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Dec. 15, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 15, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #2
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You know, I just got I just got some audio sound bites where Obama is comparing the Syrian refugees that he is permitting to enter the country to the pilgrims.
Now I've got those four soundbits.
You know what I can easily use those sound bites, and I can very selfishly use them to promote my children's book series.
I could very easily do that.
And I might yet still do it.
But to draw that, well, yeah, the first book, Rush Limba and the Brave Pilgrims.
Uh that book is still, it's the first of four.
That book, well, all four of them are in the top 50 of some certain sales list in uh in two years.
But uh I may get to the sound bit, but stop and think of this.
How in the world do you compare people that you are inviting, asking, practically rounding up, and bringing them?
How do you compare that to people fleeing religious tyranny, getting on a boat and going somewhere they had no idea where it was, they had no idea if they're going to get there, they had no idea what awaited them.
They had nothing whatsoever.
It was the biggest risk any of them would ever take in their lives.
How in the world do you draw?
What kind of a person do you have to be?
What kind of uh of scholar on American history, what must your opinion of American history be, if you can easily, happily, energetically compare Syrian refugees to the pilgrims who led to the founding of this country?
In what world do you live?
What universe do you occupy?
What perverted concepts do you believe or have been taught that could lead you to that kind of moral equivalence?
And the left does this constantly.
You know, every year at Christmas time, they warn us, well, you know that Mary and Joseph, they were homeless.
Oh, really?
So you're telling me that the next savior could be pushing around a shopping cart, sleeping in a cardboard box in Hoboken?
I mean, the things these people do.
Oh, speaking of that, I had it yesterday or the day before.
Two different stories on homelessness.
LA and and uh was it New York.
It may be San Francisco.
Anyway, it's out of control.
Homelessness is larger problem than it's ever been.
And where's this been reported?
How come it's taken seven years for this to make news?
Well, no, it was not Hawaii, but you're right, Hawaii has a huge homeless population too.
I mean, where do they send them?
Put them on the road to Hana and hope for a collapse?
It's not gonna happen.
So I but but it's it's a rampant problem, and meanwhile, we're being told every day that we get this growing economy, only 5% unemployment that we're just surging here with economic growth and new job creation, and it's all BS.
None of it is true.
The homeless in in liberal-run cities is out of control.
Homelessness is.
I think I think when Obama tries to tell it goes these sound bites and tells these Syrian refugees they're the moral equivalents of the pilgrims or the equivalent of the modern-day pilgrims, he's trying to insult us.
He's doing so purposely.
There is no desire for unification, there's no it's just quite the contrary.
Uh, one other thing here before we get to the other news that I promised we'd get to here in this uh in this segment.
This I really want you when you have time to go to Rush Limbaugh.com and click on the link.
It's a PDF, it'll open us a PDF file in your web browser.
Countering violent extremism training.
It is uh U.S. Department Homeland Security document advising their agents on the do's and don'ts of various aspects of hunting down and finding uh potential terrorists.
And I focus on Section C and Section F. I haven't Read Section F, but when you do, uh, you will I mean, if you're up to speed, you'll you'll think this could have been written by the Muslim Brotherhood.
When you read Section C, if you happen to own a business, small business or large business, if you're a CEO, if you're in human resources at any sizable organization, you'll you'll you'll think that this is exactly the kind of stuff you have to tell your employees to avoid a lawsuit for crying out loud.
But all this is is a series of shackles and handcuffs on law enforcement agents, things they can't do to suspects right in front of them.
It is the most it violates if there's no common sense in this.
It just violates common sense.
Anybody reading this, the first reaction you'll have, this doesn't make any sense.
It doesn't make any common sense.
So what's going on?
When something doesn't make common sense, that's when people's minds are free to roam.
And try to come up with an answer to the questions or the things that are befuddling them with answers that do make sense because this doesn't make sense.
The restrictions, the suggestions, the mannerisms, the techniques, none of this makes any sense in terms of actually stopping acts of terror.
Common sense is an if in a legal sense, if you want to talk about this as common sense, you'd have to talk about probable cause, reasonable suspicion.
Um if you're law enforcement, you want to stop an action before it takes place, the courts and everybody legal systems say we got probable cause here before you can go further and investigate and search warrant, you've got to have uh reasonable suspicion.
And I want to read to you what Supreme Court has written about reasonable suspicion and probable cause because in the legal beagle world, reasonable suspicion and probable cause just mean common sense.
This is a Supreme Court case, Ornellus versus U.S., just a little excerpt here from one of the uh opinion rulings.
Articulating precisely what reasonable suspicion and probable cause mean is not possible.
They are common sense.
Non-technical conceptions that deal with the factual and practical considerations of everyday life on which reasonable and prudent men, not legal technicians, act.
As such, the standards are not readily or even usefully reduced to a neat set of legal rules.
Yet that's exactly what's being imposed here before the act.
It's like another Supreme Court ruling.
How do you define pornography?
Well, I don't know, but I know it when I see it.
Common sense is how you define pornography.
And common sense we're not allowed to use anymore because it may offend somebody, which means it violates tenets of political correctness.
So common sense is out the window.
And therefore, probable cause and reasonable suspicion are out the window because they aren't possible.
They both rely on common sense, and we can't even come to a consensus agreement on what common sense is.
So focused has the left been on destroying language, destroying time-honored American values, that common sense has been rendered unusable or useless.
Articulating precisely what reasonable suspicion and probable cause mean is not possible.
They are common sense conceptions that deal with the factual and practical considerations of everyday life on which reasonable and prudent men act.
Meaning you know it when you see it.
But that's not permitted in the Obama countering violent extremism training.
Oh, because we must protect who we are and our values, and not violate who we are, and not valuate, or not devalue and violate our universal values that are being Redefined by Obama and his regime daily.
Okay, quickly some audio sound bites as we shift gears now.
This is Donald Trump last night in Las Vegas during a campaign event.
Listen carefully.
So I heard today when they announced the poll 41 to 14, and I like Cruz, good guy.
But I heard, here's how they announced Cruise Surging.
So when I heard, this was on television, cruise searching, so I said, Oh, I don't know, that sounds bad to me.
Coming up, cruise surging.
Then they say the mammoth po was just done.
Cruiser surging, Trump 41 cruise 14.
I said, Wait a minute.
What's going on?
I tell you what, they are the most dishonest people.
Do you notice a little shift here, ladies and gentlemen, away from Cruz and to the drive-by's now?
Yeah, so I uh I heard today when he announced the poll 41 to 14, and I like Cruz.
Good guy.
That's a little bit of a shift in tone from uh yesterday and the day before to today.
I wonder why.
I wonder why.
I wonder what could have happened.
Dr. Krauthammer on the O'Reilly factor last night on the Fox News Channel.
O'Reilly says Trump at 41% nationwide.
It is conceivable that Trump will run against Hillary, is it not?
It would make the Goldwater result of 1964 look like a Republican victory.
Hillary is an intrinsically weak candidate, not trusted by the electorate, who could in this year could easily be defeated by a half dozen Republicans.
I don't think that she can be defeated by Donald Trump.
I still think he can win the nomination within the GOP.
But when you go to the wider world and the wider constituencies, I don't think that he has a chance of winning.
And I also think that there is a chance of a complete collapse on the part of Republicans that could jeopardize their hold on the Senate.
And in an extreme case, even perhaps their hold on the House.
All right, I want to take you all back to 1964.
And I realize many of you were alive then, but some of you might have been too young to be paying attention.
And even if you were alive in 64, you probably are unaware of much more than Goldwater lost in a landslide.
And you've heard that the establishment hated Goldwater and they could have taken him out, and then Reagan came along and took Reagan out, and Goldwater's were Reagan finally made a name for himself and launched it.
You probably know those basics.
But there's a lot about 1964 that people don't know.
And Dr. Krauthammer here says what what he says reminded me of some of the things that went on in 1964 when Goldwater was that year's Trump.
Meaning the establishment hated his guts.
Now they hated Goldwater because he was conservative.
But after that, the reasons are pretty similar.
He's out of control.
You never know what he's going to do.
He's he's dangerous.
He's irresponsible.
You don't want his finger on a nuclear button launch codes.
You know what it Republicans were saying this.
So when it looked like Goldwater was going to win the Republican nomination, the Republican establishment convened a super secret meeting to try to take it away from him at the convention.
Just as we heard that there was a super secret dinner last week, where members of the establishment were plotting ways to take it away from Trump if he wins it.
Now, back in 1964, the suspects were George Romney, Nelson Rockefeller, and I forget the third, but there were three of them that were attempting to have a either a brokered convention or some other move designed to take it away from Goldwater.
And they employed Nixon.
They called Richard Nixon, who at the time was on the sidelines, and they said, Richard, we want you to do what we need you to do to get rid of Rockefeller.
Get rid of Goldwater.
And Nixon refused.
Nixon refused to play the game, and in fact became a bigger campaigner for Goldwater than Goldwater even was for himself.
But the point is the same thing was said back then as it being said today.
And it became a self-fulfilling prophecy because the Republican establishment participated in torpedoing Goldwater.
They didn't want him elected.
They didn't want to win that election with Goldwater running.
They wanted no c but because Goldwater ran, didn't matter he lost in a lap slide, because that 1964 election is what actually gave birth to what you now know as the modern conservative era.
And nothing has been the same in the Republican Party since.
Now one of the one of the things that's that's that's consistent here.
Uh the establishment thinks that Trump can't win, can't beat Hillary.
They thought Goldwater couldn't win, couldn't beat LBJ, it didn't matter, couldn't be Kennedy if it was Kennedy.
They didn't want him to.
And the establishment this year does not want Trump to beat the Democrat.
They don't want Trump to be the nominee.
The only and and they they they're not crazy about Cruz either, but as I say, and I'll find it in the stuff coming up.
There are some establishment figures now beginning to speak a little bit more tolerantly of Cruz.
Just a couple of them.
And it's by no means uh universal.
My only point is that what is happening this year has happened before.
It happened back in 1964 for different reasons.
Goldwater was conservative.
That's why he was no good.
Trump is considered no good because they don't they don't control him.
He's not part of them.
He doesn't he doesn't have his power, he doesn't have his uh support base by any mechanism they know and are accustomed to.
So he's poses a huge threat.
He poses a huge threat to the very existence of the Republican establishment.
And so does Cruz, which is why they're all circling the wagons.
Now, this talk about how nobody can beat Hillary, you know why they're saying that right now, among other reasons, because Hillary is not saying anything.
You know the old saw, the less she speaks, the higher her numbers go.
She's a horrible campaigner.
The idea that Hillary Clinton can't be beat is going to be blown out of the water once the campaign begins, and Hillary has to go out and speak every day.
When she has to go out and speak, when she has to make public appearances.
Her numbers historically have dropped in some cases, they've plummeted.
But she hasn't been heard from.
They schedule they've got a debate Saturday night.
You know what else is going on Saturday night?
New York Jets and Dallas Cowboys.
What do you think people are going to watch?
Nobody's going to watch a Democrat debate Saturday night, exactly as planned.
Because the more people hear of Hillary the less they like her.
So yeah, it's easy to say now that there isn't anybody can beat Hillary because her poll numbers are up because she's not talking.
Wait till she starts talking.
Those poll numbers are not going to stay high.
They never do in her case.
Be right back.
Don't go away.
They got a phone call in here.
I'm not finished with this series of sound bites, but I need to get people been painting patiently here.
On the air, Jeff in Atlanta.
You're up first.
Thank you for waiting, and hi.
Hi, Rush.
Honored to speak with you.
Thank you, sir.
Actually, my thought actually ties into the first clip you played.
It's something I've noticed, and I obviously wanted to come to you for confirmation.
And this is regarding Trump as relates to you.
You've been on the cutting edge of societal evolution and political thought ever since you've been on the radio.
Trump seems to create his success by surfing the public's mood and emotion.
I he doesn't come at it from a long-held beliefs.
And you are supremely confident in your beliefs.
And Trump, I submit to you, couldn't be confident, and he probably derives his confidence from you in large part about the issues of the day.
And so I I think this ties in with the Chris Wallace piece on Fox News, where Trump really doesn't have anyone in his headquarters.
He doesn't have any political consultants.
Now wait.
And I submit to you you're his political consultant, without, you know, not officially.
No, he's got a lot of people around him, and they're good.
And there are they are professional political people.
They are not a ragtag assembly of yes men.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay, sorry.
No, he does.
It does.
Corey Lewendowski, I mean some of these people are really quality people.
Now I and I've just, you know, I've said this before, and I I I guess I need to be pretty pretty uh open about that.
I've I've I know Donald Trump.
I have been around him.
Um it's usually on the golf course, but there have been others.
I've been at at dinners with him.
Uh most recent was a Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation dinner where he was the award recipient, he was the honoree uh that night.
And I I can assure you what you know, what you're saying to me is highly complimentary.
But I can tell you that he uh some of what he's saying, I've heard him say before.
It's not he's not parroting people.
Okay, how about exhibit A, if you'll allow me.
The first clip you just played.
It was very nuanced, and I know you caught it.
He backed off his attack on Cruz a little bit, focusing it to the media when it was just you who pointed this out sort of in the way that, hey, that's a little out of character, what's he doing that for?
All right.
All right, hang on here.
Hang on.
I was hoping to wrap this up, but obviously.
Ha.
Rush limbo, meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Our caller from Atlanta named Jeff did not hang on.
Uh I wanted him to because I wanted to be able to finish the conversation with him.
Let me let me just uh address the thing about Trump I think that that is resonating with people.
It's nothing that I haven't said before, but I'll tell you the things that you hear him say, I've heard him say these things.
These are not things that advisors are giving him to say and he likes it or doesn't like it.
He's not picking and choosing.
That's what he thinks.
I've heard a number of this.
I've heard uh for years, in fact, uh criticism of Obama.
I have I've heard Trump express his frustration with uh with things overall.
Uh he has he's he's he's attracting this support base of his things that he's zeroing in on are things a lot of people happen to agree with.
The political system is is corrupt.
It no longer listens to the American people.
It does it's not seen as working to benefit the American people.
And I don't I don't know how much it takes to recognize that.
That seems to me to also be the common sense view.
This government, I don't care who's running it, is running against the will.
It's governing against the will of the American people on issue after issue after issue.
And it's my my point about common sense earlier.
None of this makes any common sense.
And when it doesn't make common sense over and over again, what do people do?
They start assigning reasons why the people in charge, people in power, don't seem to have any common sense.
That doesn't seem believable.
It's not reasonable to think that everybody in Washington, or the vast majority of them, are absent common sense.
So there must be something else going on here.
There has to be something else to explain all of this that doesn't make any sense.
It makes no sense to have open borders right now.
It has it makes no sense to be insulting the innocent people of this country and accusing them of engaging in activity that's causing this behavior.
That doesn't make any sense.
It doesn't make any sense to be destroying the greatest health care system in the world.
None of this makes any sense.
And there aren't very many elected representatives of the people who are out saying so.
Trump is.
And that is the magnet.
Now, when you add to that that most everybody thinks we have also a perverted or corrupt media that none of our elected representatives seem eager to take on.
Trump does.
There's another magnet.
All of this is wrapped up in common sense, and the fact that so little of it seems to be used at the highest levels of government, where common sense ought to rule the day.
And there doesn't seem to be any of it.
And there's a third thing.
Have you noticed?
Trump has been in this campaign since June or July, whatever.
But before that he's been all over the media for a host of reasons.
Have you seen this parade, former employees, former business associates, former friends that literally despise Trump?
You haven't seen a one, have you?
Don't doubt they have been sought.
Don't think people are out looking for people that have been screwed over, taken advantage of, used whatever.
Apparently they can't be found.
My point is is that Trump, to the people that know him is a nice guy.
And he's engaging and he's outspoken.
And to many people who know him much better than I do, none of this is uh is particularly surprising.
But I the idea that that it's it's often said that people in politics must get their ideas from somewhere else.
You know where this comes from?
You know what stems stems from this whole concept that people have advisors.
And the common sense thought there is if somebody has an advisor, they need to be advised.
And if they need to be advised, it means they don't have the ability to think for themselves.
So it's a natural thing to think, well, he's got his advisors because he's not capable of doing it on his own.
Frankly, I have always been of that opinion.
I don't know, what is this advisor business?
I don't need advisors to tell me what I believe.
I don't need advisors to tell me what to think.
Now, might need advisors on dealing with certain people I don't know or understand, but not if they're going to make me violate my instincts, which I trust, but because everybody has advisors.
Everybody has spokespeople of this, it's easy to assume that the guy at the head of the organization, in this case the candidate, is nothing but a sponge walking around soaking up what people tell him and then making sure he says it right.
And I don't think that's the case with a whole lot of people.
There are some, obviously, that are brain dead and need advisors, but I don't think Trump is one of them.
Now let me get back to the audio sound bites here.
Uh Jeb Bush.
There are two more I want you to hear we get back to the phone calls.
This yesterday in the Las Vegas review journal website, the newspaper out there, they released a video of an interview they did with Jeb.
And this is one of the excerpts of just 16 seconds of Jeb on Trump.
He's not a serious person.
He's a masterful politician.
He, as I've described it, he uses dog whistle language to divide the country.
I cannot imagine Donald Trump uh becoming president because he would never win.
He would never win.
Hillary Clinton would clean him.
Yeah, I here again, you know, I this they're making this kind of easy for me.
The guy that's beating everybody can't win, is what they're saying.
The guy with three percent says this guy at 41 can't win.
Implying that he can.
If Trump can't win, why can't any of you guys beat him?
Well again, I don't mean overdo this, but but common sense.
And dividing people, would would one of you in the Republican establishment ever just just once just say it about Obama so that we can at least applaud you one time?
Because if you want to know who's really dividing this country, look no further than the White House.
Because that's where all the division this country's coming from.
You people in the Washington established are going to have to understand something.
The people outside the establishment are not dividing anything.
The country is already divided, and people are trying to put it back together here.
And they are a bunch of patriots who love their country.
They are not racist, sexist bigots, the usual isms that you people in the establishment throw out to people you don't understand.
All of this is happening rooted in love of country, love of this nation's founding, of its traditions, of its values, and the ever present reality that we have an administration that's trying to get rid of all of those and transform this country into something it was never intended to be.
And to that extent, if somebody is going to divide people trying to save the country, then I say, let's all stand for division.
But this country not being unified?
Donald Trump's had nothing to do with that.
Neither is any other Republican candidate for president.
It's all at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
One more sound bite.
We have to then head to another obscene profit time out and back to your phone calls.
Britt Hume.
Last night on special report with uh with Brett Baer during the all-star panel segment.
It is now clear that Ted Cruz, as many of us suspected he would, is having his moment, leading in recent Iowa polls.
This is the product of a well-financed and shrewdly managed campaign, and of a candidate who may be the smartest in the field and possibly also the fastest on his feet.
But his rise in the polls will put him in the spotlight.
Iowa voters will have the holidays in all of January to ponder why Cruz is so disliked by his Senate colleagues.
The question then will be this will they still feel the same way about him when they find out?
Wow.
Okay, so uh you Iowa voters, you have about a month to find out why all the people in Washington hate Cruz.
He's the smartest, he said.
He's shrewdly managed his campaign.
Maybe the smartest in the field, possibly the fastest on his feet.
And his rise in the polls, we predicted, but he's hated.
And you've got in Iowa, you've got a month to learn what we know inside the beltway.
Why?
Cruz is hated.
So the number one guy, Donald Trump, cannot beat Hillary.
And therefore he shouldn't get the nomination, because the guys at five and six and three percent apparently can beat Hillary.
You do the math and explain it to me.
And now Ted Cruz, the smartest, the shrewdest, the fastest on his feet.
Well, he can't win because he's hated by the U.S. Senate.
That to me is a resume enhancement this day and age.
Back to the phones.
It's Suffolk, South Dakota.
This is Randall.
Randall, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Russ.
Um, my question is it's a very it's a very good question.
Are we too stupid to survive as America?
Pardon me laughing.
You ask that uh you have natural comedic tone in your question.
That's why I'm I'm not laughing at the concept.
You just sound funny when you say that.
Um you mean because of all the political correctness and stuff?
I mean everything between our media not being wanting to tell us the truth, the political correctness, the teachers who are teaching garbage in schools.
Are we too stupid to survive?
Well, the some yes.
Uh the the real question is, is a majority of the country lost?
And therefore is the survival of country.
Asia, there's always going to be an America.
You understand that.
Uh it it It could transform and be something it was never intended to be.
That's it's all you know that your question has been asked in a number of different ways.
Uh, either about the welfare state, have we reached a tipping point where a majority of now getting a couple of uh a government check and therefore we've lost them because that's all they care about to asking it about the education of the of the country.
I frankly, by by virtue of uh the uh the way this campaign is shaping up, no, I don't I don't think that's happened yet.
It was close.
You know, I was watching how will we turn it around, though, if if uh it's gonna take a generation of new kids to turn it around.
I think about this all the time, and I don't I don't have an immediate answer for you now.
I I think about it more than you would believe, because it it worries me as much as it worries you.
And I am forever asking myself, where is the solution, if there is one?
What does it consist?
Are you gonna Are you gonna give us a heads up before you run away?
I've always said that I would tell you when it's time to panic, and that hasn't changed.
And it's it's it's not time to panic.
I made a note last night I watched Sunday night's episode of Madam Secretary.
Now I'll tell you why I watch Madam Secretary.
Madam Secretary is on CBS, and it is about a female Secretary of State, and the purpose of that show was, I'm convinced, was to condition the people of this country to Hillary Clinton and do a television show, making a star out of the female Secretary of State, not Condoleezer Rice, because this one's white, so there's no possible confusion here.
And this the the Secretary of State character in this show is the smartest in the show.
She's the most reasonable, she solves every problem.
She's always stopping the present from doing something stupid or silly.
Um this last episode that that uh aired on on Sunday night had her stopping single-handedly a shooting war with the Russians.
And I'm watching it and I'm realizing why it's there.
It's there to actually propagandize very subtly the minds of people watching it.
Madam Secretary, Secretary of State, great character.
You know how people think what happens in movies means what happens in real life, same thing television shows.
So it's not a big stretch to go from that show to Hillary Clinton and confuse the two.
And it just made me realize what we're up against here.
It's everywhere.
The producers of this program are clearly in the tank for Hillary, but that's not a big surprise because it's Hollywood.
So it just it reminded me again of what we're up against, and I don't want anybody thinking that I'm not aware of that when I speak optimistically about the country's future.
I realize a lot of you think I'm just blowing smoke, uh, trying to keep you upbeat when we're surrounded and there's no hope survival, and I'm just trying to tell I recognize what we're up against every day.
And I'm constantly thinking about it.
And I in I I envision in my mind, I dream of scenarios.
I actually do dream of well, not while asleep.
I conjure scenarios where we win.
What it would take, what will happen, could happen, needs to happen.
I run so many variables through my mind constantly on this.
And invariably it does not involve it taking a generation or two of slowly stopping the ship of state and then slowly turning it around and then slowly going in the other direction, which is what everybody thinks has to happen.
I've I may be a an unrealistic dreamer, but I do have this belief that there is possible a single sobering striking moment or event I have no idea what it is or when it happens that shakes everybody up and brings them back to reality
and that finally exposes the fraud that they've all bought on to at liberalism.
Now admittedly I'm dreaming.
Uh but I'm not fantasizing.
That's one of the only things bad about getting old, folks, is you realize your fantasies aren't gonna happen.
That's a great thing about fantasies.
You always hold out the hope that they might actually happen.
But when you hit 65 and the object of your fantasies hits 60, they don't look like they did when they were 30, the hell with it happening anyway.
So what I think we're going through a mini awakening right now with this presidential campaign.
I think the signs of so many people ticked off at what's going on in Washington are everywhere.
What's gonna become of it only time will tell.
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