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Nov. 2, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 2, 2015, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yeah, here I was.
I was all set to go, real good mood and everything, and then I just I looked at Fox, and there's uh ceremony.
Obama signed a two-year budget deal.
And I don't know, it just blows me up.
It just ticks me off.
And just it just is a reminder of how we've been lied to about how we've been played for idiots, suckers, but worse than that is the damage all this has done to the country and is going to do.
But the Republicans don't have to deal with the threat of a government shutdown anymore.
For next two years, the Republicans don't have to worry about being blamed for that.
So all's well, folks.
The Democrats won't blame the Republicans for shutting down the government, and Democrats are no longer going to be talking about how senior citizens won't get their checks, and veterans won't get their uh health care, and Medicare patients won't get their health care and Medicaid patients.
Democrats can't say that for the next two years.
Want to bet it won't be the end of this month until they start claiming it again.
Even despite because it's in the playbook, no matter what the reality is.
Anyway, uh glad to have you here, folks.
They've got a brand new week of broadcast excellence.
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I have to give kudos to the Kansas City Royals.
And their five-game World Series victory over the New York Mets.
And what a series it was.
The uh the Kansas City Royals came behind came from behind in three of these five games to win.
And during the entire playoff run, I think it was 13 games they came from behind to win.
It might be eight.
The numbers I get them jumbled and run together.
But regardless, it's a phenomenal feat.
A phenomenal way to play space play baseball, but I have to tell you some some observations.
You know, sports has always been culturally an escape.
It has been a way for people to escape the humdrum of the everyday life that they have.
It's a three-hour now, depending on the game you watch, three and a half hour escape from reality.
But in recent times, sports has really not offered a full escape because we've had to sit through lectures from sports commentators on gun control and gay marriage and civil rights and all of that.
But this World Series, I have to tell you from top to bottom, was a wonderful escape, just like sports should be.
There were no lectures between innings or in the pregame or post-game by vaunted sports commentators lecturing America on how they were misbehaving or not thinking the right way.
Barack Obama was nowhere to be seen.
Unlike the Super Bowl, there wasn't a pre-series interview with Obama, and he didn't put on a pair of mom jeans, go out there and throw out the first pitch looking like a girl.
He wasn't anywhere near it.
It was baseball.
And it was incredibly exciting baseball.
And look, I don't want to put too much in this.
I mean, I did sports, just as I say.
It's an it's an escape from uh reality.
And I and I don't I don't want to attach too much to this.
But you know, I am an observer.
A quite keen observer of things cultural and social and political.
The Royals won this World Series because they trust their players.
You know, Ned Yost never changed lineup.
From the first day of the playoffs to last night, the lineup was other than the pitcher and designated hitter.
Um pitcher had to hit in the National League Park, but the lineup was the same.
The players were the same.
The bullpen was the same.
The catcher, Savador Perez, MVP, calls his own game with the pitchers.
You don't see him look into the dugout much for each pitch sign, he calls it.
As a general rule, it's not always the case.
The Royals don't get bunt signs.
They do that on their own.
And as a general rule, they don't get steel signs.
They steal bases on their own based on their feel for the game and based on scouting reports.
Brian, you'll be interested in this.
You know, one of the primary, one of the major lines of emphasis in the scouting report the Royals got before the World Series.
Make Lucas do to throw the ball.
Lucas Dudas, the Mets' first baseman who threw the ball away as Eric Hosmer attempts to s to score from third on a routine ground ball to third base of David Wright last night.
The tying run.
Scouttering it's right there.
Make Lucas do to throw the ball.
Then the next one is make the catcher Travis Arno, Darno throw the ball.
So they they uh they're well schooled and then they're trusted to play the game with what they know and their instincts.
Hosmer went home on his own last night.
That was his decision to make about two thirds down the line.
They've learned how to play the game.
I mentioned last week that the Royals, you know, for the longest time are not even a professional baseball team.
Payroll was so low.
Following the 1985 World Series, the death of Mr. Kaufman, who owned the team, it totally changed the structure and the budget, everything about the way the team operated.
You could really honestly say it wasn't a professional baseball team, it was triple A, with a couple of major league players in the roster, and those always ended up leaving in free agency because the Royals decision, and they had some financial concerns at the time, just not going to pay them.
But Dayton Moore arrives from Atlanta in 2006, and everything changes, and they reinstill the development leagues.
They reinstall the scouting department and build it back up minor league system, create, develop their own players, and it just paid off.
It really you got a winning team without an authoritarian manager, without the benefit of universally acclaimed superstar.
Well, Wade Davis is superstar.
But the the Royals as a team are better than the individual parts.
George Brett said after the game last night that he thinks this team's better than the 1985 team.
He thinks this team, because of bullpen depth and speed, uh and the way they play the game would have beaten the last Royals World Series team, which was 1985, and their payroll was about 115 million dollars versus the Los Angeles Dodgers payroll of 300 million, and the Dodgers were eliminated in the first round by the Mets.
Now, there was a controversial decision last night for a Mets fan, and that was Matt Harvey, known as the Dark Knight.
This is a long involved story.
You have to know a little bit about the history of Matt Harvey and his Tommy John surgery and his agent Scott Boris and trying to put a limit of 180 innings pitched on the entire season.
And it uh anyway, that got blown.
Here's the bottom line.
Harvey was unhittable.
Harvey was owned the Royals through eight innings.
Fox's cameras, instead of lecturing the country on gun controllers, and Fox's cameras were pointed at the Mets dugout while the Royals were hitting in the uh uh what would have been the uh in the top of the no, it was after the uh is going into the top of the ninth.
And Matt Harvey's sitting on the bench and the pitching coach walked over and told him he was done.
And you could read Matt Harvey's lips, and no way.
No way.
And he got up and he walked over to the manager, Terry Collins.
I'm not coming out.
I'm not coming out.
And the managers, but forties plus years of experience in baseball, Terry Collins, 26-year-old, young man impetuous, just riding a high, and talked his way into staying in the game.
When the manager wanted to pull him and go to the they've got an ace in the bullpen a guy named Familia.
And Harvey talked his way into staying in the game, and we know what happened.
Those of you watching it, the Royals tied it in the uh in the top of the ninth, and Harvey had to come out.
And the debate throughout New York today is gee, whiz, what was Collins thinking?
It was it this is a no-win situation.
If Harvey gets side out, it's the greatest managerial move in the world, investing in his player.
Um leaving the player in, player wanted to stay in, but given what happened, the naysayers, what's this guy doing?
You never listened to a 26 year old kid.
Of course the 26 year old kid wants to stay in the game.
You gotta follow the book.
You gotta follow your instincts.
You gotta bullpin ace, you gotta go to the bullpen.
It's just it's unfortunate.
Because it was such it was a situation was there was no matter what happened, there was going to be uh at some point a no-win.
But at any rate, it's a it's a it's a great world series, and I just tip my hat to uh to the Royals and both teams for making it really entertaining and good.
This is the first time.
You know, I I worked for the Royals for five years.
And when you work for a sports team, you lose some of the ingredients necessary to be a fan because it's your job.
And like any other job, there are parts of it you don't like, and you just want to get out of there.
And my last year or so, I was praying they wouldn't make the playoffs just so I could have a normal day start in October rather than November.
I mean, homestands are 18 to 20 hour days.
Any rate, uh this last year and this, but really this year, was the first year since 1983 that I have really been following baseball and been into it.
And I'll tell you something else.
I went and played golf yesterday afternoon while the Steelers were on.
That hasn't happened in I don't know 30 years.
Steelers on Sunday, and if I'm able, I'm parked in front of a TV.
Yesterday, eh, screw it.
Went out and played golf.
So we all undergo transformations of some kind.
But anyway, I just I I had to kick off today with uh with congratulating everybody involved and and uh sharing with you my observations about what a fun sporting event it was to watch.
And I would have felt that way no matter who won.
It was uh I would have been disappointed had the Royals not went secretly hoping the Mets would win yesterday, take it back to Kansas City so the Royals could win it in Kansas City in front of home fans.
They said, no, no, no, you win it when you can.
You don't.
And they did.
And the way they did it, I mean, there's nothing new in baseball.
Everything that happens today has happened before in baseball, but there are stages.
And these come from behind wins, which seems so common and part of the Royals' recipe is unique to me.
I I have not seen a team this adept at rallying in the late innings after being totally dominated.
Had four hits going into the ninth inning last night.
They looked horrible against Harvey.
And then the top of the ninth, here's Matt Harvey, owns it and walks the first hitter and then gives up until what happened?
What happened between the end of the eighth and the top of the ninth to Matt Harvey?
Maybe nothing.
But the manager yanked him, should have yanked him after the walk instead of leaving Hosmerin.
But that's what's great about baseball.
You talk about all this stuff at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter.
What matters is Obama signed this two-year budget deal.
And once again, Republican voters have been mocked and laughed at and made fun of after two consecutive elections, 2010 midterms, 2014 midterms.
And you might even say the 2012 presidential race.
You know, there is an analogy.
Folks, there is an analogy.
Wait, just a second here.
There is an analogy.
I have a story here.
The Jeb can fix it tour.
Launches with high hopes.
ABC News, Jeb Bush launches his Jeb Can Fix It tour today.
The embattled Republican presidential candidate is beginning to tour in his home state of Florida, traveling the state with three events in three different cities.
He'll begin in Tampa, then head to an event near Orlando and end with a town hall in Jacksonville.
After that, he'll head to South Carolina tomorrow and then start a two-day-long swing in New Hampshire, where his first bus tour will begin.
The Jeb can fix it tour and the release of his ebook reply all today are all in an effort to jumpstart a campaign that many Say has been flailing after tumbling poll numbers and a widely panned debate performance.
Okay, now look, you know, I've told you this is very hard.
I to be critical of people that that you know and that you like.
I've a personal level, uh ladies and gentlemen, the Bush family has been nothing but gracious and nice and supportive of me.
I do not have one bad thing to say about them as people, their character, human beings, and so forth.
They're just they are quality people.
But uh it doesn't prevent me from observing that it never has appeared to me that Jeb really wants this.
Jeb has always appeared to me, even from the first days of the campaign, has always appeared to me as a stand-in for powers behind the scene who want back in.
I don't know the names.
I mean, I you might think I'm talking about Carl Rove.
I'm not talking about just Carl Rove.
There's all kinds of and the donors, but there are others.
You know, it's a rare place power in Washington, rarefied air when your president and everybody working for the president breathed the same rarefied air.
And once you've tasted it, once you've inhaled it, once you have exhaled it, you want it back.
There's something addictive to it.
But Jeb has always seemed like the frontman for the people behind the scenes who really want it.
And it's the people behind the scenes concocting all of these marketing plans and campaign strategies to get Jeb there.
Is how long has this been going?
The first debate was August 3rd.
Mr. Snurdley, if you had to peg a beginning point of this campaign when Jeb had announced and all the others that are now, how old is how old is this campaign?
Is this campaign go back to June?
Is it a year and a half?
Okay, the campaign is a year and a half old.
And then Trump got in and blew everything up.
Trump got in when?
Trump got in May.
Since May, has Jeb Bush, gosh, I hate has Jeb Bush polled over 10% since May.
That's my point.
Whatever the high point, wherever it was was months ago and whatever it was, and he's at five or six, and he's holding steady.
Now, after all of these many months, you know, uh remember Clint Eastwood's line man's got to know his limitations.
I mean, you have to assess where you are in things.
And campaigns and polling data, whatever else they are, are expressions of public opinion.
And it's clear up to this point that there isn't a whole lot of energy behind the Jeb Bush campaign among Republican voters or people who participate in Republican polls.
And yet it's kind of like Hillary.
We're working on another launch, the Jeb can't, or Jeb can fix it tour.
What what is it?
What does it say about these two?
Hillary and Jeb, they have to constantly refigure, re launch.
Reboot their campaigns.
What does that fact alone tell us?
I gotta take a break here.
I guess I need to correct myself.
Uh Jeb announced on June 15th.
Trump announced on June 16th.
That surprises me.
I'm like you.
I thought I thought uh Trump was in there.
Who, Jeb?
Oh, yeah.
Well, I think that announcement was delayed because there's something to do with funding packs, don't you legal filings and that sort of stuff, yeah.
But yeah, he was running before June the 15th.
Trump uh for somebody, I thought that was May.
Just to show you a time ago.
So what did I tell folks?
What did I tell you?
Not that you needed to be told, by the way, it's so patently obvious.
Here we go from Breitbart, CNBC debate executive worked in the Clinton White House for Alcor.
What did I tell you?
The very next day I said these are these are hit people.
These are people from the Clinton campaign that ran that CNBC debate.
And no matter where you go in the media, you're going to run into Clinton hacks.
Stephanopoulos is over at ABC.
They're everywhere.
They're at C and N. They are at you get the Cuomo's over there at CNN.
You've got people over at CNBC.
This guy's name is Brian Steele, senior vice president of communications CNBC, the second highest ranking network official at Wednesday night's debate, described by an insider as the executive on hand for the debate.
He worked in the Bill Clinton White House as a domestic policy advisor to Al Gore.
His White House gig was just one of three jobs he held in the Clinton administration.
These Clinton hacks are everywhere.
And they go from government to media.
They're at CBS, ABC, NBC.
They're at CNN, CNBC, MSNBC.
They're everywhere.
And there was one that the CNBC debate, exactly as I told you, the whole thing put together, planned and orchestrated by Clinton war room hacks.
Not only that, but the wife, you ready for this?
The wife of the CNBC debate executive, who had three different jobs in the Clinton White House, is a Hillary Clinton donor.
The CNB executive who oversaw the catastrophic Republican presidential debate in Colorado is married to a Hillary Clinton 2016 donor.
CNBC Vice President of Communications Brian Steele, the executive on hand at Wednesday night's debate.
He's married to Eileen LeBuddy, the managing partner at New York City's Lewis Joe's Avalon Avalase LLP law firm.
TheBuddy donated 2,700 bucks to Hillary for America on June 23rd, just four months before the CNBC.
Of course, this is not a surprise here.
I'm just confirming.
These are not journalists in any way, shape, manner, or form.
They're hacks.
They're party hacks.
Disguised as journalists, or disguised as lawyers.
Disguised as think tech analysts and senior fellows and whatever the heck else.
No shock, surprise whatsoever.
The Republican campaigns have agreed to cut the Republican National Committee out of the debate process and instead negotiate directly with the networks.
Well, fine and dandy, you're still negotiating with Clinton hacks.
I mean, even after this, it's like I told you after the CNBC debate, and all these stories about how embarrassed everybody was, and how negative the coverage seemed to be.
Don't kid yourself.
They look at this as mission accomplished.
Because the questions were what were important, and the questions were the bullets, the questions were the attacks.
The answers were incidental to the questions were designed to explain to the viewers who these Republicans are.
The questions were what was used to be destructive.
And the icing on the cake was however they were answered.
And even now when the Republicans object to it, the drive-bys are now out saying Republicans are whining and they childish and they can't take a little heat and they can't take a little adversary.
They got exactly what they want, and they're applauding themselves behind us wherever they go to congregate, whatever bar, restaurant locations they visit.
I guarantee you they're all patting each other on the back for what happened at the CNBC debate.
Now the Republican presidential campaigns agreed yesterday to uh cut the RNC out of the debate negotiating process and instead deal directly with the networks, moderating the debates.
Corey Lewandowski, the campaign manager for Trump, confirmed to Breitbart News on Sunday, the biggest consensus of five separate points, the GOP campaign agreed on, was cutting the RNC out of the negotiations with the networks, as the campaigns would each like to negotiate with the networks directly.
In response to the revelation, the RNC will be cut out of the process.
Sean Spicer, the RNC chief point on handling the debates until now, said the RNC nevertheless stands ready to help the candidates in any way they can.
Now, I think Ben Carson's campaign suggested that it all take place in social media.
And I forget some of the other suggestions that some of the others, some things about green rooms and some things about questions or I mean, if you're going to do a debate on the economy, make sure it's all on the economy.
You know, no.
Risky, risky territory when you start making agreements with people who are where they are to get Hillary Clinton elected president.
And that's who they're talking to.
I don't care who they're talking to at whatever network.
They are talking to people who have open communications to the Clinton campaign.
The Democrat Party in general.
So we'll see what comes of all that.
The next debate soon, right?
Ten days or so, something like that on the uh Fox Business Network.
So we'll see how that plays out.
Did you see what Bill Gates did?
See what Bill Gates said?
This is one of the craziest nonsensical things I have ever in my life heard.
I understand why he said it, but it is just over the top unbelievable.
Bill Gates says that capitalism cannot save us from climate change.
Bill Gates says that socialism is the only thing that can save us from climate change.
The world's richest man, Bill Gates, has said that the private sector is too selfish and inefficient to produce effective energy alternatives to fossil fuels.
While announcing his plan to spend two billion dollars of his own money on green energy during an interview with the Atlantic, the founder of Microsoft called on fellow billionaires to help make the U.S. fossil free by 2050 with similar philanthropy.
Bill Gates said there is no fortune to be made, even if you have a new energy source that costs the same as today's and emits no CO2.
It will be uncertain compared with what's tried and true and already operating at unbelievable scale and has gotten through all the regulatory problems.
Without a substantial carbon tax, there is no incentive for innovators or plant buyers to switch.
Since World War is still Gates speaking, since World War II, U.S. government, RD.
This next this is just mind-boggling to me.
Bill Gates, since World War II, United States government, research and development, has defined the state of the art in almost every area.
The private sector is in general inept.
This is twilight zone territory for me.
This is surreal.
U.S. government RD has defined the state of the art in almost every area.
The private sector is in general inept.
He said the climate problem has to be solved in rich countries.
China and the U.S. and Europe have to solve CO2 emissions.
And when they do, hopefully they will make it cheap enough for everyone else.
China.
Europe's being overrun at the moment, and I doubt that they have much on the mind over there other than self-preservation, self-preservation, but nevertheless.
CO2 emissions are a straw dog anyway.
CO2 emissions, greenhouse gas, all of this is made up, phony baloney, good time rock and roller hoax material.
So you know why is why is Bill Gates signing on to this?
There is an explanation for this.
But man, oh man, he has so signed on to He goes out and makes these patently ridiculous statements.
Let me share with you a theory that I have, ladies and gentlemen.
It could be wrong.
I think every person who has earned or has inherited or who has acquired, whatever manner, immense wealth is scared to death of losing it.
The entrepreneur who slaves away and eventually hits the big payday.
One of the first thoughts is, gosh, I hope somebody doesn't come along and take this away from me.
And the fear manifests itself in the form of government fear.
Gee, I hope they don't come up with a wealth tax.
Gee, I hope they don't start confiscating everybody's money because they've so spent themselves into debt.
I mean, these are ongoing, constant fears.
Gee, I hope the peasants with pitchforks leave me alone and don't storm my castle.
I don't care what it is, these super wealthy people have a fear or did at one time of losing it.
More not lose having it taken away, have it taken from them.
And it is that belief of mine in that theory, which I have come up with to explain why people like Gates and Buffett and a number of these other superbillionaires, talk like Marxist liberals all the time.
It is to keep people away from their money.
It is to send the message, hey, we don't threaten you.
Leave me alone.
I'm spending all my money on philanthropy.
I'm giving money to AIDS, I'm giving money to Africa, I'm giving money to global warming, I'm giving money to this, I'm giving money to the arts, I'm giving money to support gay marriage and transgender.
Leave me alone.
It's about assuaging the fear that somebody's gonna come for their money.
It's about adopting a public persona that makes their wealth okay.
And the peasants with the pitchforks will leave them alone and not come for their money, because they're good people and they care about people like Gates is building mosquito nets for malaria.
You want to wipe out malaria?
Bring back DDT and punt Rachel Carson.
But no, no, can't get there, needs to be an ongoing problem so I can have ongoing philanthropy so that I can have ongoing demonstrations of my good works.
How in the world do you reckon?
So what could he be thinking of here since World War II U.S. government RD has defined the state of the art in almost every area, the private sectors in general inept?
There's only one thing that I can think that he might be talking about, and that's nuclear weapons technology.
That was RD, that was government sponsored.
It was not still private sector people who did it, but it was under the auspices of government.
What else are you talking about?
Don't tell me GI Bill and this guy.
That's not RD.
I mean, I don't give me legislation.
What other RD did they invent the cell phone?
Oh, you NASA space program?
RDs and moonsh, okay, all right.
But who did it really?
You ask me, Grumman Northrop, McDonnell Douglas did it all.
It was the government that sponsored it and gave them the money, but where did the work actually take place?
Where was all the entrepreneurs?
It wasn't G-14 people that put the nuclear bomb together or got us to the moon or built the space shuttle.
I just I know if you want to praise the government, go ahead.
But but to say that the private sector is in general inept.
Does Gates does Gates think that his 78 billion dollar fortune came from outside the private sector, maybe?
I don't know.
Anyway, there's a companion story to this.
The world's most polluted places.
Now, Bill Gates says when it comes to climate change and global warming, which of course is a hoax, which is phony.
That's the big thing.
Somebody as smart as Gates has to know that this is falderole.
Yet he's signed on to it, and I submit to you for the same reasons.
Get the geek nerd crew on your side loving you and supporting a bunch of millennial young leftists.
And then keep the peasants with pitchforks away from you by removing your billions as a threat to them, because you're a good guy.
But Gates says when it comes to global warming and that hoax, capitalism is the problem, and socialism is the answer.
Well, we can test this.
We can test this.
We have socialist and communist governments all over the world.
And we can take a look at how well they're doing battling pollution, CO2 emissions, and climate change.
Let's do that when we come back.
Okay, now look, we're actually engaged in a kind of fruitless exercise here.
Because look, there is no climate change.
Okay, there isn't any.
I mean, not man-made.
There's no CO2 greenhouse gas, the temperature has to go to about 18, 20 years.
Again, folks, note that the predictions for this are all 50 years from now, 30 years, 75, 100 years.
They're not predicting next month, next week, next year.
Because they know nothing's going to happen that they can claim responsibility for.
They've got to lay these predictions way off when you're no longer here.
They want your tax money now.
They want you to agree to big government, global government now.
And they're using fear, but they never predict climate change and its massive impact next week.
next year.
Another problem today, the ice at the Antarctic, mysteriously increasing.
That doesn't fit the computer models.
But anyway, the point is, Gates says that capitalism can't save us from climate change.
There isn't any climate change.
So what is this what it's almost a non-starter?
It's an interview we gave in the Atlantic.
It's a very long piece.
And in it he says the private sector is in general inept.
It can't save us.
Capitalism can't save us from something that isn't happening, maybe true.
But if you continue to promulate the hoax, then of course you're going to make people believe, well, capitalism can't save it.
No, no, because in these people's view, capitalism caused it.
Capitalism is at the root of all evil, including climate change.
But where there is socialism, let's take a look.
September 12, 2007, most recent data.
I know it's eight years ago, but there hadn't been a whole lot of change here.
This is the world's most polluted places.
The top two are in China.
The next two are India, then Peru, the next two Russia, then Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Zambia.
There isn't a capitalist economy in any of these places.
Bill Gates says capitalism can't save us from climate change.
Well, we have a bunch of socialist and communist governments, and they're the most polluted places on Earth.
They are the filthiest.
They have more CO2 emissions, all that these places, according to Gates, ought to be leading the way.
But it's preposterous.
The whole thing is preposterous anyway, because we have a non-event that we're now going to debate what's better to fix it.
Socialism or capitalism?
So you see, the real game here is to once again diminish and attack capitalism and get everybody or as many people as you can aligned against that.
And use up here this non existent hoax of climate change.
Since there isn't any climate, how can capitalism ever claim to fix it when it doesn't exist in the first place, you see?
So it's a it's kind of a setup to begin with.
But aside from all the things that Bill Gates is quoted as saying in this piece, still boggle my mind.
I don't care.
We have such a good roster of calls on hold.
I can't wait to get to them.
That'll happen in the next hour.
What is it about you know I know I gave you the answer, but it's still, here's a guy.
Perhaps capitalism's biggest winner.
Bill Gates running around flipping it off.
Flipping at the bird.
By talking about how it is in general inept.
At any rate, my friends, I will shelve my disgust, and we will resume following a break here at the top of the hour, once again in our usual good mood.
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