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Oct. 23, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 23, 2015, Friday, Hour #3
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Look, I just want to take some time here, just a brief moment.
I feel like I'm not appropriately thanking all these nice people today who are calling and describing how they found the program, how much it means to them.
But I appreciate it more than you know, and I'm profoundly moved by it.
And I just want you to know that.
I don't know how else to.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Really, really appreciate it.
Never take it for granted.
That's why I show up here every day with the self-imposed requirement that I meet and surpass audience expectations.
I know how much time you invest listening to the program, and I do not take it for granted.
Great to have you back, folks.
One hour left here at 800-282-2882.
And the email address, LRushbow at EIBNet.com.
You know, our last caller, she said that she was with a friend, very close to the first Obama election.
And the friend said, whatever you do, don't listen to Rush Limbaugh.
Do not listen to Rush Limbaugh.
The friend was obviously worried that I would persuade her friend not to vote for Obama.
If they weren't worried about that, they would go, oh, listen to Limbaugh.
This guy's the biggest whacker.
You haven't lived until you've learned this is what this guy thinks.
But no, don't listen to Rush Law.
Every you do, don't listen to Rush Limbaugh.
So she did.
And she's been hooked ever since.
Do you know that's what Obama said?
After he was elected, after the immaculation ceremony, he had a meeting with the congressional leadership, both parties, up in the White House.
And he looked at John Boehner.
And Boehner was here two weeks later, confirmed to me this happened.
It was reported, but Boehner came down here.
We had a chat.
He confirmed it.
Obama told the Republicans, don't listen to Rush Limbaugh.
That's not how things get done here.
You've got to stop listening to Limbaugh.
And Boehner said to me, we don't know why he said that to us.
And I looked at him and I said, because what they wanted, we're just hoping that one of you would go out to that bank of microphones outside the White House when you finished the meeting and denounce me.
He would have loved that.
He had already co-opted a bunch of conservative columnists by having dinner with them at George Will's house.
And that's when David Brooks wrote about the crease in Obama's slacks and how that told David Brooks he's going to be great president.
So Obama had chosen his conservative critics by having dinner with them.
And he wanted to nullify all the others.
So that's what he was trying to do.
That's a Tom Daschell, Puff Dash.
This is after the 2002 midterm or yeah, 2002 midterms.
Tom Daschell was the Senate majority leader at the time, the Democrats in the Senate.
And they had some focus group data after those elections that scared the heck out of them.
Daschell actually went out to the microphones and admitted that they were worried because people who listened to me were actually changing their minds.
They had believed all this time that everybody listening to this show was a mind-numbed robot, incapable of independent thought, and that were just doing what I told them to do.
They had some focus group data that showed there were a lot of former Democrats listening to this program.
And Tom Daschel was very much worried about it.
So it has been an admonition of Bill Clinton, you know, was constantly trying to get people to stop listening to me.
And that's why I say, I wonder how many people have been told not to, out of curiosity, did.
And now are loyalists, if you will.
Donald Trump has told people to stop giving money to his PACs, and he's asked the PACs to give the money back.
Donald Trump doesn't want anybody to think that money is influencing anything he's doing, other people's money.
Now, of a PAC, a candidate cannot coordinate with a PAC.
By law, a candidate cannot.
The PACs raise money and do with it what they want, supposedly without any contact with the candidate.
It's expressly forbidden by law.
Now, we know that laws have never stopped people.
There's been always allegations over the years that there's been coordination.
But Trump is actually, you know, give the money back.
I don't want anybody to be confused about me being bought or influenced by money.
Something else is happening out there.
The first story, this is a politico story.
Insiders, Trump nomination looking more likely.
This story actually surfaced earlier this week in different places.
But it appears today in the Politico.
It's by Katie Glick.
81% of Republican insiders, we're not told who they are.
I mean, some people think I'm the titular head of the Republican Party, for example, and Politico didn't ask me about this.
So when you hear Republican inside, who do you think?
Who do you think the Republican insiders are?
Does that you immediately think, well, inside the Beltway establishment types?
Do you think officials of the RNC?
Do you think elected Republicans?
Who are these Republican insiders?
Are they consultants?
Who is it they're talking to?
81% of Republican insiders say that the likelihood that Trump becomes their party's nominee is higher today than it was a month ago.
And 79% of Democrats said the same thing.
This according to the Politico Caucus, their weekly bipartisan survey of the top strategists, operatives, and activists in the early voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada.
Now, these are the same insiders, the same people who said back in July that Trump had peaked.
Same people.
Politico went back and got it July 24th, 2015.
Insiders, Donald Trump has peaked.
Headline today, Politico, insiders, Trump nomination looking more likely.
Well, now, what are we to draw from this?
Are we to conclude here that the insiders didn't know what they were talking about back in July?
The subsame writer, Katie Glick, the majority of Republican insiders back in July say that the Donald has hit his ceiling, while gleeful Democrats say he's not going anywhere.
About three-quarters of Republican early state insiders say they believe Donald Trump has peaked.
But many acknowledge that may also be wishful thinking.
Okay, so there's that.
And that's been out there in a number of different places all week.
Breitbart News has this story.
A Heskruel in Arizona has banned pro-Donald Trump clothing at a Friday football game because it would be racist or offensive.
Corona del Sol High School in Tempe, Arizona with a student body known as the Tribe.
You got to be kidding me.
Are you kidding me?
And we have people upset with the name Washington Redskins, and we've got a high school student body known as the Tribe.
Corona del Sol High School in Tempe set to face off against the Marcos Daniza High School Friday in a rivalry game.
The game's supposed to have a USA theme, but that theme was considered problematic and thrown out.
They threw out a rivalry.
Well, they threw out the theme, a USA theme.
They threw it out because it was offensive.
Because there's a team here, the student bodies known as the tribe.
Anyway, no Trump clothing.
And by that, no Make America Great caps, no Trump t-shirts, none of that's allowed.
You know why?
Because Trump's a racist and a bigot.
Have you heard, ladies and gentlemen, of this massive hurricane that is slated to hit Mexico later today?
It is a category five.
What's the name of this thing?
Patricia.
It's a category five.
are saying it is the most powerful hurricane ever.
The most, and it's on the Pacific side, not in the Gulf.
It looks like it's going to go ashore near Acapulco.
Puerto Vallarta, I mean, Puerto Vallarta, which I've been there.
Yeah, it was a golf thing.
Now, the first thing, how in the world did I know it's the biggest hurricane ever?
Maybe since we've been keeping records, but how do they know it's the biggest hurricane ever?
Let me tell you what's going to happen out there.
I'll tell you why they're hyping this thing.
They're hyping it for two reasons.
And both of them are patently obvious.
The first reason they're hyping it, they've been waiting for something like this since Katrina.
Global warming, climate change.
Finally, we have a killer hurricane, a massive killer hurricane.
The only problem is it isn't going to hit the United States.
But it's going to hit Mexico, and they'll make that work.
Because you know what this thing's going to cause?
Can you imagine the number of homeless refugees this hurricane is going to leave in its wake?
Can you imagine the number of people who are going to have nowhere to go but the United States after this hurricane hits?
The Democrat Party right now is looking at Hurricane Patricia and calculating how many new registered voters they can get out of it.
Do not doubt me.
This hurricane, if it is as destructive as the wild guess that attaches itself to it says it's going to be, it's going to do a lot of damage.
It's going to leave a lot of people homeless, a lot of people hoteless, a lot of people without an airport.
They're going to have nowhere to go other than the United States.
I predict to you, depending on when this thing hits, we may even see newscasts tonight.
We may even see discussion groups on cable TV tonight about the need to establish programs to absorb hurricane refugees starting tomorrow.
Damn straight.
What an opportunity this is going to be for them.
You look at me like you doubt me.
Oh, you hadn't thought of that when you, oh, I see.
That's what you're.
Yeah, you know, you should be horrified because that's this is the exact kind of natural disaster crisis that the Democrat Party feeds off of.
I mean, this is practically the way this thing's being reported.
This is guaranteed disaster.
Guaranteed homeless Mexicans.
There's only one solution.
Bring them here.
Go get them.
It's compassion.
It's saving lives.
It's charity.
It's everything all rolled into one.
Plus, you get them in here outside the immigration system.
So you can't even criticize that.
Nothing to do with immigration.
This is simply American compassion.
Why our neighbor has been wrecked and destroyed by a vicious, mean-spirited hurricane, biggest ever.
We can only do one thing and absorb these homeless people.
And there aren't going to be too many people who are not homeless if this thing is as bad as they say it is.
That's another thing.
Let's just wait.
You know how these things end up being oversold, over-promoted.
Now, back to the Republican campaign.
Ben Carson now showing up in the lead in a second poll in Iowa.
And his lead is beyond the margin of error, eight points, nine points.
And you know why they say it's happening?
Facebook.
They say that Ben Carson is owning Facebook in Iowa.
That he goes on Facebook every night, has millions and millions or hundreds of thousands of people that are visiting his Facebook page, and he answers a minimum three questions personally every night.
He has been focusing on Iowa.
He's been spending money and I've been raising money.
He's been under the radar.
Nobody gives Ben Carson a chance at doing anything in terms of actually winning a nomination.
So he's been swimming under the radar with nobody really paying much attention.
Maybe he'll make a speech here and say something like he did equating the Nazis taking over Warsaw when they didn't have guns and it would have been much easier for the Holocaust to be resisted if Jewish people had had guns.
You know, people have a cow over that.
But other than that, he's skating around out there and nobody's noticing two polls leading significantly over Trump and Iowa.
And it's starting, you know, people pay notice, pay attention, stand up.
Is this also not in the script?
And many of the seasoned political professionals have been thrown for a loop.
They just don't understand this.
I mean, they look at the guy and they see he has no energy.
He doesn't appear to have any charisma.
He doesn't, he doesn't, nothing electric about the guy.
They don't understand it.
How in the world can this be happening?
And the reason they don't get it, and the reason they don't get Trump, is they somehow, for some reason, don't look at content.
They're not looking at the substance of what these people have to say.
Carson has more Facebook friends, quote unquote, than Trump has.
And he's got twice as many as Hillary.
And he's really focusing all of his Facebook activity in Iowa.
And it's paying off.
But these critics do not look at what he thinks Ben Carson's stupid.
They think he's uttering inanities.
Even some conservative commentators think that Ben Carson's off of the deep end.
They really do.
And yet he's connecting with people in droves.
He comes out and he says something that the mainstream is just shocked.
He comes out and says something about Islam.
Oh my God, you can't say that.
What a neophyte.
And people, his poll numbers go up.
It's the same thing.
And he doubles down then, just like Trump was doing in the early stages.
And we talked a little earlier this week about McDonald's and the problems they were having, and my theory as to why that liberals and leftists had taken over the menu at the executive level.
Well, McDonald's has come out of the blue and the stock price is going through the roof.
And you know why?
McDonald's added butter to one of its most popular menu items and sales are soaring back after this.
Back to the phones open line Friday.
We have 15-year-old Gideon on the phone from Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
Hey, Gideon, how are you, sir?
Great to have you on the phone on the program.
Hi, Rosh.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
Hi.
I'd like to know.
You mentioned Star Wars 7 earlier this week on Monday.
And I want to know how that relates to politics.
And other movies relate to politics because you always say that everything has to do with politics, even movies.
And I want to know what that is.
Well, you're absolutely right.
There's a political component to everything.
And what I mean by that, Gideon, is that in the entertainment world, in books, movies, music, whatever, every opportunity to advance the Democrat or leftist agenda is taken.
Sometimes it's subtle, sometimes it's blatant.
But politics is a part of everything we do.
But a lot of people don't notice it, don't spot it, don't want to.
They don't want to think politics is an entertainment.
Entertainment's an escape from all that.
They think the Republicans are who is political.
And the Republicans are mean-spirited, extremists, and racists and all that.
Now, specifically about Star Wars and the latest, until I see it, I will not be able to analyze the political content for you.
I have no idea what it's about.
And I disagree with people who are already attaching a political agenda to it because of the cast.
There are some people arguing it has an African-American star, British African star.
And so some people are claiming that it has a racial component to it.
I don't have no idea until I see it.
The only thing I can tell you is that J.J. Abrams, who is this movie, he's the writer, director, producer, the guy hosts fundraisers for Democrats constantly.
He has raised millions of dollars for Democrats.
He's entirely thoroughly political and believes fully in the advancement of the Democrat agenda, which is fine.
It's just that many of these people try to hide the subtle influences in their work that really is political.
The only thing I try to do here is alert people and inform them in such a way they can spot it.
Now, look, I know you have more to say, but I've got a break here.
I've got a hard break that doesn't move.
So hang on, Gideon.
We'll be right back and continue in a second.
Thank you.
Thank you.
And I know.
It's great to have you back, folks.
Open line Friday.
Back to Gideon in Oshkosh.
Okay, Gideon, we have a little bit more time.
Before you reply, during the break, I remembered something, and I was able to find it.
I'm holding it here, my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
It's a French news agency story, May 16th, 2005.
So you're 15.
This was 10 years ago.
So you were five years old when this story ran.
It's about Star Wars VI.
The Star Wars episode 3, actually, Revenge of the Sith, aired or played at the Conn Festival in May of 2005.
And let me just give you the headline here, Gideon.
Star Wars saga ends with jab at Bush's Empire.
And this is how it opens.
The last episode, rounding out the seminal Star Wars science fiction saga, screened at the Con Film Festival today, capping a six-part series that remains a major part of popular culture and delivering a galactic jab to U.S. President George Bush.
And the producers admitted this.
And it was J.J. Abrams, the same guy doing Star Wars VII.
Right.
So it's, look, it's undeniable.
It really is undeniable.
There's politics in everything.
And if I were with you day to day, I could point it out to you in virtually anything you do.
Well, right.
There was the same thing with the Dark Knight.
I heard the same thing in 2008.
It was poking at Rush, not Rush, George W. Bush.
Right.
Well, it's not, in many cases, Gibby, it's not focusing on a person or a president.
It makes fun of a belief system, makes fun of certain values, and promotes others.
It seeks to normalize certain things and make opposition to those things look bigoted.
Sometimes it's subtle, sometimes it isn't.
Sometimes it's blatant and right in front of you.
But my point is that people, a lot of people, I don't like politics.
I just don't like it.
It's everywhere, is my point.
One of my quests is to try to help people spot it everywhere it is.
I just want people to be as informed and educated as they can be and not get tricked and not get what's a better word.
Not brainwashed, but seduced by some of this stuff that causes them to change the way they support political issues or vote or what have you.
Right.
Well, I think, well, you were talking, Benghazi has been a big issue this week.
And Michael Bay is making a movie called 13 Hours The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi.
I'm not really sure what it's about.
I just know it's about Benghazi, but I figure I haven't, I don't like Michael Bay too much, but I don't know what that would exactly.
Michael Bay, he does Transformers, right?
Yes.
And he also does Pearl Harbor and Pearl Harbor.
And he's also consulting or exec producing on the TV show The Last Ship.
Okay.
And The Last Ship, that you can find a lot of ingredients there.
I have no idea.
I didn't know Michael Bay was doing a Benghazi movie.
Yeah, I saw it in a commercial in the theater like a couple weeks ago.
Well, this is a wild guess because I don't know what Michael Bay's politics are.
All I know is that it is really rare to be a known conservative and get jobs at prominence in Hollywood.
Tom Selleck has pulled it off.
Charlton Heston has pulled it off.
I'm going to stop naming names because they really, there's a whole bunch of conservatives at work in Hollywood who do not want it known what their politics is.
They're really afraid of not working.
Well, the thing is, Rush, I want to work in movies of some sort someday.
That's kind of what I want to do.
And I want to write stuff, and I feel like I make it known to people at school, at least, that I am a conservative.
I mean, I don't say that I'm a conservative, but through my actions, I can tell.
And the way that other people treat me, they know that I'm a conservative, basically.
Is it?
Because I have a very liberal school.
Like, everybody at my school, I don't even know if they know that they're liberals, but they're liberals.
That's my point.
That's exactly my point, Gideon.
How does that happen?
They don't even know they're liberals.
Well, it happens because they are subtly influenced, maybe even subliminally in ways, by advertising, by the TV shows that they watch.
I mean, look at the behaviors in network TV, primetime TV that have been normalized lately.
There's a political agenda behind that.
And it's undeniable.
Now, let me ask you, has your self-professed conservatism, so if I know you're only 15, but has it gotten in your way yet?
Well, I've had several teachers that have like, I mean, because the way that they treat me, I feel like it's been different because the way that I respond to questions that they ask me and in papers and stuff, I write my answers down.
And after those papers, after I go those papers back, like I've gotten, I've like spent, like, there was one paper in particular where I spent, it was a thing about like how the world began or like cosmology.
And I wrote about, what I did was I wrote about what the content that the teacher was telling me to write about, but I also wrote about creation at the same exact time, and I turned it in, and I spent so much time on it, I get it back, I got a D on it.
I feel like it's just because, because I had everything else that they wanted me to put in there, I made sure that I had all the content right that they wanted me to learn, but just because I put the creationist stuff in there, I feel like that's the reason that I got the D on the D on the project.
Did you say D or B?
D. As in dog?
D as in dog.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
Oh.
Well, it's, I don't know the teacher, obviously, the circumstances, but I've it would, it would not be a shock if that were a factor like you suspect.
It wouldn't be the first time if it's the case.
And grades matter.
I mean, you want to eventually get into a great film school.
Right.
You want to be able to take this and get the best education you can, so grades matter.
So you're faced with: okay, do I compromise and keep hidden what I believe in order to not present myself as a problem to these teachers and so forth?
Or do I stand up for what I believe and be upfront with it and so forth?
This is something you'll decide as you go.
Ultimately, Hollywood needs, if this desire of yours is real and if you really love this and if you really want to do movies because I do rush.
I do love to make them.
Then my advice, because we need people like you there, my advice to you would be to do what it takes to get there.
Because that's your ultimate desire.
You want to do movies.
You want to do big movies.
You want to do.
I do want to make big movies, Rush.
All right.
Well, there's a certain culture.
There's a certain culture that determines what gets made.
There's a certain culture that determines who gets hired.
And I think you can overcome it.
There's plenty of.
It's not impossible.
Keep your eye on the price.
I'm not saying for the next number of years during your education that you turn your back on what you believe.
Oh, definitely not.
Strategically use it.
Right.
If they want a story on the cosmos, they want your thoughts on the cosmos and you want to put creationism in it, go ahead and put it in there, but put it in the words of other people.
Now, some people say that other people say, but go ahead and write about it what you think, but do it in a way that doesn't make you the target.
You can still be true to yourself.
You can still get it in there and maybe be less of a target for teachers who are on the lookout for people like you that they want to punish or at least not reward properly.
But seriously, the entertainment pop culture community is crying for people who think like you do, who want to make movies.
And by the way, have you noticed that family-oriented movies, not that that's what you're interested in, but just as an example, family-oriented movies just do gangbusters at the box office?
They still do.
Wholesome, whatever you define that as being, still kick butt.
They still make a lot of money.
They do great box office.
Pick sorry, Inside Out has made $350 million some dollars this year in the summer.
Exactly.
Exactly.
So if your desires remain feverish, and this is as you get older and this just intensifies is what you want to do, then you'll, and you'll, as you get older, you'll figure this.
Do what it takes to get there without, in your own heart, compromising yourself.
If you have to hide certain things from certain people that can stand in your way, do it.
As long as you're not abandoning it.
Yeah.
And if you want to be in their face with it, then do that too.
Huh.
Yeah.
The quality of your work ultimately will take you where you're going to go.
Yeah, and that's the thing.
You've got to be original with your work, is what I've learned.
And that's what gets you into, that's what gets people watching your stuff as if it's original and stuff they haven't seen before.
Content.
That's what I'm saying.
Which is why conservative is original, because if everything's, if all, if, as you say, a lot of movies are for the leftist agenda, if it's possibly if it's for my side of things, that would be original for the population of America.
And that would be the reason why.
You know, you look at the original Star Wars.
You were not born yet.
They came out in the 80s, Reagan, 70s and 80s.
The original Star Wars, you could meet, they were evil, good versus evil.
There was no question.
And the evil was obviously evil.
And if any comparison was made back then, it was made to the Soviet Union.
Yeah.
And that's what that, the evil today is portrayed as Republicans.
Darth Vader, if Darth Vader were being made for the first time today, he'd be George W. Bush.
Yeah, exactly.
That's why, yeah, that's what that's, I think that's what Heath Ledger in the Dark Knight.
Heath Ledger was supposed to be George W. Bush.
That's what I was saying earlier.
Right, right, right.
And it didn't start that way.
It started out 70s or 80s.
Star Wars was big because it was traditional American good versus evil and good triumphed.
The little guys, the small D Democrats, the democracy guys, the freedom guys, they kicked the butt of the evil empire.
And today the evil empire has become conservatism, the Republican Party, and that means you with what you're doing.
So I think you've got a handle on this.
You sound like a really bright guy.
So you just.
Thanks, Rush.
You bet.
Just keep on because if you could get to Hollywood doing what you want to do, you could end up making a huge impact.
I really hope you do.
Thank you very much, Rush.
And I thank you.
I'm glad you called, Gideon.
Thanks much.
Brief timeout, folks, as we roll on right after this.
This kind of just snuck in.
This is part of the Friday news dump.
The Justice Department has notified members of Congress that it is closing its two-year investigation into whether the IRS improperly targeted Tea Party and other conservative groups.
There will be no charges against Lois Lerner or anyone else at the IRS.
Now, look, I'm not trying to sit here and be a fatalist pessimist.
I just want, this does not surprise me.
I never ever thought that anything would happen to Lois Lerner or anybody at the IRS.
This is the Obama Department of Justice.
It isn't independent.
It is politicized, just as the IRS is.
And they're not going to punish Lois Lerner for doing what she was told to do.
But anyway, it's official now.
DOJ has told members of Congress the two-year investigation into the IRS and whether they improperly targeted Tea Party and other conservative groups is closed.
No charges against Lois Lerner or anybody.
John Koskinen runs the IRS.
Nobody, despite the fact they didn't tell the truth, despite the fact they lied about records being destroyed, servers being erased, and all this is a crock.
It always was.
Phyllis and Oldney, Maryland, great to have you on the program.
I got a couple of minutes here, and I wanted to get to you.
I'm thrilled to talk to you, Rush.
Thank you.
And I'm thrilled that I got to be after that young man.
I love listening to him.
Anyway, I wanted to let you know that in my job, I was based in a very liberal thinking environment.
And one day a co-worker asked me if I wanted to go to lunch.
This is a very long time ago.
And we went by a restaurant that was very good.
And she said, no, I will never go to that restaurant.
And I said, well, why?
She says, because they play Rush Limbaugh on the TV during the day.
And I said, oh, so that piqued my interest.
So then I had a friend tell me about, well, you've got to listen to Rush Re Limbaugh.
He's on the radio now.
I said, okay.
So during my job, I took my half hour.
I went out to the car.
I sat in the car and I'd listened to you for half an hour on my lunchtime.
So my husband says to me, you're doing what?
So he bought me a computer or a laptop.
And he had, so I could listen to you for three hours when I got home.
And then he bought me the iPad and the iPhone.
So I have you on everything, Rush.
And it all started when your friend refused to go to a restaurant because I was on TV there.
And she didn't want to, and that intrigued you.
Yes, because I'm conservative, and that was a liberal thing she's in lunch.
So I'm so thrilled to get to talk to you.
Well, that's the third example of this today.
I know.
I might be in my 70s, but I read your three books, and they're wonderful.
I hope every kid that can get their hands on them can.
Well, me too.
I really hope.
So, having worked with children for a very long time, I think it's incredible what you're doing.
Phyllis, you're swelling my head here.
My skull may not be able to contain it any longer, but I appreciate it.
I really do.
So, three different times, Libs attempted to impugn the honor of the host, and it created fans.
It created listeners.
And that was an excellent Open Line Friday.
It's exactly what I think of when I think of Open Line Friday.
We had callers all over the place.
A variety of things discussed, including by me.
I hope you have a great, great weekend, folks, and we'll be back here on Monday.
As always, revved and ready to kick it back into gear all over then.
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