He presented this immigration plan yesterday, meet the press, and as I say, inside the Beltway crowd was shocked.
Media was shocked.
A, that he had a plan.
B, that he has a campaign staff that's made up of professionals.
D, that he's able to present this in a way that looked presidential, and E that he was on Meet the Press looking and sounding presidential.
All of this, none of this is supposed to happen.
The experts all told us Trump would be gone by now.
Or on the way out, If not gone.
Immigration reformed it'll make America great again.
The three core principles of Trump's plan.
When politicians talk about immigration reform, they mean amnesty, cheap labor, and open borders.
The Schumer Rubio bill was nothing more than a giveaway to the corporate patrons who run both parties.
Real immigration reform puts the needs of working people first, not wealthy globe-trotting donors.
We are the only country in the world whose immigration system puts the needs of other nations ahead of our own, and that must change.
Here are the three core principles of real immigration reform.
Number one, a nation without borders is not a nation.
There must be a wall across the southern border.
And if we can't do it, then look at the Chinese.
Look at their wall.
They got a great wall.
They built it.
How long is that wall?
If they can do it, we can do it.
If they got the great wall, we got the greatest wall.
We can build a greater wall, we can do anything we want, we won't do it.
But we're not committed to it.
But we can do it.
Who says we can't do it?
People stand up and cheer.
Number two, a nation without laws is not a nation.
Laws passed in accordance with our constitutional system of government must be enforced or they're worthless.
Number three, a nation that does not serve its own citizens is not a nation.
Any immigration plan must improve jobs, must improve wages and security for all Americans.
And it goes through the point by point details, reasons, analysis and all that, and it was right on the money.
Byron York has a piece in the DC examiner.
Are Trump's immigration views out of the mainstream?
What York did, he went back and he looked at uh oh, Jeff Sessions, by the way, is one of the uh leading participants in the preparation of Trump's multi-point immigration plan.
And Sessions is great on this and has been a lone voice in the Senate.
Well, next to Cruz and Mike Lee.
I mean, I don't mean to leave these guys out because they have been front and center.
But Byron York found a recent academic paper published by Stanford Professor David Brookman, Berkeley PhD candidate Douglas Oler, and it suggests a majority of the public's views on immigration are closer to Trump's than to the advocates of comprehension or comprehensive immigration reform.
It's just another way of stating it, another way of writing it, but it's another way of illustrating that Trump's not the oddball.
Trump's ideas are not fringe, they're not outliers.
They are mainstream.
They represent the views and the attitudes of the people who make this country work.
Anyway, another brief obscene profit break, back with more after this.
Now, folks, one thing here about the Byron York story.
This is this is really interesting.
In a nutshell, Byron York says that this academic study by the two guys, one from Stanford, one a PhD candidate from Berkeley.
They offered seven positions.
Position number one was being open border.
A poll in a survey of thousands of Americans.
They offered them seven options, seven things to choose from, and list them in order of importance.
The American people.
The first option, open borders, let everybody in.
Number seven was the most extreme, build a wall and deport everybody.
Okay.
That was the range in this survey that these two academics sought public opinion on.
Now, not follow me on this.
Again, number one, open borders let anybody from anywhere in and pay them whatever to come.
I mean, just the extreme of open borders immigration.
And number seven was build a wall and deport all the illegals.
Round them up, find them and make them leave.
Twenty-five percent of the people polled picked number seven.
And more than fifty-five percent picked the top three so-called radical anti-immigration positions.
Here's the important thing.
In this survey of thousands of Americans on public opinion, all of the top three options chosen by the American people are more quote-unquote radical than Trump's proposal.
In other words, Trump's proposal is not nearly as sweeping as what a survey of the American people shows they want.
So the point is Trump is not seen as a radical at all in this.
By average ordinary Americans, he's not seen as an extremist.
He's not seen as a fringe kook.
He's seen to be a little bit less radical or extreme, if you just use these terms, than popular opinion as expressed by 55% of the American people.
So if the inside the beltway experts, both parties, if the elites in the establishment there think that Trump's proposal is radical and so far off the mainstream, it's not, is the point.
the American people are even more adamant about this than is Trump's proposal.
And the American people are the ones being affected by it.
You know what's always amazed me about this, folks?
I mean, not just that California is a harbinger of what open borders makes happen.
Not just the Republican Party.
I mean, California is one of the biggest welfare state states going now.
It's in debt, it's a mess, it's got millennials care about equality.
It's got the biggest line of demarcation between rich and poor haves and have nots of any state in the country.
Where is all of the competition here?
It's clear that a single issue, or well, let me just put it, it's clear that a single issue, maybe a couple small ones in addition, a single issue may be responsible for this Trump phenomenon.
And nobody wants to get in on it.
Nobody wants to compete with, nobody wants to try to steal it.
Until now, the me twos are beginning.
Hey, my my proposal is dislike Trump's.
You watch.
In fact, right here, folks, in the Daily Caller.
Headline, Scott Walker, my immigration plan is very similar to Donald Trump's.
Scott Walker today responded to Trump's newly released immigration position paper by saying the plan he's offering is very similar.
So on Fox and Friends today.
He was asked if he gives Trump's plan a thumbs up.
Walker said, I haven't looked at all the details of his, but the things I've heard, very similar to the things I've mentioned.
The Me2s.
The me twos are now starting.
Rather than people trying to steal it, people are going to want to get in on it.
It is has the potential here to be a so transformative that the inside the beltway people, even while studying it and looking straight at it, still stand a chance of being blindsided by it, is how far off the beaten path on this issue they are.
And then, of course, there are side effects to all this.
There are now internecine wars breaking out all over the Republican Party, and within a smaller subset of that all over the conservative movement.
And now we've got various entities writing pieces on who is a real conservative and who isn't.
What real conservatism is and what phony conservatism is and who the real conservatives are and who the phony conservatives are.
It's a crack up is what's happening and what it's exposing.
In the opinion of many people is that the inside beltway version of conservative media is almost identical to the inside beltway version of Republican Party, i.e.
fear of the left and saying and doing things in order to get the approval of leftist intellectuals and critics and so forth.
Anyway, I'll expand on this when time permits.
If it doesn't now because of another profit timeout, be right.
you Fastest three hours in media, evidenced by the fact the first hour is now in the can, and we gotta take a brief break here at the top of the hour.
We'll come back.
Time to start squeezing in some um interesting audio sound bites to all this myth.
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