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Oct. 14, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 14, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
For 28 years, well, actually longer than that.
That's how long I've been doing the radio show.
28 or 30 years, I've been watching the junk and the garbage that was on TV last night.
And for 28 or 30 years, I still can't believe that 40% of the country applauds it, supports it, buys into it.
Especially the way it was presented last night.
Now, does anybody want to dispute with me that Hillary Clinton is going to be the nominee?
I mean, I've been telling you all along, don't get all jazzed up about Bernie Sanders.
And none of these, Martin O'Malley, the only chance the guy had last night is if he took off his shirt.
And since he didn't do that, the guy's a joke.
The guy can't.
Look, let me take that back.
He's a lightweight.
He's not in the upper tier.
And when you're not in the upper tier of the Democrat, you are almost invisible.
Jim Webb, totally 100% out of place on that stage last night.
Bernie Sanders, if anybody has any doubt, they've already gotten to Bernie Sanders.
I guarantee you they have gotten to Bernie Sanders, and he is there to get Hillary Clinton nominated.
And it was made abundantly clear last night that the Bernie Sanders campaign, whatever it was, or whatever it is going to remain going forward, is nothing more than a show campaign designed to make it look like Hillary is overcoming something so that when she gets the nomination, it does not appear to be a coronation, like she has won some sort of a tough battle.
And Lincoln chafing.
Folks, you know, I really thought I was looking at characters in a bad sitcom last night.
Greetings.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone, 800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program.
So what do we see last night?
We saw socialism preferred over capitalism.
Now, that isn't new, except that they admitted it last night.
It's always been the case with the modern era of the Democrat Party that they are socialists, but they've always tried to back.
Even Hillary tried to distance herself from that.
Well, no, my job as president will be to reign in capitalism.
Hello, socialism.
We were also treated, and did you see the applause this guy with Bernie Sanders is out there talking about climate change, the number one threat, the number one enemy, the biggest challenge we've gotten if we don't deal with it in like 200 years?
The planet is going to be uninhabitable.
Uninhabitable now.
The planet, and by the way, not 200 years, but your children and grandchildren may not have a planet to inhabit.
And this stuff is being applauded.
They're still fighting the Iraq war in the Democrat Party.
They're acting like the last seven years have not happened.
They are campaigning as though George W. Bush is still president, like we're still in Iraq.
There wasn't, I mean, all of this talk about how bad things are and how much they need to improve and how these are the people to do it ignores the fact that things are bad because they are running the show and have been for seven years.
And I was amazed at how cavalierly they approached that.
The last seven years have not had Republican fingerprints on hardly anything by design.
The Republican Party has morphed into invisibility for all intents and purposes because they're still afraid of upsetting the independent.
Do you know that that's still the establishment view?
The reason why the Republicans should not fight back is that it will upset the independents that we need to win the presidency.
You know what's going to happen?
Even if we do win the presidency and we win it with an establishment candidate, then they're going to say, well, we've got to be very careful about advancing our agenda because if we advance our agenda, we're going to tick off the independents who might abandon us in 2020.
We are handcuffing ourselves from doing anything with the establishment way of looking at things.
I'm sorry for my scattershot thoughts here, but it's just a stream of consciousness.
But I really, I was taken aback by all the references to the Iraq war as though it's still going on and all of the horrible economic things and the lack of health care.
Did you hear that last night?
Did you list these people last night?
There's no health care.
We still haven't health care.
We don't have health insurance.
We don't have anything for the poor.
And last night, the Democrats demanded health care and health insurance free for illegal immigrants.
And then they demanded free college tuition that the rich are going to pay for because the rich aren't paying enough now.
I heard it all.
You've heard it all.
There was not a single shred of anything new from these people last night.
Now, the drive-bys are all excited, folks.
They are orgasmic over Hillary's performance.
But Hillary did not win a debate last night.
That was not a debate.
And we really don't know how Hillary's going to do a debate, although we can take existing performances to date.
For example, let me just ask you what you've seen of Jeb Bush so far versus what you saw with Hillary last night.
What's the outcome?
Yeah, sad to say, isn't it?
Sad to say that the Hillary last night would probably triumph over the Jeb Bush that we have seen in the debates so far.
And then you can throw other Republican candidates in there and play the same game.
We heard that Obama's been great.
Oh, yes, Obama's been great, but we still need to fix everything.
But he's been great.
Everybody has been very loyal to Obama, and everybody's going to maintain what Obama's, we're going to make it even better.
No.
They didn't say we're going to make it even better.
They said we're going to fix it.
They didn't even acknowledge that things are good now.
I don't care, folks.
And I know the Democrat voters, and I got to look at it this way, but they threw Obama overboard last night, as far as I'm concerned.
But it doesn't matter because the Democrat voters watching that thing last night, and there were more of them than anybody predicted.
I mean, their audience did not get close to a Fox News debate audience, a Republican audience, but they got a bigger audience last night than they've ever had at CNN for a debate.
We won't have the full Nielsen ratings representation until later.
Of course, Les Moonvest, CBS, says that ratings don't matter anymore.
What does that tell you about Colbert's new show?
Sorry, folks, to still have the ravages of this virus, whatever it is, coursing through my body.
Did you know that when I heard this?
By the way, I thought Anderson Cooper was stellar last night.
I do.
And I know, Snerdley, that you disagree with me.
I think Anderson Cooper, he came out of the box and he was trying.
They wouldn't answer any of his questions.
They showed how it's done.
I mean, he wanted, he was trying to get them to react to things they had said previously.
He tried to get Hillary on flip-flopping.
She wouldn't go there.
He tried to get the others on things they've said that they've changed their minds about or things they've said that are really outrageous and over the top.
He tried.
He kept going back to these people.
I'm sorry you didn't answer my question.
The question is, and they kept avoiding it.
I mean, they put on a clinic how to avoid answering these questions.
The Republicans, of course, are obsessed with answering the questions specifically because they think they have to in order to show the independence that they're nice people and that they're not tricksters and they're not afraid.
But the Democrats can play whatever games of avoidance they want.
But Anderson Cooper, I'm going to tell you, I thought he was good last night.
I thought he was frustrated at times, but overall, the moderators last night and the interrogators and the so forth were not a factor.
Well, take that back.
Look, they didn't ask specifically about Hillary's problems.
They didn't really get into Benghazi.
They didn't really get into her emails.
In fact, there was, I think, a conspiracy of sorts to just get rid of the email subject altogether.
And when that happened, when Bernie Sanders led that movement, that's when I realized his candidacy is faux, F-A-U-X.
He's up there to get her nominated.
There's no way this guy is going to get the nomination.
He's out there.
If you listen to these people last year, here's a summary of what we're going to get if these people win the White House.
You got higher taxes, open borders, no limits.
Bring anybody in that you want to bring in or who wants to come in.
We're going to have an even bigger government.
Free college for everybody.
Because 50 years ago, all you needed to succeed in America was a hasscrew diploma.
But today, a four-year college degree is about the same value in the job market as a has-screw diploma was 50 years ago.
So we've got a free college for anybody, and everybody wants to go.
The rich are going to pay for it.
We have a much bigger welfare state.
Bernie Sanders is up there talking about how, if you've seen Denmark, we got to do what Denmark's doing.
Bernie doesn't know that Denmark has reduced the size of its welfare state significantly.
Denmark, long ago, there are only 6 million people anyway, so you can't compare a population of 6 million people to one of 300 plus million.
But Denmark realized they had overextended on their welfare state, and they're in the process of dialing it back and rolling it back.
And Denmark, by the way, is telling these immigrants from Syria and these refugees.
Nope, not here.
Go to Germany.
Angela Merkel wants you.
We don't.
We don't have any room for you.
So Bernie's living in a time warp where Denmark was something that it isn't anymore.
Socialized medicine.
I still can't believe these people are talking about health care as though nothing's been done on it.
We've got Obamacare.
We have the law that everybody has to have insurance now.
Their problem with it is that it's gotten so much more expensive than it was that it isn't free.
So they can't come out and blame Obama, but indirectly they did by demanding and continuing the call for unilateral socialized medicine.
I mean, this is Obama's signature issue, the biggest accomplishment of his presidency.
And these people are out there ripping it to shreds as though it doesn't exist.
And of course, it was being applauded by the Star Wars cantina scene that was the audience at the Wynn Hotel.
And of course, the PS de Resistance, there will be no guns.
There will be no oil and there will be no banks.
I mean, that pretty much sums it up.
That was the Democrat debate last night.
Higher taxes.
Borders are wide open.
Anybody wants in, come on in.
Government's going to get bigger.
Want to go to college?
It's free.
It's not going to cost you anything.
And we're also, in addition to your free college tuition, we are going to lower your student loan interest rate.
Wait a minute.
If college is going to be free, why is there a student loan interest rate?
By the way, who is running the student loan program now?
That's right.
Barack Hussein O took it over, took it back from the banks under the theory that the banks were ripping everybody off, so now Obama's ripping everybody off.
The welfare state's going to expand to include illegals who are going to be welcomed into the country.
We're going to find you health care right by nobody having to pay anything for either health treatment or coverage or insurance.
And we're going to close down all the banks.
We're going to get rid of everything that runs on oil.
And we're going to shut down the oil wells and we're going to get rid of guns.
There you have it.
And it's wildly applauded.
They had to take commercial breaks, you know, get the dandruff off Bernie Sanders' suit.
He should have worn a seersucker suit out there.
But, you know, the commercial breaks, they had to take them.
And every time they came back, there was less dandruff on Bernie's jacket.
Hey, I'm watching on 4K.
I know that they are not transmitting in 4K, but I have gazoodal amounts of pixels out there, and I see things on my giant big screen projector TV.
The last commercial break, Hillary almost didn't make it back.
She went to Potty.
And we know this because when she got back, she acknowledged that it takes her a long time.
Quote, unquote, takes me a little longer.
Did you know that Bernie Sanders, I was going to say, honeymooned in the Soviet Union?
I was rolling on the floor.
I mean, that's part of Anderson Cooper's one of his opening questions.
Okay, you went down.
I guess you proposed when you went down to meet the Sandinistas, the communist Sandinistas in Nicaragua, you honeymooned, Sophie.
Nobody goes to the Soviet Union on purpose, certainly not for a vacation or a honeymoon, but Bernie Sanders did.
I didn't know that.
And I'm just rolling on the floor when I heard that.
I had not paid attention to Martin O'Malley before.
I knew he was the mayor of Baltimore and the governor of Maryland, but man, I had much higher expectations of the guy.
The guy got no gravitas whatsoever.
That's why I say, since he didn't take his shirt off like Putin, I didn't know they're there.
Student body president, maybe principal type personality or what have you.
I don't know.
It just was fascinating to me to listen to these people talk about this country as though they have not been in charge of it the past seven years.
And did you know only one of them would actually say that all lives matter?
And that was Webb.
Only one of them would say that.
You know, John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, he met the Viet Cong in Paris during his honeymoon.
Now with Teresa before he, no, no, his first wife, he's honeymooning in Paris and he finds out the peace talks are there.
In fact, he probably went to Paris because the peace talks were there.
He took time out to go meet the Viet Cong.
What is it with these people?
Anyway, we got a good start here.
We'll come back and continue.
Check the email during the break.
I got a note from someone surprised that the other Democrats on stage didn't go after Hillary on the email business.
Folks, that is exactly what I'm talking about.
Hillary got a pardon for the email crimes by the debaters last night because they know they can't win.
Everybody up there, from Bernie Sanders to Jim Webb to Lincoln Chafee, who am I leaving out?
Whoever they are, they know they can't win.
If Biden doesn't get in, Hillary wins this.
And the drive-bys are spending the morning telling Biden, don't bother.
Hillary hit a grand slam last night.
You're not needed.
You don't have a prayer.
That's the message in the drive-bys to Biden.
But these dwarfs on the stage last night have to preserve their worthless careers as nobody Democrats.
They're not going to go after Hillary on this email thing because not a single one of them knows they can win.
They are all placeholders in this thing.
Even Martin O'Malley.
Now, I don't know how big of a capacity he has to fool himself, but it was clear that last night was not a debate, that none of those candidates were going to go after Hillary, and the media was not going to make that happen.
The media was not going to treat these people as Republicans and try to create controversy or fights between them.
So, you shouldn't look at this thing last night as a standard ordinary debate where every candidate up there is trying to win the thing.
Every other Democrat and Hillary is trying to preserve their status as approved Democrat, worthy of remaining in office in some capacity and in power at whatever level.
I mean, Hillary Clinton for crying out, what are we?
This is a woman who has more baggage than a Kardashian on an extended European vacation.
And to defeat her, you cannot give her a pass on anything.
You have to go after everything she has done.
And you cannot let her get away with evading everything like she did last night.
You have to know her record cold, and you have to be relentless in attacking it.
That's the Republican objective when they get to that point.
These people on the stage last night were no way going to do that.
Ha!
All right, you welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, doing what I was born to do, and that's why I am always having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Did you know Hillary Clinton is a woman?
I know that in some people's minds, the jury is still out, but she admitted it last night.
For how many times now has she told us she is a woman?
I don't know about you, but I kind of get the idea.
I get it.
She's told us enough that she is a woman.
Why does she feel she has to remind everybody of that a five minutes?
Is there some doubt out there?
Can we not tell she's a woman by looking at her?
No, no, seriously.
She can't let five minutes go by last night without reminding everybody that she is a woman.
And all of that is predicated on she's a victim.
And being a woman makes her an outsider.
And I'll tell you why she brings it up.
She brings it up, so because that's about her only accomplishment.
Now, here's one thing we that, well, I'll tell you, I learned last night.
I don't want to put my words in your mouth.
You may disagree with this.
Feel free to say so.
But Hillary came out last night and she was not robotic.
Don't know how they did it, but they pulled it off.
When Hillary Clinton is unchallenged and when she knows that she's not going to be challenged, and she knew that last night, she knew that Dana Bash wasn't going to come after her.
And she knew that Anderson Cooper really wasn't.
Although, I don't want to take anything away from Anderson Cooper.
I thought he was pretty good last night.
But at the end of the day, any Democrat candidate knows that nobody in the drive-by media is going to come after them.
And particularly the Clintons, their royalty.
The drive-by media salivate over the chance to be close to the Clintons.
They want to be in the Clinton orb.
So they're not going to approach Hillary in any sort of confrontational way.
And she knows that.
So when she has the, and I guess it's true of anybody, when you're in a circumstance like this, either public speaking, when you're doing a speech or a presentation, or you're on a roundtable or even in a debate, when you know that nobody's going to come after you, you can be supremely confident.
You can be extremely relaxed.
And you can even shed some of your self-consciousness.
You're able to do that.
You're going to have a good night.
So we know that she's a very good debater when unchallenged, but we will never know, at least in this primary, how effective she is as a debater until she participates in a real debate.
Now, she has done that against Barack Hussein.
Oh, does anybody remember, to go back now to 2008 for this, and maybe even into late 2007, does anybody remember any of the Hillary and Barack Obama debates?
And if you do, do any of you remember Hillary Clinton, the obvious runaway winner?
I doubt that you do.
What happened last night, when you strip everything away, Hillary Clinton was applauded and complimented for running an illegal email server exposing national secrets to hackers.
Now, that doesn't happen to most people in a debate who have done what Hillary have done.
Most people would not be applauded for things like that.
Mitt Romney would not be, for example.
Nor any Republican you can name.
But Hillary, last night on the stage, was applauded.
She was complimented and she was exonerated for not only the emails, but for her role in Benghazi.
And by the time they had finished discussing Benghazi, it was only an issue because these mean-spirited extremist Republicans are trying to come after her.
There's nothing to it.
So anybody can be a good debater when circumstances like that exist.
Anybody can win.
Anybody can appear to be in total command and control when you know, as Hillary do, that every vulnerability she had was going to be either ignored or praised.
You allow Hillary Clinton to get away with various improprieties as Secretary of State in a debate.
That's what future job seekers do.
That's what all these other Democrats, they let her get away with everything.
Bernie Sanders effectively wiped the email scandal away, telling me he's not serious.
He knows he's not going to win.
He wants to stay in the good graces of Mrs. Clinton and the Democrat Party.
You have to relentlessly attack every issue because Hillary is going to avoid it.
She is going to deal with it like the Clintons always do.
Ron Fournier has a piece today that we all could have written back in the 90s describing the Clinton technique for escaping circumstances like this.
And his piece today says, yeah, she got away with it last night, but she's not going to be able to get away with it once the Republicans are on the stage.
And we hope that's true.
But don't doubt me when I tell you the establishment Republicans are still obsessed with not upsetting the independents and the moderates.
And they really believe that criticizing Obama, opposing Obama, the Democrats, is a way to.
I'm not making it up.
It's become a cliche, but they actually still do believe it.
Evidence was all over Twitter last night.
Hillary said she wasn't there last night to talk about her emails.
She was there to talk about what the American people want from the next president.
Does that sound familiar?
I'm not here to talk about my emails.
I'm here to talk about the future of America for everyone, particularly the forgotten.
I'm going to say this one more time.
I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky, not a single time.
I never asked anybody to lie.
Now, I need to get back to work for the American people.
Does it sound familiar?
The technique?
When you are allowed, the big win of this debate last night was Santa Claus.
When you are allowed to promise to buy votes without any effective opposition response, when you are allowed to attack Republicans without any effective response, when you are allowed to flip-flop on votes without being hammered on the flops, then you can be a great debater.
And this is why the drive-bys are claiming that she's a great debater.
They think she tackled this stuff head-on.
She was met with these allegations.
She had a tackle of it, and she just swatted them away like a bunch of irritating flies.
Except that's not what happened.
She didn't face one challenge.
She didn't face anything remotely serious.
So all of you people in the drive-bys clapping your hands saying, wow, what a great performance, man.
Hillary's back.
That was not a debate performance last night.
That was an enablement, if you will.
Like, I'm a very good golfer when they give me 25 strokes.
I can play with anybody if they give me 25 strokes.
And I can even tell myself after that round, hey, you know, I broke 80.
But I don't admit to anybody they gave me 25 shots.
So you got to be very, and look at the other thing.
CNN, the audience numbers, the preliminary ratings for the audience for the debate last night were about half the size of the Republican debates on both CNN and Fox, half the size.
The media is out there talking, wow, this is huge.
They're so excited at getting an audience half the size of Republican debates.
So the Democrats get half the audience of the Republicans, and it's a triumph for the Democrat Party.
Half the audience, half the interest, half the tune.
And it's a triumph for the Democrat Party.
Your telephone calls are coming up soon, folks.
And yes, of course, there's all kinds of stuff besides this out.
I don't intend to spend a whole program on this.
In case you're getting worried, don't sweat it.
Let's do a couple of soundbites here leading into the first phone call of the day.
First up is a montage here from the debate last night.
So you have Bernie Sanders, Hillary, Lincoln Chaffee, and they're all talking about all the free stuff.
College and health care and whatever you want if you're an illegal immigrant, it's all yours.
All you have to do is show up.
Make every public college and university in this country tuition-free.
Anyone to go to a public college or university, tuition-free.
We all got to have medical and family-paid leave.
Make sure every child gets health care, including undocumented children and others.
Funding education, funding infrastructure, funding health care.
Enhance the benefits for the poorest recipients of Social Security.
We should be putting money into education.
I want Wall Street now to help kids in this country go to college, public colleges, and universities.
I know we can afford it because we're going to make the wealthy pay for it.
We can afford it because we're going to make the wealthy.
We are $18 trillion in debt.
Now, you can afford anything if you ignore that.
And if you don't think that's a problem, and if that number is irrelevant, the money never has to even be serviced or paid back, then of course you can afford anything.
But the truth is we can't afford anything.
We can afford maybe what?
What's the number that we drag in by tax revenue every year?
I get the numbers are confusing, but $300 billion, $3 trillion or whatever we can afford every year.
But we so exceed that.
We have exceeded it for so long.
We're already paying for things we can't afford.
And these people just want to lap more and more on top of it.
You know, one of the biggest misdirections in public dialogue and politics is the taxpayer's expense.
Taxpayers have to pay.
The taxpayers don't pay anything.
The reason is they're not conscious of it.
Everybody's taxes are withheld from their paychecks, those who work.
Very few people are independent contractors actually pay their taxes themselves.
The vast majority of people never see the money they pay in taxes, any kind.
Property tax is part of the homeowners, the mortgage payment every month.
Very little tax do you ever see, particularly income and payroll taxes.
So people come along and say, this is going to cost taxpayers X, and that's going to cost the taxpayer.
It doesn't cost you anything.
We build a battleship.
You don't think it's cost you anything?
What's your share of it?
Whoever sent you a bill for your portion of a B-2 bomber.
So the idea that taxpayers' expenses doesn't mean anything because it has no basis in relatability.
So you can run around and talk about we're going to pay for this, we're going to do this, we can afford this, and the taxpayers are not going to worry about it.
They've never gotten a bill for anything.
So the idea that it's costing them something totally is over their head.
It totally escapes them.
Without any consciousness or any awareness of an annual deficit and an accumulating national debt and what it actually means, and I venture to say 90% of the population doesn't have the slightest clue what it means, it can't be a negative used against the Democrats.
We've proven that.
For 50 years, people on our side have been trying to prove and establish that the Democrats can be beaten by talking about all this excessive spending.
But the fact is it doesn't work.
It doesn't persuade anybody to not support or vote Democrats because they're never aware of having to pay for any of it.
Be they taxpayers or recipients.
They're not aware of having to pay for any of it.
They never see the tax revenue that's collected from them in the first place, and they certainly aren't aware how it's allocated.
Here is another montage of the drive-by media talking about how great Hillary was.
She was so good that it's just too late for Joe Biden to even...
Joe Biden, the vice president, may have missed his chance.
Maybe we don't need Joe Biden.
If Vice President Biden was looking for a clear opening into the race last night, he didn't get it.
We're talking about her performance and not the huge vacuum in the race to be filled by a white knight like Joe Biden.
If I'm Biden, I don't see any way to get on the stage.
I don't know if Joe Biden saw anything last night that would suggest that his presence is needed.
I don't see where his different lane is.
There's a sense that his moment has passed.
America loves Joe Biden, but I don't know where the opening is.
Right, because they got rid of every scandal.
She was exonerated, Benghazi, emails.
She was applauded, exonerated, and pardoned by her own party last night.
Well, there's no reason for Biden to get in because there's no problem that needs solved, and there's nothing a Democrat Party needs to be saved from.
So, Joe, don't worry about it.
You don't have to get dressed as often anymore.
Here's Jack in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Great to have you on the program.
Jack, you're up first.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Hey.
I just got to say after watching the debate last night, where is the outrage in America?
Where is the dumbfoundness of America?
This debate last night, this show last night, I was dumbfounded by the lack of substance in what these people were saying.
And yet today, Fox News, CNN, all of them, oh, it was a good debate.
Oh, she did a good job.
She didn't hurt herself.
She didn't do this.
I am outraged as an American as to everything that has gone on in the last six, eight months, year, in the Mideast and everywhere else, our economy.
And this is what we're fed from the Democrats?
I'm dumbfounded.
I'm outraged.
I cannot believe that they weren't even ushered off the stage for just lack of substance.
I'm pissed.
I just can't believe that the American people are going to watch this problem.
I know.
I hear you.
40% of the American people are watching that last night, Jack, and they're applauding it.
I know.
It's depressing, isn't it, Jack?
I know.
Like every day for 28 years, Jack.
How else do you conclude that half this country is a bunch of ignoramuses?
Well, I don't, but a lot of people do.
But, Jack, I mean, everybody hears you.
It is a giant mystery.
It is, you know, what happens?
How do these people, how are they created?
Anyway, have to explore this in greater detail later because we are out of time.
How about this?
The latest medical study of the day.
Psychopaths take their coffee black.
Non-psychopaths put sugar in their coffee.
You like it black?
You're a wacko.
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