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Nov. 5, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 5, 2015, Thursday, Hour #3
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That's right, just to review 27, 28, and then uh 19 and 20.
That's if right, that's if things don't change in the way I do things here.
I'm just calling up the audio sound bites I'm gonna need here, folks, if I follow my own instincts here.
Anyway, we're back.
Fastest three hours in media, hour number three, Rush Limbaugh program in the EIB network underway.
Great to have you.
Telephone numbers 800 282-2882 and the email address L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
Now, sticking with Dr. Carson and his mechanism that he uses to reach people, and that's Facebook.
Um social media is like any other.
It has many aspects, facets.
Much of Twitter, for example, is a sewer.
But there's some entertaining legit stuff that goes on, and the same thing with Facebook.
And it is is clear that Ben Carson is using Facebook as a tool to actually directly reach people.
And at the end of every day, he sits down at his computer and takes questions.
People can submit questions all day long to his Facebook account, and he chooses some to respond to every night.
Sometimes late at night.
And everybody's curious, okay, why all of a sudden has has Carson begun to move past Trump, not just in Iowa, but in a couple of national polls, Carson's moving up.
I think Carson to a lot of people is much more of a surprise than Trump ever was.
When when Carson announced, I don't think there was anybody who thought that he had a I mean any kind of a serious chance at all.
And they were not putting him down.
Nobody was dismissive.
They were just I mean uh hadn't been around long.
He's uh on the public consciousness really since that prayer breakfast moment where he took it to Obama on Obamacare, and it was a big launch, but still it was, I think considered by a lot of people to be a long shot, and that's why there's so many people that are a combination of shocked and surprised and curious as to how he's done it.
Now, one of the here's his latest Facebook post night.
He says, Tonight going through all your questions, I wanted to touch on a few issues that seem to be asked by many people.
I want to deal with one question tonight in some detail, and the issue is experience.
Several people ask what they should tell their friends when people say I like Carson, but he has no political experience.
Well, Carson Wright, you're absolutely right.
I have no political experience.
But on the other hand, the current members of Congress have a combined 8,700 years of political experience.
Are we sure political experience is what we need?
Every signer of the Declaration of Independence had no elected office experience.
What they had was a deep belief that freedom is a gift from God.
They had a determination to rise up against a tyrannical king.
They were willing to risk all they had, even their lives to be free.
Today we find ourselves with an entire class of politicians.
No one in Philadelphia during that summer our nation was born dreamed that service was a career with a pension.
America was the land of the citizen statesmen.
They were merchants, lawyers, farmers, and yes, even doctors.
They were willing to stand for freedom.
Today, the political class stands in the way, not stands for people.
They demand pensions, they demand perks, but this is not what our founders envisioned.
I spent my life treating very ill children over 15,000 times.
I gave my all to prolong their lives.
I was blessed to do it, but when it came time for me to retire, I simply couldn't sit back any longer.
These children became my family.
What our government is doing to them is outrageous.
I'm prepared to risk all that I have to try and make a difference In their future.
I built one of the nation's best medical centers.
I served for two decades on the boards of Costco and Kellogg.
I built a national scholarship program.
My experience is very different than what we've come to expect.
I grew up poor.
I know what it's like to be homeless and hungry.
I know the pain of poverty.
I also know that education and a mother's love can be the path out of dire poverty.
I know what it's like to see water fountains you're not allowed to drink out of because of your skin color.
I also know that once you peel back the skin, the brain's the same no matter what your skin color or continent you live on.
I know that victimhood's a trap.
I know that it is our Christian responsibility to offer those less fortunate a hand up.
I know my faith is strong and my ego is small.
I know that my path to the White House is different than most.
But I also know that I bring all of the pain and joy, the success and failure, the lessons learned through love and sorrow in my life's journey.
Bill Clinton was famous for saying, I feel your pain.
Well, I've walked in your shoes.
I don't have political experience.
I have a life journey.
A journey that not only made it possible for me to relate to so many different people, but also one where time and time again I was told I would fail only to succeed.
My candidacy is different, that I grant you.
I have neither Donald Trump's money nor Jeb Bush's political network.
However, I wouldn't trade a single child I've treated for all of Trump's money.
And while I admire the Bush family's dedication to service, I too served nights, weekends, holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, with severely injured patients.
That were my public service.
I didn't go to embassy cocktail parties or beg lobbyists for money.
I spent night after night in a quiet, sterile room trying to save the life of a small child.
That was my wife's service.
That is my wife's experience.
What I have is a lifetime of caring, integrity, and honesty.
I have experienced the American dream.
Nowhere in the world other than America.
Could a man whose ancestors were slaves rise to become a leading brain surgeon and one day seek the office of president?
The very fact that I'm running is testament to the greatness of America.
If all you want is political experience, then I can't be your candidate.
So that's how Dr. Carson's dealing with it.
It's perfectly sensible.
In addition to being inspiring.
And Hillary Clinton couldn't white, couldn't write very much of it herself.
Hillary Clinton doesn't have anywhere near, neither does Bill Clinton.
All they've got is a lifetime of saying they care.
And using other people's money, ostensibly, to grow the government to provide relief or help or assistance, but what can they actually say they've laid their hands on and repaired and fixed?
The left has succeeded profoundly, convincing people they care.
And the rest of us don't.
So here you have somebody like Ben Carson with his life and his resume, and they're trying to destroy him.
They're trying to destroy him the way they destroy everybody in politics.
One of the ways they're doing it now, apparently in his uh in his book, he talks about some of his experiences as a young man, where he was apparently says he was a young tough.
A brute, he was mean and it was a bully to people.
And the media's running around saying, you know what, he's just trying to make himself look tough because he's so boring.
We can't find any evidence that he was ever any of that.
They're running around trying to find people Carson grew up with.
You ever remember him beating people up?
You ever remember him being a bully?
You ever him remember him being a mean guy, and supposedly I can't find anybody that remembers.
So all this came up on CNN today.
And one of the ways they're going after Carson is evangelical Seventh-day Adventism.
Now, Carson does not champion Seventh-day Advents.
He just says that that that's and he's a member, but he's basically just a run-of-the-mill Christian.
But he doesn't tout the specifics of Seventh-day Adventists.
So on CNN this morning, national political correspondent, Mave Reston, reported on Carson's claim that he had a violent background.
They just found it very curious that they had never heard about these incidents at the time that they happened.
So it really just raises a lot of questions about that piece of his life and the way that he's telling the stories on the campaign trail as he connects with evangelical voters.
What's so important about this part of his life is that God intervened, he says, at age 14, right after that stabbing incident.
He prayed in the bathroom for three hours, and he says that after that moment he never had a violent outburst again.
And so that's what we're trying to confirm and figure out as we think about someone who wants to be president in the Oval Office, you know, at the nuclear controls.
So you evangelical voters, you are so stupid.
You need this woman Maeve Reston to run around backtracking and documenting Ben Carson's story to save you from the guy.
Because you're too stupid directly, you're too religious, you're too big hearted.
You may not realize he's just a liar.
Ben Carson guy.
He believes in God.
You wouldn't have, and we have never seen this kind of investigation of any Democrat candidate.
Right.
She's trying to confirm with God that Carson prayed for three hours.
Which has got to be strange for somebody working at CNN to try to reach God.
I wonder if they know how.
Here's Ben Carson himself this afternoon in Miami, campaign event.
Reporter said the two incidents before your mother were those classmates.
Were they friends?
Were they neighbors?
How do you characterize?
Because our investigation couldn't find these people you supposedly beat up.
Well, why would you be able to find them?
What makes you think you would be able to find them?
Unless I tell you who they are.
If they come forward on their own because of your story, that's fine, but I'm not going to expose them.
Well, why would you be able to find them?
What makes you think you'd be able to find them unless I tell you who they are?
Well, we can't find them.
Nobody will admit it.
Well, then it's their problem.
I'm not going to say who they are.
And that's just going to tick them off even more.
Well, if you beat people up, tell us who.
I mean, just like Romney didn't care that some employee's wife died of cancer.
We're able to find that guy they made an ad.
We're going to find these people so they can call you a liar.
He says, Well, I'm not going to help you find them.
Trump appearing on Saturday Night Live, that's its own story.
You've got a bunch of Hispanics paying people to show up on Saturday Night Live to shout that Trump is a racist.
You've got a bunch of people trying to ban Trump's appearance, get NBC to resend it.
Trump's got some promos that he's out there using already for his appearance coming up on Saturday night.
So in Sarasota, Florida, yesterday, uh Ben Carson spoke with reporters, including NBC's senior White House correspondent Chris Jensen about Trump's promo for Saturday night.
Trump has a promo saying that he just thinks that Ben Carson's a big loser.
And it's obviously a joke.
It's Saturday Night Live.
It's it's Trump parodying himself.
Well, NBC accidentally that look, it there's a res there's a federal restriction that in one of these things, because of federal election rules that Trump can only talk for four seconds about other people on these campaigns without them legitimately claiming they deserve equal time on Saturday Night Live to respond.
So in any promo, Trump or anybody, any political guest is given four seconds to talk about Jeb or in this case Ben Carson or whatever.
And NBC is claiming, just like they don't know what happened that 9-11 tape that got edited with the George Zimmerman Trayvon Martin case.
They don't know what happened here.
But anyway, Chris Jansen and uh and Ben Carson have this uh exchange here about being made fun of on Saturday Night Live.
I would not want equal time on the SNL.
Do you plan on watching?
No.
Would you do SNL of ask?
No.
Why?
Because I think the presidency is a very serious thing, and I don't like making light of it like that.
I uh I I don't want to I don't want to make fun of the presidency on Saturday Night Live.
It's a very serious thing, and I wouldn't go on Saturday Night Live and make fun of it.
So I don't want four seconds of equal time to respond to Trump.
Then yesterday in Fort Myers, down the road from or up the road from down the road from Sarasota, uh reporters talking to Carson about Trump's promo for Saturday Night Live, in which he called Carson a loser.
And Carson said this.
I discovered when I was in grade school that those tactics really are for grade school.
And I've gone far beyond that now.
So he's saying, I don't even want to get down in that gutter or that mud.
I don't even want to go there.
You're not gonna suck me into responding to Trump.
I'm just not gonna do it.
Now back to CNN this morning, correspondent Joe John's retiring on car or reporting on Carson's allegedly violent past.
And this is how that sounded.
Carson said he also tried to kill a friend identified as Bob in a disagreement over the radio.
But that early picture of violence is not recognizable to some who grew up with Carson.
I was shocked, I was surprised because he was just, you know, he was quiet and calm.
CNN reporters Maeve Rustin and Scott Glover tracked down ten schoolmates and neighbors.
None challenged Carson's story directly.
Only one said they'd heard vague rumors about one of the incidents, but all said this was not the boy they knew.
I was really surprised when I read he tried to stab someone like what?
The campaign has refused repeated requests from CNN to help find witnesses or the victims Carson mentions only by first name.
CNN has been unable to locate witnesses or victims.
So you see, Carson's on now, why would it say Carson making this stuff up?
He didn't stab anybody, he didn't he didn't bully anybody, he didn't attack anybody, he didn't beat anybody up, he's making it up.
Why?
I are they so curious about this anyway.
That well, of course they'd love to be able to prove him a liar.
But I look at I'm up against it on time.
I've really got to take a break.
I guess the question why would Carson lie about what what benefit is there to him for people to realize that don't know that he was a violent guy when he was a ute?
Is it part of what he's overcome?
Is the f the the faith aspect I know they're attacking that, but is an ability on Carson to say, I'm not this dull dry ball you think I am?
I'm not this look, I've been a tough guy in the past.
I I we'll have to Let me ask you a question.
Think back to the days that you were in uh well, let's say junior high or middle school or even Haskrul, and let's say that you were a figure of some prominence recently, and the media then became interested in you, and you started describing things you did in your junior high and high school days.
Do you think it possible that the media could find everybody you went to school with?
And after that, do you think that everybody that you went to school with has a photographic memory of everything you did those years that you were in school.
So CNN's what?
They found 10 or 15 people that don't remember Diddley Squad, and it's shocking.
That's all it takes.
So now we have a we have a narrative commencing here that there's no evidence.
Nobody out there can remember this part of this site of Ben Carson.
Carson won't give him the names.
That just makes it even more suspicious.
He's hiding something.
No, way Carson's made, it's more than likely he doesn't want to violate their privacy.
But this is what passes for investigative journalism.
And then you toss in the Fundamentalist evangelical religion aspect of this.
And you have turned these media people into hunting bird dogs who are hellbent to be able to prove that the deeply religious Ben Carson is nothing more than your average run-of-the-mill liar.
Because if they can establish that in people's minds, remember they're all working for Hillary Clinton.
Every one of them.
When we're talking about CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, we are talking about people who work for Hillary Clinton, just like these journalists on the on the debate.
They're not journalists and they're not interrogators.
They're assassins.
They're political assassins.
The objective here is to take Carson.
He's the front runner now.
They would, I'm telling you, they would love to turn Ben Carson into the Herman Cain of 2015.
They would love to.
And they think Carson has given them an opening here.
So they're gonna they're gonna hunt this down and do with it what they can.
And if they can't find a fact, they'll be happy to use the annuendo, which they're doing now.
They're already halfway there to try to make people believe Carson's really, man, this guy's out of balance.
He's lying, he's screwed up.
This guy's really a nutcase.
That's what they're trying for.
A man, a legend, a way of life.
Look, folks, there's all kinds of stuff I want to squeeze in here.
If I don't get it all in, I can save some of it for tomorrow.
But I love this headline.
This is from the Canada Free Press.
Putin warns ISIS, Obama warns school district about girls' shower room.
If that doesn't put it in perspective, Vladimir Putin is out fighting our enemies, out there fighting ISIS, who may have blown an airplane out of the sky.
And Obama is worried over less than one percent of the population not getting to take showers with the girls.
Canada Free Press.
What we have essentially is a world where ISIS kills and beheads Christians and others, and CNN is trying to take, make no mistake.
What CNN is trying to do is establish the narrative that Ben Carson is a typical kook Christian.
And I'm telling you, this is backfiring on them now.
This is what they don't understand.
Carson and Trump being in the lead is ex-is a direct result of all of this that the media and the Washington establishment have been doing the way they've been treating average ordinary Americans.
People are fed up with it.
And the more CNN tries to destroy Carson, the worse it's going to be for CNN.
And the more they're going to solidify.
In fact, if Trump doesn't back off Carson, it might hurt him.
This is I don't think these people that are in professional politics have the slightest idea anymore, right now anyway.
What is motivating people or animating them?
Now what we have essentially here is a world ISIS is killing and beheading Christians and others, followed by enough aborted babies to start a new country in a world on the verge of World War III and safely tucked into the lavish environs of the White House.
We have a president who's concerned with what takes place in a girl's bathroom.
Barack Hussein Obama.
And boy, is Bill Gates taking hits over Common Core.
You know, Bill Gates funded Common Core.
Bill Gates is a is a in his wife Melinda, their philanthropic effort here to save American education.
And they have presumed themselves to take the role of government.
They came up with this curriculum called Common Core.
And it's bombing.
It's bombing everywhere.
And in fact, John Engler, the former Republican governor of Michigan, one of the high-ranking officials in the whole Common Core organization, is saying, you know what, we got to get rid of that name, Common Core.
It's not at all what this is about, and it's really doing great damage.
We got to get rid of no, it's it's exactly properly named Common Core is exactly What's wrong with it?
Nobody has everything in common.
And the effort to impose commonality and sameness on everybody.
I'm talking about outcomes.
I don't care you want to teach everybody the same thing, granted, but even that's convoluted because what they've chosen for the curriculum is one of the big problems here with Common Core.
And Jeb Bush signed on to this glommed onto it.
I'm convinced Jeb signed onto it, maybe not knowing fully what was it about, simply because big money was behind it.
And the more you learn about current American politics, you learn that big money powers it.
Big money talks, big money equals campaign donations, big money equals life in politics, big money equals issue after issue being advanced, so you sign up with the money.
So the big money wants common core, hey, I'm all for it.
Washington Post, Bill Gates spent a fortune to build it.
Now a Florida school system is getting rid of it.
And he did spill it.
I mean, he's got countless other fortunes.
Is not hurt by what he spent here, don't misunderstand.
You know, there are better and worse ways to run schools, but there are two simple rules that have to be followed in order to do what's right by students.
You have to encourage intact families with parents who have completed high school themselves, have not had teenage babies and so forth.
One of the parents has to be at least gainfully employed.
You have to have local control of schools from the curriculum to the launches.
It's not rocket surgery.
There's plenty of history in America over how public education can be made to work.
And you go back and you find public education began to decline as more and more of it began to be taken over by federal bureaucrats who began using the curriculum as a way of inculcating or propagandizing liberalism as the curriculum.
Multiculturalism, and here comes Bill Gates.
In the midst of the mess, saying, I have the solution.
He comes in with a lot of big money, and lo and behold, everybody signed on to it.
Here's the Wall Street Journal.
Long story.
Financial woes plague common core rollout.
And this is a huge issue.
It highly motivates people at the grassroots because their kids' education is important as anything else to people.
And this piece goes through reason after reason after reason why states are backing out when they previously signed on, because why not?
Here comes a big billionaire waving a lot of money around.
But they're trying to get out of this as fast as they can, just like Obamacare is crumbling everywhere you look.
Which takes me to Kevin D. Williamson in National Review.
Headline, Obamacare is dead.
Regardless whether there is a President Cruz or a President Rubio or President whoever in 2017, regardless of the existence or size of a Republican majority in Congress, the so-called Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has failed.
The grand vision of an efficient pseudo-market in health insurance under enlightened federal management, the heart of Obamacare, is not coming to pass.
Obamacare, meaning the operating model that undergirded the law that Congress passed and Obama signed with great fanfare is dead and it will not be revived.
What remains is fitful chaos.
Let me give you the pull quote from this opinion piece, but I'm going to give it a pull quote.
Kevin Williamson, National Review.
The fact is that Obamacare has fallen apart without the Republicans dismantling it.
Now, folks, don't worry here.
I understand.
There is a contingent on the Republican side that does not want to repeal Obamacare.
Understand, and it's a contingent, large contingent, Republican Party that doesn't want to do the heavy lifting to get rid of it.
And they would much rather say it's going to fail on its own, just let it.
They've already said so.
realize I just want to throw this out to you for your own consumption, see what you think about it.
The fact is Obamacare has fallen apart without Republicans dismantling it.
Almost all of its basic promises have failed.
It's an economic shambles, and it's a political mess.
Unsurprisingly, people still don't like it.
Less than a third of Americans support the individual mandate.
Three-fourths oppose Obamacare's tax on high-end health care programs, and more voters oppose the law categorically than support it.
Twenty-five percent say the law has hurt them personally.
The question isn't why Republicans haven't gotten around to repealing and replacing it.
The answer to that question resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for a while still.
The question is, when will Democrats get around to admitting that they and they alone have created a mess that has introduced nothing to American health care except chaos?
They're never going to admit it, but he's right.
There aren't any Republican fingerprints on it.
But I again, I don't want to.
The danger in this piece is that we don't have to do anything.
Obamacare's crumbling.
It's falling apart on its own, and we don't have to do anything just to wait.
No, no.
I it's an entitlement.
It isn't just going to go away on its own.
And if it's left alone, we're going to end with chaos.
It has to be actively taken apart and something done to replace it.
But I don't disagree with the premise that it's imploding, but that never stopped liberalism.
They're not going to admit any of this.
And the idea that that the Democrats might someday admit that they and they alone created chaos.
What are the odds we're ever going to see that day?
The Democrats are never going to admit it isn't working.
It's going to be just like every other federal program that's a botched mistake.
They're going to say we're the only ones that can fix it.
They're going to act like forces outside that they hadn't counted on, screwed it up.
They're never going to admit that it's their mistake.
And they certainly aren't going to lay it off on Obama.
That's just not the way they do.
They never admit they messed things up.
It's always the Republicans that do.
And the way this is going to happen, more than likely, well, Obamacare would be a much better place if these Republicans weren't trying to stop it every day.
If the Republicans weren't trying to deny the poor health insurance, if the Republicans weren't standing in the way of the uninsured getting health insurance, we'd be doing very well here.
They know they're going to try to lay this off on Republicans.
They always do.
And that's what the Republicans sit around and just wait and hope and pray this thing implodes to where it's obvious there isn't even a health care system in place.
That day's never going to happen.
We already have federal entitlements operating that way.
We have many government programs that are nothing but chaos, and nobody ever admits there's anything wrong with them.
Except when they do, they say, well, we're the ones to fix it because we didn't break it.
Outside forces did.
For as long as I have been alive, well, for as long as I have been an adult, at irregular intervals, I have seen stories about how men do not share the housework.
And this is why couples often are in strife.
I mean, seriously, folks.
This story is as old as marriage is.
The idea that men do not contribute enough around the house.
I mention that because there's another one out today, and it is medical news today, which means it's going to be in the drive-by media shortly.
And it's nothing more than 50-year-old theory recycled as news.
The way they present it this time, fair sharing of chores leads to better sex life.
You're looking for more and better sex.
If you're a man, you might consider doing the dishes once in a while.
How many times have you seen this story over the course of your life?
I mean, you can't count it.
I can't count the number of times.
I gotta take a break.
Be back.
Don't go away, folks.
Jeb Bush.
Four percent.
No, I'm not getting out.
No way I'm gonna drop out before Iowa.
We got the right message.
We've got the right candidate.
We've got wait a way, what do you mean?
We're no way I'm going anywhere?
Why would you even think that?
I don't even care.
My consultants are telling me that all I gotta do is be myself.
You watch.
Stand by.
Audio soundbite's coming up.
Yesterday ABC News.
On the website, Jonathan Carl interviewing Jeb Bush.
Here's the first audio soundbite.
You call out this morning.
Four percent.
I mean, did you ever think you'd be.
I don't even care.
It's not, it's not relevant.
Is there any scenario that you would drop out of this race before Iowa?
No.
No way.
No way, no how.
Well, Jonathan Carl said, well, you recently hired a media consultant who's going to coach you on interviews and the debates.
What is what is the consultant telling you?
He's telling me to be me.
He's telling me to own the own what I believe.
Yeah, it's amazing, huh?
Probably not.
My problem in the debates, I have to untrain myself to answer questions that are asked.
You have to pivot towards what you want to say.
And um learn to interrupt in a way that doesn't sound like you're just um oppressively.
I'm sorry.
Folks, it sounds to me.
You know, Jeb Bush, strip away all this noise.
Jeb Bush is a decent, nice guy.
And it sounds to me like he really resents what he thinks you have to do.
He's basically saying, yeah, they gotta teach me how to fool people, how to deceive people.
You can't ask the question that they ask you.
You gotta take the opportunity of the question.
You gotta say what you want to say.
You gotta get your message out.
You can't allow yourself to be held prisoner to them.
But he wants to be polite.
They ask him a question about the Australian rabbit bet, then he's gonna answer a question about the Australian rabbit bet.
And he thinks he ought to get credit for doing that, for being honest.
But this little reference here, he's telling me to be me, uh, own what I believe, and Carl says, you need a consultant to tell you that.
Bush says, Yeah, it's amazing.
That tells me that he may even resent the efforts they're making with the consultants to try to quote unquote fix him.
But it's all speculation.
I'm not there, I don't know.
I'm just telling you the way it seems to me from a distance here.
You know, folks, it's just my little opinion here, but I think Jeb Bush's biggest problem is gonna be a tough one to correct, and that is when he first said his objective was to win the nomination, sidetracking the base.
Win the nomination by losing the primaries.
And I don't know, can a consultant teach somebody to be a conservative?
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