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Sept. 2, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 2, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Alright, I've done series now.
Keep keep audio sound bites uh two, three, let's see four, five, six standing by.
I've had the broadcast engineer standing by for two hours on those sound, but I haven't gotten to them yet.
And I intend to in this segment.
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All right, the Trump stack here, haters for Trump mentioned it earlier, politico.
They think Donald Trump's ideas are disgusting.
They think he is making a mockery of the American political system, and that even he doesn't take his own candidacy seriously.
And that's exactly why they say they plan to vote for him.
Meet the Trump protest voters.
People who in the past might have gone to the polls only to register their disdain for politicians by writing in Mickey Mouse.
Or perhaps even Donald Trump.
They now have a Republican front runner to rally around.
Like many sincere Trump supporters, they believe the system's totally screwed up, but instead of viewing Trump as the solution, they say Trump is the embodiment of the problem.
And they say they're prepared to vote for him to prove it.
So you remember folks, you've heard them call this program over the years.
Back in 1992.
Hey Rush, you know what?
Let's just go ahead and let Clinton.
Just let's just hell with it.
We don't want Bush anyway.
We want Clinton.
Let's show the country how damn bad the Democrats are, right?
Let's see.
Teach people.
You just teach people how rotten Democrats are.
The country go to hell in a handbasket, and we'll get rid of the Democrats forever after people see that.
That's what the politico says the Trump support is mostly made of.
Honest to God, the political today says that Trump supporters is made up of people who hate him.
And they're gonna ho they hope he wins so that you find out what a nutcase he is.
They hope he wins so that you find out how stupid you are for supporting him.
They hope he wins because he has no idea what he's doing.
He's gonna destroy the country, and these people want the country destroyed so you will see how stupid you are.
Man, from the broadsides you're getting from the conservative intellectuals and how politico, you people are surrounded out there.
It seems like the whole world thinks that you are idiots.
At least the whole political establishment in this country thinks you're an abject fools.
Did the politico, by the way, just ask you here, did politico ever do articles about all the conservatives who voted for Obama?
Did the political ever do stories about all the conservatives who stayed at home because they wanted the country to finally see what damage would be inflicted by four years of a Democrat for No, they never have done that story.
We've done it here, but they never have.
You know what?
People are fed up.
I'm telling you.
How many times do conservatives have to hear supposedly one of their own, the esteemed David Brooks, say that he knows Obama's gonna be great because of the crease in his pants.
Are you kidding?
This is the stuff we're supposed to take and learn from.
This is what our brilliant geniuses on the right actually think.
After having dinner with Obama at George Will's house, David Brooks wrote that the crease in his pants convinced him that he had what it took or takes to be a great president.
People out here, people of our country say, are you kidding me?
And that is said to be superior to us.
That is genius.
Sorry.
Or, you know, I just had dinner with Obama.
I think we can work with a guy.
You know what?
He's actually very, very smart.
Meanwhile, I'm out there saying I hope he fails.
And I'm I don't know, folks.
I just this is just so easy to explain.
And yet look, look at the literal lunacy that people are reaching for to try to explain it.
Well, I mentioned this earlier in the program too.
You've all I'm gonna read some stuff here from Victor Davis Hanson, PJ Media, how illegal immigration finally turned off the public.
This is nothing you haven't heard.
It's nothing you don't know.
It's nothing you haven't said yourself.
It's nothing you haven't felt.
But I still want to share with you excerpts from this because it will help to coalesce what you instinctively know.
And let me give you a pull quote from the piece.
The truth is that the illegal immigration lobby was its own worst enemy.
Its message couched in racism, illegality, untruth, and finally incoherence.
People are just tired of being called racists by racial chauvinists.
They're tired of being dubbed insensitive by unfeeling opportunists.
And they're tired of being called politically naive by political manipulators.
If there were not a Donald Trump, he would likely have to have been invented.
Because the anti-illegal immigration movement is so large.
Here's how the piece starts.
Why did the illegal immigration issue launch Trump's campaign?
Why did his recent tense press conference with Jorge Remos please even some of Trump's liberal critics?
What is it about illegal immigration that has finally turned off so many Americans?
Number one, race.
Over the years, immigration activists successfully deconstructed the complex issue of illegal immigration into a race and class morality tale of privileged whites picking on poor brown people.
The operative buzzwords were racism, nativism, xenophobia.
That theme is now mostly bankrupt, given that every great lie eventually falls from its own weight.
It was rarely the host, but more often the activists on behalf of the guests who framed illegal immigration in racial terms.
Activists foolishly fabricated the controversy as we noble Latinos against you prejudiced non-Latinos.
They forgot apparently two obvious truths.
One, 30% of Americans are not so-called white, and two, most people resent ethnic chauvinism.
Is an unemployed African American sympathetic to the argument somebody has a birthright to illegally cross into the U.S. and illegally find instant employment?
What makes that person so damn special?
Is what people think and ask.
Is a Punjabi American waiting patiently for his engineer cousin to get a green card?
Is he eager to be told the United States must make special concessions to the Latino lobby?
Does a third-generation Mexican American prefer that his neighborhood screw and emergency room be flooded with indigent, illegal Mexican nationals?
I mean, the question is, who in the world do these people think is gonna open their arms and welcome all of this?
And when it isn't welcomed, they'd be called racist nativists, xenophobes.
Sometime in the last five years, the public woke up and grasped that Latino elite activists were not so much interested in illegal immigration per se, but only to the degree that the issue affected other Latinos.
Were 3,000 Chinese illegally entering California per day by ship on the Northern California coast, Latino activists and politicians would probably be the first to call for enforcement of federal immigration law.
It is difficult for the National Council of La Raza to attempt to airbrush away vocabulary like anchor baby and The illegal immigration while insisting that its own nomenclature, La Raza, has nothing to do with race.
By the way, La Raza means the race.
The public knows that La Raza means the race, and that those who founded that organization chose that racially charged noun for the precise purpose of ethnic triumphalism in the way that every infamous 20th-century Latinate racist demagogue from Mussolini to Franco found a use for Raza Raza, mostly taboo term in Mediterranean Europe today.
Victor Davis Hansen is a scholar on the Peloponnesian wars and Greek culture and so forth.
Number two is the law.
What is it about illegal immigration that's finally turned off so many Americans?
One race, number two, the law.
The old canard that without the law there's nothing did not resonate with voters in connection with illegal immigration until the 21st century.
As long as there were only one or two million illegal immigrants, apparently the public turned a blind eye, but no longer.
Extremists took legal noncompliance to an entirely new level of Orwellian arrogance.
Suddenly, as if by fiat, the illegal immigration lobby banned the term illegal alien as if they had never read a word of 1984 or Animal Farm.
They dreamed up sanctuary city, a reactionary neo-Confederate idea of legal nullification whose logical trajectory is the implosion of the entire idea of federal law.
Oh, my God.
People aren't just going to sit around and put up with this.
They're not going to be told federal law's worthless and meaningless.
The rule of law doesn't exist.
And if you agree with that or disagree with that, shut up, you're a racist.
They're just not going to take it forever.
Number three, third reason why the illegal immigration issue has finally turned off so many Americans is Mexico itself.
Mexico itself has become quite unpopular.
According to recent polls, never have Americans had more negative views of Mexico than during the era of Obama.
Americans tired of being told that Mexico did not like the U.S. when the real truth was increasingly the opposite.
It's not just the daily news of cartels and beheadings and corruption that made Mexico unattractive, but the cynicism of the Mexican government itself.
Mexico and Central American nations receive $50 billion a year from citizens in the United States, foreign aid and other kinds of assistance.
And these same people are called racists and xenophobes.
If illegal aliens were impoverished and exploited, as their home countries alleged, how could they transfer such monumental sums back home?
Why would not their mother countries worry about the ensuing burdens placed upon their low-wage-earning citizens abroad?
The point here is that if it's so bad, how come they're sending so much money back to Mexico of what they earn?
Hypocrisy became synonymous with the idea of Mexico.
Its constitution defines illegal immigration in racialist and chauvinist terms, and it basically doesn't permit it.
And yet Mexico lobbies, teaches, instructs its own citizens how to illegally immigrate to the United States.
People know it, they're fed up with it.
Number four reason politics, the Obama age, progressive political narrative, was that an old, too white America was changing largely due to immigration, and that this was a much needed antidote to all of those years of oppressive white privilege.
Activists proudly pointed to California and New Mexico, suddenly solidly blew politics and promised that Texas, Colorado, and Nevada were soon to follow.
They even warned that their success with illegal immigration would doom Republicans, unless the Republicans emulated their strat.
This, I think, I think this was the one that broke the campbell's back.
If you want to know the truth, folks, because I I respect and always have the intelligence of those of you in this audience.
And there's not a moment of condescension here.
Not real condescending.
There may be moments of satire in parody.
But I think, despite what Mr. Hanson here has written, I think the straw that broke the camel's back here back in 2007.
And there are many, but it's not just one.
He's writing here that there are six reasons for it.
But when you began to note that your own party was falling for this insane idea, that the only way it could ever win the White House was to emulate the Democrats on illegal immigration.
That was it.
There was no way you were ever going to be convinced of that.
That was absurd.
It was silly.
It remains absurd.
It remains silly to this day.
Mitt Romney, had he gotten 70% of the Hispanic vote would have still lost the presidency.
But beyond that, everybody who's even paying halfway attention knows full well that illegal immigration is nothing more than a voter registration drive for the Democrat Party.
And people who have been donating to the Republican Party for all these years can't figure out why the Republicans don't see that.
And then if they conclude that the Republican Party does see that and is still embarking on this effort to support amnesty and illegal immigration, then the obvious conclusion is what are they worth to us?
How can they possibly be representing us if they think the only way they can succeed is to be like Democrats?
Really?
Are you telling me the only way you people in the Republican Party can win is if you agree with a massive Democrat Party voter registration drive called illegal immigration?
The next thing that people began to realize was that we're not even talking about immigration.
There's no immigration policy being followed here.
There are no immigration protocols being followed here.
This is an invasion.
We're being overwhelmed at the southern border.
And after so many years of the invasion, people throw their hands up and say there's nothing we can do here.
We've got to grant them amnesty.
That's the only thing we can do.
We've welcomed them.
They've got jobs, they're living in the shadows, and people say, screw you!
The hell with that.
You create the problem rather than prevent them from coming here.
And then you tell us you're going to promise border security, but you never do.
Then you tell us there has to be amnesty because of compassion.
We're not talking immigration anymore.
Immigration is made up of people who have been in line for years.
They're filling out the forms, they're doing everything the law requires.
And not nearly enough of those people are getting in.
There's a whole host of reasons here why this is happening.
And the idea that it is the Republican-based, the average ordinary America is too stupid to understand what's going on here.
Back after this.
One more thing, there's a bunch of more things.
The Trump candidacy, the elements of the Trump support are even more than illegal immigration.
But illegal immigration may be, I don't want to deny this the foundation for things here.
And that scares the bejesus out of these established people.
Remember now, Trump was supposed to have disqualified himself with his announcement.
That was supposed to be the end to Trump.
Remember after his announcement, they're all laughing.
Oh, what a great comedy routine.
This guy just said it every Mexican's a criminal, a rapist and so forth.
And in Mexicans, he was supposed to be finished, and he didn't get.
He blew up, he expanded, he launched like a Saturn V rocket, and they have been discombobulated ever since.
The McCain comment was supposed to destroy him.
The Meghan Kelly TIFF was supposed to end it.
He's supposed to have destroyed himself three or four times.
He should have destroyed himself by calling Wiener a perv.
You just don't do that in polite politics.
He just keeps growing more popular.
And as that happens, the resentment for it all deepens.
But it's it's about much more than illegal immigration.
There's a lot tied up into this.
These people are investing a lot of they're investing, they're investing a lot in Trump.
And I hope, I really hope he has an idea.
I hope, I hope he understands just how much hope now people are investing in him.
And it isn't because of conservatism, and it isn't because of this principle or that principle.
It's about something far more than that to the people that are getting jazzed and excited about this.
And you can sit there from the ivory towers of the beltway and you can impugn and you can mock people who think they're losing the country.
You can mock them and you can laugh at them and you can tell jokes about how they're a bunch of paranoid kooks.
But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
Being paranoid doesn't disqualify your fear.
And I'm not even calling it paranoia.
I'm saying it's real, and I understand it.
I don't see how the Beltway people can't after the last seven years.
This isn't politics as usual here.
We've just secured Iran getting a nuclear bomb for crying out.
Does anybody really know what that means?
And back to the phones.
Michael in Atlanta.
I'm uh glad you waited.
Appreciate your patience.
How are you doing?
I am doing excellent.
Rush, thank you for taking my call, sir.
You know, you you are known as the godfather of talk radio, the great messiah of truth.
Well.
And I I I understand why you don't do television shows.
But have you ever considered hosting a debate?
Well, um, no, I haven't.
And do you really want are you did do you want to know why, or you just want me to be kind of jocular and funny here?
Are you being serious?
Oh, oh, no.
I I am being serious.
I mean, with the way these debates have gone off lately, Monica Crowley jumping on the other side, the way they attack people.
I I'd like to actually hear.
Monica Crowley jumping on the other side.
So what did I miss there?
What do you mean Monica Crowley jumped on the other side?
I think it was Crowley, uh, or Crowley, the one that did with Mitt and Ann O'Connor.
Oh, that that was Candy Crowley Crowley.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There you go.
But I think question is just really hit at home with people.
Uh okay.
Why don't I do TV?
Um I explained a little bit of this last week when I had a guy call about my hearing.
There are one, two, the the number one reason why I don't do television, honestly now, I beg you to understand me, I don't collaborate.
And I I do not colla I've never had a meeting to do this show.
I do not have to tell one person at any time what I'm gonna do on this program.
I don't have to decide, I don't have to lay it all out before I do it.
I can do it as it comes to me.
I can do it improv, I can do it ad lib, nothing's written down, there's no time that I have to do this or do that, and have to don't tell 15 people when I'm gonna do it, no meetings.
I I I did a TV show for four years, and every 22-minute show took three hours of meetings.
And it just you know, it took me a while to even get into it.
But I've just I've just learned I'm not a collaborator.
I work alone, and and a television show cannot be done the way I do a radio show, because you need a cameraman or two, and you need a floor director, and you need somebody back there inserting video clips, but they have to come in the order that you plan them.
You can't spontaneously do anything on a TV show if you're well, yeah, you have to wear makeup, you have to wear long pants, you have to choke yourself wearing a collar and a tie.
I mean, I just no, he said, he said, why don't I do TV?
And then he said, Have you ever thought about monitoring a debate?
Wait a second.
Michael, did you say that you understand why I don't TV, or did you ask me why I don't TV?
No, I understand why you don't have to be able to do that.
Well, I'm sorry, I just wasted all this time with an answer you already knew.
Okay, the debate.
Um the reason I I never have imagined I would ever ask be asked to moderate one.
I don't think it would ever happen.
I'm not going to tell you why it wouldn't happen because I just don't want to put that out there, but uh it it's So you feel you would have to be asked to moderate one.
It's not one that you could actually uh seek out the the nominee.
Oh, so you're suggesting why don't I per like do a pay per view type program up on a uh cable or satellite uh channel and charge like 99 cents and invite the candidates and do a debate that I sponsor on television, right?
Exactly, because I think that's the only way real truth of what these candidates stand for would come out.
Because you because you think I will get out of them what they really think.
You think I will not let them get away with being politicians.
Is that what you're thinking?
Well, and I also don't think that you would be attacking them and try to smear them.
You'd let them put their own foot in their mouth all by themselves just by the questions you pose.
That's my thought on it.
I mean, they they they can't understand why Donald Trump's not a conservative, but if Bush and McConnell and Baehner and Mitt Romney are the epitome of conservatives, I can see why Don McDonald Trump's not a conservative.
Isn't that amazing?
These guys who are not conservatives running around lecturing us on Trump not being a conservative.
But you know, it's the same thing about Donald Trump being a Democrat, even if he was.
After the last eight years of this administration, how can you call yourself a Democrat?
Well, I can't I can't refute that.
But I think what I don't think people care what Trump's calling himself.
I don't think people care that he donated to Hillary or he she went to his wedding or any of that.
They trust what he's saying.
That's why I hope he understands the the the hope and the trust people are putting in him because they're giving him a big pass on things.
It's it's a uh you know he why'd you donate to Hillary?
I had to.
I live in New York.
I gotta I gotta donate to Democrats.
Um that's I do business here, it's the way politics is, is one of the reasons I'm running, I want to blow all that up.
Okay, people believe that.
It better be true.
Um so I I I hope uh I have no way of knowing one way or the other.
My instincts are that Trump knows exactly what's happening here.
Um I hope he respects it.
I I hope he understands that that what people are investing in him is pretty special because they mean it.
They're they're dead serious about things that are happening, going wrong.
No, it's lost in my own debate.
Um, I know they'd all show up.
That's I'm not I'm not I'm not worried that nobody would show up if I invited candidates to do a debate.
I'm not that's not I'm I wouldn't do it.
I wouldn't do it to make money on it.
I'm sure I could too.
If there were a prophet here, it would be donated to charity.
That's not I can't answer this question, honestly.
People won't understand it.
Let me tell you something, folks, it's it's real simple.
If if I moderate a debate, who do you think is gonna end up dominating it?
Who do you think is uh Well, no, I'm not but I just I can't I'm sorry, I can't answer this question honestly because it would disappoint so many of you if I were to answer this question honestly.
Okay.
Anyway, it's in it in gonna I I'll never be asked to moderate a debate or or or participate in one.
It won't it won't happen.
Um and I frankly, I've never thought about doing one of my own.
I haven't.
Now that's on the table, who knows.
Anyway, Michael, thanks for stirring it up.
I appreciate it, by the way.
I'm taking I I'm not I'm not diminishing your uh request or taking it lightly.
I appreciate it.
I really do.
This is Ashley, Kansas City, Missouri.
You're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
How are you today?
I'm great, thank you.
How are you doing?
I'm doing well.
First off, I just want to say I love you to death.
And just I thank God for you every day.
I've been a Rush Baby since 2003.
And I just wanted to know what do you think of Donald Trump on 19?
My first election.
And in 2012, I worked for Romney.
Now it's disappointing that he did not win.
And um, what do you just think of um Trump?
Well, let me first uh are you asking, are you alarmed by Trump?
Are you in are you encouraged?
Are you uh uh thinking of supporting him?
Are you alarmed?
What's your attitude about it?
Um I was supporting him, but after I heard his election and his debate, I I felt like he shot himself in the foot.
What do you think of him?
Well, uh there are many answers to this.
Now you've I I I know that I know Donald personally.
I've played golf with him, and uh he's he's uh he's just a flat out nice guy, and he is who he is.
If you play golf with him at his golf course, the whole time you hear how it's the greatest golf course ever, that there isn't anything even close.
When he hits a great shot, he'll tell you nobody plays the game better than he does.
That's it's who he is, and you laugh yourself, silly.
None of it's offensive, none of it's off putting.
And he'll ask, you ever seen a shot like that?
I want I saw this well, last time I played with Trump, it's the first hole.
It's a par five.
I think it's his course here.
Yeah, we're playing par five T box.
And he's got he hits the ball a mile.
Trump hits the ball 300 yards.
Trump is before I played with him, I had people, he lies about his handicap rush.
He's nowhere near a six.
Well, the day I played with him, he was a six.
He was a six handicap, and he played to it.
He's booming the ball off the T. He holed out from 120 yards after saying he was going to.
And uh, you know, it's it just uh he's a funny person.
I think the reason people are attracted to him right now is that he's real.
He isn't phony.
He's not politically correct, and he's fearless.
He's not afraid to tell people what he actually thinks about other people or things.
And he's not worried about the reaction that people have to it.
He's just gonna go ahead and be who he is.
He's one of these people that really he embodies the idea that you attract the kind of people you are.
And that you should not be a phony to try to attract certain people, try to be like the people you want to attract, it never works.
He just is who he is.
And whoever doesn't like him, their problem.
Whoever does, fine, they're in the inner circle.
And he's not bothered by not being liked.
He's not doesn't worry about it.
He doesn't get his uh nose out of joint.
Unlike Bill Clinton, if he goes into a room with a hundred people and there's one of them that doesn't like him, that's the whole time he spends with that person is trying to convert him.
Trump doesn't care.
Uh at least at least outwardly.
He doesn't seem to have these uh normal everyday insecurities.
Uh in an era of the chickification and the feminization of the male population.
Trump's a man.
He's unafraid to be masculine.
I think that has a lot of people, including women standing up and cheering.
I think Trump's support goes beyond ideological boundaries or lines and so forth.
But more than that, I think I think the Trump candidacy has don't know if it's gonna work, but it it has a great opportunity to totally blow political correctness sky high.
Trump is showing that you can thrive and win, survive, be loved, be supported by being politically incorrect, quote unquote.
Trump is showing that the things the Republican Party's afraid of are baseless.
They don't need to be afraid.
Don't need to be afraid of telling the truth about immigration.
They don't need to be afraid, like the Republican Party obviously is.
So I think there's all kinds of potential value to a Trump candidacy in terms of reforming the American political system.
I don't want that to say it's I'm not trying to make it bigger than it is.
But there's definite potential here.
I haven't made up my mind.
It's way too soon.
There's too much to happen that can no way we can know.
Since I don't have a candidate yet, I have respect for a lot of these people.
I have like for a whole lot of them.
We've got some incredible people on our side seeking the office here.
And they're all decent.
Just plain old, decent, great human beings.
Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina is uh obviously solid citizen, reliable person.
Marco Rubio, you won't find a better person.
You would these people you'd all love to go to dinner with them, hang out, watch a football game, baseball game, whatever.
They're all just great quality people, and I don't have distrust, I don't have suspicions of ulterior motives with any of them.
Well, maybe.
I'm going to remind myself, but you got to remind me tomorrow to tell you about the Trump Easter Sunday golf course story.
Okay.
Just remind me to pass that one on tomorrow.
The ladies will be amused by it.
They'll like it.
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