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Nov. 13, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 13, 2015, Friday, Hour #3
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And we're back.
And one and only L Rushbow, the all-knowing, all caring, all sensing, all feeling, all everything maha rushy on Friday.
Let's hit it.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Okay, folks, I gotta go fast.
I still have so much I want to squeeze in here.
And you have to admit this has been a bad out of hell kind of show already.
I mean, we haven't lollygagged around here.
It hadn't been any wasted time.
And I've got to really double down and get it.
800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program.
I have a little bit more data on the Reuters.
Rolling five-day poll, presidential poll for both Trump and Carson.
And the dates are November 7 through 13.
Those are the inclusive dates, and of course the last five, which would be 11, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 to give us the number that we have today.
But I'm going to give you numbers on November 7th through the 13th.
The 13th is today.
I don't know how much of what happened in uh in the news yesterday is a factor.
Even if they call people this morning, and however they conduct their poll, even if they did it today, I don't know how many people today are fully abreast of what happened last night to have it be a big factor.
We just don't know that.
But even without that, there's some amazing trends here.
Donald Trump in the Reuters five-day average is showing a steady increase.
Starting with November 7 until today, here are the percentage numbers.
28.4, 29.4, 31.
Then on November 10th, a dip to 29.2.
But back November 11, 12, and 13, 31.1, 32.3, 34.
The last three days, 31, 32, and 34.
Here are Carson's numbers.
November 7, 28.4.
Wait a minute.
Damn it.
They didn't print.
The Carson numbers didn't print.
Let me see if I can read them off the computer here, real quickly if I can find them.
Carson's numbers.
November 7, 28.
I'm sorry, 24.
On the 8th, 21, November 9, 21, November 10, 21, November 11, 20, November 12, 17, and today 19.6.
So while Carson has had either steady or declining numbers over the past seven days, Trump has shown steady increase in numbers.
And this would include the debate without question.
It would include the debate.
Some other uh census numbers, just to put something in perspective, because we're going to be very soon getting into the college campus news today, specifically Mizzou.
As of the 2014 census, the black population in the state of Missouri, 11.8%.
As of 2014, census figures from the University of Missouri website.
The black population on campus is 7%.
A total of 2,553 students, which is 7% of the student body at Mizzou.
The number of historically black colleges in America, 109.
So that's roughly two black colleges per state.
In North Carolina, there are 11.
109 historically, all black colleges.
My point is here that we're being told that we're evil, mean spirited, racist.
We're being held hostage by a minority, folks.
And I don't mean just I'm talking about a numerical minority.
A numerical minority, and it's true every numerical minority of the gay population, the numerical minority of the transgender population, the numerical minority of of uh far left wing women, for example.
We're dealing with tiny numbers here.
If you go to the University of Missouri, you have 30,000 students at Mizzou who are not rioting, who are not striking, many of whom are embarrassed and wish all this would go away.
30,000 students at Missoo who are not demanding anything, not screaming, not striking, not whining, not complaining, not acting like spoiled children.
We've got blackmail going on on this campus as a result of the black mail that happened in Columbia in Ferguson and in Baltimore.
Nobody stands up to it.
Just like the Republican Party doesn't stand up to the blackmail they face each and every day.
Here's a story from campus reform.
Jesse Morrell, a Christian open-air preacher was allegedly punched in the face by anti-racism activists on Tuesday.
Sorry, this was yesterday, University of Missouri.
Channel 8 Columbia first retweeted a picture Thursday afternoon that showed Jesse Morel with a bloody lip.
They added the caption to the picture.
Morel shares his account of the altercation that resulted in him getting punched at speakers' circle.
Quote, because I said Michael Brown died for disrespecting the police, I got popped in the mouth a few times, and other students kind of had to pull the guy away.
This is on the report on uh Mizzou TV, Columbia TV.
Morell, who described his attacker as a black man with dreadlocks, went on to say that the man kept trying to attack him and threw a few more punches that he missed.
Periscope, the app.
There isn't any news video, the actual punching, but the Periscope app, which makes anybody a photojournalist.
Have you got the app?
You do?
You have the Periscope, but way to go, Snerdly, your hip.
You got the Periscope app.
The Periscope app turns anybody into a photojournalist.
You can you can start shooting video wherever you are and transmit it to the network of people using the app all over the world, all over the country.
It makes you a newsman, a videographer, if you will.
Drive-bys don't like this app.
They hate this app.
Periscope is a um, it's uh I think it's part of Twitter, if I not be mistaken out there.
I think it's a Twitter app.
Twitter bought Ferriscope.
And there's a there's a there's a competing app that does the same thing.
They have some minor differences in them.
Anyway, a user of Periscope, Jafe or Jeff Rakstraw, uploaded a video that shows the scene after Jesse Morrell was punched.
The video shows a chaotic scene with the pastor speaking his message into a megaphone on one side in a group that one Missouri student called African American communists from New York with megaphones of their own shouting about violence and rapes against black and brown people.
Anyway, the point is this guy stood up, he's a preacher, and said Michael Brown died for disrespecting the police, and they started beating him up.
You haven't seen this in the drive-by's.
You probably haven't heard about this in the drive-by's.
And you probably won't hear about this in the drive-by's because it does not further the narrative.
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You know about that.
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And apparently Siberia is setting snow records in October.
That's the indicator.
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All these people just guessing.
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That's a great thing about these books.
The books just I mean, this this was the genius that that we had putting these things together.
It's whole Catherine's idea when I didn't want to do books anymore, Vince Flints, you've got to do a book for the election, you've got to do a book.
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I still might do it, but Catherine came along and said, Why don't you do a big book for kids?
You're always complaining about the education system of what they're being taught, and bam.
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So we structure the books to capture the kids' imagination.
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If kids eight, nine cynicals, don't kid me, a horse can't talk or fly.
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And I think the books are immersive, and that's why the kids like them so much.
We hear from people with dyslexic kids who can't put the books down.
People that don't like to read, like to read these because it's immersive.
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Anyway, appreciate it.
We'll be back.
Okay, back to the University of Missouri slash campus stack here.
I mentioned earlier that Jim Garrity at the National Review has a post today with the headline, What if the Left's Campus Meltdown Reflects its growing sense of doom?
And he starts off with a pull quote from a Noah Rothman piece over at Commentary.
At the heart of the collective liberal angst over the pesky burden of free speech is the nagging perception that they've lost the argument.
There is no great progressive era about to dawn.
We may never see a more liberal presidential administration than this one in our lifetimes.
While the dangerous impulse to silence their critics is merely sad in fully formed adults, it's terrifying to witness in the generation just coming of age.
When asked if he had built for ensuring j ensuing generations of Americans a republic or a monarchy, Dr. Franklin, Benjamin Franklin said with a quip, it's a republic if you can keep it.
And that's a proposition set to be tested like never before.
So the question is, what if this leftist temper tantrum that we're witnessing is in fact something of a last gasp, a sudden recognition that their long-awaited nirvana is never going to come.
There, you know the reason I like this is because I myself have made the point.
And I don't mean to be braggadocious about it, but it's a simple question.
Is it any wonder really that these people on the left are fit to be tied?
They just had their utopian president for seven years now going on eight.
They have had the best they can get.
They've had an untouchable, radical leftist communist president.
They have had somebody in the White House who shares their anti-American vision.
And if anti-American is too tough for you, let me rephrase it.
They've got somebody in the White House who has the same problems with America they do.
America's racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobic, it's unjust, it's immoral, it's illegitimate the way it was founded.
And what do they have to show for it?
There's nothing but misery all over the country.
Not one issue has been fixed.
We've got Obamacare, but nobody has free health care.
We've got an education president, but nobody has free tuition.
Everybody has to pay it, and they're going broke in the process.
We've got a guy who's big with unions and big with the little guy, and they can't get work, and most of them are making 30 grand a year or less.
There's not one thing good that's come out.
The only thing that sustains them.
And stop and think of this.
The only thing that sustains them is that conservatives and Republicans are losing.
That's the only thing that makes them happy.
But what they're winning is not translating to the reality they believe in.
In a way, it's understandable they're fit to be tied.
This was it, folks.
You remember those first Obama town meetings after he was elected when people showed up and wanted a new kitchen, thought he was going to give them a new uh house, or another guy shows up and says, okay, my days are shining, your shoes are over.
From now going forward, you're shining my shoes.
You know what all these things meant.
People thought the election of Barack Obama, particularly African Americans meant that the excrement sandwich days were over and they were going to get payback.
They were going to be able to reverse the tables, and it hasn't happened.
They're angrier than ever.
This is an observation I have been making over and over.
You can't miss it.
All there is is a burning rage on the left.
They're not happy, and they're winning everything.
Now, whether that means this is a last gasp on campus, I don't know if it's a last gasp, because I don't think liberalism ever goes away.
That's why it has to constantly be fought and defeated.
But you can't miss the fact that they've had seven uninterrupted years.
They haven't had any opposition.
Not in Washington.
The Republican Party hasn't tried to stop Obama.
Whatever Obama's wanted, what he hasn't done, he hasn't done because he hasn't done it.
He hasn't done it because he's been stopped.
Nobody's stopping him from closing Club Gitmo.
Executive orders here, executive actions over there.
Supreme Court siding with him against the Constitution on Obamacare.
Virtually everything he's wanted.
And here's oh, how about this?
By now, there were supposed to be no guns.
Guns were supposed to be taken away from everybody by now.
They knew it, they had faith that was going to happen.
And there wasn't going to be any opposition from the pro-lifers anymore.
Oh no.
There weren't going to be anybody standing in the way of abortions.
It was all going to be over with.
The opposition was going to have been dealt with and they're going to be made a minority forever with no chance of stopping anybody.
And they got all that.
And they're miserable.
You kind of would be too, wouldn't you?
If everything you believed in had a seven-year run with no opposition, and it was implemented, and none of it worked.
They even got their minimum wage increases.
And the people in poverty are still in poverty.
And the numbers of people in poverty are growing.
They got their minimum wage increases and restaurants start closing because they can't pay people.
They can't stay open.
All of their theory has blown up in their face.
So now they're up there angry.
Who are they angry with at Columbia?
At Mizzo?
Who's running that show?
Bunch of liberals, a bunch of leftists.
From the faculty over to the board of curators to wherever you go.
It's Libs running everything.
They are a bunch of spoiled rotten kids and immature children, but I think there's a lot to this.
Now, I don't know that this represents their last gasp.
I don't think there is such a thing where liberals are concerned.
In fact, what this is showing us that even when liberals win, they somehow don't act like it.
They get angrier with every win.
And the reason they get angrier is because there's more and more opposition.
By the way, they've also learned they're not the majority.
They have learned that they do not represent the majority thinking in the country by virtue of how much opposition to them there is.
I mentioned this earlier.
I want to go through it again.
The Mizzou University system has picked Michael Middleton as the interim president of the university.
He's a Mizzou grad.
He's a Mizzou alumn.
Says here a fabulously successful black man, who nevertheless says that he felt marginalized that every this is in the New York Times, by this a New York Times story on Mr. Middleton.
And the Times story says that this guy says he felt marginalized at every phase of his career at Mizzou.
He says that while he doesn't blame white People.
Of course not.
No, no way.
He does blame the ugliness of American history.
Well, who better to be in charge of what kids at Mizzou learn about America than a president who blames the ugliness of American history.
You know, what must it be like to live in a country that you hate?
What must it be like to live in a country where you've had seven years to change it and fix it and perfect it and all that?
And none of that's happened, and you don't like it.
It's got to be.
Imagine winning the Super Bowl and being ticked off the rest of your life.
Imagine winning the World Series and being ticked off and never celebrating it, never happy.
The only thing that they celebrate is when we lose.
But that doesn't get them anything.
Mazoo's new interim president made race relations video with the activist leader, Mark Mike Middleton, the man just named as the interim president University of Missouri, worked as a political activist with the protesters who forced out his predecessor.
Middleton retired in August after teaching at the law school at Mizzou for 17 years.
But he subsequently worked with the black protesters who created racial tensions by staging a series of direct actions designed to antagonize other students.
He's featured prominently in a video released three weeks ago called Response to Skeptics.
So they've got an activist.
I mean, they've got a rabble rouser in there running the school now, and that will not make them happy either.
You wait.
They're still going to have the same complaints next week that they've got today, no matter who's running that show.
The Onion has done a great parody on this.
My operating theory about good comedy, for it to really be funny, there has to be an element of truth.
You could read this onion piece and think you're reading reality.
The headline, parents dedicate new college safe space in honor of daughter who felt weird in class once.
In an effort to provide sanctuary for Linfield College students exposed to perspectives different from their own, a new campus safe space was dedicated Wednesday in honor of Alexis Stigmore, a 2009 graduate who felt kind of weird in class one time.
Addressing students at the dedication ceremony, parents Arnold and Cassie Stigmore noted that while the college had adequate facilities to assist victims of discrimination, abuse, and post-traumatic stress, it had until now offered no comparable safe space for students, like their beloved daughter, who encountered an academic viewpoint that gives them an uncomfortable feeling.
God forbid any of you in your years at this institution are never confronted or ever confronted with an opinion you don't share.
But if you are, you will now have a refuge on this campus.
They built a safe space.
So if you hear something makes you nervous or anything, you can go there.
Pull a quote.
I'll never forget the morning my daughter called and told me in a trembling voice, Mom, my professor said some stuff today I didn't like.
But now there's a safe space for her to go.
But the real key here is the last paragraph.
Sources confirmed a separate donation has also been made to provide a safe space and counseling services for straight white men at the college who will not shut the hell up about how they are the real victims on campus these days.
The Onion with a home run.
Do you know that the hunger strike activist Jonathan Butler falsified a key claim against the president?
There were many false claims that this guy made.
He lost his health care.
He started whining and moaning about that.
He claims he heard somebody running around campus shouting the N-word.
He also claims during a homecoming parade, the president of the university is riding around being driven around in a red convertible.
And this guy, Jonathan Butler, claims that he was hit by the university president's car, And that nobody apologized to him.
There's video of this.
The car did not hit him.
He lied about it.
His father is a Democrat Party contributor, donor, and activist.
A community organizer.
Works for Union Pacific Railroad, eight and a half million dollar a year salary last year.
Video of the event shows the hunger strike guy walking toward the university president's car.
He was not run over, nor was he hit by the car.
It's a series of lies and hoaxes made up by the hunger strike kid, who probably wasn't on a hunger strike either.
Greg Hayden, Idaho.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
I'm glad you waited.
Hello.
It's a pleasure to talk with you.
I'm a longtime listener and a Coast Guard veteran.
Thank you.
Very much appreciate that.
I have two things I wanted to mention.
One about your books, and then tie it to the University of Missouri situation.
My wife and I, we just became grandparents last June, and we had bought all four of your books and the Liberty Horse.
We are just looking forward to the day that we can sit down with our daughter and make sure she gets grounded in real history.
Thank you, sir.
Congratulations to you.
And then what that has to do with the University of Missouri is I have been laughing here the last week.
I believe we're seeing uh the bastion of liberalism collapse under its own weight.
And um, it's probably gonna happen at other places and maybe even get worse, but I'm hopeful that somebody, and maybe it's a group of conservatives or whatever, but they've got to start getting the curriculum at college, just like you did with your books, and start teaching these kids real history, and that this is the greatest country in the history of the earth.
You know, I love your attitude about the ideal, because there are a lot of people wringing their hands.
I was at first.
I'm I'm tired of this.
My whole life I've I've I've seen this, and I wish it didn't happen.
I'd love to grab some shoulders and shake it a reality.
But I love your attitude.
You're laughing at it.
You think it's comical in a way, because you're right.
And this is the point that Garratty was making in his piece.
This this people are miserable.
They're getting everything they want, and it's imploding on them.
They run this school.
The left runs this school and has for I don't know how long, and look at the list of grievances they've got.
Now, make no mistake, these grievances that they're listing are as much about America as they are about that school.
Don't forget this is not really totally localized.
They're much grandiose, bigger grandiose plans they've got.
But Greg, thank you so much.
I appreciate that.
We all do.
Uh quick timeout, my friends, and we will come back and wrap it.
It's www.rushrevere.com until 11 59 p.m. tonight to automatically register for the big sweepstakes to Hawaii.
Have a great weekend, folks.
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