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Aug. 28, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 28, 2015, Friday, Hour #3
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The views expressed by the host on this program, now documented to be almost always right.
99.8% of the time.
It's Friday.
Let's hit it for the final hour.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Open live Friday, where you get to talk about whatever.
You get to ask questions, make comments.
Doesn't have to be about the daily political scene, can be about whatever is interesting to you.
It's a golden opportunity.
Turn the program over to you.
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That's why I consider this to be one of the greatest career risks ever taken by a major media figure.
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If you go to Las Vegas and you want to make a wager on who the two party nominees are, you know who still, you know, what Vegas thinks is going to be Jeb Hillary.
Smart money, Jeb Hillary.
When this is all said and done, that's who smart money people think are going to have sewn up the nomination.
And they make that uh prediction, by the way, based on money.
I mean, the Jeb Bush strategy is entirely based on outraising everybody.
You remember at the uh outset of this, Jeb made one of these statements that he wanted to be one of the first candidates to win the Republican Party nomination without needing the base.
There's only one way you can do that, and that is soak up all the money.
Deny it enough money to everybody else, either in total or aggregate, and just eliminate anybody else from having a chance.
The theory being that money is the primary determining factor of who wins in politics.
Same thing on the Democrat side.
Hillary has the fundraising apparatus.
It's been in place for years.
Who knows how much of it she even really has and where it's all come from.
It's been the Jeb Bush political team strategy from the get-go.
And in fact, the Jeb Bush strategy, uh put together with the aid of the Chamber of Commerce and the Republican establishment, encourages a whole lot of Republican nominees.
Well, candidates, a whole bunch of people, as many as possible, divvying up the money, dividing the vote.
Get a bunch of Tea Party people in there, then get some other mainstream conservatives, get some moderates in, whatever it takes, just split it all up, the more the merrier.
Because eventually, they're all going to drop out.
Some are going to drop out before the primaries just don't have the money.
Where are their voters going to go?
That becomes then where the Bush campaign is theorizing they will hoover them up.
Um, the one thing that wasn't factored in all this was Trump.
Back when they put this strategy together, that I mean, nobody was factoring Trump.
And even if they had fact let's let's run a couple models here if Trump runs.
But nobody in any model had Trump doing what he's doing and performing the way he's performing, either in the polls or in terms of electrifying and exciting the base.
But the Bush team, best I've been able to tell, is not even nervous yet.
I mean, some of them are, but overall, they still think their strategy of owning all the state apparatuses, and therefore controlling the delegates, and all of the power that has been built up over all of these decades by the Bush political apparatus is simply unbeatable.
And that all of this is just a show that is going on.
And it explains Jeb's temperament of pretty much flat line, not up or down.
I've even had people say, you know what, Rush?
I don't even think Bush wants to run in this round.
I don't even Jeb Bush doesn't even strike me as somebody's excited about.
certainly doesn't look like he's having fun.
I've had some smart people.
Do you know what, Rush?
I think somebody made him run.
I think whoever runs that whole apparatus, whoever really wants to get their power back in Washington, Jeb's the one that they chose to get it back for him.
But I don't think his heart's in it.
I mean, I'm hearing, you wouldn't believe.
You probably would believe it.
You probably hear much of the same thing, depending on who you talk to.
But despite whatever the plans are, whatever the plans are, they nobody factored Trump.
Nobody could have.
And they are bamboozled by that.
Now, folks, there are other things going on besides this, and I want to touch on a couple of them.
One of them, this to me is big.
This to me is one of the biggest things that I learned today.
And it's in the New York Times.
They headline here, many psychology findings not as strong as claimed.
What this story is about is the fraud of peer review science.
Now, this story is about psychology, studies, psychological studies, psychological magazines where the studies are published, and how fraudulent they are, and how the data doesn't stand up to real world testing and application.
And basically is how phony it all is.
And the reason it's fascinating to me is because I think it's all across the board of science.
I don't think it's limited to psychology what this story is about.
I think I think everything's been so corrupted, science especially by politics.
I think everything is politics.
And it's continues to frustrate me that people I would think could easily see that and spot it, refuse to.
But let me give you the details of this, and you'll see what I'm talking about.
Because by the way, my accuracy rating might now be at 99.9 if the Sullivan group had had this story to factor in, because you've heard all this from me in terms of theory.
The past several years have been bruising ones for the credibility of the social sciences.
A star social psychologist was caught fabricating data.
For those of you in real end, I mean he made it up.
And that led to more than 50 retracted papers.
A top journalist published a study supporting the existence of ESP that was widely criticized.
The journal science pulled a political science paper on the effect of gay canvassers on voters' behavior because of concerns about fake data.
And now, a painstaking years-long effort to reproduce 100 different studies, published in three leading psychology journals, has found that more than half of the findings did not hold up when retested.
The analysis was done by research psychologists, many of whom volunteering their time to double-check what they consider to be important work.
Their conclusions, reported Thursday, yesterday in the Journal Science, have confirmed the worst fears of scientists who have long worried that the field needed a strong correction.
Now, unfortunately, the story doesn't get into specifics, too many specifics about some of the studies that were fraudulent that have been exposed.
But what you can assume here safely so is that the vast majority of what you hear, if you hear from the journal science, from the journal psychology today, it's all bogus.
So much of it is just bogus and totally made up in and the purpose is to affect human behavior.
Science in the American political spectrum, as far as most people are concerned, is authoritative, and it doesn't have any doubters.
Science still is pure to many people.
And that's why so many things having to do with politics are now called science, climate change science, scientists here, scientists there, medical science here, medical wear white lab coat, you are automatically assumed to be objective, honest, and certainly not a fraud.
Now, these these studies that were vetted by this psychological team that tested them were considered part of the core knowledge by which scientists understand the dynamics of personality, relationships, learning, and memory.
Therapists and educators rely on such findings to help guide decisions, and the fact that so many of these studies were called into question could sow doubt in the scientific underpinnings of their work.
Folks, I'm from nutrition to psychology to climate change to global warming to flacking.
What has been exposed here is that science is no different than anything else in politics.
It is totally determined by money.
Scientific result can be purchased.
And once scientific result, be it in the social sciences, be it in climate science, be it medical science, be it in behavioral, whatever, when you can buy the result you want, we no longer have science, we have corrupt politics.
And it's safe to say that the vast majority of what suffices as politics, science, whatever in our system today has been corrupted to one degree or another by money.
And it is why I think something like Trump happens.
I I think that so many people in the country have lost faith in so many institutions they used to trust.
They may not be able to tell you why specifically, they may not be able to point their finger at something and say, I used to be able to believe it because of this, and now I don't because of this.
They just know it's not right.
And they're not wrong.
They know that there is a private, powerful, elite group of people, maybe not even so private, we may know who they are, but they have such total control over things, they're able to rig there is even some of the insiders themselves are able to spot this this thing and not the fact that the game is rigged.
But the point is, so little appears to be genuine and real anyway.
This is why I think so many people are frightened.
You add to it the specifics, the economy is rotten, the healthcare system has been blown to smithereens, the nation's leadership worldwide is now doubted.
We do not have any control over our southern border.
People appear to be willing and able to let this country be shrunken, damaged, weakened, and without even knowing the specifics.
They know it's happening and they sense it, and they don't want it to, and they're scared by it, and anybody who can come along and claim that's why story after story today about the Trump phenomenon, all these learned pundits, journalists are writing shocked stories, such as, you know, issues are not even a part of the Trump campaign.
We're all demanding that Trump get specific, but the thing is his voters don't care.
It's not even about, of course, it's not about issues, it's about an attitude.
It's about an overall perception that the country is under attack and nobody's defending it.
And there's a lot of unease about it.
So this story comes from the New York Times today, validating how much social science, psychological science, let's add nutritional, medical, what has been corrupted, people already know it.
And they're desperate to stop it.
It's no more complicated than right and wrong, good versus evil, best versus worst.
They care about it for themselves, their kids, and their and their grandkids' future.
They know how great the country can be because they've lived it.
They know how great the country can be because they've read about it.
They know it's possible.
They know we're not trending in the greatness direction.
We're going in the opposite direction.
And they can see that while this is happening, a select few are very happy and very wealthy and not bothered at all.
And that doesn't make sense either.
If the country's going to hell in a handbasket, everybody ought to be concerned.
If the country is Losing stature, if the nation's economy is leaking badly, then everybody ought to be concerned, but certain people aren't.
That's noticed too.
And when that's noticed, it's able to put easy to put two and two together.
If some people are not unhappy by what's happening here, then they must be benefiting from it.
Personally, somehow, that creates suspicion because that doesn't make any sense.
Nobody in their right mind would want the greatest engine of freedom in the course of human history to disappear.
Yet some people don't seem to be bothered that that's happening.
Well, that's a problem.
It doesn't take much people, in terms of specifics may not be all that informed about everything, but they certainly understand trends, feelings, and what they can see and what they can see isn't great.
Here comes Trump or anybody like him coming along and promising to put a stop to this and re-engineer greatness.
The people of this country know who who makes it work and who doesn't.
They know who's the bottom feeders are, and they and I'm not talking about welfare recipients.
They know who the people are in charge of the levers, benefiting the outcome of events for themselves.
Takes power to do that.
Not talking about people on entitlement.
That's a symptom.
So it all makes sense.
So much of it's fake.
Being lied to left and right in order to secure our support for something that's fraudulent.
Or, if not that, just to keep everybody confused, just to keep everybody on edge, just to keep everybody suspicious.
You have a country found under the concepts of the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness.
And happiness seems to be more and more elusive for more and more people.
And it's not the way it should be.
So there's this natural degree of suspicion and concern.
But the real key is when some people seem very happy that all this is going on.
That's the real red flag that makes people think something's not right here.
That we're not all in it together.
And they want to put a stop to it.
That's what's happening.
And the power base structure in both parties is insulated from that and seems to be not interested in helping people make any of that happen, this return to national greatness.
Instead, people who think we need to return to national greatness are impued, laughed at, made fun of.
They're fringe, they're cooks, they're dumb, they don't know what they're talking about.
Tea Party, what have you?
Just fuels their fire even more.
Have to take a brief time out, my friends, but you are next as we head back to the phones when we get back.
Don't go away.
Open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Jason, Sunbury, Pennsylvania.
Glad you waited.
You're up next, sir.
Hello.
Yeah, hello, Rush.
Uh uh longtime listener, first-time caller.
Um I've been uh going like uh ecstatic over how all the Republicans in the establishment are bleeding blue over Trump.
Like case in point, up in New Hampshire where Jeb Bush was crying that why is everybody going after him?
I've been a conservative forever.
They don't get it.
Uh are you asking me why that is?
Oh, well, what's your thoughts on that?
On on on what specifically?
Well, the the the the the like the disconnect between the establishment and Republican Party, because they they assume that everyone who likes Trump is a low info uh voter.
Well, this actually precedes this attitude of the elites what inside the Beltway establishment uh ruling class, or whatever name you want to use for them, this precedes Trump.
Now, in my in my 27 years of doing this, and I was thinking about this the other day.
How is has this changed and I'm just late to the party in seeing it?
I I mean let me rephrase that.
Has this always been the way it is, or am I just late to the party in seeing this?
Or is this something new?
Is this divide?
Because well, the way reason I ask it this way is I I know full well that back during the 80s, the establishment of the Republican Party despised Reagan before he was elected, and even afterwards, they were embarrassed of him.
I mean, they quietly supported him.
I mean, you you you know, human nature is everybody wants to bask in the in the glowing light of victory.
So Reagan had his suck-ups, and he had his groupies that were some of them members of the establishment and so forth, but they couldn't wait to get to his second term and take over.
So it's not new in that sense, but what aspects of it are worse than they've been, since I have been paying attention in that focused way.
And I think it is different and worse.
Let me explain what I mean when we get back.
Don't go away, folks.
Look, here's the bottom line.
In the 27 years that I've been doing this program, I have never seen the Republican Party, the establishment itself, I mean the RNC, more hostile to its base.
And that sank somebody, it was hostile to its base in 2010.
It's been hostile to its base a lot.
It was hostile to the base, you know, back in the 80s with Ronald Reagan.
But you go back to 1992, 93, that campaign where the Republicans won the House for the first time in 40 years, that was that the Republican base that pulled that up.
It was not, it was Newt Gingrich's backbencher.
Uh he would he was part of the Republican minority, obviously, in the House.
I mean, he was part of the Bob Michael minority.
Newt's days go back to when the Republicans couldn't even count 200 members.
I mean, it's sometimes barely 150 at times.
It was a monumental achievement.
It was, it was aided, of course, by dramatic shifts in the media and a bunch of Democrat scandals like the House Bank and uh and the House Post Office.
But it wasn't long after that freshman Clemen, who's still there from that freshman class, for example.
I mean, Boehner, John Kasich, Dick Army, all these names that you knew.
Look at what became of them.
As uh as they were there, they moderated, they became less and less conservative as as time went on, because they lived inside the beltway, worked inside the beltway, and no matter what else you want to say, the establishments, and primarily the liberal establishment run that town.
But the hostility that exists today, I think is more open than I've ever seen it.
And I have never until recently believed that the Republican Party would actually favor losing and define it as winning, as I think they do today.
I think the Republican Party would be happy to lose even a couple elections if they could get rid of what is now known as the conservative base.
Now, explaining why, you know, that's such a violation of common sense.
Why in the world would a party want to wash its hands of the people who secure it victory?
Well, I'm sorry, this is above my pay grade.
I mean, I can give you some reasons, but none of them make any sense to me.
Uh until you start talking about attitudes, you know, who's who's elite and who's not, who embarrasses us and who does not, who do we want in our club and who do we not want in their club, and why don't we want them in the club and this kind of thing?
Uh money has always been a determining factor in politics.
Money has always been the mother's milk of politics.
I'm asking myself, is the pursuit of money personal money, is personal enrichment, seems to be the primary objective of people.
The pattern is you run for office, you get elected, you serve, but who do you serve?
You end up serving So that you're either taken care of while in office or you have a very, very cushy job with a lot of big salary and perks and benefits when you leave.
And that would be K Street and lobbying.
And so in that case, who are you serving?
How do people who arrive in Washington penniless end up leaving multimillionaires?
While they are in office accruing all this.
The fact that the Treasury of the United States is in Washington and there are trillions of dollars there is a huge drawing card for why people want to go.
And it's clear that the Republican Party now has turned over its uh its policies and its its future to donors.
The donors even have a name, not the donor class.
So you have the donor class, you have the base, you have the pundit class, you have this various divisions of the Republican Party.
I never see this take place on the Democrat side, though, is the thing.
It makes this, but I never see the Democrat Party act like or look like it's embarrassed of its base.
And I would be embarrassed of that base if I were a Democrat.
I never see the Democrat Party make a single move to wash their hands of any element of the coalition that votes for them.
I just don't see it.
May happen, may happen behind the scene, but I don't see it.
I I see a party that does everything it can to get votes from virtually every place it can.
And those people that they have decided they'll never get, they seek to destroy.
And that would be us, conservatives.
I mean it when I say I think the Democrat Party considers their greatest enemy to be us, not ISIS, not terrorism, not a genuine foreign threat.
It's us.
They see us as the real threat to their power.
And I think the Republican base sees uh the Republican establishment sees us the same way.
We're the threat to their power, not ISIS, not terrorists, we are.
And as such, we're the ones that have to be attacked and impugned daily, discredited or what have you.
I think there's more and more people are waking up to it now and seeing it for what it is.
And I think the elites have always had a belief that everybody wants to be like them.
Everybody wants to be in their club.
And so everybody did things to try to curry favor with the people in the elites, the ruling class or whatever.
That's changed now.
There is disdain for it.
And I don't think they quite know how to deal with it.
So they're in a state of denial about it.
There's a Peggy Noonan column today.
I wasn't going to mention this for a host of reasons, but I'm going to go ahead and mention it here because it helps to answer the question.
Peggy Noonan, for lack of a better way of mentioning it, is part of this ruling class in Washington.
That is her world.
And it it always has been.
When I first met Peggy Noonan, she said, Oh, you're the guy that has all the truck drivers in his audience, right?
And I said, I'd never heard that one before.
Truck drivers?
And it, by the way, truck drivers in your audience was a put down.
So Peggy left Washington recently.
She's been out there talking to you, people like, and she has been shocked at what she found.
And she's now a believer.
She thinks what's happening outside Washington's real.
The way she describes it today is America is in play, meaning all of this support for Trump, but more than that, all of this opposition to the fixtures of Washington is real.
It's not fringe, it's not tiny.
It's not made up of kooks.
It is more and more mainstream, and she has been stunned.
She writes, she's stunned to learn that there are Hispanics that feel this way, and that there are African Americans who feel this way.
And that there are blacks and Latinos and Asians and you name it.
In other words, inside the beltway, they think all of this anti-Washington stuff is a bunch of conservative fringe kooks.
Peggy went out there, she'd been talking to people, she's traveled the country, and she's found out That it's every demographic under the sun is represented by these people who are unhappy with the leadership that they're getting in all of Washington, not just Republicans, not just Democrats, but the whole shebang.
And she writes as though she's made a discovery that her eyes are open to this now.
And she thinks it's real.
And that means that a lot of other people inside the beltway probably think so too.
So guys' question was about Jeb.
Hey, you know, I'm a conservative too.
Don't the Jeb campaign is not, they're not going to react to any of this.
They're simply relying on the fact that all of this is what has to play out in order for Jeb to get the nomination based on he's going to have all the money.
That's their thinking, that's their strategy.
Oh, Peggy was also shocked to learn that this opposition to Washington isn't based on issues.
It's based on attitude.
It's not based on specifics.
You know, the inside the beltway crowd, come on, Trump, tell us your specifics.
Peggy was shocked to learn they don't matter.
It's gone beyond specifics.
It's gone beyond policy.
It's much greater than it's much more important than that.
This is much more important than just attitudinal.
There is a genuine fear that we are losing the country.
And the people inside the beltway, the furthest thing from their mind is that we're losing the country.
They think that's the silliest thing they've ever heard.
What do you mean losing their country?
We've had the national debt for as long as you had a nation.
Hadn't heard anything?
Don't sweat it.
What deficits doesn't matter.
We got it under control.
Don't worry about it.
They do not understand.
And if you look at the life circumstances, the economy inside the beltway, what's the unemployment rate?
3% there?
What's the average salary there?
I guarantee you it's much higher than it is outside the beltway.
The exact opposite of what the founders intended has happened.
A great divide has existed, has has been created now.
And the people leading and running the country really don't have much in common with the people voting for them.
And some in the beltway are starting to figure it out.
And some when they figure it out, say, well, screw them.
It's not my job to make them understand what I'm doing.
They're not capable of it anyway.
And people are aware of this.
And the anger is genuine and it's real.
And it does span parties and it does stand span ideologies, and it is all demographics.
How big it is remains to be seen.
Openline Friday, Rush Limbaugh.
Give me an example.
There's a story that Peggy Noonan tells in her column.
And the point of the story is that she learns that a Latino, a bunch of Latinos actually like Trump, and she can't believe it.
She's shocked and stunned.
As are some of the Latinos that she's talking to.
They don't believe it.
You see, the Republican Party, stupidly, you talk about inexplicable things.
The Republican Party literally to this day still believes the reason it's not winning the presidency is because it's not getting enough of the Hispanic vote.
And for that reason alone, they keep saying that we need to do amnesty.
And all they're doing is guaranteeing that the Democrat Party is going to own this country.
It's a Democrat Party voter registration drive.
And for the life of me, I'm telling you, they don't see that.
They see it, well, the chamber sees a bunch of low-wage workers, Chamber of Commerce and that bunch.
But the Republicans actually believe that they need Hispanic votes if they're going to win the presidency.
It's the most, it's the biggest disconnect I can say.
So when they when they run into Latinos, Hispanic people support Trump, their world is literally turned upside down.
That just does not compute.
They think every Hispanic hates conservatives.
Conservatism and would probably hate Trump.
They do not, I'm telling you, they do not understand.
Now, how they got off the deep end like this, I haven't the slightest.
Well, I think I think they're falling for Democrat media tricks that have been played perpetually for decades for years.
It's just become conventional wisdom.
It's it's one of the most amazing political tricks the Democrats have played that and if it's not that, then it's the Republicans just are not really Republicans.
They just call themselves that.
That's the only other way to explain this.
And I don't think that's the case.
Uh I wish I had a couple more hours on this today because it's well as deep in this as you wanted to go, but time is going to prevent that, and I gotta get back to the phones.
This is Dominic.
We have a ten-year-old from Lumberton, New Jersey on the phone.
It's held for quite a while.
Dominic how are you, sir?
I'm very well, thank you, Rush.
You're you.
I'm I'm actually doing great.
Thank you very much.
I'm glad that you called and got through.
I wanted to thank I wanted to thank you for writing those books.
I really love them.
I know my friends love them and all that.
And I love your CDs too.
I only read three of the books.
I don't have the other one, not yet, at least.
And I I also I love the episode that you were in on Family Guy.
Your parents let you watch that.
Yes.
I watched it, yeah.
I I like it very much.
Well, thank you very much.
I knew there was a reason, a good reason to do that show.
Yeah.
Um what now I wasn't my mom.
Dominic, which book is it that you don't have?
Because I want to send it to you.
Is it the most recent one?
Uh yeah.
Okay.
So when we finish here, I need you not to hang up so that the nice the nice lady you talk to can get your address so I can send well, we'll send you a package of of things here, Dominic, because you're you're a great guy.
And uh you are, and if you and I'm so flattered that you like these books, and I'm so flattered that you're you're reading them and learning from them.
It makes my day.
Mm-hmm.
And I I love mo my I want to say hi to my parents because I know they're watching.
And can you and my d my grandfather, my papa up here, wants to talk to you if he can.
Sure.
Sure.
I've got about a minute.
Haven't put them on real quick.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
This is Terry from Northumberland, Pennsylvania.
I just want to say uh well, I've been following you for years and years.
I'm 77 years old.
We really like you.
Well, I thank you very much.
I really I appreciate I thank you.
I thank you very much for saying that.
Yeah, and I'm glad my grandson got through.
I really appreciate Rush.
Well, he sounds really cool, Terry.
He sounds like he sounds like a really really sounds like he's older than ten to me.
Sounds like he's really really Yeah, he's ten, but he's like ten going twenty.
Sounds like it.
Sounds like it.
Here, I want you to talk to Dominic again, please.
Okay, put him back on real quickly.
Dominic, thank you again.
Now remember, don't hang up, son, so we can get your address and send these books to you, okay.
Okay.
Thank you for letting me be on the show.
No, thank you for calling.
And you have have a great have a great weekend, Dominic.
Go Trump.
Okay.
Go Trump.
Back in a second after this.
Well, the National Weather Service wild guess makes it look like whatever this tropical storm Eric is gonna do, it's gonna miss us.
As of now.
But I don't think they really know.
The point is we will be here Monday, regardless.
So you have a great weekend, folks, and trust that we get back here revved and ready to go first day next week.
Look forward to it.
It's an honor to be with you.
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