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Aug. 20, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 20, 2015, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
The saga continues, ladies and gentlemen, you're right here as an eyewitness.
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Happy to have you here.
As always, telephone number if you want to be on the program is 800-282-2882.
We have a uh we have a new poll today from North Carolina.
Public policy polling is on with their latest poll.
And a lot of people are taking it very, very, very, very, very seriously.
And I have a little tidbit of information for you about this poll that's going to make you question whether or not it is of high value or not.
So sit tight and be patient for that.
There are a couple of polling experts taking this North Carolina poll.
And they are saying that essentially Donald Trump has peaked.
And there's nowhere else for him to go but down.
Not a lot of people, just maybe maybe two max so far are suggesting this.
I will splain as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears.
I have to, you know, I I I never want to sound like a uh uh one of those off-putting, arrogant, condescending know it-alls.
But I I don't know how I can avoid it here.
This this this argument over the 14th Amendment and anchor babies is the one of the greatest illustrations of even some of the brightest people in this country do not understand the Constitution.
There's nothing in the 14th Amendment about anchor babies.
You think there is?
There's you do or don't.
There's nothing in the 14th Amendment that says if you are born to a mother who is a citizen that you're automatically a citizen.
It isn't there.
And even some of our presidential candidates think that it is.
The Constitution is very clear.
Over defining who is and who isn't a citizen and how you become one.
It's not the 14th Amendment.
You know, and there's a story here in the uh Breitbart story, Trump reporters spar over term anchor baby.
And then there's a Los Angeles Times story.
Jeb Bush says anchor babies.
Hillary Clinton responds on social media, everybody's upset over the term.
As though it's some sort of PC political correctness violation or something.
Anchor babies.
And it's it's I don't know, folks, it's just it's it's irrelevant.
Um The Constitution says nothing about anchor babies.
The Constitution, the the 14th Amendment says nothing about birthright citizenship.
And look at all the people who think that it does.
The Constitution says Congress has complete control over who is and who is not a U.S. citizen.
And by the way, here's a little shocker for you.
Even the Supreme Court, back when it used to make sense.
The Supreme Court has never ruled that a baby born to illegal aliens in the U.S. is automatically a citizen.
Do you know that?
Look at and yet look at how many people just automatically accept that as the case.
I mean, this came up last night on Hannity.
Brother Levin, Mark Levin, who is a constitutional expert.
Um you want to talk about exasperation.
Here's somebody who thinks it's simple to understand the Constitution.
Just read it.
It's written in plain English, and it's not hard to understand it whatsoever.
And the 14th Amendment does not require birthright citizenship.
It doesn't mention it.
And Trump is right about it, and the media is arguing with him.
That's what this LA story or the uh the Breitbart story, Trump reporter spar over term anchor, maybe.
Let's go let's grab those bites real quickly.
Number 16 will start.
Uh CNN special report, Donald Trump interview.
Chris Cuomo.
He's a guy who thinks he knows a lot more than he does.
And those kind of people are dangerous.
And they're talking about immigration.
Cuomo says, People in the GOP are worried that you're gonna alienate, excuse the pun, the Hispanic population.
You have 28 million voters, pulling the birthright exception that may be constitutionally dubious.
You You shouldn't be taking such an extreme position.
What do you say about that?
At some point, we have to be honest with ourselves.
It's called, you know, they now they like to use the word undocumented because it's more political.
I don't use that word.
They're illegal immigrants.
They came over illegally.
Some are wonderful people, and they've been here for a while.
They gotta go out.
But how do you do it in a practical way?
You really think you can round up 11 million?
You know what?
At some point, we're gonna try getting them back, the good ones.
You have a lot of good ones.
Same time, send a mixed medicine, Mr. Trump.
Because you say you're gonna get rid of whole families, but then you say you want them back.
They're illegal.
We have a country.
We have to have a border.
Don't forget the story that we found yesterday, shared with you from 2008, an AP story about how Mexican legislators, the equivalent of our state senators, sent a delegation to Arizona demanding that we stop sending illegal immigrants back.
They didn't want them.
They came here to threaten us.
They didn't want the people back in Mexico that are quote unquote emigrating here illegally.
And again, it's not immigration, folks.
It's another one of these things.
We have to change terms, and it takes redundancy.
Sorry to change terms, but we're not talking about immigration.
We're really not when we're up now to 11 million or 15 or 20 million people, whatever it is, over whatever length of time.
This is not immigration.
By definition, it isn't because they're illegal.
They are not immigrants.
They have not immigrated, they have invaded.
It's that simple.
We are we're never going to get to the bottom of this really if we don't define the terms.
But that's a sideline issue.
Trump and his uh effort here to explain why we need to deport, and we'll get the good ones back.
Yeah, we'll get the good ones back, the family we'll get them back, but they gotta go.
They gotta go.
They've got to come back and they're gonna come back here legally.
And and Cuomo said, so the citizenship for those babies, you would revoke it now, retroactively.
Number one, the 14th Amendment is very questionable as to whether or not somebody can come over, have a baby, and immediately that baby is a citizen.
The court has pretty much said that it reads in immigrants there that this is a minority legal opinion you're talking about.
There are many people that totally feel that because amending is too big a deal.
It's gonna take it to be two terms.
I'd be in my second term or my eighth year by the time, assuming everything went smoothly, because to amend the Constitution takes a long time.
I believe especially on a very divisive issue.
I believe you can win it legally, okay?
Uh again, you know, it's it's a shame.
It really is a shame that the truth is perceived as an extreme position.
I mean, listen here to Chris Cuomo.
I know the courts pretty much said and agreed that it reads in immigrants here is a minority legal opinion.
You're talking about minority legal.
The 14th Amendment says nothing about birthright citizenship.
It just doesn't.
As I say, Brother Levin made the point exquisitely last night.
They want the Constitution to say that.
They want people to believe the Constitution says that if you are born to an illegal alien mother, that you are automatically an American citizen.
They want to insist that that's what the Constitution says, but it doesn't.
And again, a reminder, the Supreme Court has never ruled that the children of illegal aliens are American citizens.
Supreme Court has only granted citizenship to the children born to legal immigrants.
Not illegal.
Who in their right mind ever thought that the birth of a child to an illegal immigrant converted to citizenship?
A lot of people believe it.
It's not in the 14th Amendment.
You know where it is?
It's in Article 1, Section 8, Clause 4.
Here's what it says.
The Congress shall have power to establish a uniform rule of naturalization.
That means Congress decides who becomes a citizen and how.
To now automatically say the 14th Amendment grants birthright citizenship, Oh, no, we can't change that.
You know what?
Amending the Constitution, it's not possible.
It takes too long.
We got to We gotta find another way of dealing with this.
No, we don't, because it's not there.
You don't have to amend the Constitution.
Now, the 14th Amendment excludes Indians, i.e., Native Americans as U.S. citizens because it was felt they had allegiance to their own national tribes and so forth.
But there's nothing in it.
And yet it's a matter of debate.
The interesting thing is how it got started and how long ago, and how deeply believed and embedded in our society it is.
I mean, you you I can imagine that many of you hearing me say this think, I have to be wrong.
I maybe, you know, I'm I'm well intentioned, and you know I'm not lying to you, but maybe I'm wrong because everybody knows that if you're born in America, you are a citizen.
No, you're not.
Now, clearly the uh the invaders think so.
It's one of the reasons they're coming.
They come pregnant, they give birth, they think automatically there is citizenship involved.
So that's one thing to straighten out.
And as I say, the truth here happens to be perceived by a lot of people as the extreme position when all it is is a literal interpretation of the Constitution, which, to a lot of people, Second Amendment, is an extreme position.
In light of that, try this, this from the Washington Free Beacon.
The Department of Homeland Security has been releasing illegal immigrants with violent criminal records back into local U.S. communities where they have often gone on to commit violent crimes against American citizens.
This is according to new disclosures by a leading lawmaker and local law enforcement agencies, Matt Salmon, Republican Arizona, it's in the Washington Free Beacon, and law enforcement officials petitioned the Obama administration on Wednesday to end a policy that enables illegal immigrants with criminal records to be released back into the United States.
If I didn't know better, I would this is all happening from the regime.
This Obama doing this.
And if I didn't know better, I would say it's almost as if Obama is working for the Trump campaign.
He's just handing him this immigration issue each and every day and in the process undermining Hillary.
Arizona law enforcement officials announced on Tuesday three illegal aliens with violent criminal records had been released by the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement back into the streets where they went on to commit crimes including kidnapping and murdering an infant.
The ongoing release of criminals from countries such as Iraq, Sudan, and Russia prompted Matt Salmon to petition the Department of Homeland Security to stop freeing violent criminals who are in our country illegally.
And here's a pull quote from the story.
Despite the repeated attacks on American citizens by illegal aliens released from our jails, Department of Homeland Security refuses to stop freeing violent criminals who are in our country illegally.
That is a quote from Matt Salmon in his letter to the Department of Homeland Security.
Why would you do this?
Prison overcrowding?
Is that the excuse?
You know, we're releasing uh hardened criminals from jails all over California.
They don't have the money.
They don't have the room anymore.
The jails are overflowing, so we got to get rid of somebody.
This is an excuse being used all over the country, particularly in the Southwest and the far western states.
Why would you do this?
Under what rubric of common sense would you release violent criminals who are illegal back onto the Streets in America.
Why would you not deport them?
I mean, you have them.
It's not like you have to go to the shadows and find these people.
They are in your jail cells.
They're in your prison.
So why would you release them into the general population?
Uh Obama doesn't want to be called the deporter in chief.
But no, no, no.
That doesn't, that doesn't answer the question.
Maybe the question needs to be asked.
Why would you want to release hardened criminal illegals back into the streets of American cities?
Why would you do that?
Maybe the question, not why wouldn't you deport them?
Why would you do that?
Why would you release them?
Number one.
Number two, why release them back onto the streets of America when they are not here legally?
The answer to those questions is not pleasant.
What could the answers be?
You must want that circumstance.
Don't tell me that there aren't any other options.
Well, we can't deport the rush.
Obama doesn't want to be called a deporter in chief.
That's not a reason.
It has to be done.
It has to it it's going on for some reason.
Somebody has a reason.
Is it to curry favor with Hispanics?
So this is how you do it.
In order to get the Hispanic vote, you let their violent criminals out of jail?
That's how you get their vote?
Is that what's going on?
I don't know.
Somebody has to tell me.
I gotta take a quick time out, my friends.
I can't believe the first segment's already over.
This show's gonna zip by faster.
You better be ready because you have no idea.
Do you see how uh Hillary Clinton tried to jump on Jeb Bush for talking about anchor babies?
Hillary tweeted that they aren't called anchor babies.
They're called babies, which is a bit ironic given that Hillary's a big supporter of planned parenthood where babies are called tissue mass.
And what unviable cell whatever it is.
You kidding me?
All of a sudden now they're babies?
The Hillary Clinton of Planned Parenthood fame, they're not anchor babies.
And now the drive-by media, they're trying to outlaw the phrase anchor babies because it's effective.
By the way, who created this?
It's not as though this term is uh derogatory created by us.
This term has been widely used by everybody out there.
Some reporter tried to shame Donald Trump for using it, and Trump said, Well, what am I supposed to call them?
I've been thinking about it, folks.
If we can call them anchor babies, what do we call them?
Anchor Democrats?
Because that's how the Democrats are looking at them all.
Or if you're a member of the Republican elite, Chamber of Commerce, anchor cheap labor.
If they're not anchor babies.
It's amazing to see all of this explode the way it is.
And it's creating all this talk about immigration, illegal immigration for the first time it's out there, folks.
It's out there on our terms.
It's being discussed in ways the Republican Party never would.
It's being discussed in ways the Democrat Party never would, because in this in the case of immigration, there has never been a majority for either of the proposals put forth by either party.
Executive amnesty or whatever other plan there is to essentially legalize them and make them voters.
There is not majority support for any plan that either party has put forward.
It is a gigantic issue.
It's a gigantic issue for a lot of people in this country because the issue itself, the whole subject contains elements of what many people think is going wrong in this country, not just immigration, but all of the resulting.
Like I said yesterday, imagine this country without the 20 million illegals that are here.
Imagine the state of California with, and this is not it's nothing more than an exercise.
Nothing more than a little game to play with yourself.
Because it's instructive.
And you can readily conclude the vast difference economic, cultural, you name it.
The state of California would not be lost to the Republicans.
It would still be in play.
The state of California would not have become the state that it is.
You know, California is many things.
And it is a harbinger of what this country will become if this kind of thing isn't stopped.
You're going to have a very rich, very powerful minority of elites, very, very tiny, and they're going to live in a very few small gated enclaves.
And everybody else is going to have no upward mobility whatsoever.
Because the opportunities are going to have been choked off.
Anyway, so tight.
We plow ahead.
That's right, my friends, learn it, love it, live it, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair, dazzling the population of this country on a daily basis.
And they're always telling us that we need to be more like Europe.
That Europe is sophisticated.
I mean, the Democrats are telling us, the people like John Kerry, we need to be more like the Europeans.
You know, they're fair, they have uh modified socialism, uh they're they're they're certainly uh less barbaric.
Did you know?
This is Liz Peak in the financial or the fiscal times.
Among developed nations, only the United States and Canada still offer automatic citizenship to children born on their soil.
Not a single European country follows the practice.
Did you know that?
In other words, if you live in um, oh, let's say that you live in uh Morocco, and you want to go to London, you go to London, you're a woman and you get pregnant, you give birth, your citizen, your kid is not a citizen of the UK.
The United States and Canada still are the only countries, developed nations that offer automatic citizenship to children born on their soil.
Not a single European country follows the practice.
Look, um, you know, I be I've referring to what's happening to this country as an invasion or colonization.
If if invasion makes you nervous, colonization, try that word.
And I'm being specific in terms of the definition of words.
This is not immigration.
These people are not immigrating.
They're migrating, maybe, and the lefty loves to use that word called the migrants.
That makes them sound like they uh pick lettuce.
Makes them sound like they're uh Caesar Chavez or what have you.
But it isn't immigration.
Immigration has a set of laws which lay out steps and procedures that non-citizens must follow in order to become citizens.
None of that is happening here.
And it's not just here.
You know that Europe, speaking of Europe, they are so obsessed and have been for so long with political correctness, they may have may as well have erased their borders.
You know what the this is not a criticism, this is simply a statement of fact.
The most popular name for newborn baby boys in Britain.
What is it, snerdly?
Muhammad is right.
Mohammed.
What's wrong with that, Mr. Limb?
Nothing, nothing.
Don't jump off your horses out there.
Telling you.
What is it tell you it's happened.
And I'll tell you something, I was wrong about something.
I said earlier this week when I first introduced this whole concept of uh colonization or invasion, that many of the people coming are escaping poverty, war, uh, other forms of stress and duress in their own countries.
And I've I've I've been told that's not the case in a majority of these instances, and particularly with what's happening in Europe.
It's just that people think there's a better place to live than where they were born and where they live, so they're going there.
And Europe, you know, the the the I mean, these are the people that think they're the smartest and the brightest, the most sophisticated.
They are not discriminating, they're not judgmental, none of this.
And if somebody wants to come to their country fine and dandy, and it and now they've been overwhelmed.
We sit here, the world's lone superpower, the greatest nation in the history of nations, the most phenomenal country ever on the face of the earth.
The greatest standard of living.
A structured government and population based on freedom and liberty of the individual that exists nowhere else than never has.
And as such, we we have borders.
Now, obviously, since we are special and unique, and if you want to use the word exceptional, feel free.
It's quite understandable, human nature that a lot of people not born here would like to come here.
But where is it written?
Where does it say that we must allow anyone who wants to come to this country to come in and become a citizen?
I mean, this is a very, very tough thing to discuss.
I have told you a couple of times that I witnessed a knockdown drag out argument over this issue between a friend of mine and a very well-known media figure whose name I've never mentioned because it's not really the point who it is.
He's just a well-known daytime TV media figure, and you can you can assume correctly from that that he's a bleeding heart.
And in every stage, at every stage of the argument, my friend led uh led with statistics, provided evidence of what is happening, the negative impact of all of this.
And the famous daytime TV personality could not answer any of it, could not refute any of it, and didn't care.
And finally got so frustrated.
He said, Look at I don't care about any of that.
If somebody, if some poor person wants to come to my country because they want to improve themselves and better themselves, then I don't have the right to tell them they can't come, and neither do you.
And there you have it.
We don't have the right to tell less fortunate, disadvantaged people that they can't come here and get what we have.
You see, that's all predicated on the fact that what we have is simply luck.
And it isn't fair that the rest of the world doesn't have it.
The rest of the world could have it.
Human civilization has been around however many number of thousands of years you want to add up.
We've been around less than 250 years, and in less than 250 years, we have created what is the greatest country on earth.
There are reasons for it.
And any other country on earth could do the same thing.
They could structure it the same way, and if they don't have natural resources, they could economically structure a way to barter share, buy trade.
You name could do the same thing.
Instead, most of the nations around the world are led by tyrants and dictators and thugs who are leading their countries for one reason.
Well, two.
They have this megalomoniacal desire to control people, and the second reason, it may even be the first reason, is to get rich, is to basically steal as much money circulating in the country as they can.
They assemble powerful armies to keep themselves in power and to make sure that anybody who doesn't like it is dealt with.
Quite the opposite.
And that there are people who think that it's not fair.
Phil Donahue.
Remember this story.
What's Phil Donahue on his own show one day practically start crying Over what he called the accident of his birth.
Yeah, he said, if I'd have just been born 50 miles south, I would be a third world citizen mired in a mud hut in poverty.
And he couldn't get past the guilt of that.
That there was nothing special about him.
It just happened to be where he was born.
That isn't fair to anybody else.
So who are we to tell people they can't come here?
And of course, it's the wrong answer.
Wrong answer is the rest of the world needs to be fixed, improved, straightened out, because it can happen.
All they have to do is overcome liberalism around the world.
All they have to do is overcome socialism.
I mean, it's tough.
It'd be challenging to do, but the answer is very simple.
Our way of life, our government defines the way this country is.
I mean, it's it's not luck.
We're not the winners of life's lottery here.
Because within our own borders of people living lives in misery, particularly those of names have been released in the Ashley Madison hack.
Not everybody here is rich, not everybody here is independently wealthy, not everybody here is uh free from any kind of economic concern.
We run the gamut here too.
It's the opportunity to escape that that exists here for very specific reasons.
But it's not because the U.S. is where it is.
It's not because our DNA is different than anybody else's.
It's because of the way we have structured our affairs, our government.
But I'm getting off the beaten path a bit here because the point is that there are so many like this famous TV personality who just can't deal with the fact that there are other people who do not either have what we have or don't have the opportunity to get it.
And how can we sit here and have access to all this?
It's not fair.
If they want to come, they're gonna come.
I can't, I just I couldn't tell them no.
I couldn't live with myself if I told them no.
And that's unfortunately the attitude of many ordinary Americans.
Make themselves feel better by saying what the famous daytime TV idiot says.
But it leads to absolute calamity and disaster, as we are seeing.
This Ashley Madison hack, by the way, I was joking, but you know what?
That's gonna ruin, I mean, really ruins them lives.
I mean, a lot of people are laughing about this, and one of the reasons is because so many of the apparently the email addresses and the identities of people that were registered on that website are from Washington and work in government.
But I mean, this is this is gonna this is a disaster for the people involved here.
And you have to ask yourself, you know, this is okay, you want to have an affair.
Why would you go to the internet to register for the chance?
Well, of all the places that you why would you go to when you know that there are hacks when you would you know that that I mean you don't know the people running these websites, you have no idea if they're gonna start selling information, you'd have no why of all the ways in which you might want to engage in infidelity, why in the world would you sign up for it on the internet?
Well, I know they said it was secure, but but you have to you you have to understand that it isn't.
Well, they're all lying about this, but everybody's lying about their prowess, they're lying about their looks, they're lying about their talents, they're lying about their age, they're lying about their lying about everything.
Oh, yeah, easy way to do it, right?
I wouldn't know.
I'm just, I'm just telling you it while we're sitting here laughing about it.
It's it is going to destroy.
If this stuff ever doesn't get fully disclosed, becomes plastered all over everything type public.
It's really going to destroy a lot of families, a lot of people.
There's nothing funny about it in terms of the real damage this is going to cause real people.
But I must take a brief time out, my friends, as I told you, time's gonna skate by here today.
You've got to listen fast.
Be right back.
Ben Carson, Dr. Ben Carson, number two now in many presidential polls on the Republican side, is visiting the U.S. Mexico border, and he continued yesterday.
He was in Cochise County, Arizona, and he looked at the fence.
He said, you know what?
This isn't gonna do it.
The fence do we have here as we're talking about it, this is a small impediment.
Dr. Carson said that fence is not gonna keep anybody out.
He said that he favors armed drones patrolling the border.
Right on, dude.
Can you armed drones patrolling the border?
We are moving this conversation, folks.
This conversation is taking a trip to places it hasn't been in a while.
Donald Trump last night, Derry, New Hampshire, press conference during the QA, reporter said Jeb Bush in the state.
He's right down the road from you here.
We're in this we're in a town hall.
Have you have you gotten under his skin?
Have I gotten under Jeb Bush's skin?
I I don't know.
Uh I will tell you this.
You mentioned the word skin.
He said the other day, one of the dumber things I've heard ever in politics when talking about Iraq, that we, the United States, he said, have to show them that we have skin in the game in order to go into Iraq.
We've lost two trillion dollars, thousands of lives, wounded warriors who I love all over the place, and he's talking about we have to show them that we have skin in the game.
For him to say that we have to show them that we have skin in the game is one of the really dumb statements.
I think Jeb is talking about going into Iraq via ISIS, right?
And we can't just sit here and tell uh the Iraqi military what to do and plan battle attacks and strategy for other we gotta get there ourselves.
We gotta go back to Iraq, is what he means, what Jeb means, because we've pulled out his so we gotta have some skin in the game.
So we're willing uh to be part of this movement right there, not from afar.
And Trump wasn't through, though.
I'd say his other dumb statement is an act of love.
That they come here for an act of love.
And I would say between common core, his act of love on immigration, and skin in the game with Iraq, that's the third one that we've now added.
I don't see how he's electable.
And then on top of that, he talks about women's health issues, and he's against women's health.
Now he then comes back a few hours later, and he says he misspoke.
But he's bad on women's health issues.
Nobody's gonna be better on women's health issues than Donald Trump.
I just sit here.
From the moment Trump announced, I've been laughing.
I I laughed uproariously that day, and I'm I'm I I keep laughing.
Another question, Martin O'Malley, Democrats in Las Vegas.
He's staging an event in Vegas, some of the employees of your hotel, Donald.
He's trying to get them to unionize.
Do you have any response to that?
Well, I know nothing about him.
I think he's got less than one percent on the poll.
And uh, I did see my beautiful building on television.
The build it's just beautiful, tallest building in Las Vegas.
I'm very proud of it.
Most beautiful building in Las Vegas.
I know he was in front.
Uh Martin O'Malley was there to try and get some publicity, which he desperately needs.
And I think he was the one that said that white lives don't matter.
I mean.
Is he the one that apologized almost in tears because he made a mistake of saying, is that the same Martin O'Malley that we're talking about?
I think he should be ashamed of himself.
Well, hey, that's true.
I mean, Martin Martin O'Malley's out there, he's with Bernie Sanders and his Black Lives Matter thing is going on, and they they thought they would uh curry favor with everybody.
Well, all lives matter.
Uh-oh.
Here came the Black Lives Matter activists storming the stage.
The Black Lives Matter Act, who are led by a white guy, by the way, who refused to go on CNN last night.
Sean King, they invited him on a refused to go on.
Anyway.
So the Black Lives Matter crowd storms The stage and takes the microphone away from Bernie Sanders and Martin O'Malley, and they apologized for saying white lives matter.
That's what Trump is referring to.
He also said, you know, Jeb Bush is in town.
He's uh he's down the street at a at an appearance.
You know, you know what his audience is doing?
They're probably asleep by now.
He thinks Jeb doesn't have enough energy.
And we gotta take a break.
We do have lots of it.
Okay, your phone calls are due up soon, and the latest polling data on the Republican race from North Carolina public policy polling.
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