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Sept. 8, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 8, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Well, yeah, that's true.
You know, I should have added the um the photo of the three-year-old boy, the infant on the beach.
That photo is largely responsible for Germany and other countries flinging open their borders here.
And that photo had nothing to do with refugees.
The photo had nothing to do with people fleeing hunger or strife or war or any of that.
It was just a guy heading into Turkey for dental treatment on his boat because it's a convoluted story, but it was it was cheaper.
And the boat that he was on capsized.
Everybody in his family died except him.
There were 12 people on the boat.
But that picture is largely responsible for this massive crisis.
And it's interesting to point out here that no rich Arab countries at all are taking any of these refugees.
Well, I'll tell you why that matters.
The Washington Post has been forced to report over the weekend that not a single one of these oil-rich Arab states is taking in any refugees.
None are going to Kuwait.
None are going to Saudi Arabia.
None are going to the United Emirates, which is uh Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
None are going to Bahrain.
None are going to Qatar.
None are going to Oman.
Why is that?
I mean, these are all wealthy oil states.
And they have plenty of money for everybody and everything.
And if it's genuinely a refugee crisis and it's people fleeing strife and hunger and thirst and war and everything, well.
Why and if if many of them are indeed Muslims, why shouldn't these oil-rich states take them in?
And it's because that's not where they want them.
What is the point of invading a country that's already Muslim?
That's that's that's this whole thing is a massive invasion.
And I'll tell you, I uh I shouldn't, I don't know how to quite explain this because it's a television show, and I am so reluctant to describe television shows as real life, particularly scripted dramas.
However, I came across a show that's produced in Denmark, and it's it's all in uh um the language they speak there, it's in Danish.
And it's subtitled with uh with English.
Three seasons, ten episodes each is 30 episodes.
And the name of the show is is called Borgan.
That's the English pronunciation.
I'm not sure how the Danes pronounce it, but it stands for Castle, and it is their version of Parliament.
That's what they call their Capitol Building, B-O-R-G-E-N.
Founded on iTunes.
I had no idea, never heard of it.
So I looked at it, and it's it's exactly it is exactly what you would think.
One of these Western socialist democracies is like.
The men have all been neutered.
It is amazing.
The women are the dominant decision-making class.
It has a lone conservative figure who is made out to be a fat comical buffoon.
He's also made out to be a party of one.
This guy does such things as to show that animals have no relationship to human beings.
He's a pig farmer, too.
So he picks up a little piglet and cuts its tail off on live TV.
Uh to explain how pig farming is done.
Whereas the other parties are attempting to explain how that's inhumane, and this guy's insufferable, and so forth.
I'm off the beaten path.
Point here is that every season here, they it's it's about politics and the prime minister and the race for power in Denmark, and it mirrors images here in this country.
Global warming, energy, immigration, refugee status, and so forth.
And Denmark uh there was a there was an episode in this couple of episodes in this series about uh the various parties fiercely debating whether or not to open their borders to refugees.
It's It's three years old now.
It's not current.
It was 2010, 2011, 2012, I think.
But to me, it it matched every impression I have of what these current Western social democracies are.
And Denmark's even in the news about this today, in terms of the refugee status, and it's kind of surprising because Denmark is asking refugees not to show up.
The Danish governments placed an advertisement in a number of newspapers in Lebanon.
The ads carry an unspoken yet unmistakable image.
Do not come to Denmark.
The advertisement lists a number of factors that would make Denmark an undesirable destination for refugees, including recent legislation that would reduce social benefits to arriving refugees by 50%.
This kind of stuff that was debated on this TV show about this country that I watched, except it was the exact opposite.
They wanted to open the borders.
They wanted to welcome anybody that came in.
Anybody that wanted to come to them was fine.
Get on the well.
They proudly advertised and talked about themselves as a welfare state.
It was the greatest.
It was true to form about what we know of Denmark.
It was just, it was fascinating to watch it, particularly since it's a couple three years old, but related to issues currently happening now.
And I was, as an aside, I was I was really struck by the way men are portrayed throughout this series.
Chickified, dumbed down, afraid of themselves, afraid to speak.
It was kind of – it was funny, frustrating stuff.
All kinds of things rolled into one.
But the way it relates is that in this show, they were debating this very thing that is happening now, wasn't happening on nearly as large a scale.
But the real point again is, you know, Germany's going to take in 800,000.
800,000 of these they're just going to tell you because of that photo, it's one of the factors.
But none of the oil-rich Arab states that are nearby are welcoming any of these refugees in at all, just like no Arab state wants the Palestinians to make a part of their country home.
None of the Arab states want anything to do with the Palestinians.
The Palestinians are perfectly fine right where they are, dealing with the Israelis in a never-ending quest for peace in that region.
And again, all of this is happening because the United States has pulled out of these areas because Barack Obama was of the belief that we were the destabilizing agent.
If you grow up and you're taught that the U.S. is illegitimate and immoral from the days of its founding, and that its superpower status is undeserved, that it's the result not of any superior achievement or superior form of government or liberty or freedom of any of that, any, or any of that.
If you if you believe the United States is a superpower because it has simply taken things that it has not any right to, if you believe the United States is a bully, if you believe the U.S. has tried to dictate terms all over the world, then you would think the U.S. is the problem in the world, not the solution.
We, of course, think the United States is the solution.
But people like Obama, David Cameron of the UK do not.
So they they believe getting us out of these areas will allow the natural decency and goodness that exists in all of these countries to surface.
And that we will have a beautiful And wonderful world.
And that they will get accolades.
The people of the world will love them for finally recognize what a bunch of mistakes the United States has made all of these decades.
And instead, it's the exact opposite.
Losing itself.
It is on the verge of losing its identity.
The collapse of national borders is making this migration or invasion even easier.
And there's nothing that can be done about it.
I mean, they've opened their borders, they've opened the gates, they've welcomed people in, and they can't afford them.
And there will not be any assimilation.
And the evidence of all of this to me is the fact that all of these oil-rich states, these wealthy Arab nations want no part of this.
They're not permitting any of these people to enter their countries.
And I'm telling you, answer is why would you need to import a bunch of Muslims in a country that already is?
Islamic or Muslim.
U.S. has warned Russia against more aid to Assad amid new violence.
Islamic state planning to use Libya as gateway to Europe.
This is February 2015 UK telegraph, but it makes sense to go back and look at it.
This article from back in February, right after ISIS posted that video that showed them beheading 21 Christians on the beach in Libya.
Remember how the media laughed when ISIS vowed in that video that they would conquer Rome?
Well, now it doesn't seem like such a vain boast.
Now it doesn't seem like such an extreme idea.
Italy, Greece.
Speaking of memories, you remember how Hillary celebrated her and Obama's part in overthrowing Qaddafi?
Say whatever you want about Gaddafi.
He ended up being an American ally against terrorism at the end.
And Hillary was running around joking when Qaddafi fell.
We came, we saw he died, haha.
But all of this is going to be moot at some point because if this keeps on militant Muslims are not going to have to establish their caliphate by war.
They'll just have done it by walking into Europe.
And at least the Danes give some indication that they realize what's headed their way, and they're now running ads as I say, don't come here.
This is not the place for you.
We have reduced our welfare payouts by 50%.
Don't come here.
which pretty much admits why people are going there, for their welfare benefits.
Washington Post, pressure mounting on Germany and other nations to scale back their generous policies Welcoming refugees with opponents arguing that the promise of aid, the promise of welfare, is enticing more and more asylum seekers to make a break for Western Europe.
You know, this is it's amazing.
On one hand, you have what's happening in Europe, and you have a mad dash of people all over the sub-Saharan region and in the Middle East just swarming into Europe, all about welfare benefits, all about getting on the welfare state roles.
And here's the Washington Post writing about it.
Migrant crisis, German generosity comes under fire.
Would the Washington Post ever admit that lavish welfare benefits might also be attracting illegal aliens, and especially anchor babies to the United States?
Does the Washington Post even know that Refugees in the U.S. immediately get the entire card of welfare benefits, no questions asked.
Not illegal immigrants, refugees.
And have you heard the term refugees being applied, particularly to the people in coming from, say, Ilvador, Guatemala, Central America.
They're being called refugees.
They're fleeing war and hunger and thirst.
Well, if you are a refugee, if you are officially categorized a refugee, you get the entire card of welfare benefits.
No questions asked in the U.S. This is why the left pushes the claim that illegal aliens are refugees.
Now, there was no sign yesterday that the crisis in Germany was easing in Britain or France either.
Two nations criticized for not doing enough, now pledging to take in tens of thousands of asylum seekers.
Not doing enough.
I mean, it's it it's it's astounding to watch what's really happening here.
And you have you ask, can these people be this blind to not see what's actually happening with this so-called migration?
So-called asylum seekers.
You know, once again, ISIS has predicted this.
they have promised this.
ISIS have said that this is their long-range objective, just like the Iranians have promised us what their long-term objective is, RER Israel.
They've They telegraph it.
They tell us exactly what their intentions are, then they set out to accomplish it.
And these nations are like the Republican Congress.
Afraid to say no, afraid to be critical, afraid of what the press is going to say about them, afraid of this.
It's a stunning thing to watch.
And then you see similarities on our southern border, and a whole lot of other things start making sense.
Anyway, I gotta take a break here, folks.
Sit tight, much more straight ahead after this.
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If you want to be on the uh program, a judge has ordered Kim Davis freed from jail.
Um Mike Huckabee and uh Ted Cruz went in there for a rally, and they have been laughed at, mocked and made fun of by sports media, yes, by sports media.
They've been mocked, laughed at, made fun of by the political media by acting like Kim Davis.
She's the county clerk in Kentucky that refused to hand out marriage licenses to gay couples.
Same-sex couples.
And she was cited for contempt and sent to jail.
And uh Huckabee uh made a cost celebra out of her.
Uh, and the media started mocking him and then Cruz for going in there to join Huckabee about this.
Well, you think she's Rosa Parks?
Come on, give us a break.
The woman's a wacker.
She was a Democrat.
Anyway, a judge, his name is David Bunning, ordered Kim Davis freed, and that if she does not follow his stipulations, and they're not stipulated here, so I don't know what his stipulations are.
This is just a headline, then appropriate sanctions will be considered, which I mean she could be shot or sent back to jail.
Jim Bunning's son, uh yeah, David Bunning is Jim Bunning's son.
Right.
So he's uh he's released Kim Davis under uh stipulations.
But they're not spelled out here in this uh in this story.
But it was amazing to watch.
Even the sports media make fun of Huckabee.
I mean, that's because the woman is.
I'm repeating what the sports media guy said, and the and the and the political media guy.
They think she's a kook.
She's a quack.
What do you mean?
Gay marriage is the hip thing?
She's just trying to make a public stand.
These guys going in there just to capitalize on this.
It's nothing but cheap showbiz, and these media people are not going to be fooled by it and so forth, but she's also a nutcase wacko.
Why would you go in and defend her?
She needs to be mocked and put in jail, was the impression of the media people I read.
Um I know they are the left is the left is making fun of her looks.
The left can do that all day long and not get punished for it.
They can make snarky comments left and right all they want.
To the phones.
This is Brian in Quincy, Illinois.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Mr. Limbaugh, it's a pleasure and honor to speak with you.
The press, the left media, the morning shows, and the big they all are, you know, mis you know, uh representing.
Misrepresenting what?
Well, they're not migrants.
They're not going there to get a job.
They're not they're not migrating for a new life.
What are we talking about Europe here?
Correct.
They're refugees.
They're refugees.
And every day be putting them out there to everybody's breakfast table and stuff, that they are migrants.
You know, just just inoculating everybody to that effect.
Well, but the point is, I don't even think they're refugees either.
Well, no, I mean, well, I get I like what you're saying.
That that's an it's just uh kind of untouched subject, what you're touching on that.
Well, what's that untouched subject?
Well, the uh invasion aspect of it.
Well, there you go.
I mean, what they're not they're not being absorbed by any of the countries that can afford them.
Well, now now, aside from what you're pushing there, that's a that's an interesting angle.
I'm not pushing anything.
I'm just No, no, no, no, no.
But you bring up a good point.
But the migrants, they're migrants, or they're not migrants, they are refugees.
They're coming, they're going in.
It's just like with us here in America.
It's almost a parallel to our borders.
Yeah, I know, but the drive-by's don't see it that way.
Now, this is the these are legitimate, these are these are uh refugees, migrants, they're fleeing uh war-torn strife and hunger and so forth, and they've got to be welcomed in.
It's a decent thing to do, the media thinks.
And we are back here on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Rush Limbaugh meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Look, uh, no offense to our last caller, but these whatever you see in the Middle East in Europe, from the Middle East to Europe, these are not refugees fleeing war.
Or they would be happy to stay in Jordan or Lebanon or Turkey, which are all countries that are at peace.
They're not refugees, folks.
And if they if they were genuine refugees, fleeing strife, all of these other Muslim nations, and I look, I don't mean to keep harping on it, but it makes perfect sense to say so.
All of these oil-rich states would welcome and take them in, but except they never do anytime, anywhere.
The Palestinians, they don't want any part of, they don't want any part of these people, because that's not what this really is all about.
There are plenty of places to stop before they get to Europe, that are not at war, and that have relatively stable economies.
Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, maybe iffy on the stable economy.
Now they're in search of the good life here, folks.
They are fleeing circumstances that are not, shall we say, satisfactory.
They're in search of the good life.
But they're not they're not going to cut her, which is richer than Germany or Sweden or Denmark.
They're seeking the good life in non-Muslim countries.
Look, I'm sorry, it is what it is.
I'm not making up any of this, and I'm not incorrectly analyzing it.
Germany has announced that it's going to cut their cash handouts for asylum seekers during their initial months of processing.
Instead, they're going to offer them more food stamps and in kind aid.
They're going to get the aid, but they're not going to get cash.
They're going to get stamps for food, uh, maybe uh Obama phone or what have you.
Can you imagine the outrage if we did that?
If we eliminated cash, welfare payments, and went strictly to these debit cards.
They're only good for certain things.
And if you look at these refugees, so-called refugees, they're mostly young, they're fairly well dressed.
They're military-aged men, many of them carrying iPhones and selfie sticks.
And not much is even said about where they're leaving, what they are fleeing, it's just generalized.
And it's accepted that they are leaving strife in Syria.
They're leaving strife in Libya.
They are leaving.
By the way, all places we have seen to it that are now totally screwed up.
And once they once once they get to Europe, guess what they're refusing to do?
They're refusing to settle in Greece.
They're refusing to settle in Hungary.
They are demanding Germany or Sweden right now.
The vast majority of them are demanding Germany or Sweden.
Denmark, as I just mentioned, has told him the newspaper ads all over the region, don't come here, we're cutting our benefits by 50%.
And it'll probably work.
Now, given these are military-aged men, why are they staying at home and and then and fight ISIS?
If that's the problem.
If all of this is traceable to ISIS and all these people are fleeing ISIS, why aren't these military-aged young men hanging around and fighting them?
They're getting fake Syrian IDs.
Do you know what a big business that has become?
Purchasing fake Syrian IDs, that's how you show you are fleeing a civil war.
That's how you show you are fleeing strife and war-torn hunger and thirst and what have you.
A lot of them claiming to be Syrian with their fake Syrian IDs in order to mask what's actually happening.
I mean, look, it is what it is, folks.
Henry in Finley, Ohio, you're next.
It's great to have you here on the EIB network.
Hi.
Yes, sir.
Um earlier, I was wondering if you could provide some analysis and comment.
Earlier you were talking about um the drastic turnaround in the Trump polls and how he's continuing to surge and all.
And what did it for me was uh last week when um Jeff Bush decided to get into it with him, and he was speaking to a group on TV in Spanish.
Yes.
And Mr. Trump came back and said, in America, would you mind speaking English?
Something to that effect.
Yes.
And that's what uh pretty much put my feet in concrete.
Um you've been right all along about this.
They don't get it, they don't understand.
We're dumb out here, but we're also very angry.
And Mr. Trump has found a way to tap into that and put a voice to it.
And I was wondering if you could provide some analysis here for me.
Well, I the interesting thing about the Trump image turnaround is that it's from May to the present.
And in May, and these are political polls.
Now, what was somebody held in May had Trump announced in May.
He had he hadn't announced in May, right?
So he had favorable, it was it was in the mix.
It was thought that he might, toying with it, but he had not come down the escalator at Trump Tower and launched his announcement speech.
So before Trump had ever made a political, yeah, it was June 16th.
So long before Trump had made a political speech of any kind, the only news about Trump was that he's thinking about running and people were laughing at him and joking about him and calling him as a TV star and an ego maniac and so forth.
So the the disapprovals versus approvals, it was 29 approved, 60 some odd disapproved, those were numbers basically made by the media.
Now, people watching his TV shows, The Apprentice, they didn't attach a political element to Trump while watching the show.
That that that connection just wasn't made.
They're just watching a television show.
And Trump's a figure, he's a celebrity, he's likeable, he's funny, and he's perceived to be all of those things, but then the media starts talking about him as a potential political candidate, starts mocking him, laughing at him, making fun of him, and the pollsters start calling people, and people say, uh, maybe the smart thing to say here is that uh Trump's a jerk and I don't like him.
But then all of that changes when Trump announces on June 16th, and it's all over that.
That point everything changes.
Now Trump is defining himself.
The media isn't.
Now, while Trump is defining himself, don't forget the media is saying every time he says something, it's it.
He stepped in it, that's the end.
It's over for Trump, he doesn't know it.
Nobody can survive a stupid statement like that.
Trump expands his support every time he makes a statement the media or the establishment thinks is going to doom him.
So Trump's favorable, unfavorable turnaround is due exclusively to Trump and being on TV a lot, but don't forget that there's a there's a foundation for the positive approval numbers.
It's my contention that that his uh TV shows, The Apprentice and Celebrity Apprentice, mean a lot in this.
People watch television.
They love reality TV, not scripted, not a drama.
This is real TV.
This is Trump with real people, and they're seeking jobs with him and projects to accomplish, and he's assessing them.
And as they watch the show, they see a funny guy, a fair guy, they see don't see a racist, they don't see a bigot, they don't see a homophobe, they don't see any of these things that people normally associate with the Republican brand.
And now you add to that Trump's comments on immigration and who's emigrating and why, and then his comments on McCain, then his comments on the economy, and it all makes sense that his approval numbers would do a rapid turnaround based on the media attention, the foundation he has from his TV shows, and the fact that people in this country are fed up, a lot of people are, with the establishment and everybody in it.
The establishment consists of the media.
It consists of the Republican Party and the Democrat Party and the inside the beltway New York Power Corridor.
Anyone perceived to be in that people are fed up with.
They don't think they're listened to, they don't think they're respected, they're laughed at, made fun of, they're not taken seriously.
The elites, the ruling class, whatever, are perceived to be insensitive and uncaring about the plight of normal everyday life and people in this country.
Here comes Trump, it makes perfect sense.
There's a piece I referenced earlier, Conservative Treehouse.
They published this uh on September 7th, so it was yesterday, an open letter to Jonah Goldberg, R. E. the GOP and Donald Trump.
And it prints out here on my printer to about four pages of what happened with Jonah Goldberg at National Review and a syndicated colonist, who appears in among other papers of Los Angeles Times, wrote a piece and basically said, if Trump is conservative, then I'm out.
If Trump is the new conservatism, then I'm not conservative, well, no part of it.
Trump isn't a conservative.
And it was another one of these pieces written by conservative media people claiming that Trump is a disaster and portends disaster because he is causing people to abandon their conservative principles in order to support him and is deathly bad for conservatism, and please don't do it, Trump's a fraud, don't fall for it.
Now I have explained my own analysis of this, and I spent a lot of time on it on a couple of days last week, and I don't want to recap it here.
Well, I don't want to go through it in great detail here again, but it can basically be summed up this way.
Okay, if if you guys, this is this is what Trump supporters are saying, if you guys that claim to be conservative leaders in the media and Republican leaders uh in Washington, uh, what have you done for us?
I mean, you've got all your conservative theory, and you have your conservative principles, but where are they?
What are you doing besides writing them?
What are you doing besides espousing them on TV?
We don't see them being implemented.
We see a lot of candidates promising they're going to, but then they get elected based on the promise and they get to Washington.
We don't see it.
Your average Trump supporters saying conservative conservative.
We don't see you guys may be brilliant writing about it, and you might be the smartest guys in a room on conservative theory, but we don't see any of it being implemented.
Where is it?
Along comes Trump.
And Trump represents what all of his supporters think conservatism has been about.
All the Trump supporters believe that Republicans and conservatives understand that they are supposed to stop Obama and stop the Democrats and beat them.
And they're not seeing that.
They're not seeing anybody stopping Obama.
They're not seeing anybody defeat Obama.
They're not even seeing anybody try.
So they're saying, what good is all this conservatism if it just is words?
If all anybody's going to do is think about it and talk about it and argue about this principle of that principle, what the hell good is it?
There's a real world out here, and we're being overrun by Obama and Democrats.
Up comes Trump saying he'll stop it.
It's not hard to understand this, folks.
But I will share with you some uh pull quotes from the conservative treehouse piece, because it's really good back after this.
Okay.
Conservative Treehouse.
The um the Jonah Goldberg piece, if I'm remembering the right one, essentially is that all of you Trumpsters are having a temporary little temper tantrum, and you're gonna come to your senses at some point.
And this is just your summer of discontent, and that you're all gonna get behind Jeb at some point.
But this discontent has Jonah and a lot of people bothered because it it has great potential to destroy conservatism.
And then these guys, like Jonah and others, have written pieces on what they're worried that Trump might do.
How he can destroy this or harm that.
Well, from the conservative treehouse guys, a list of things here.
Questions, actually.
Did the GOP secure the border with control of the White House and Congress?
No.
Did the GOP balance the budget with control of the White House and Congress?
No.
Who gave us the TSA?
The GOP.
Who gave us the Patriot Act, GOP?
Who expanded Medicare to include prescription drug coverage, GOP?
Who created the precursor of Common Core in Race to the Top, GOP?
Who played the race card in Mississippi to re-elect Thad Cochrane?
GOP.
Who paid Democrats to vote in the Mississippi primary?
GOP.
Who refused to support Ken Cuccinelli in Virginia, the GOP?
Who supported Charlie Christ, Darl Inspector Bob Bennett, GOP?
Who worked against Rubio, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Jim Dement, Ronald Reagan, GOP?
So they're asking here, you want to talk about damage that Trump will do?
You're worried about the damage Trump will do.
What about the damage you have done and are doing?
And you wonder why people are frustrated and desperate for a person who can articulate some kind of pushback, which is what Trump is doing.
Conservative Treehouse published yesterday, open letter to Jonah Goldberg.
Back after this, don't go away.
Still an untouched subject out there is the Iranian nuclear deal, and is there a way remaining that Congress could stop it?
And according to some people, yes, there is.
And it's right there in the corker bill, amazingly.
Sit tight.
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