All Episodes
Previous Next
Nov. 10, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
32:08
November 10, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #3
| Copy link to current segment

Time Text
Yeah, good.
I just said Drudge just put uh up his lead item.
Something I told you about an hour ago.
University police.
Missoula University police, not the City of Columbia.
Missoula University police have told students to report to them any hurtful speech.
Snerdley missed that because he was screening calls.
But let me go through this very quickly since Drum just drudges put it up.
We had this an hour ago.
University of Missouri police did nothing.
No, no, no, no.
I'm just telling you, it's a cutting edge here.
Missouri University Police Department sent an email to students Tuesday morning, urging them to call them and report any hurtful speech they encounter on the campus.
In an email flagged by several Missouri-based journalists, the uh campus police said uh or asked individuals who witness incidents of hateful and or hurtful speech or actions are to call the police department's general phone line to continue to ensure that the University of Missouri campus remained safe.
So the little children are being told now any time anyone says or does anything that is hurtful, dare to call the police.
Yes, the police.
They further suggest the students provide a detailed description of the offender.
Their location or license plate number, even take a picture of the offender, if they can.
In the email, the campus cops readily admit that hurtful or hateful speech is not against the law, but they write, if the individuals identified our students, then the university's Office of Student Conduct can take disciplinary action.
The media, I'd asked the cops about this.
They said, Well, we're simply asking the students to report what they feel is hurtful and or hateful speech.
Reported to the cops.
And we laughed when they called 911 in Port St. Lucie when they were out of chicken McNuggets, and we laughed, and now look.
Now it's becoming policy.
Hooray, hurrah, Mazoo Mazoo.
Hooray, hurrah.
It's embarrassing, Mizzou.
The whole thing is embarrassing.
Are there any adults left there?
Okay, now, ladies and gentlemen, to the promised Republican presidential campaign.
It's fascinating to watch a bunch of things unfold.
In no particular order here from the New York Times, Jeb Bush allies threaten wave of harsh attacks on Marco Rubio, an ex-mente, meaning that's the version of mentor, the being mentored by.
What's happening here?
Apparently there is the uh desire to create the appearance of real animosity between Jeb and Marco.
They used to be buddies.
Marco was the under Jeb's wing, but Jeb the acknowledged big guy Marco the future.
Marco has attempted to usurp the mentor, and now the the Bush family is supposedly fit to be tied over this massive public display of disloyalty by Marco Rubio.
And so now all guns, political guns in the Bush camp were trained on Marco Rubio.
Seething with anger.
I'm reading various elements here from the New York Times story.
Seething with anger and alarmed over Mr. Rubio's rise, aids to Jeb Bush and his allies are privately threatening a wave of scathing attacks on his former protege in the coming weeks.
In a sign of just how anxious they have become about the state of Mr. Bush candidacy.
Their looming problem in trying to undercut Mr. Rubio as unaccomplished and unprepared.
Mr. Bush is himself, according to the New York Times, a flawed messenger.
Over the years he's repeatedly and sometimes lavishly praised Rubio, often on camera.
And now, Rubio somehow has become a fraud and undeserving.
In many such tributes, one of those, Mr. Bush declared in a 2012 TV interview, that Marco Rubio had, Quote the intellectual acumen and the fortitude to be a good president, but that's three years ago.
And whatever acumen and whatever fortitude Rubio had, it's gone now.
The Rubio camp are also telegraphing a warning that has already reached many of Mr. Bush's donors.
And that warning is this.
Such an assault would be beneath the dignity of the Bush name.
That's the Rubio pushback.
That's beneath the dignity of the Bush name to go after me like this.
Mr. Bush should focus on resurrecting his own candidacy, not on trying to tear down Mr. Rubio, who they contend represents the future of the Republican Party.
Now, what?
As a casual observer, I've read to you the highlights of this story.
Let me repeat them, because I have a question for you.
Jeb Bush, languishing at four to five points in poll after poll after poll.
Rubio gaining ground.
You know, the inertia, the consensus is that Rubio and Cruz are now rising, that Trump may have leveled off a bit, that Carson's skyrocketing.
Meanwhile, all this is happening and Bush can't get traction, and so Bush, fearing the Rubio rise as the most legitimate of all of that's what the Bush campaign thinks.
That if it isn't Jeb, it's going to be Rubio.
You know why they think that?
Establishment donors.
The Bush campaign thinks that if they don't get it, Rubio is, because the donors get what they want, and establishment donors are going to go to Rubio.
So they've got to tear Rubio down.
And they're prepared to do it.
My question, can any of you ever remember a story even vaguely similar to this?
Except the target was a Democrat.
You can't, can you?
Can you ever remember a story where the Bushes are targeting a Democrat opponent?
George H.W. Bush is president?
Nope, George W. Bush.
They viewed attacking Democrats as somehow beneath the Bushes, that's where that comes from, and beneath the dignity of the office.
You don't politicize, you don't go after your political opponents this way, not of the other party.
It's really strange.
I mean, Jeb is totally prepared to politically decapitate Marco, but wouldn't think of this kind of approach to say Hillary or Joe Biden.
And it's it's really curious.
They think they can work with the Democrats.
I mean, you know it and I know it.
They've uh they've pretty much said so.
So anyway, the the Bush long knives are out for Marco Rubio.
In the meantime, the New York Times has moved on to Ted Cruz.
The New York Times is now attacking Ted Cruz's father.
This is Caleb Howe reporting in the right scoop since the C NBC debate, the media, their allies and left-wing blogs and Hillary Clinton campaign surrogates, masquerading his nonprofits like media matters, have all launched an aggressive attack on the Republican candidates.
You might think it was revenge for calling out obvious media bias.
One might think that in seeking that revenge, they are also proving the GOP right.
The latest target on the media hit list is Ted Cruz, whose blistering assault on CNBC moderators became practically legendary only minutes after he delivered it.
But rather than attacking Cruz's own history, the New York Times is going after his father's history from when he was under the thumb of the brutal dictator of an oppressed nation.
Here's what the New York Times writes.
Since he was a boy, Senator Ted Cruz has said all he wanted to do was fight for liberty.
A yearning that he says was first kindled when he heard his father, father's tales of fighting as a rebel leader in Cuba in the 1950s, throwing Molotov cocktails, running guns, and surviving torture.
Those stories retold by Mr. Cruz and by his father Raphael have hooked Republican audiences and given emotional power to the message that the Texas senator is pushing as an increasingly serious contender for the party's presidential nomination.
In their telling, the father's experience in Cuba becomes a parable for the son's nightmarish vision of government overreach under President Obama.
But the family narrative that has provided such inspirational fire and biographical heft to Cruz's speeches, debate performances, and a recently published memoir is his father's Cuban contemporaries say an embroidered one.
In other words, the New York Times saying that Ted Cruz and his dad are lying about the father's oppressive experiences and struggles in Cuba.
Now, much as Mark Halperin asked Ted Cruz for his favorite Cuban recipes, and to say some things in Spanish, because of course they wanted to prove that Cruz really wasn't Hispanic, that he didn't hold the similarities for the struggle that Hispanics faced, that he was really too white.
I mean, he's a white Hispanic, I mean, through and through white, and he was using the Hispanic link, much the way Pocahontas did.
Elizabeth Warren and claiming she had Indian blood.
They're trying to delegitimize the whole Cruz Cuban connection.
And so Ted Cruz, reacting to this, says after seven years, the New York Times cannot unearth a college transcript of Barack Obama, but they'll send reporters to Cuba to interview Communist Party officials to attack my dad.
Which is exactly right.
That's exactly what they're not interested in Obama's transcript.
They're not interested in Obama's performance in college.
They're not interested in anything that could refute anything Obama has said or done.
They will send reporters to Cuba to try to discredit Cruz by interviewing communist dictators about Ted Cruz's dad.
It's just a total waste of time.
This is the kind of thing that people are seeing through now.
By the way, Ben Carsino, one of the stories that the media says he's made up is this prank test, this hoax test that he took at Yale.
Are you familiar with that?
Well, it turns out a former staff member of the Yale Records says that he recalls many of the details of a prank that Dr. Carson wrote about in his autobiography.
The incident has been the subject of media coverage in recent days, after the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that it found no evidence to support Carson's claim that he was a victim of a hoax that led him to take a fake psychology test, as he wrote in his 1990 autobiography gifted hands.
Now, my question is when did the absence of evidence become evidence?
The Wall Street Journal reported Friday, it found no evidence to support Carson's claim he was a victim of a hoax.
Okay, so no evidence means that there's evidence.
No, no, no, no.
Let me be clear.
Back to the Cruz story.
This is the New York Times.
Story on Ted Cruz's that boils down to this.
Cruz's father claims he was detained and beaten for trying to recruit someone to fight Castro.
The New York Times found a guy who was part of an anti-Castro group who says Cruz's dad was only detained for having a gun.
The New York Times story is simply about that difference.
They're trying to point out that Ted Cruz's dad is a giant liar because of that little bitty incidental difference in what happened.
And so they're trying to make a mountain out of a molehill, and that's the extent they're going to, never anything close to any effort like that to destroy Democrats.
Now, anyway, back to the Ben Carson story.
In an interview with Buzzfeed News on Monday, Chris or Curtis Buckhall, an editorial assistant at the satirical Yale Record, says he helped write the fake test.
That the media says Carson made up.
He actually, he's taking credit for writing the fake test, said he was 99% certain the way Carson remembers it is correct.
He said, When I read about that story in the Wall Street Journal, I immediately said to my wife and friend, that was the prank that we played at the school record at the newspaper.
And Ben Carson was in the class?
That's incredible.
We did a mock parody of the Yale Daily News during the exam period in January 1970.
In this parody, we had a box that said so and so section of the exam has been lost in a fire.
Professor so and so is going to give you a makeup exam.
We got a room to do the test in, and one of us from the record impersonated a proctor to give the test, and Carson fell for it.
He wrote about it, the fake test, the hoax.
The Wall Street Journal, we can't find any evidence this happened.
Well, the guy who made up the fake test has come forward.
Yeah, yeah, we did it.
We didn't know it ensnared Carson.
This is great.
This is cool.
They're a bunch of satirists.
I can relate to this.
I did all kinds of pranks like this.
I love reading about successful stuff like this, but the effort here to make it look like Carson made it all up.
The Hill.com Carson, now most favorable GOP candidate.
Ben Carson is the most popular.
2016 Republican White House hopeful, according to a new poll.
Seven out of ten Republicans, 70%.
Washington Post ABC News Survey.
Say they view Carson positively.
He earns a 71% favorability rating, pollsters found 39% of that total strongly favor him.
His favorability rating is up from 68% in a similar poll six weeks ago.
Thomas Sowell has weighed in on the Carson Flap, and we've got some media audio sound bites coming up, so hang in there and be tough.
We'll be right back.
If you are on hold, hang on, be patient.
We're gonna get to you.
Here's Mark Halperin last night, Bloomberg TV, his TV show, all due respect.
He co-hosts with uh John Heileman, and they are discussing Carson, the presidential campaign and the uh the political story that we exposed as an assassination attempt last Friday.
Is Ben Carson in better shape or worse shape today than he was headed into the weekend when this story started to explode?
He's in better shape.
Most of these stories have burnt out.
The bases are out around him, he's raising a ton of money, but on none of these stories has he been caught lying.
Not one of them.
Did he shield people at his high school?
What were the circumstances of a of a hoax or involving a psychology course?
All that stuff I just think is meaningless.
And whether why a vegetarian was eating a Popeyes This is not the stuff.
This is not dodging the draft or Jennifer Flowers.
Dodging the draft or Jennifer Flowers?
You guys kidding me?
You shielded Clinton from all that.
What do you mean?
And what is this?
None of these stories.
Was he caught lying?
As though the media gave it its best shot?
That Carson overcame.
What is the point here?
You guys are admitting that the media is an opposition force, and in this instance, Carson overcame it.
You're admitting it.
The media's on your side.
I think it's a hell of an admission.
Here's Howard Kurtz on uh Fox News, this is Kelly file, Megan Kelly last night.
She said, What do you think are the stakes for Ben Carson at the debate tonight?
This debate comes as an opportune time for Ben Carson, who has been whipping the media's butt on these questions about his biography.
Fair to raise the questions, but uh too much overreaching inflammatory headlines and places where you publish where you just ain't got it.
What does it mean kicking the media's butt?
You know, stop and think of what these people are saying here for a second, folks.
Ben Carson's kicking the media's butt.
It's an admission that the media is an opposition force.
So it isn't media.
It's the Democrat Party, Howard.
Come on.
Can we just be straightforward?
You guys call yourselves the media as though what you do is gather the news that nobody knows and then you report it.
That's not at all what's going on here.
You say that these were fair questions to raise?
You accuse him of lying.
There weren't any questions, there were accusations.
Fair?
It's like Mary Mapes trying to defend this stupid movie that they made of Dan Rather and his bogus forgery story.
They can't stop us from asking the question.
They can't.
So that's how they camouflage what they do.
We're not alleging anything.
We're asking the question.
Did Bush skip out on his name?
No, there's no evidence that he did.
You're raising the question because you want people to think he did.
You're lying about it so that you can shape public opinion.
There was no evidence Carson ever lied.
You had to fake a headline, you had to fake a story, and now the story is that Carson whipped the media's butt.
Why should that even have to happen?
The Democrats never have to whip the media's butt.
Media's too busy kissing the butts of the Democrats for their butts to have to be beat.
But we have to beat the media's butts all the time.
And when we do somehow it's a big deal.
Well, it is, actually.
But this is a hell of an admission.
That's right, a man, a legend, a way of life, Claire McCaskill.
You know, many people that knew her years ago.
She she went to law school, by the way, University of Missouri, which may explain why she's losing it.
She was on some late night TV show last night.
And she basically said, What needs to happen in America is that men just need to shut up.
She said it's equally important is encouraging more men to sometimes just shut the hell up.
It's not that women don't value your thoughts, it's just we don't value all of them.
What topics should men just shut up about?
Well, art, carbohydrates, turkey brining.
Shut up.
If you're in the media tonight, you're at the Republican debate, you're actually there.
Green rooms, press rooms, and you want the building Wi-Fi.
You know what the password is?
Stop Hillary.
Stop Hillary is the Wi-Fi password tonight for the media at the Republican debate.
So all these lib media.
Stop Hillary.
They're gonna do stories.
They're already aren't doing stories about time magazines.
We're gonna get a story about it, so I know about it.
Seriously, folks, what is this?
Ben Carson's whipping the media's butt.
You know, the objective was for the media to take Carson out, and that's why they're doing stories like this.
Like Mark Halperon.
Yeah, man.
Those days' stories are burned out.
The vases rallied around him.
You know, man, his guy is he's really kicking the media's butt.
And in Howard Kirst is the same.
Kicking the media's butt.
And here's Jan Crawford CBS this morning, talking about the political story in Ben Carson.
A CNN report last week found no evidence the incident occurred.
But in a 1997 interview with Parade magazine, Carson's mother said, Oh, that really happened.
Carson has provided corroboration for part of his story.
West Point recruiting material that mentions scholarships and politic fact rates his claim mostly true.
The Wall Street Journal is questioning one of Carson's anecdotes about a time he said he was pranked at Yale, but last night, Buzzfeed backed Carson's account.
It found a student there at the time who said it happened.
Why isn't the story the media lied?
Because that's what happened here.
The story is not Ben Carson tried to lie but didn't lie.
The story is the media lied.
The story is the media tried to take out Ben Carson and failed.
Why isn't that the story?
How does Ben Carson even enter into this other than the victim of an attack?
And you could say this about any Republican at any time during any campaign.
Ted Cruz kicked the media's butt at CNBC did it.
Why did he have to?
Why does he have to kick the media's butt in a debate for crying out loud?
So Jan Crawford on CBS goes on CBS, admits three instances where the media was wrong and Carson was right.
Carson wasn't right.
There wasn't a contest.
Carson wrote his autobiography.
You people alleged he lied about it.
You made it up.
Carson's not a factor here.
This is all about you.
Why isn't the headline all over the place politico lied?
And then every other media outlet that picked up the political story and ran with it.
And I had a list of headlines I read to you.
They all promulgated the same thing.
Carson lied.
Carson made up.
He never went to West Point.
He never said he did.
Why isn't the story the media lied?
Why is it the story the media made it up?
Why is media even in the headline?
Democrat political operatives have butt kicked by Ben Carson after years of near anal poisoning associating with Democrat butts.
I mean, that's what's going on here.
Here is Ray in one of my favorite cities that I can't go to.
You're always invited to my house, Russia.
San Francisco.
Well, yeah, it's getting to your house that would be the challenge.
I love San Francisco.
I I guess it's kind of falling apart now with all the homeless and the urine and the puke everywhere, but still, there are part, it's just it's just gorgeous.
I got the new Apple TV, and they've got screensavers that are actual video made by helicopters and drones.
Golden Gate Bridge, you know, I've been to the South Tower, top South Tower Golden Gate Bridge.
It's the most fascinating thing I've done.
What a just downtown and get down into well, not downtown, then under the South Tower at Fort Point.
They don't let you go there now, it's Homeland Security, I think.
But anyway, I always love getting calls from San Francisco, because it's the only way I'll ever visit there is pretending I'm there when I'm on the phone with somebody.
It's Ray, and finally you're up.
How are you, sir?
Good, sir.
You know, this whole Mazoo thing uh also uh points towards uh Ben Carson, unfortunately.
You know, these these young mindful mushs, these kids, what the left likes to call useful idiots, what they're protesting is the very people that they say support them, which is the the Democrat Party, the racist left in this country, and and it's just ridiculous.
If they knew their history, they would know that slavery was defeated in the Civil War, and the only remnant that remains systematically in the system of the United States is the Democrat Party.
Right.
It's uh all the way comes all the way up to Byrd and all this Democrat machinery that thinks that you have to have a white overlord, rich white overlord, and you can't have any kind of free thought.
And Ben Carson is the epitome of it.
If you dare leave the socialist left plantation in this nation, they send the dogs out after you to destroy you or bring you back.
If you are conservative African American or conservative woman, they are going to try to kill you.
Absolutely.
Reputation, career, they're going to try to take you out.
You represent a huge threat to them.
African American conservative, female conservative, what a threat.
You're you're exactly right.
Let me ask you a question.
I just, during the break, I read a piece at the New Yorker, and it's some guy saying, okay, folks, it's about time we got serious and finally embraced political correctness instead of making fun of it.
Because look at what it's accomplishing.
Meaning Mazoo.
Great achievement.
What a wonderful thing that's happening here.
And we need to embrace this.
And it's a it's a it's an article written for leftists.
It's an article written for Democrats.
Time to embrace political correctness.
Well, if we embrace embrace political correctness, then we basically vacate the position that we have free thought, any sort of freedom.
What these kids are basically saying that they want freedom from isn't slavery or racism, it's any type of personal responsibility.
Well, I know.
I know.
Well, the biggest, the biggest laugh about this is to listen to these kids, these children, which is what they are.
They're still the effectively kindergartens in terms of their maturity, kindergartners and maturity and attitudes, demanding their freedom?
Demanding their free freedom to do what?
What are they being denied the opportunity to do?
They can do anything they want to do.
There aren't any limits on them.
What the hell are they talking about?
Who's denying them freedom?
What a freedom to have never-ending A's, freedom to have no student debt, freedom to have to not have to pay tuition.
What the world do they mean by freedom?
Where the hell are they oppressed?
This is you you're you're raising a great question.
It's it's and it's built off mine.
How in the world can there be all of this oppression in places run by the Democrats?
Universities, cities, towns run by liberal Democrats.
Why is it that these young children feel so oppressed and so denied and so shackled?
Doesn't make sense to me.
No, let me explain.
Look.
You know, I lived in Sacramento.
I went to San Francisco quite a bit, and I I really liked a beautiful place.
It really is.
And I did go to the top of the South Tower, the Golden Gate Bridge, after I saw the movie, A View to a Kill, a Bond movie, and I I was uh friends with uh law enforcement in Sacramento, and I put in touch with somebody at the California Highway Patrol who arranged with the bridge authority.
And how'd I get up there?
I walked up the cable.
No, I'm just kidding.
There's an elevator inside the you take a golf tart golf cart out to the to the South Tower, and you go in a little door, and you get in an elevator that is open, it's not enclosed, and it holds three people.
I had an old-fashioned video camera, super eight video camera that was in a case.
I had to put that on my head and hold my arm straight up so that all three of us could fit in this elevator.
The elevator takes you not to the top, takes you 30 feet from the top.
Then you have to climb a ladder.
And there's a hatch, like on a submarine that opens, that pops up and you climb and then you're on the top of the South Tower.
Well, you're not at the top, you're not at the saddles where the cables go over, but you're you're there.
They don't let you go up there because they claim you'll get vertigo.
If you if you go to the absolute highest point, well, they won't let you go.
But there was not a cloud in the sky that day.
There was no fog that day.
86, I guess it was, maybe 87.
It might have been the spring of 1988, I don't know when, but I sat up there two or three hours.
Didn't want to leave.
And I uh could see everything from over there that day.
And then had to go back down those that ladder, 30 feet, get in that elevator, and when you're in, it's dark in there.
There's no lights inside that day.
You can hear it creaking and then you feel it moving as it should.
It's designed to, with all the weight of the cars on it.
Fascinating, fascinating experience.
Anyway, I got to take a break here a little long, back in a second.
Don't go away.
I actually wanted to walk up the cables to get there, but they wouldn't let me, even though, like the painters of the bridge do.
They clip you their handrails on those cables, but they wouldn't let me do that for insurance purposes, obviously.
But I would have done it if they would have given me the go-ahead.
So I took the elevator.
Not all the students at Mizzou are in favor of what's happening.
In fact, the majority of them are not.
And if you find Facebook and Twitter posts, you can see it.
We might try to find some and link to them, but I've got to have you here a soundbite.
Mrs. Clinton in Derry, New Hampshire today, town hall campaign event, a supporter in the audience, and Hillary had a little exchange.
She laid off over 40,000 people.
And she says she's a great CEO.
Every time I see her on TV, I want to reach through and strangle her.
You know, I know that doesn't sound very nice.
I wouldn't mess with you.
So here's a Hillary supporter wants to strangle Carly Fiorina, and everybody's laughing about it, including Hillary.
And nobody in the media has a problem with it.
You imagine if a Carson or Trump or Cruz supporter wanted to strangle Hillary?
And there was laughter.
Can you imagine what that story would be?
So a Hillary supporter advocates violence against women, and Hillary laughs.
Do you think Hillary will be slapped down like Trump was when his audience member made a comment about Muslims?
Don't hold your breath.
Anyway, that's it.
Back here tomorrow, following the big debate tonight.
▲
Export Selection