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Oct. 27, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 27, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Okay, Pop Quiz, the last two winners of the Hawkeye Caucasier Republican side.
Who won the Hawkeye Caucasian in 2012?
No clue in there.
Nabiric Santorum.
Huckabee, I think it was Santa.
Huckabee won, I think, in 2008.
I think Huckabee won the Hawkeye Caucasi 2008.
It might be their way around, but I think that those are the last two winners.
I'm actually not sure about the years.
Greetings and welcome back, folks.
Great to have you, Rush Lindbaugh, behind the golden EIB microphone.
So ask yourself a question.
Okay, what has happened here?
What happened?
Why did Ben Carson surge to such a commanding lead?
And now it's one poll.
In another poll, they're tied in Iowa.
Don't forget.
And it's only Iowa, too.
It's not South Carolina, and it's not New Hampshire.
In both those states, Trump is just, I mean, miles and miles ahead.
It's not even close in those two states and others, but Iowa, it's Dr. Carson.
Now, one of these USA Today experts, their panel of experts analyzing all this, they put Carson number one in their power rankings, says that this is it.
This is the end for the Donald.
He says it might mark the end for the Donald.
And that view is shared by many of the USA Today experts.
And I'm telling you that that view is a wish.
They are hoping that's what this means.
But, okay, so Carson's working Iowa.
Is that the only reason?
All right, what are the other reasons?
Why has Carson, and let's deal with the Monmouth poll.
I mean, that's what everybody's talking about.
That's Carson up by 12 or 14, whatever it is.
Why?
If it's not just Carson working this, which he is, I mean, you're right, he's pounding the state.
He's got a professional political organization on the ground there.
What is it?
Who has?
Carson's been quiet.
Carson's been quieter.
Okay.
Okay, Carson's been quieter, and he's working the state.
Let me throw something else in.
Given who Carson's supporters are, does it matter?
Is it a factor the way Trump has gone after Carson?
He's called him lazy.
It's a guy that routinely did 20-hour surgeries on the brains of children.
Oh, speaking of that, the latest planned parenthood video.
What a sick bunch of people.
What a sick thing to be happening in our country.
It is just beyond description.
I have lost my ability to express my incredulity and sickness over this.
And to think that this is an accepted practice and promoted and is a strength of the Democrat Party is just, it's depressing.
The latest video, this is the 11th video from the Center for Medical Progress in the ongoing Planned Parenthood Baby Parts Scandal.
Baby parts scandal?
This is the United States of America.
It's not Nazi Germany, the baby parts scandal.
Anyway, this latest video shows the abortion doctor for Planned Parenthood in Austin, Texas, who's named Dr. Amna Dermish.
She is describing a partial birth abortion procedure to terminate a living late-term fetus, which she hopes will yield intact fetal heads for brain harvesting.
In other words, this particular abortion doctor aims and strives for intact fetal heads.
Dr. Dermish, speaking to actors posing as a fetal tissue procurement company, said, my aim is usually to get the specimens out pretty intact, especially the 20 weakers.
They're a lot harder versus the 18 weakers.
So at that point, I'll switch to breach.
In reply to a question about harvesting fetal brain, Dermish said, well, I haven't been able to do that yet, but exclaims with laughter, this will give me something to strive for.
So here we have a doctor striving for being able to extract and harvest a full fetal brain to sell it.
And it's just standard, normal, everyday operating procedure at planned parenthood.
Now, Ben Carson has been the most vocal candidate hitting planned parenthood.
And despite what you know in the drive-by meter here in the drive-by media, there are Americans sickened to the point of real anger and outrage over this.
Carson has been the candidate that has hit planned parenthood the hardest.
Maybe it may be a close match with Carly Fiorina.
She has to.
But it's a close contest between the two of them.
But if you add all of that up, then you have Trump out criticizing Carson in ways that many people, it's just beyond the pale.
Carson is not said anything to you.
He just talked about you.
You said you only fight back when you're hit.
Trump has made snide comments about his religion and made snide comments about his laid-back personalities signaling laziness and so forth.
And I have to think that where you can say things like that about establishment candidates and others who are well-known in the world of politics and people just instinctively know those kinds of things are said about others.
Ben Carson is not of that world.
And Ben Carson doesn't run around ripping other people to shreds.
He saves lives, in fact, particularly children.
So I don't know.
I'm thinking that maybe some of the people in Iowa think Trump's overboard on the way he's hitting Dr. Carson.
Some people might perceive it to be beyond politics.
You have to somebody's religion, seventh-day advent.
I don't know.
Then you go after the apparent laziness.
Not lazy.
What was he saying?
Anyway, low energy.
That's what a super low energy.
And that's when Carson replied that low energy, I have about 20 hours intense concentration pediatric surgery.
And I think those kind of things resonate with people.
Trump is also in some trouble over comments he made about Burka, about Burqas.
This is from theHill.com.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Monday said the United States should not tell countries with large Muslim populations to forbid Burqas.
Trump said the women there want to wear them.
This was at an appearance, Town Hall Atkinson, New Hampshire.
Trump said, well, what the hell are we getting involved in this for?
In fact, for them, it's easier.
You don't have to put on makeup.
Look how beautiful everybody else looks.
Wouldn't it be easier for women to wear burqas and have to worry about all that outside stuff?
I don't know what's so bad about it, but you're not allowed in politics today.
You're not allowed to talk this way of women.
You just can't do it.
Anything you say that in any way crosses a line and makes it look like you understand women or you know what they want or what may be best for them.
You're not permitted to go there, no matter how right you may be.
You just can't cross that line.
According to the left, I happen to think, you know, how many women do you know who would really rather never have to put on high heels and would not have to spend all day or however long it takes doing makeup and this kind of and have not being so slavish to fashion and this kind of stuff.
I actually think, I don't know what a majority, but I think Trump, probably a lot of women.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly right.
This is a controversy in the drive-bys more than it is.
I think actually with women.
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Trump getting it from all sides now as Luis Gutierrez, our old buddy from Illinois.
Democrat member Congress was desperately hoping we'd have amnesty by now.
He had already set up procedures for it.
Obama let him down, but he's really been paving the way for it.
And he's really, really, really upset that Saturday Night Live is going to host Trump.
And Luis Gutierrez is leading an effort to get Saturday Night Live to rescind their invitation.
He went to the floor of the House of Representatives to rail against Trump appearing on Saturday Night Live.
It starts every QA at every high school I visit.
The questions are about Donald Trump.
Is he going to be our next president?
Is it true that he wants to revoke our citizenship, deport us to the countries our parents came from?
Is it true he wants to round us up, Mr. Gutierrez, and deport us all?
When they hear that Trump is hosting Saturday Night Live, not just being a guest, but actually hosting, even after saying Mexicans are mostly rapists, criminals, and drug dealers, they get the impression that calling whole groups of people rapists, criminals, and drug dealers based on their ethnicity or national origin is basically okay with us in America.
Luis, you're actually trying to tell us that people are running around talking about Trump hosting Saturday Night Live, being worried about it, that if he were just guesting, it'd be okay, but he's hosting and that has him really upset.
Are we really supposed to?
Luis, this is your deal.
This is typical of what these people do.
Everywhere I go, every high school I go, everybody's asking me, Luis, why?
Luis, why is Trump saying why?
Nobody's asking Luis about it.
They have their own opinions already.
Luis is just putting his thoughts in other people's mouths, minds, and trying to expand the universe of people that supposedly think the way he does.
I think, Luis, you've got to be very careful.
Your comments here that you just attributed to Trump are what put him at the top of the heap on day one.
You're just reminding people why they supported Trump.
He outset, keep talking this way.
He wasn't through.
We have one more bite.
Again, this is on the floor of the House just this morning.
When I ask these young Americans whether they plan to get registered and vote, every hand goes up in the classroom.
Donald Trump is spurring youth voter mobilization like I've never seen before.
But let's be honest.
Do we really want to motivate civic participation through fear of deportation, racial profiling, and families being broken up?
Stop the terrorist.
Hell yes, you do.
That's exactly what you want.
By all rights, Luis, you should be demanding that Trump not be thrown off Saturday Night Live.
If all of these benefits are accruing to the Democrat Party, if all these people tell you can't wait to register, they can't wait to vote.
Are you telling, Luis, you really care why they want to register?
And if they're registering out of fear of deportation or racial profiling or families being broken up, you worry that they're, don't try to sell us this bill of goods, Luis.
You'll take it however you can get it.
Men will applaud Trump for doing it.
We're growing up to distrust their government.
Trump wants to take us back to the good old days of race relations, which apparently means the 1950s, when President Eisenhower evicted millions of immigrants and U.S. citizens from the United States.
Okay, Luis.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have some shocking immigration news for you here.
If you listen to people like Luis Gutierrez, and you would believe that we deport everybody, that we want to deport everybody, that we're going to deport everybody.
And only guardians of these poor immigrants like Luis Gutierrez can save them.
Fact of the matter is, the country is being overrun as we speak.
Breitbart News, at current immigration levels, the United States will add approximately the population of Los Angeles every three years within the next 10 years, coming decade.
This, according to Republican staff on the Senate, this is Jeff Sessions Committee.
At current immigration, legal immigration, current legal immigration levels, the U.S. will add approximately the population of L.A. every three years.
The question, are they assimilating or are they balkanizing?
Are they assimilating to the American culture, becoming part of the United States of America?
Are they just relocating their lives here?
According to the Sessions Committee, the Census Bureau projects the annual net immigration annual every year, net immigration, 1.24 million and rising.
Last year, the number was 1.75 million legal immigrants.
That's in one year.
Now, bear in mind, we're talking about legal immigration here.
Who knows how illegal aliens came to the last year, how many, and how they got here.
And good luck trying to find that out in government statistics.
Between 2015 and 2017, nearly 4 million net immigrants will enter the U.S. Another 3.85 million on net will be added from 2018 to 2020.
And from 2021 to 2023, an additional 3.85 million.
We're talking 12 million additional immigrants through the year 2023.
Legal immigration.
And Luis Gutierrez is running around the high schools telling them all that they were going to be deported and their families are going to be broken up.
It's just the exact opposite.
The total exact opposite.
And then there's this.
The Department of Homeland Security is expanding a program that awards businesses bonuses when they hire alien college graduates over native-born graduates.
Details when we get back.
Don't go away.
So Luis Gutierrez can go to the floor of the House and lie about what Donald Trump said.
Yes, he can.
Harry Reid can go to the floor of the Senate and lie about what I said.
And these UN climate people can go on the news and issue press releases and lie to people about what causes cancer.
And they can do great harm to businesses.
And there's nothing anybody can do.
It's just, it's amazing.
That's not amazing.
It's become standard operating procedure.
It's par for the course.
I need to get to the phones.
It's almost halfway through.
Haven't taken a call yet.
This is Melinda Lindhurst, Virginia.
Thank you for waiting.
It's great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hi, Mr. Rush.
It's such an honor to talk to you.
I appreciate that.
My three children and I just got back from the bookstore and got your brand new book, and we just wanted to say thank you.
We enjoy them so, so much.
Thank you.
Wait, did you, you only bought one?
You've got three.
We bought one today, but we have all of them.
They are so exposed about them.
I'm just kidding.
I'm grateful beyond my ability to express.
I really hope they like it.
They absolutely love them.
Matter of fact, my husband came home for lunch, and we read a couple pages already.
We have to read them together as a family because my husband and I enjoy them as much as the three children do.
Well, you know, we hear from people this kind of story all the time that there's some adults learning things they weren't taught about American history as they read these books.
And that's been an added bonus.
But look, I'm so appreciative you went out, bought the book, and then went to the trouble to call here and tell me about it.
I can't thank you enough.
It's really.
Can the children say hello to you?
Sure, absolutely.
Okay, here they go.
Hi.
What's your name?
Sterling.
Marilyn, is it?
Is that what you said?
This is Sterling.
Oh, Sterling.
Sterling.
Well, hi, Sterling.
Well, look, I'm very happy you enjoy these books, and I really hope you enjoy this new one because we had so much fun writing it.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
Thank you very much.
In fact, Melinda, are you back on the phone?
Yes, sir.
How many kids did you say you have?
I have three.
I have two girls, 11 and 9, and I have a little boy that's eight.
Well, I mean, that's right in a wheelhouse.
I mean, that's the target area that we're aiming for.
I'll tell you what, I want you to stay on hold.
I want to send the three of them.
We've got this brand new Liberty stuffed animal.
Oh, my goodness.
And by popular demand, the kids reading these books have been asking for one of these, and we've been testing them.
We had many different designs and samples, and we finally settled on one.
And we have missed, if you hang on, Mr. Snerdley can get your address, and we'll get some stuff sent out to you and the kids as a token of appreciation.
Thanks so much for calling, and I really do hope you enjoy the book.
Much fun as we have putting these books together.
And they are.
They're crafted.
They're put together.
It's really gratifying to hear what people like them.
Just is.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Okay, so we are on schedule to import an additional 12 million people legally between now and 2023.
And there's Luis Gutierrez on the floor of the house lying about Donald Trump.
Donald Trump has not said he wants to revoke anybody's citizenship.
Donald Trump's not gone anywhere near there.
Just like Harry Reid went to the Florida Senate to lie about me, just like these United Nations people passing themselves off as nutrition scientists telling you that bacon and processed meat do in fact cause cancer.
It's an out-and-out lie.
It cannot be established.
It cannot be proven with anecdotal evidence.
I have a friend who's 84 who had bacon and eggs and steak and potatoes every day of his life.
And he's healthy as he can be.
And I'm sure you know people like this too.
This is actionable stuff.
This is genuinely, think of the people in the beef industry.
They're not bad people, but they're being portrayed as enemies of the planet by these jerks at the United Nations, these left-wing Al Gore Jr.s that are actually out trying to advance a political agenda.
It has nothing to do with climate science.
12 million illegals, 12 million legal immigrants in this country by 2023 at about three million, what is it, every three years.
It's a census number.
And then there's this.
The Department of Homeland Security is expanding a program that awards businesses bonuses when they hire alien college graduates over native-born graduates, according to an analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies.
The Optional Practical Training Program, the OPT, awards alien college graduates a work permit to stay in the United States for 12 months.
So where did this come from?
The new changes that the government, the Department of Homeland Security, is proposing as part of Obama's executive action on immigration last November extends the program further to allow these students to stay in the country for an additional two years, now up to a total of three years.
Normally they get to stay for one year.
Obama executive action, they get to stay for three.
Because the Department of Homeland Security defines a recent college graduate as a student, employees and workers can escape paying payroll taxes.
This means that businesses can receive a bonus of $12,000 to hire an alien college graduate over a native-born one.
Because they're recent college graduates, because of the way the Department of Homeland Security defines them, they don't have to pay payroll taxes.
They're here temporarily.
Well, that's a bonus when you don't have to pay $12,000 per employee.
We're not talking a differentiation in salary.
You just, businesses do not have to pay payroll taxes for these alien graduates.
That's the incentive to hire them.
So Luis Gutierrez is just full of it.
If Trump wants to get back on top, if indeed he's fallen from his perch, stories like this are made to order for him because immigration is what put him at the top anyway.
Immigration and his unyielding position on it is what has resonated with a cross-section of Americans, not just conservatives and not just Republicans, but Democrats, moderates, liberals, you name it.
Trump gets support from the whole gamut.
And then you couple this with what we see happening in Europe.
Stop and think of this.
I told you the story yesterday about one little hamlet in Germany with a population of 60,000 that has now been overrun by 1,500 migrant refugees who are being housed in some unused, guess it's rather large building.
Therefore, those 1,500 outnumber the 60 who live there.
Guess who runs that town or who's going to.
But beyond that, you can find stories on the internet featuring overhead pictures of single-file lines of men, young men, able-bodied men, standing in line as far as the eye can see in wind, in rain, in coal.
These are people from desert climes standing in rain in the fall in places like Germany, standing in line to be allowed in.
And when it all started, you know, Angela Merkel was all happy about it because they've got a birth rate replacement level problem, which is a labor problem.
If they're not producing enough native Germans to maintain their economy, she needs outside.
She's welcoming $500,000 to $800,000 a year.
Now they're overrunning Europe, folks.
Europe, they're dangerously close to losing Europe, and now they're having crisis emergency meetings over what to do about it.
But the barn door is open.
And this is a purposeful migration.
It has a political objective to it.
And it is essentially to conquer Europe.
And the same objective I'm sure exists for this country.
It's a little tougher to walk here unless you're coming from the southern or northern hemispheres.
That's why the southern border is so vulnerable.
Anyway, back to the phones.
This is Ron in Los Angeles.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
You're next.
It's your turn.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
I'm a liberal here in Lakewood, California.
And I'm just wondering, since we know that public opinion polling is meant to shape public opinion and not to measure it, why would you spend any time on it at all?
Well, you know, that's a good question.
And most of the time, I don't.
But when we're talking about presidential races and primary races, unfortunately, that becomes the news.
And you're exactly right.
You are saying things I have myself said on this program that polling is used to make public opinion shape it rather than reflect it.
And that in itself has become a news story.
And as such, people need to be informed and educated about it so that they can keep it in context as they listen to it and as they digest it.
To ignore it would not serve me any purpose because everybody else is talking about it.
And I've got to be able to shape it and form it in my own way to try to counter the impact of it.
Awesome.
That's an excellent answer, sir.
I appreciate that.
You're more than welcome.
I'm flattered you're out there.
This is an avowed progressive from Los Angeles with a legitimate question.
Ron, I have to tell you, this doesn't happen on this program.
This just doesn't happen.
A liberal with a legitimate question who, when he hears the answer, says, okay, I appreciate it.
And he said, thank you.
And he said, it was an awesome answer.
I wouldn't have cared if he thought it was a bogus answer.
But we're able to have, why, he crossed the aisle.
He came here, he crossed the aisle, he cooperated, and we worked together.
See, that's how it's done.
Anyway, Ron, I appreciate it.
I really do.
Here's John in Louisville.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
You're next.
Hello, sir.
Hey, Rush, Mr. Megan Dittos himself.
Thank you for having me on.
You bet, sir.
My question or comment is Trump has been in the lead for so long, and the elite, more so than the Democrats, have thrown everything at this guy to get him down off his pedestal or what.
I don't agree with everything he says.
I don't agree with everything he does, but I'm telling you what, he's lit a fire underneath a lot of people.
There's no way Ben Carson is leading right now.
They're skewing these polls to try to trip him up, get him down, whatever they can do.
Ben Carson, I think he's a brilliant man.
Yes.
He might be a God-fearing man.
Yes.
I think he'll be really great in doing some other position.
But you sit and listen to that guy.
I mean, he's smart.
He's intelligent.
A lot of it goes over my head.
A lot of it goes over a lot of people's head.
Puts you to sleep.
You know, I don't know if I'm not sold on Trump.
Look.
But a lot of people are.
Let me just tell you, he does not put a certain group of Americans to sleep.
He energizes them.
And they are a group of Americans the Republican Party routinely takes for granted and sometimes even publicly criticizes and mocks.
And they are religious conservatives.
And Carson is being heard.
And they are stopping what they're doing to listen to him.
And he is getting through to them.
Well, I just have a hard time myself.
I mean, you know, I would love to have a God-fearing man in the office to bring back what the office is really about.
I understand.
I mean, I know what you're saying.
You're having trouble.
On the one hand, here you've got Trump, who's Mr. Energy, Mr. Passion.
He's everywhere.
He's not buying a lot of ads and so forth.
Over here, you've got Ben Carson, who is not Mr. Energy.
He does have passion in his own way, but it's not outwardly expressed here.
And he is really smart.
There's no question about it.
But he's not over the heads of the people that dig him.
He's right in their wheelhouse.
The question becomes then beyond the core group of voters and supporters that he has.
When you get out beyond that, is it going to be enough to attract them?
Now, your point about you don't believe the polls.
Look, I've been there and done that, and I frankly have, you know, it's gone both ways.
There have been times I've been suspicious of polls, and I was correct to be.
Other times I doubted the polls, and they were right.
Now, one of those times was the 2012 presidential race.
I didn't believe this stuff that Obama was up by eight.
I just didn't believe it.
I looked at all the physical evidence, and I looked at the 2010 midterm turnout and the vote there, and I said, and I realized they weren't sampling the 2010 voters.
They were sampling 2008.
And I said, they're missing a whole bunch.
And it turned out they were exactly right.
Gallup got it so badly wrong that they are out of the presidential polling business.
Gallup got it so wrong that they're now just polling cultural things, issue things, but they're not polling campaigns and election rate because they just were so far off the beaten path.
Now, the news about Ben Carson, this just cleared from the ABC News, Carson has put his campaign on hold to focus on fundraising events and stops to promote his new book.
He's got a new book called A More Perfect Union.
He is scheduled to hold book signings next week in Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa.
His last public event was a healthcare town hall meeting in Des Moines, all the way back in October 2nd.
That was the last public event Ben Carson had, October 2nd.
Here we are, October 27th, and he's up by 14 over Trump and Iowa.
So I'm sure that our caller is not the only one doubting the polls and questioning them.
Because so many in the drive-bys want this story.
They want to be able to report Trump has peaked.
They want to be able to report that it's over.
And, right, they're not worried about Carson.
They don't think Carson's going to go anywhere.
Even if he wins Iowa, he's not going to go anywhere beyond that.
Now, polling, I'll tell you, one interesting facet of polling: the consultants all believe it.
It is their bread and butter.
Many of them are in the polling business themselves, either directly or indirectly associated with it by extension or either directly.
And the donors, the donors believe polls before they believe anything else.
Jeb Bush's poll numbers are why his donors are getting antsy.
It's why the Bush family had to have a powwow and a get-together to figure out what to do because the donors believe these polls to a T. If you're spending gazillions of dollars, you're putting money behind a candidate because you expect results, and the results only happen if the guy gets elected and you're sitting at five or six points.
You're not going to tell yourself the polls are wrong.
You've got too much money on it.
You can't throw it away.
So the donors live and die by them.
Anyway, brief time out here, my friends, again, as the time just keeps racing by.
We'll be back with more after this.
Let me put this Department of Homeland Security directive in perspective for you.
I want to make sure you understand this.
Here's a circumstance.
On the one hand, an illegal college graduate here on a temporary visa or whatever, not yet a citizen.
On the other hand, your recently graduated legal citizen, son, daughter, niece, nephew, what have you.
They are vying for the same job at the same business.
The business owner knows because of the most recent Obama executive order that if he hires the recent graduate illegal, he doesn't have to pay payroll taxes and a number of other payroll deductions that total $12,000 a year.
On the one hand, illegal graduate here temporarily.
On the other hand, your son or daughter.
Same job, same company.
To hire the illegal costs him $12,000 less than to hire your son or daughter.
In some businesses, $12,000 could be significant annual profit, could be big money.
The bottom line's this.
You pay your taxes.
You went into debt to pay tuition.
You want the best for your son or daughter.
You've believed that college education opens the doors necessary for your kid to succeed.
Your kid could have a much higher GPA.
Your kid could interview far superior to the illegal graduate and doesn't still have a prayer getting the gig.
Because the illegal, the temporary non-citizen graduate, costs $12,000 less to hire.
How do you compete with that?
You can't have a resume that's going to overcome, it costs $12,000 less.
You're not going to have a skill set, recent college graduate, that will overcome a $12,000 cheaper hire.
You can't blow the doors down in an interview so much that overcome that $12,000.
This is another way that immigration, thanks to policy, the executive order from Barack Obama, aids illegal immigrants over native.
And people who oppose this are called nativists and xenophobes.
And this is all done under the premise of fairness, by the way, as the left defines it.
Remember, last week I mentioned that there are six and a half million more students with bachelor's degrees today than jobs available for them.
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