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Sept. 15, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 15, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Here we are back at it, Rush Limbaugh.
Great to have you here, folks.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program 800-282-2882.
And there are other things in the news out there.
You, let me run through some of these things just to get them on the record so that we can have them officially at rushlimbaugh.com as having been mentioned and discussed here.
From the Daily Caller, the Kentucky cop killer attended Michael Brown's funeral and took pictures of Al Sharpton.
What do you bet this guy, what do you bet this killer totally bought into Hands Up, Don't Shoot?
What do you bet this killer fully was persuaded that the lie being perpetrated by the Civil Rights Coalition and some in the media was real?
Hands up, don't shoot.
You know, this is the kind of thing that happens from that kind of lying irresponsibility.
A Missouri man who shot and killed a Kentucky state trooper during a traffic stop Sunday was an apparent Black Lives Matter sympathizer who protested in the days after the shooting death of Michael Brown, the gentle giant last year, and attended the gentle giant's funeral.
Joseph Thomas Johnson Shanks, 25, shot Kentucky State Trooper Joseph Cameron Ponder after a high-speed chase on I-24 around 10.30 p.m. local time on Sunday.
Johnson Shanks is from Florison, Missouri, St. Louis suburb near Ferguson, where the gentle giant was fatally shot by police officer Darren Wilson in 2014.
A Facebook account that appears to belong to Johnson Shanks shows that he took part in the protests that followed the shooting.
Pictures show him adopt, right, right here it is.
Right here it is.
Pictures show him adopting the Hands Up Don't Shoot pose, which became the rallying cry following the shooting.
Johnson Shanks also attended Brown's burial and a memorial service at which Al Sharpton spoke.
There you go.
I mean, this thing had it all.
This had politicians out there doing Hands Up, Don't Shoot.
Those two players to the St. Louis Rams last season.
Player introductions came out of the tunnel mimicking hands up, don't shoot.
It didn't happen.
Now we've got people inspired to run around killing cops because of it.
Just totally irresponsible.
A disservice.
I'm telling you, folks, this is why emergency measures are needed to save this country.
The wrong people are in too much power and have too much to say about events that shape this country and its future.
It's out of control.
This is just, I don't know what to say.
And there's no remorse.
I guarantee you there's no remorse from the race industry on this.
They're probably still in it.
Well, how does it feel mode?
How does it feel?
In Germany, this invasion of Islamic migrants continues.
Germany and Austria on Tuesday called for a special European summit on the migrant crisis in a phone call with EU President Donald Tusk.
This, according to Angela Merkel, a chancellor of Germany.
She said, this is a problem for the entire European Union, and therefore we argued for a special summit to be held next week.
Donald Tusk will look into that.
Striking back at critics of her refugee-friendly policy in recent weeks, Merkel added, if we must now begin to excuse ourselves for showing a friendly face in time of need, then this isn't my country.
So the same thing's happening for whatever reason, whatever her motivation, labor force, birth rate below replacement levels, she's welcoming all these people in.
And some people are having a lot of trouble with this, particularly Germans.
You know, we were led to believe the whole country in Germany supported Angela Merkel.
It took two or three days for there finally to be some news stories.
Hey, wait a minute.
The German people do not support what she's doing.
They don't want this invasion, and they know full well what it is.
So this thing is quickly splaying out of control as well.
Now we got the Pope entering this scene.
The Pope is blaming the refugee crisis on the god of money and socioeconomic system that is bad and unjust.
As for the bad socioeconomic system that's bad and unjust, as it relates to the refugee flood, excuse me, Pope, but these refugees are coming from Muslim countries that have rejected free markets?
They are coming from economic systems.
It sounds like you endorse.
I remain entirely, totally confused over this.
I think...
I think the world has a leadership vacuum.
I know this country has a leadership vacuum, and I think we're actually witnessing a sanity vacuum.
I mean, when you really look around all over the world, all these wonderful, great institutions that we used to rely on to provide stability and boundaries all seem to have been corrupted and corrupted by a specific way of thinking, and that would be liberalism or leftism or socialism or whatever you want to call it.
But whatever it is, it's corrupting decent people, decent places, great institutions, and we've got a sanity vacuum.
I don't know.
Look at this.
This is from Breitbart.
Pope Francis, Europe's anti-child attitudes invite migrants and jihadis.
Wait, I thought it was socioeconomic.
One day it's socioeconomic, the next day it's anti-child attitudes.
Pope Francis used a Portuguese radio interview to weigh in on the European migrant crisis, citing Europe's postmodern childless culture as one of the causes of the huge migration wave into Europe and cautiously warning against the growing danger posed by migrating Islamic jihadis.
The Pope said, if a country has no children, migrants come to occupy the place.
I think the birth rates in Italy, Portugal, and Spain are almost 0%.
There are no children.
There are empty spaces.
That's not what.
Do you think?
I got to be real careful here.
Are we to believe that these jihadis, as the Pope refers to them, are we to believe these migrants and jihadis are choosing to go to Germany because they know they don't have any kids there?
Are they choosing Germany and Sweden because they have figured out the birth rate is below replacement levels?
But then, wait, I thought they were moving and migrating because of socioeconomic circumstances and environmental destruction.
I can't leave that out.
That's part of the recipe, too.
Now, Germany does have the lowest birth rate in the world, surpassing even Japan's.
But you know what nobody talks about in this?
Nobody talks about the role abortion is playing in the falling population rates of these countries.
Nobody dares.
Let's put it that way.
No, no.
So we're just, we're being led to believe that Germans have gone so selfish, have become so self-centered and focused that they don't want to be distracted by kids.
They don't want to be parents.
They don't want to be grandparents.
And so we're led to believe that there's an entire new attitudinal shift that has befallen all of Germany, and yet nobody gives us the abortion figures that might be a contributing factor to the birth rate.
I mean, it would stand to reason, wouldn't it?
According to BBC, Germany now has the lowest birth rate in the world, surpassing even Japan's.
Europe has not yet died, the Pope said.
It is half-grandmother, but it can return to being a mother.
That's an interesting picture.
Europe is half grandmother, but it can return to being a mother.
We know Jeb Bush has pointed out Hispanics are amazingly fertile.
Well, he has.
He's mentioned that.
Relationship to them migrating here.
Pope Francis also suggested that Europe's leaders should help unemployed Europeans prior to calling in more migrants.
In three important European countries, he said, for 25-year-olds and under, unemployment's 40% in one country, 47% in another, and 50% in the third.
But he still wants Europe to welcome migrants if adequate security is in place.
We got to make up our minds here.
What are we going to do?
going to find jobs or are we going to so you got to say the right thing No matter what you do, you have to say the right thing.
Unemployment rates, 40, 47, 50.
I wonder why that is.
Anybody have any ideas?
Do we have any idea what kind of governments these countries are where the unemployment rates are that high?
We know they're Western.
We know they're socialist democracies.
We know they're proud of it.
Unemployment rates, 40, 47, 50%.
But we're told it's socioeconomic problems, meaning there's an unfair distribution of capital.
No, that's not what he means.
I'm sorry.
Unfair distribution of wealth.
It means the rich are not being taxed enough.
That's what socioeconomic inequities are.
Daily caller America's heroin epidemic fueled by a flood of illegal immigrants.
Violent drug cartels help every single illegal alien across the border between the U.S. and Mexico for a fee, and often the price is carrying a backpack full of heroin, according to a Border Patrol union president.
Anybody have an apology for Trump here?
Isn't this exactly what Trump said?
Violent drug cartels help every single illegal alien cross the border between the U.S. and MACO for a fee.
Often the price is carrying a backpack full of heroin.
Border Patrol union president says this.
That's who Trump says he's been talking to, the Border Patrol guys.
Quote, every single illegal alien that comes into the country goes through the hands of a drug cartel, even if the immigrant doesn't want the help, said Hector Garza, president of the Laredo, Texas chapter, the National Border Patrol Council.
Garza briefly in the national spotlight earlier this year when Trump held a campaign event near the U.S. border with MACO to highlight his demand for an end to this.
Garza's chapter pulled out of hosting Trump in Laredo just hours before Trump's visit.
They were forced to pull out by the parent union, the AFL-CIO.
They didn't pull out on their own.
The union thugs that run the AFL-CIO made them pull out.
Most heroin smuggled into the U.S. now by illegal immigrants crossing the border with help from Mexican drug cartels.
That according to the Department of Homeland Security now.
So even its official from the Obama administration.
Does anybody want to apologize to Trump over any of this, folks?
I wonder.
Okay, so I'm working here at the office late yesterday, and I walk in.
Catherine's here.
She leaves about 10 minutes before I do.
As I get home, I park in the garage.
I head into the kitchen.
And she is actually, she greets me at the door from the inner sanctum of the estate to the garage.
She's laughing uproariously.
I say, what in the world is going on?
She says, Trump, Trump.
She waves me to follow her, so I take my stuff in.
Dogs attack me.
They love me.
They see me, they make dog biscuits.
That's a sad thing.
I've trained them.
All I am is a giant dog biscuit to them.
So I had to go get them dog biscuits.
Then they wanted more dog biscuits.
I'm trying to listen to Trump.
Catherine is laughing herself silly.
She doesn't have the captioning on, so I can't.
I'm really not sure what he's saying, but I find myself laughing just looking at it.
And the dogs won't shut up, so I gave them some more dog biscuits as hell with this and put them outside.
They started pawing the door, wanting back in, wanting more dog biscuits.
Catherine's laughing silly.
I'm trying to understand what Trump is saying.
Now, about 20 minutes goes by while all this is happening.
And Trump hasn't said anything.
And I'm noticing the crowd and the crowd standing up and cheering.
There's this guy in the back wearing a cowboy hat that stands up and cheering at everything Trump says.
He's cracking jokes.
He is talking.
The point I came in, he was just savaging Karl Rove.
Karl Rove is a loser.
Karl Rove is incompetent.
He said, Karl Rove, you believe that Karl Rove raised $400 million and lost.
Can you believe it?
Crowd erupts and laughs.
And he goes on and on.
And I look at Catherine.
I said, is it about time he started talking about something here?
Meaning issues.
Because it was funny, and the place was rocking and it was rolling and it was full.
It looked like place holds 20 from the camera angles.
It looked like 20,000 were in there.
So I said, you know, I'm going to head back to the library, which is my inner sanctum orifice, which is where I light up cigars, sit down in my very giant man cave, and it's mine.
So I go in there and I turn it on.
And as soon as I get in there, I get a text from Catherine.
Okay, he's talking issues now.
He's talking issues.
And I said, okay, this is the pattern.
I figured a Trump appearance pattern.
He starts out with stand-up.
He does 15, 20, sometimes 30 minutes of stand-up and just stream of consciousness and then starts getting into issues and then backing out of them and getting back into them.
And he always ends it.
And this is a thing I've noticed.
I don't think a lot of people do notice, particularly the critics.
He always ends these things with the most sincere remarks to his audience.
He tells them what an honor it is to be with them and what an honor it is to be representing them and an honor to be doing this with them and for them.
And, you know, for the inside the Beltway crowd that's trying to figure all this out, it's really not hard.
It's, well, maybe it is.
I don't know.
It's all about developing a bond.
He has established a bond with his audience.
Call them voters or supporters or what have you.
But the importance of that, and I keep drumbeating this because it is crucial.
If establishment types are really serious in wanting to understand this, and if they're really serious about wanting the same kind of success for themselves, you have to establish a bond with your audience.
Now, some people can do it naturally, and some people can try their whole lives and never pull it off.
It's hard to do.
It requires sincerity.
It requires that your audience believe that you are not BSing them.
That if you joke, you let them in on the joke.
You never insult their intelligence.
They are in the club.
They are not outsiders.
You let them in.
They are every bit as responsible for your success as you are.
If you can do that, then there's nothing that can break the bond except you.
Negative advertising can't break the bond.
The media can't break the bond.
Other candidates can't break the bond.
CNN can't break the bond, but you can.
And Trump has that.
He has that ability because at the end of every one of these, he telegraphs that this has deep meaning to him, that he's not just out getting an ego massage here.
Some people, do you know how many people would be satisfied, would be over the moon thrilled for just one night like Trump has?
To have 18,000 people show up just all in love with you, cheering you, just going nuts over you.
Some people will be satisfied with just one of those.
In fact, some people think that once Trump gets his fill of that, that's, you know, when it's no longer a thrill, that's when we'll see him start making moves to pull out.
I mean, I've heard all the theories.
I know what all of them are.
I don't describe to any of them.
I'm just telling you what they are.
But these guys at the establishment, both parties, they can sit there and hope that Trump's voters wake up and so forth.
Sitting and hoping isn't going to accomplish anything for them.
A man, a legend, a way of life.
Okay.
I got some people on the phones who want to talk about the Trump rally last night.
They were there.
I'm going to set them up.
I was playing some audio sound about Trump.
The event in Dallas, as I mentioned mere moments ago, erupted in applause many times, but never more than when Trump talked about illegal immigration.
He said he was going to end that crap freaking fast.
Many of these gang members are illegal immigrants.
They're rough dudes.
They will be out of here so freaking fast.
And I think a lot of these countries send them in here because they don't want them.
We take them.
Kate in San Francisco, this magnificent young woman, shot in the back by a guy that was sent over here, probably pushed over.
Who knows?
But he was an illegal immigrant.
Came over, went to San Francisco.
We have to end this sanctuary city's crap fast.
Fast.
We edited the applause, and the applause went on and on and on and on and on.
We just edited it in order to make it fit a little tighter schedule here.
But keep in mind here, while we just learned from the Border Patrol guy in Laredo and Homeland Security, that these illegal immigrants are now drug mules, that the drug cartels are in charge of illegal immigration and they're all packing heroin, or many of them are.
Trump needs to, somebody needs to tell him that, or he needs to see it himself.
This needs to come up in this debate tomorrow night.
That's just casual advice.
Don't get any ideas here, folks.
I'm not part of the team.
Here is this another great line.
The audience loved it anyway.
America has become a dumping ground for the world.
Dawn, did you, Brian, did you see this last night?
Austin, it's all new to you.
Oh, well, here's the next one.
America has become a dumping ground for the world.
It's disgusting what's happening to our country.
We are a dumping ground for the rest of the world.
We are a dumping ground.
We have to straighten out Iraq.
We're going to have a great country.
We're going to have a great border.
We're going to have a border that's a real border.
You people are suffering.
I mean, you know, I'm in New York, but from New York, too.
They're all over the place.
We want people to be in our country legally.
Legally.
All right.
And he went on and described the kind of immigrants he's talking about, the kind that we kick out.
They come here to get educated.
We educate them.
They're super smart.
And then they leave because their visas expire.
He said, so he went to great pains last night to convince everybody or to make it clear.
He's not opposed to immigration.
This is one of the tricks the comprehensive immigration crowd, the open borders crowd, tries to play.
They try to characterize people opposed to comprehensive immigration reform as a bunch of nativists and xenophobes who are totally against immigration.
Not the case at all.
They just forget about this word legal.
It's just amazing how they do that.
They just forget the word legal.
Doesn't matter.
Don't understand the difference.
By the way, he talked about Kate Steinley.
Did you know that the guy who shot and killed her was convicted several times of heroin possession?
In San Francisco, Sanctuary City.
Now Trump explains how he would bring jobs back from Mayco.
I called the head of Ford.
I'd say, congratulations.
I understand you're building a massive plant in Mexico, and you're taking a lot of jobs away from us in Michigan and other places.
I don't like that.
And he'll say, well, Mr. President, it's wonderful, wonderful for the economy.
Oh, great.
Just great.
It's wonderful for whose economy, not for our economy.
So what I'd say is the following.
I don't want you to do that.
And if you do it, you're not going to have any cars coming across the border unless you pay a 35% tax.
That's it.
That's it.
No, that's it.
Let's say I make this call at 9 o'clock in the morning.
By 5 o'clock in the afternoon, I think the deal is done.
They move back to the United States.
Okay, now, on that, all kinds of conservative critics, this animates them.
This brings them to life.
They say, this is terrible.
This is terrible.
This is the exact kind of thing Obama does that we're trying to oppose here.
Unilateral executive action.
It's unconstitutional.
He can't go tell private visitors what to do, and you people shouldn't be applauding it, is what they say.
I mean, if he can go tell Ford that they can't move and the Oreo people that he's never going to eat an Oreo if they do move, what if he goes and tells some company to move?
We don't want presidents to have this kind of power.
One of the dangers of having somebody like Obama is that if we don't get rid of all the executive power Obama used, we're going to be in trouble.
If we just try to use that power for our own purposes, we've lost anyway.
In fact, Victor Davis Hansen has a column on that very premise today, writing that we should not seek to use the executive powers Obama has appropriated for himself as a means of fixing what Obama broke.
We ought go back to proper separation of powers and fix this the right way rather than it is a problem, by the way, once this kind of because human beings are human beings, and if they're not particularly loyal to the Constitution, hell with it, power is power.
And getting rid of power, a lot of people don't do that.
There aren't very many people who willingly give away power or share it, except the Republicans.
We're experts in it.
But most people don't.
So I just ask, are you at all troubled at Trump's?
He's going to call Ford Motor and say, okay, look, you guys actually do this.
And you can forget bringing these cars you make back in the country.
Hell with you.
It costs you a 35% tariff to do it if you do this.
And by 5 o'clock, Ford will say, okay, okay, fine, Mr. President Trump.
We're not moving.
Right on, right on.
Limits on executive power types think this is just bad, and you should not be applauding that, folks.
It's a mistake, and you should not fall for it.
Now, where were these same conservative critics when Obama was telling Boeing they couldn't move to a right to work?
See, the problem with this is that all of these Republican critics have no problem shackling Republicans and telling them what they can't do.
And Obama's out doing it.
We don't hear a word because, of course, we can't criticize Obama.
No.
You know why?
Because Obama's African-American.
They call us racist.
The media will be all over us.
They accuse us of shutting down the government.
Oh, no, that's the worst that could happen.
You know, even now, Mitch McConnell and the gang are paranoid that something's going to happen, the government's going to shut down.
They're going to get blamed for it.
Even in the midst of all of this, that is what one of their primary worries is right now.
But Obama ran around ordering Boeing to do this, granting money to Salinder, bankrupting all these green countries, a simple money laundering scheme.
Nobody said a word.
Nobody said a word of anything to stop Obama.
That's right, Rush.
Well, he's historic.
He's the first African-American president.
We can't be seen as opposing that.
That would do us a chance to Hispanic vote, the African-American vote, 2016.
So everything they do is from a defensive posture, and they tell themselves they have to shut up.
Except when Republicans or potential Republicans may take similar action, then they have no problem standing up and condemning it, even before it happens.
Here is GW, Mount Vernon, Texas.
It's great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Ditto's Rush.
Thanks for having me.
You bet, sir.
I wanted to talk just a moment.
I took my family to the American Airlines Center last night to experience the Trump phenomenon.
And I was surprised and impressed with the positive and excited reaction from.
GW, let me ask you a question.
Did you show up as supporters or did you show up not sure what you were going to get?
Well, my family and I, we like Carson and Trump, but, you know, Trump's energy is unmatched.
I mean, there's, you know, he's very unique.
After the rally, we're definitely leaning more towards Trump than Carson.
Okay, well, I just wanted to get your frame of mind as you were there.
So what was it you noticed that you thought was interesting?
Well, I noticed a very positive and exciting or excited reaction from the large number of Hispanic Americans that were there.
Really?
Yes, very much so.
There were a lot of them in the audience, a lot of Hispanic families.
And the media noticed also, I mean, they were constantly coming by singling out the Hispanics for interviews.
Of course, I don't think we'll see these interviews on TV.
It was very, very obvious.
But what really stood out, there were two things.
One, when Trump started discussing illegal immigration, they were the first to jump to their feet.
I mean, just jump to their feet with excitement, applause, energy.
And I mean, the whole audience rose to their feet.
But I just, I was sitting right next to a family, a very nice Hispanic family, and are, you know, getting along, having great conversations, but they were the first to jump to their feet, and I noticed others in the audience, and that really stood out.
But what stood out even more to me is when we left the rally, there were a lot of protesters that were positioning themselves in the way of the parking lot so that you had to walk by them to leave.
And as we approached, I saw a large group of Hispanic people chanting.
And when we got closer to them, they were chanting, go Donald Trump, Go Donald Trump.
And what was happening was Hispanics were protesting the protesters.
And at first, we thought these were the protesters, but these were people who attended the event.
And when they were leaving the event and they were coming in contact with the protesters, they just decided to protest the protesters.
You know, every time this comes up, every time I get a call on the program like this from somebody who is either Hispanic supporting Trump and his position on illegal immigration or a Hispanic calling to say so, I get flooded with emails from others who say, hey, hey, you know what?
I'm Hispanic.
I couldn't agree more.
Really overwhelmed.
Every time I'm going to get them now, since we've heard here from GEW about this, people are going to send me, yeah, he's right, he's right, I'm one of them.
And I'm going to be overwhelmed with them.
And it just, I think it shows we've been conditioned to think of the Hispanic community as monolithic, all in for the Democrat Party.
And because of that, that's why we have to understand and support the Republican Party supporting Amnesty, because all Hispanics do.
And every time we hear anecdotal evidence to the contrary, I literally am overwhelmed with people supporting the contention.
Be right back after this, folks.
Don't go away.
Time here for a quick sound by Don Lemon.
CNN last night after the Trump rally.
Lemon played a clip of Trump speaking about immigration.
And this was his reaction.
Now, this is quite telling, too.
Did you hear the cheers and the applause he got when he mentioned immigration and building a wall and people saying, USA, USA, and screaming?
I've never heard anyone rally around in the Republican Party rally around the immigration issue like that.
Donald Trump speaks on immigration like he has spoken on immigration for three months.
And Don Lemon says he'd never seen anything like this.
Now, it's Don Lemon.
Understand.
But still, the point here is that it is a shock to all of these drive-bys that there is such opposition to immigration.
See, they think Trump is way, way out there all by himself, walking a plank, that he's extreme and uncouth and maybe even uncivilized and clearly all alone out there.
And then when they see evidence of this rollicking support, they're shocked.
They're stunned.
My point is, they don't know, folks, these inside the beltway media types, the elites, they don't know in this case, not all of them.
In this case, they're so distant, they're so far away from the mainstream of the people in this country that they are shocked when they find out what they really think.
And yet when Obama goes out, talks about making sure the sea levels don't rise or whatever, they think that's right in their mainstream.
Oh, man, that's exactly what we all think and believe.
But this is a foreign country or world to them.
I don't know.
I just find it fascinating that we have major news networks that are such strangers to majority thinking in this country.
They really don't know what it is.
Shocked every time they see it.
Somebody just sent me a note.
You think CNN is going to try to cause trouble?
Hell yes.
I think CNN's going to cause trouble.
I have no idea what, but there's no doubt in my mind.
They're going to have the biggest audience they've ever had.
They're going to try to maximize it, move the Democrat agenda forward by making every one of these people as they can look like idiots.
And of course they're going to be focused.
You realize the notch in the belt that's awaiting whoever scalps Trump?
I think they think everybody knows it.
That's why they're planning on big numbers to boot.
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