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Aug. 21, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 21, 2015, Friday, Hour #3
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Oh my gosh, look at this headline.
Dr. Dre.
I don't believe this.
Dr. Dre apologizes to the women he beat up in the 90s.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
What about the women last year?
Just kidding.
I'm just, I don't know anything.
I'm just kidding.
Dr. Dre, savior of Apple Music with Jimmy Iveine.
The great group from the rap days gone by.
NWA, Cop Killer, Big Tune.
Now big movie straight out of Compton.
Big soundtrack by Dr. Dre.
He's apologizing for all the women he beat up in the 90s.
Man, oh man.
I never thought, snerdly, I never thought I'd see the day where political correctness would reach hip-hop.
I never, ever imagined that would ever happen.
Greetings, my, really?
It's great to have you.
Final hour of the busy broadcast today.
And again, a reminder, I'm off Monday and Tuesday, just a couple personal days, no big deal, just taking them.
Yeah, what do you mean to say with beats headphones?
Yeah, he founded Beats with he's a billionaire because Apple bought beats.
In fact, Dr. Dre bought Tom Brady's house out in Brentwood.
Brady and his wife built this massive $50 million moat house, whatever, and they decided to wish they'd built it in Brookline, Massachusetts.
They rebuilt the thing in Brookline and sold it, and Dr. Dre bought it for like $65 million after the Apple merger.
I think he couldn't.
He had all those girls in the 90s over to the former Tom Brady house and apologized to them at the pool.
Political correctness in hip-hop.
That means anything's possible in Ferguson, folks.
800-282-2882.
Dial it back now.
800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program.
No, it's just that normally this is the time of year between now and the next two weeks.
I usually take the trip, the guy golf trip to Hawaii, and that trip happened in June.
So I'm just taking a couple days, any big deal.
Mark Stein will be here on Monday or Monday and Tuesday.
In fact, I'm not working Labor Day, and I'll make another announcement now.
I'm not, let me check the date.
There's another date.
I'm going to just tell you right now, I'm not working.
I think it's the 18th of September.
Let's see just real quick here.
Yep, September 18th.
Book it now.
Get a guest host in its new iPhone Day.
And I'm not going to sit here for eight, nine hours all day long wishing I could get home and do the iPhone.
I'm just going to take a Friday.
It's like a three-day weekend.
Hey, I've reached a level where I can do this now.
No matter who complains.
So book it, September 18th.
And I might be gone the day before that.
Not for iPhones, but for a member guest golf tournament.
So make it, yeah, just do those two days anyway.
I can always cancel it if I have to.
Okay, folks, it's great to have you back, as I say.
We want to go to the audio soundbites.
I have these two stories on the Republican Party and what they're trying to do to overcome the Trump phenomena.
I want to get to those.
But this anchor baby stuff is a great illustration of how everybody gets distracted over silly, meaningless things.
And by silly, meaningless, I mean people on the left are offended.
Well, so freaking what?
It is what it is.
I mean, how in the world can you support the policy of anchor babies and get mad when people call it that?
It's exactly what it is.
So we start out first.
Here is Jeb Bush.
This is yesterday afternoon in Keene, New Hampshire.
Jeb had a press conference, and during the Q ⁇ A, a couple of reporters and Bush had this little back and forth.
Do you regret using the term anchor babies yesterday on the radio?
No, I didn't.
I don't.
I don't regret it.
You don't regret it?
No, do you have a better term?
I'm asking you.
You give me a better term, and I'll use it.
I'm serious.
Don't yell at me behind my ear, though.
Sorry about that.
No, it isn't.
Give me another word.
Here's the deal.
What I said was, it's commonly referred to that.
That's what I said.
I didn't use it as my own language.
What we ought to do is protect the 14th.
You want to get to the policy for a second?
I think that people born in this country ought to be American citizens.
Okay, now we got that over with.
All right.
Well, see, that's what is commonly assumed to be the case.
Well, he was getting a little testy there, and he is.
I like that.
And then he had to qualify.
Oh, wait, wait, that's not what I'm saying.
Now, you understand, I just, it's what's referred to as, you know, that's what it's commonly referred to, and that's what I said.
I didn't use it as my own language.
But before he got to that point, he did steadfastly fight with these guys.
And this is classic.
Here come these reports.
You think it's a racist?
Well, what are you?
It's not about me.
I'm not ready.
And the general.
Oh, no, no, no.
You're the one being critical here.
You're the one telling me you don't like the term.
What else should I use?
It's not to me the thing.
I just wonder if you feel like maybe it'll be too bombastic.
No, it's what the term is.
Screw it.
I think everybody born here ought to be a citizen.
And that's a problem.
I wonder how many people know why the term anchor baby evolved, what it actually means.
Well, no, I mean, I know, well, you do, but I wonder how many, you know, when I think of this, when I say this, I'm thinking low-information voters.
I wonder if they actually know what the term anchor baby means.
What it, not definition, but how it is.
What is it?
Here's the truth about it.
So you have an illegal bring a pregnant, illegal woman to the country, ever give birth, her child's automatically an American citizen and becomes the anchor for eventually the rest of the family being allowed to legally come in.
And this is how the illegal population is grown, quote unquote, legally.
And it's all based on this notion that everybody born here is a citizen.
But it's not the case.
It is not the law that children born to illegals are automatically citizens.
But you'd be shocked to listen to the media yesterday, last night, and realize how many politicians don't know that.
They think you're born here, you're automatically a citizen.
And it's not in the 14th Amendment.
I'm getting blue in the face on this.
It isn't in the 14th Amendment.
The Constitution doesn't say a word about this.
The only thing the Constitution says about citizenship is in Article 1, where the Constitution grants Congress the power to define citizenship and to establish the circumstances by which one can become a naturalized citizen.
That's all.
There is no 14th or any other amendment which legalizes citizenship for a child born to an illegal immigrant.
We've just been doing it.
But it isn't the law.
We've just been doing it.
And that's why the term anchor baby is considered offensive, because it officially accurately explains the trick.
And it is a trick.
Getting pregnant, coming here, giving birth, child citizen anchors the rest of the family being able to eventually come in and be naturalized citizens, all because the child is.
And of course, the accompanying American compassionate attitude is, well, my God, a child was born here.
This Makes him a citizen.
Who are we to deny that his mom and dad can't come?
My God, what kind of country would we be?
And this is how it happens.
Except it doesn't exist.
But it's not just citizenship either.
Anchor babies are how other illegals get welfare benefits.
I mean, if the child is a citizen and if the family is, well, God, American citizen here, parents are in tough times.
How can we deny them health care and welfare?
It's a whole program, in a sense.
I was going to say scam, but I don't want to be offensive here.
But it is what it is.
And that's why when you use the term anchor baby, the people who know what this is get mad because they're afraid that the truth of it's going to be exposed and learned by a whole bunch of low information people who obviously would not support it.
Because there is not, there has not been, and there is not majority support for amnesty, executive or otherwise.
Now, here's Trump in Derry, New Hampshire, at a press conference.
Reporter says, are you aware that the term anchor baby, that's an offensive term?
Are you aware that people find that a hurtful term?
Do you know that?
Do you even care?
You mean it's not politically correct and yet everybody uses it?
So you know what?
Give me a different term.
Give me a different term.
What else would you like to say?
The American-born child of an undocumented immigrant.
You want me to say that?
Okay, I said, no, I'll use the word anchor baby.
Excuse me.
I'll use the word anchor baby.
So you hear the media guy says, yeah, the American-born child of an undocumented immigrant.
Sorry, that does not convey citizenship.
I know we've been doing it, but it isn't the law.
Does it shock you?
I bet it does.
A media montage.
Drive-by media starting to fear or assume or figure out or think that Trump isn't going to go away.
Banish any notion that Donald Trump is just a flash in the pan.
You look at this campaign as one that's a flash in the pan?
It's wrong to make the assumption that Donald Trump is just a flash in the pan.
Does this mean he's not a flash in the pan?
I think he's not a flash in the pan.
Of course he's not a flash in the pan.
My God, how does this happen?
Flash in the pan?
Gravitas?
How in the world is this him?
They've all come to the conclusion now.
It all happened yesterday, folks.
Somebody somewhere sent the drive-by's a memo.
Trump is not a flash in the plan.
That's how you're going to report it.
And they all did.
Last night, CNN's Aaron Burnett out front, they had a fill-in host.
His name is Jim Schutto.
And he's speaking with Douglas Brinkley Rice University history professor.
He's considered a great historian of the presidency, Doug Brinkley, lives down there in, well, he was in New Orleans.
Rice, of course, in Houston.
The fill-in host, Jim Schutto, said, in every election, there's a hot candidate early on who captures attention, but then often fades.
If you think of Michelle Bachman, you think of Rick Perry.
Now, based on your experience watching these campaigns, do you look at Trump's campaign as one that's a flash in the pan or that has a lasting staying power?
I do not.
I think he's not a flash in the pan.
He has a billion dollars he's willing to spend, but he's a master manipulator of the media, including cable television.
He knows exactly what producers to hit up, what shows to get on, and that's free media.
He's not buying TV commercial time, and that makes him the first really 21st century new media presidential candidate.
Nobody's been quite like him.
Now, with all due respect here, Jim Schutto, your comparison here to Michelle Bachman and Rick Perry doesn't quite cover it.
I don't think Trump's a little different than those two candidacies.
In fact, it'd be like saying that Morton Downey Jr. was the forerunner of Donald Trump.
Do you know CNN ran a story on that last night?
They've got this movie on Morton Downey Jr., who I knew.
I mean, I replaced Morton Downey Jr. in Sacramento at KFBK when he got fired for telling a joke about a member of the town council and wouldn't apologize, and he used a racial slur in telling a joke.
And it was not about the town councilman.
It was a joke about Chinese people.
And there was a Chinese Citizen on the town council was offended by it, and Mort refused to apologize, so he got blown out.
At the time, the radio station was owned by McClatchy, and so he then ended up on the radio here, there, if you play New York, doing that television show.
And CNN's doing this movie on Morton Downey Jr., and they said Morton Downey Jr. is the forerunner to Donald Trump.
That Morton Downey Jr. paved the way for people like Trump.
They even said that about me.
I wasn't going to say that because it's absurd.
I remember, just as a little aside, I got to New York in August of 1988.
Mort's TV show had been on for a year, maybe, by that time, and had just started in syndication.
It was only originally in Channel 9 in New York, and it started being syndicated.
And I remember I was at the first, one of the first official things I was invited to, John Fund invited me to a cocktail reception for some literary conservative person at Lou Lehrman's Manhattan Townhouse.
Lou Lehrman was not there.
He just let this conservative literary bunch, a bunch of writers from like National Review and other places.
And I had, I'd not been on the air very long in New York, but it was long enough that most of these people knew who I was.
And every damn one of them, I'll tell you how I was kind of surprised a little bit because these are, these people that were at this thing are exactly our caller Maya talking about the intellectualized.
That's who these people were.
Very, very, I'm not insulting here, but these are button-down, very elite conservative intellectual writers.
And they were just, they loved the Downey show.
I was shocked.
And they kept asking me, so what are you?
You're going to do stuff like Downey?
I said, no way.
I'm never, are you kidding?
I'm serious about what I'm doing.
I don't want to do Flash in the Pan stuff.
And anybody could have told you that it was going to be Flash in the Pan, especially if you knew Mort.
But anyway, CNN now using this special on Morton Downey Jr., who was a nice guy.
He was, I don't know, kind of, in ways, a sad, sad character.
He just, nothing made him happy.
He just always had to, if something worked and got him a lot of attention, he felt like Tamari had to go even further and further.
But he was a nice guy.
Anyway, the idea that the Morton Downey Jr.
TV show paved the way for Trump is CNN's way of trying to diminish because they were portraying Mort as the original trash talker.
He wasn't.
Have you ever heard of Joe Pine?
Well, if you want to talk about the original insult trash talker who had Joe Pine's your man, Joe Pine, a TV show out of L.A., Joe Pine set the standard for that kind of stuff.
Well, he was back in long, long, long ago.
You'd have to get kinescopes even before there was videotaped to see what Joe Pine did.
It was a fascinating case study.
Oh my God, I just saw the clock.
Oh my God.
Even the broadcast.
You know, Joe Pine was the original.
I mean, this guy argued.
He took callers.
It was a TV show.
He argued with everybody.
He insulted everybody.
He'd do things like this.
He'd have a, he did topics.
When you die, how do you want to go?
How do you want to die?
So a woman would call, I want to go the cheapest and most natural way I can.
And Joe Pine would say, easy, lady.
Have your husband throw you in a trash bag and then in a river with the rest of the garbage and hang up on her.
Next call.
It was, and it never stopped.
It was, I mean, you take a break, get serious now and then about things, but that was the shtick.
And, I mean, nobody's original with anything, but and probably people at Joe Pine modeled his act after that he might have just have met.
It could well be that that's who he was.
It might not have been an act.
I mean, I don't know Joe Pine well enough to know.
But anyway, this CNN effort with Morton Downey Jr.
Morton Downey Jr. is 1987, 1988.
I mean, if that's going to pave the way for Trump, don't you think that happened in, say, the 90s?
For Morton Downey Jr. to pave the way that there's nobody or very few people now that are all excited about Trump that really remember Morton Downey Jr. per se.
I mean, it's just that's such a stretch that they are making.
Anyway, this will be a good transition.
We come back.
I'm going to get into your phone calls because I owe you that.
You've been waiting on hold, but I've still got these two stories about the Republican Party and their secret meetings and secret strategies to take out Donald Trump and how the donors, the donors feel powerless.
And money people do not like that, folks.
Don't doubt me.
Back to the phones, Ray in Livermore, California.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Anchor email dittos, Rush.
I have to tell you, that's not my term, but it's the term that's being used.
So until you can come up with a better word, anchor emails.
All right.
I want to build on what you were talking about, how the Obamas and the Clintons don't get along and how Obama doesn't want Hillary to succeed him because he might be shadowed by what she does or she might undo what he's doing.
I would go further.
I agree with you that Biden is the loyal soldier, but is he loyal enough to take a dive on the mat?
Because I think that's what Obama wants.
I think he wants Republicans to take the White House.
So again, to point to something else you said, so he can stand on the sidelines in D.C. and continue to point the finger at Republicans, how they're destroying his legacy, how they're undoing everything he did.
And in a sense, will paralyze the Republicans.
They'll be like Boehner and McConnell, where they won't want to do anything lest they be called a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe.
So I've got about four things.
I have predicted part of what you just said in that we know that Obama is going to set a precedent.
He's going to hang around in Washington after his term has perspired.
He's going to hang around.
And everybody, I think I know why.
He is going, my theory was he's going to guard the legacy.
He is going to anything that any whoever, but especially a new Republican president, any move made to repeal Obamacare or anything, he's going to make tracks to the media, and the media will be sympathetic to him, support him, and it will be as though he's still in office.
And the Republicans, like you say, are going to be attacked as racist and bigoted.
And they're getting rid of this stuff because they don't want the first black president to have a success story in history and blah, blah, blah.
And your theory is that that will paralyze them.
Your theory is that Obama want, he knows the country's going to go to hell in a handbasket and he wants Republicans in charge so it looks like they're responsible.
Is that your theory?
That's it.
In fact, even further, he wants the Republicans to do the work of taking Hillary out.
And that's why this is coming in drips and drabs.
Why, wait, wait.
Why is he afraid to have his fingerprints on taking Hillary out?
No, because he can't be the guy who took out the first woman president.
It has to be a Republican who does this.
They've got to be the bad guys.
And they're being set up to do this unless this will be like a reverse, a reverse inheritance thing.
Remember how Obama's presidency was so awful because of George Bush and all the big mess he left behind.
If anything happens, good or bad, following Obama, anything good, it's going to be like, well, you inherited that from Obama.
You'll win on that.
They'll say, see, the Republicans have put their hands on what I've done.
They've ruined it.
And that's why the country's going down the train.
They didn't leave my stuff alone.
Hold on.
That leads to my next question.
And it's one of perceptions of Obama.
I believe Obama when he says he wants to transform America.
I believe that Obama's got multiple chips on his shoulder.
I believe that Obama thinks this country is guilty of much.
I don't, I have a tough time thinking that in Obama's mind, he knows that what he's done is going to destroy the country.
I think in terms that you're using term destroy the country, I use transform.
I think he thinks this country deserves to be cut down to size, and I think he is insistent that it happen even beyond his presidency.
I don't think he wants people to reverse what he's done.
I don't think he wants that for two reasons.
A, he doesn't want it to happen.
B, he doesn't want a reversal to show that what he did was so bad and horrible and mistaken.
I think he wants to ensure that the transformation he started continues.
And there's no guarantee that Hillary will do that for him.
There is a guarantee that Biden will.
And I think there's a guarantee that the Republicans will too.
Not a Ted Cruz, not a Bobby Jendo, or not even a Donald Trump.
But if you get a Bush or this Kasich guy in there, Kasich would be running in the Democrat Party right now, as far as I'm concerned, based on what he's talking about.
Really?
I think he would have a stronger pull running against Hillary and that band of lunatics that's going to make up the Democrat debates.
I bet Kasich could win the Democrat debates.
What has Kasich said that makes you think that he would be more palatable to Democrats?
I think he's trying to move left of Bush.
Just in his statements, I went to a homosexual marriage, and therefore I care.
And all of these things that he's beginning all of his campaign from the left.
Oh, yeah, like after the debate, the media all said he won because he finally made it clear that some Republicans actually care about people.
That's right.
And if he's going over well with the liberal media, that tells you already that's their choice for our candidate so he can lose.
Right.
And as they always do for us, and you're trying to point that out in the past.
Well, it's fascinating out there, Ray.
I appreciate that.
As I say, I'm fascinated by the way people think.
Now, one interesting thing about this is for all of these theories, including mine, to work, the next president has to do something Obama wouldn't like.
Now, why do we think that would be Hillary?
She's as Olinski-ite as he is.
And make no mistake about that, folks.
I mean, the reason Hillary appears so stiff and uncomfortable is because she doesn't dare let us in and see who she really is.
She can't pull off like her husband and Obama can, faking it.
And that's what we're seeing.
We see her every time she's in public.
She's faking it.
She's trying to act who she isn't.
Who she is is a radical, just as radical as Obama.
Just as many chips on her shoulder about this country.
It's the way she was educated.
Her doctoral thesis or her term paper, whatever it was at Wellesley, was on Alinsky.
He's a hero to her.
So the idea that she would come in and unravel what Obama's done, I don't see that.
I see her coming in and maybe even going more radical than Obama did, and maybe he doesn't want that to happen.
I can understand him not wanting Republicans to win for fear of unraveling what he's done and arresting the transformation that he's begun stopping it.
The Hillary thing, I think, is, I think it's personal with the Clintons and the Obamas.
I don't think it goes any deeper than that.
It may, but it's personal.
And it's traced back to the, look, folks, these are the things that you think go in one ear and out the other.
But when Bill Clinton in South Carolina is sitting there at a cafe talking to a buddy of his after they've thrown the race card down on the guy, and Clinton is saying, I forget who he said this to, and it's a prominent name.
It might have been Ted Kennedy.
Ted Kennedy was Ted.
He's sitting there having a drink with Ted Kennedy and Obama's on TV or walking by and Clinton said, you know, Ted, whatnot long ago, a guy like this would be good as our coffee.
Well, that's the kind of thing Obama never forgets, particularly that.
That was Clinton calling Obama.
I mean, that was Clinton talking about slavery, dare we say.
I mean, what could he possibly guy like that would be getting our coffee?
What?
Obama's an African-American your coffee?
What?
He'd be a servant?
Obama doesn't forget that stuff.
And some of the stuff that happened during that campaign, Hillary and Bill, I think this is personal with them.
I know you're, well, then why did he make her Secretary of State?
It's a pretty brilliant move.
It's looked like she's pretty incompetent, right?
And she's got all these problems now that he probably helped her.
I mean, if he's done his best to discredit her, and her coronation is now off the rails yet again, thanks to him.
The old soul about keeping your friends close, your enemies closer.
By bringing her into the regime, in addition, it makes her really tough for her to go out and be disloyal to him.
When he's a member of the, she's a member of the regime.
She can't openly attack the guy.
She can, from inside, try to undermine.
But I just think there's bad blood there.
But I still, I can't get past.
I think Obama is serious about transforming this country.
And I think he knows that two terms is not really enough to finish the job.
And he does not want it stopped.
The transformation.
And that's why he's going to stay close to D.C. And he's going to have, I expect drive-bys will put a studio in wherever house he has so he doesn't have to travel anywhere to be on the nightly news.
Well, yeah, just a little camera in there, a couple lights and a microphone.
Bring in some babe to do the makeup, and you're all set.
Gerald, on the big island in Hawaii.
This is where I usually am this time of year, but I'm not.
I'm here.
So it's great to hear from you, Gerald.
How are you?
Can you hear me okay?
I hear you just fine.
Well, aloha from the left coast or Obamaville here.
Where are you on the big island?
I'm over in Hilo.
Aha.
Yeah.
My name's Gerald N. Wright, by the way.
I'm the Rushbo of Hawaii.
Actually, I've been in the media and running for politics for 40 years here.
They think I'm you.
I don't know how.
Anyway, many mahalos and dittos and kudos for your show and letting me own your show.
And I really appreciate it.
Well, it's great to have the old Rushbo of Hawaii on the air.
I didn't even know there was one.
I mean, he got sick.
Yeah, it's great.
It's great to have you here with us.
Yeah, I play as Jerry Neal III on the golf course here.
I had my radio with me listening to you.
Now I'll get you on the computer.
There you go.
Anyway, I appreciate, and I told, I was going to say Bo Diddley, Bo Snerdly, that I would deal with the other talent on loan from God.
And I appreciate that.
And I think that's what made you and your show great.
I think that's what make this country great if we'd get back to that.
Maybe some truth on loan from God would help.
I am a biblical apologist and historian.
You may not remember me, but I have a postcard from you in 1993.
You still there?
I'm still here.
And, of course, you're a little heavier than I see on the Ditto cam now.
It says Ditto on the Cup.
And I sent you a book called A Mother's Son.
And you thank me for the book.
I don't know if you really got the book, but it was on abortion.
If you got an acknowledgement, I got the book.
You got the book?
I don't send thank yous to people I don't know.
Well, I hope you read the book because that's maybe the problem.
We need truth on loan from God in this country.
And they need to start if they want the founding fathers, a country that we had.
They got to build on the faith of the founding fathers.
Well, you know, that's so true.
The story of the Pilgrims, Founding Fathers, the First Thanksgiving, George Washington's first Thanksgiving address, his inaugural address, his farewell address.
You can't read about founding American history without constant references to God and thanks to God.
Try to tell that to the left today, and you won't get anywhere.
But look, Gerald, I appreciate it.
You know, when I first started using this talent on loans from God stuff, you would not believe, you probably would, the number of people who thought that I was saying I was God.
Man, you that guy on the radio, he thinks he's God.
He even says so.
Why, what does he say?
Well, he said he gets talent on loan from God.
Oh, man, really?
I never heard anybody.
Yeah, he thinks he's God.
Well, no.
It was an acknowledgement that I'm a creation of God, and we're all temporary, and that everything we are is on loan, per se.
It was just an acknowledgment of my belief in God, and thanks.
But the knee-jerk reactions were just the opposite, which is what made it fun to do.
Anyway, Gerald, I appreciate the call.
We're at that time where we have to begin thinking about shutting it down for today.
So sit.
Well, it's the end of another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence, a full week of it.
Some great, great callers today on Open Line Friday.
Remember, I am out on Monday and Tuesday.
Mark Stein will be here both days.
And everything goes well, everything goes right, which it should, because I'm in charge.
We'll be back here Wednesday from someplace.
So be confident.
Have a great weekend.
Thanks so much, as always, for being with us here at the EIB Network.
Hang in, persevere, try to smile as often as you can.
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