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Sept. 14, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 14, 2015, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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Said, I see they're giving Miss America a little trouble here.
You know, I was a judge in the Miss America pageant some years ago.
And it's a lot harder work than anybody thinks.
In fact, one of the judges, some Hollywood comedian, quit after the orientation when he figured out it was more than just looking at women in bathing suits.
And I'm not kidding.
He was stupefied at the fact that it was going to take eight to ten hours a day for five straight days to judge the pageant.
He just could not believe it.
So he just mama-nosed out there.
And it was a minor controversy as the officials huddled in another hotel room away from the rest of us judges.
They didn't want any controversy at all.
So they came up with an explanation.
Anyway, Miss George, I guess she stumbled over the Tom Brady question during the question and answer portion of the judging.
I thought the answer that she gave was right on the money.
I mean, they asked her if she thought Tom Brady cheated.
She said, I don't know.
I haven't felt the balls yet.
I'd have to feel the balls, and only after I felt the balls, I'm not a football player, so I need to feel the balls.
And if I felt the balls, then I could probably have an idea.
So what was wrong with that?
You know, the other day I was watching the news and something just hit me.
And I fired off an email note.
It's actually more than a couple of days ago.
I guess it might be a month ago.
And I don't remember what it was.
It was your average news day on cable news.
And I sent a note as an anchorette.
I know a lot of the news, babes.
So I fired off an email to one of them.
I said, are you, when you sit there, you do the news every day, aren't you happy as hell you're not in it?
Boy, I know I am.
I think that has become what news is.
You know, it isn't news, really.
It's just the advancement of whatever the daily soap opera agenda happens to be as determined by the people in power to do that.
And that would be media types and political establishment types because the news is 90% politics.
And I think a good way to describe what news has become is as you're watching it, you say, thank God it's not me.
As long as it's not about me, you're cool with it.
It's just one disaster after another.
It's a highlight of all that's wrong and then some in the country.
And it creates an impression that there's much, much more wrong than there is right.
Except now that may be the case.
But anyway, it just struck me.
I'm watching it every time.
I'm glad it's not about me.
I'm glad I'm not in it.
Even though I am.
But I'm talking about average, ordinary, low-information voter types.
I mean, they watch it.
Man, thank God I'm not in this.
Anyway, folks, the drive-by media today is just still buzzing over polling data that they don't expect.
And it has become abundantly clear that many in the drive-by media and many in the Republican establishment are getting or nearing the end of their frustrations with Donald Trump.
Because as each new poll comes out showing that Trump has gained ground, now he's gained ground over Hillary.
Now Trump is kicking Republican ass in California.
That has not been done by anybody in California since, well, when?
Pete Wilson?
I don't know when the last time that there was a Republican in California doing well in anything.
Well, maybe Schwarzenegger.
Yeah, Schwarzenegger for a while.
But we all remember what happened there.
But the drive-by frustration and the inside-the-beltway establishment frustration continues to display over Trump.
But you know, in addition to Trump, there's a Trump-like story happening on the Democrat side.
It's not getting near the attention because Bernie Sanders is not a Trump-like personality.
He's just an aging hippie communist.
And he's running around buffooning his way into major success against Hillary Clinton.
The next thing the drive-bys are just blown away by is apparently white women are, this is all polling data now, but white women are abandoning Hillary in droves.
And they can't figure it out inside the Beltway.
Folks, we all know, and we talk about it a lot, this disconnect that exists between the people who are in the political class.
You might say people that run the country inside the Beltway.
I hate the cliché of that, but people in Washington, New York, that quarter.
From finance to media to politics to general business.
I mean, the people that think they run the country are obviously more and more disconnected from the country than ever before.
It's to the point now that I think it's incorrect to say that they're out of touch.
I don't think they're out of touch.
I think they know full well.
I don't think they want to be in touch with what we would call the mainstream of the country or even flyover country or outside the beltway.
They know full well they're out of touch.
They're not stupid.
And they're not unobservant.
They're stubborn and they are obstinate.
They are elitists.
And I don't think they want any part of what life for most people in the country is all about.
They revel in the opportunity they have to not have to live that life.
And never has there been or is there a greater illustration of what I mean than the subject of immigration.
It really is true.
The people that are sponsoring and or are for this massive amnesty and not stopping this invasion.
Don't forget, these are people promised to build a wall, never did.
These are people that always tell us that border security is the first thing they're going to do, but they never do it.
They know full well what the rest of the country wants, and they in no way, shape, manner, or form are going to deliver it.
They don't have to.
They're not affected by anything they do.
That's the great dividing line now.
They can sit in Washington or wherever they are, state capitals, you pick it, but primarily Washington.
They can sit there and they can mandate things like Obamacare, and they can mandate all these punitive regulations and rules on everyday life.
They can demand, sponsor, promote, cheat, cajole, whatever to try to get amnesty, because they're not going to be personally affected by it.
They are not going to live in crime-ridden areas that are crime-ridden because of immigration or anything else they do.
They're not going to have to live in Ferguson, Missouri, or Baltimore, or any place they impose their policies, such as the Obama Justice Department running all these local police departments now.
It's never been more true that the establishment types have two sets of rules, and one set is for all of us to live by, and the other set is for them to live by, and their rules exempt them from the rules they have for all of us.
And it's never more obvious.
It's not that they're out of touch.
They know full well.
It's just that if there is a seminal change politically, and this is arguable, it is that politics is now, or affairs of state governance in Washington, is now less and less and less determined by election results, except for winners and losers, and by public opinion.
You look at the Iran deal, 29% of the American people are in favor of Obama's deal permitting the Iranians to continue building their nuclear weapons program.
Oh, speaking of which, did you see the latest on this?
The Iranians just happened to discover over the weekend, it's a miracle, folks, A phenomenal deposit of uranium within their country.
Did you know that?
Now, you may say, well, why is that important, Mr. Limbaugh?
Very key, because the Obama-Iran deal, for the most part, if it were to be enforced, big if, did put limits on the amount of uranium the Iranians could import.
And the amount of uranium you could import and then use would, of course, have a demonstrable effect on weapons, creation, weaponization of materials and so forth.
But now, all of us, they found their own.
Who knew?
They've got their own supply of uranium and nobody even knew.
And now it means that one of the key elements of Obama's Iran deal is irrelevant, just like the whole deal is irrelevant.
But back to my main point: 29% of the American people suppose it, support it.
Over half, I don't know what the don't know or don't care number is, but well over half the American people actively oppose it.
It doesn't matter.
It didn't matter, and it never was going to matter, public opinion on this issue.
Which, you might say, well, so what?
Well, it means that politicians have now reached the point where they don't think they even have to secure public opinion to win elections.
Or maybe I could state it a better way.
Maybe the only time they have to even appear interested in public opinion is while campaigning.
And then if they are elected, then everything that was said in the campaign pretty much out the window.
And whatever public opinion is on immigration, pick one, folks.
This country, poll after poll, majority never, ever supported Obamacare.
Majority, never even close to a majority on the Iranian nuclear deal.
Never, ever a majority.
I mean, active majorities opposed to amnesty, and yet look what's happening.
So don't say they're out of touch.
And this is both parties.
What is happening here is that the establishment, and it's been intensified under Obama, I will have to admit, but it's now a governance against the will of the people.
And there's not even that much pandering anymore.
What there is is open contempt.
There is open contempt for what the American people support and don't support.
There is open contempt for the American people that don't see it the way the establishment sees it.
You know, you can see this clearly as the establishment desperately tries to tell themselves when it is that Trump is going to bomb out.
That is their preoccupation now.
That is their singular objective is to, and whoever predicts it, whoever ends up being right, is going to be heralded as the smartest kind of room or woman, whoever, whoever accurately predicts when Trump is defeated, whoever accurately predicts when Trump gets out, if any of this happens, but I mean, this is what they're obsessed with.
When's Trump going to blow it?
How's Trump going to blow it?
Who's going to make Trump blow it?
What's going to happen?
What's going to do Trump in?
What's finally going to catch up with Trump?
Trump's just entertainer.
This is what they're obsessed with.
And you can see it in both parties.
He's not a real conservative.
He's causing everybody to compromise their conservative beliefs.
On the left side of things, mean-spirited extremists won't work, can't hold up.
And yet, every theory, every operative theory, every axiom about success and failure in American presidential politics has been blown to smithereens in the Trump campaign.
On the conservative side, another way to illustrate this, for example, the Inside the Beltway establishment conservatives, by the way, I don't say this with any animus toward them.
I'm just objectively describing things for you here.
And I have been amused to watch this.
Because we'd have to admit, would we not, that the Inside-the-Beltway conservative movement, media, whatever you want to call it, really doesn't cause much action to happen.
There's a lot of writing and there's a lot of speaking and there's a lot of TV analyzing, but it stops there.
There isn't a whole lot of implementation.
And we don't see a whole lot of fighting for what we believe in.
In fact, it's gotten to the point where I think that inside the Beltway, I think the establishment there looks at Trump as a fighter or anybody else's crew, as anybody who's perceived as a fighter is considered unsophisticated.
This is not the way we do things because these people don't want to fight.
That's messy.
You really have to go out on a limb.
You might make enemies.
Nobody inside the Beltway wants any enemies.
Have you happened to notice, here's a further illustration before I go back to this great illustration of how conservatives inside the Beltway are illustrating this out-of-touch theory of mine.
Have you seen, I have, I frankly, I think I can't be surprised anymore.
Have you seen the number of conservative media people promoting Joe Biden?
Are you aware of this?
If you're not, there are a number of conservative bloggers, writers, media people saying great things about Biden.
It's an honest guy.
He's a decent guy.
We all know who Biden is.
He's a plagiarist.
He's a phony.
But more than this, the guy that destroyed Robert Bork, who tried to destroy Clarence Thomas, people on our side are promoting his candidacy on the IDE is a nice guy and honest.
Don't want to fight even Biden.
And it reminds me of when Obama named Eric Holder.
Attorney General, these same people on our side inside the Belt started praising the choice of Eric Holder.
Oh, yes, had to be seen as sophisticated and certainly not seen as fighting and opposing.
And the Republican Party doesn't fight, do they?
And they don't oppose, do they?
I have to take a break here.
But don't worry.
I will not lose my place.
Okay, case in point.
Inside the Beltway, conservative media people, as well as the Republican Party.
They're out there, for example, saying that Trump once supported single pay.
He's not conservative.
You can't support Trump.
Did you know that he once supported single payer?
From the same people who are funding Obamacare.
The same people who give us fake repeal Obamacare votes.
The same people who have paid for and continue to help fund Obamacare out there.
So Trump once supported single payer.
They trashed Trump about his wall.
It's not going to happen.
Trump isn't going to build a wall.
He's never going to get Mexico to pay for the wall.
It's stupid.
There's not going to be a wall.
This is silly.
He can't get it done.
He's lying to people about it.
Right.
These are the same people that voted to secure 700 some-odd miles of the southern border, but have built less than 40 miles of fencing.
So all of this that they chide Trump for for not being conservative, all along I have been asking, well, where is conservative or conservatism in Washington anyway, besides on display on blogs and on display at think tanks?
Where is it?
There's some conservatism in individual members of the House, Senate, but we don't have any conservative policies being implemented.
And yet all these people lament Trump's not a conservative.
Well, the people helping Obama accomplish what he wants in Iran, Obamacare, amnesty, tell me, if Trump isn't conservative, then where are they in Washington?
Because I don't see them there either.
Now, let me attempt to help the Inside the Beltway conservatives and Republicans understand why the reaction to Trump is what it is and why it's not going away anytime soon and why it probably is only going to keep building.
And it's not hard to understand at all.
And the first bit of advice, and remember, free advice is worth what it costs anybody.
But I offer this sincerely.
I'm sincerely attempting to help people understand because they're really uptight.
I mean, they're writing articles, columns, blog posts, and they're distressed at Trump's success.
And they are distressed at you for falling for something.
Trump is a carnival barker phony.
He's a Svengali.
He's mesmerizing you.
And he's a phony baloney plastic banana good time rocket roller.
And you don't see it.
And that scares them.
And they're telling you and anybody who will listen that Trump isn't conservative.
And if you think he is, you're wrong.
And you're destroying conservatism by thinking that Trump is one and so forth.
Let me help those of you in Washington who think that try another way of understanding what's happening here.
Nobody, and I say this with relative ontological certitude.
Nobody supporting Donald Trump thinks that he is Ronald Reagan.
Nobody thinks that he is William F. Buckley Jr.
Nobody thinks that he is me.
Nobody thinks that he is conservative.
Certainly not a Reagan conservative.
And that's not why he is being supported.
And thus, he is not harming conservatism or conservative principles because he's not redefining it.
Because that's not why people support him.
The reason Trump is being supported is that he is not you inside the Beltway.
I hate this to sound so divisive, but we're not the ones that created this.
It's not complicated at all.
Donald Trump has not done anything to advance the Obama agenda or the Democrat Party's agenda.
And that's the primary reason why he has such support.
You in the Beltway, I don't understand this myself.
I don't know how you missed it.
I don't know why you didn't think it mattered.
But you were not elected to help the Democrats.
Nobody's impressed with articles that write about the need for co-governance and bipartisanship and compromise.
Nobody wants to compromise with Obama or the left because they think it is destroying the foundations of this country as founded.
You don't get brownie points for signing up with that.
You don't get brownie points for helping that along.
You don't get brownie points for reaching across the aisle.
In fact, it's going to hurt you.
It's not.
Where's Governor Christie?
It still is a big part of his appeal.
Where is he in the polls?
You can't find him.
Donald Trump is also not in government.
Big plus.
Government is perceived to be, as we discussed, out of touch.
But it's not out of touch.
It's just not interested.
Government is distant.
Government is not any longer about how it is portrayed in our founding documents of, by, and for the people.
No, it's in spite of the people now.
And Trump isn't part of it.
Big, big plus.
Wasn't that long ago that the establishment GOP people, the consultants' class and so forth, they were out on television insisting that only a former or present governor was even qualified to be president.
All others excluded, regardless of principle, regardless of record.
But it's not hard to understand.
If you want to know why Trump is so popular, then you'd better learn to understand why Obama is so unpopular.
And if you don't understand Obama being unpopular, you'd better figure it out.
Don't buy this stuff with a 48% job approval.
On the side of the aisle that's going to elect the next Republican nominee, it ain't 48%.
His approval is maybe 5% on the Republican side of the aisle that's going to elect or nominate the next Republican nominee.
This side of the aisle doesn't want amnesty.
They want border security.
They don't want to happen here what is happening in Europe.
They want it stopped.
They don't want the state sponsor of terrorism in the world to have a nuclear bomb or arsenal.
They do not want the government running health care and more and more.
And to the extent that those of you inside the Beltway have been complicit in making all this happen, Donald Trump hasn't.
He hasn't had his fingerprints are not on one aspect of what many people think has gone totally wrong in this country.
Now, if you're going to continue to have this perch of disdain for people who think this, then the divide is going to continue.
But you better try to understand that it's not about conservatism here.
I wish it were.
Frankly, I wish there had actually been a conservative movement in Washington.
There is conservative literature all over the place, but there's no action behind it.
There's no fight for it.
When's the last time Obama was stopped at anything?
When was the last time anybody even made a serious attempt at stopping any of this?
Really?
It isn't hard to figure any of this out unless you literally don't see it, unless you literally don't notice it.
Or if you do notice it and think it's unsophisticated, unrealistic, or made up of, comprised of ignorant people who just don't understand how Washington works or what have you.
Whether they do or don't, it's still their country, too.
And they vote.
And they have something that the people inside the Beltway don't have, and that is they have to live with what comes out of there.
They have to live in sanctuary cities.
They have to live in crime-ridden neighborhoods.
They have to live in this country where 94 million human bodies are not working.
They have to live in this welfare state.
They have to live in areas where hospitals are closing because the emergency rooms are overrun and nobody pays and they can't afford to stay open.
None of that describes life inside the Beltway or anywhere else that people like that happen to live.
They're able to insulate themselves from it.
And it's more pronounced as a factor today than it ever has been.
So I think it would help to come up with, if you want to talk people out of supporting Trump, which is what I gather the effort is, by warning them he's not conservative and he's fooling them and he's really a Democrat in sheep's clothing.
If he is, then it's just going to be more of the same because clearly there isn't any Republican opposition in Washington that can be spotted.
And the thing Trump has going for him, whatever else you might want to add to the list, none of his fingerprints are on any of the stuff that has happened that people are angry at, opposed to, and frankly scared of.
Quick time out.
We'll be back after this.
Grab audio soundbite number 22.
Mr. Dependable, Mr. You Can Count On me, Rush Limbaugh here at 800-282-2882.
Okay, this next soundbite gets to prove a point that I have been making for many, many moons here.
Bernie Sanders is at Liberty University.
This is the university founded by Dr. Jerry Falwell of the what?
Da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
Moral majority, which was and is what?
Hated by who?
The American left and the Democrat Party.
Moral majority.
What's Bernie Sanders doing there?
Well, I think Bernie Sanders was invited.
But he went there to speak.
And during the Q ⁇ A portion of his appearance, Senior Vice President for Spiritual Development, David Nasser, asked Mr. Sanders this question.
As far as race inequality is concerned, this question from one of our students.
If you, sir, were elected president, what would you do to bring healing and resolution to the issue of racism in our country?
We both want to see that go away, racism.
What steps would you begin to take if you were our leader in seeing that result?
I would hope and I believe that every person in this room today understands that it is unacceptable to judge people, to discriminate against people based on the color of their skin.
And I would also say that as a nation, the truth is that a nation which in many ways was created, and I'm sorry to have to say this from way back on racist principles.
That's a fact.
And there you have it.
And this explains Barack Hussein, oh.
And it explains Valerie Jarrett.
And it explains Michelle Maybel.
Oh.
It explains all of them.
This country, illegitimate from the get-go.
This country, unjust from the get-go.
This country, immoral from the get-go.
This country founded on racism.
And that is why there will never be any end to affirmative action type means of addressing it or even reparations or what have you.
Now, in the midst of this, here is a Democrat, this little hippie communist running around at a religious university getting a standing ovation here.
Not for saying the country was founded this way and is unjust, immoral, and illegitimate, but for saying that it's not right to discriminate against people based on the color of their skin.
I mean, that's a no-brainer, but he got big applause for it.
In the midst of all this, here comes Trump at 25% in a YouGov poll, USA Today poll, a couple of polls now.
Trump is getting 25% of the African-American vote.
And inside the beltway, they are bamboozled.
They are flabbergasted.
They are baffled.
They are blown away.
They are clearly in a state of shock.
The Republican Party and the best brains of the Republican consultants class have for years been designing systems, strategies, approaches, appeals to get just 5% of the African-American vote,
because it has always been felt that if the African-American vote for the Democrat candidate every presidential year could be reduced to 85% from 93, why, we might win big, just chip away at that given advantage.
So they've been coming up, and they've had all kinds of great schemes to get 25% or 5% of the African-American vote.
Jack Kemp had his enterprise zones.
This was where the government run by a Republican was going to go into a black neighborhood and set up entrepreneurial businesses and so forth with the assistance of the government and to show how entrepreneurism would work in black neighborhoods and cause people to prosper and so forth.
It's a great idea, but it didn't happen.
Well, even when it was implemented, it didn't work.
There was built-in opposition to this.
The Democrat Party was never going to let any of these Republican strategieries flower.
They were never going to be permitted to work.
And there were more than enterprise zones.
My point is, for as long as I've been doing this radio show and longer, so that's 30 plus years, the Republican Party has been just ripping itself into different shapes and assorted different policy positions, trying to secure 5% of the black vote.
And here comes the Trumpster, and he's getting 25% of it.
Now, admittedly, it's in polls, and admittedly, it's early, but it makes sense in the context of everything else in the polls, and it makes sense in context of all the other ways that Trump is succeeding.
And so now everybody's scratching their head, well, what in the hell is he doing?
And it isn't complicated.
Trump has finally come along and has given voice to positions on issues that resonate with African Americans.
I have here my formerly nicotine-stained fingers a story, Breitbart, by black.
It's about black rapper Azealia Banks.
Azealia Banks hates conservatism and hates the Republican Party.
And she's not much happier about America because she buys into the Bernie Sanders argument that the country is unjust and immoral from day one.
Racist to its core.
Part of our foundation.
But she posted on Instagram, you think it's bad that I sort of agree with Trump's stance on immigration?
She said that her support for Trump's immigration plan is based on the detrimental impact mass immigration has had on the black community.
She wrote, black Americans still have not been paid reparations for slavery.
It's selfish, but America has been really good at convincing me that everyone else's problems are more important than my own.
She said, if the United States of America is an aircraft on its way down, which it seems to be, I must put my own air mask on before I assist others.
And to her, putting the air mask on to save the plane from crashing is supporting Trump.
Immigration.
It's crowding.
It's crowding.
It's flooding the job market.
You've seen African American unemployment under Obama.
Now, she doesn't blame Obama for much.
She can't expect that.
Racial loyalty, but 25% black people supporting Trump.
The Republican Party is still not being able to figure any of this out, really.
Fastest three hours in media is zipping by.
My only regret in this hour is that I didn't get started on phone calls.
But I will fix that coming up.
Sit tight, my friends.
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