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Dec. 23, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 23, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented anchorman sitting in, direct from New York City, from the heart of the metropolis.
I haven't done the show from here in quite a while.
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It's a great gift for the Bernie Sanders fan in your family because they might, you never know, you might persuade them otherwise.
Bernie has taken sides with Hillary.
He said he went to the bathroom in the course of, so we now know that not only does Hillary Clinton go to the bathroom, Bernie Sanders goes to the bathroom too.
I don't know what it is.
You know, everyone's going on.
You're making a point.
When you come back late to a debate, the reason for this, as I understand it, because it is revealing, and this is from St. Anselm's College in southern New Hampshire, down, it's not in Manchester, but it's on the edge of Manchester.
I've been there.
I've used this bathroom.
I haven't used the Hillary Rodham Clinton bathroom, but I've used the Bernie Sanders bathroom.
I haven't got much to claim for myself in life, but I have used the same men's room as Bernie Sanders.
And there's like a row of them.
You go in and there's like three or four.
And she wouldn't go in, Hillary Clinton.
The reason she was late is because there was apparently a Martin O'Malley staffer in one of the other stalls.
And I was completely, I was absolutely, when I heard this, I was completely shocked by this.
I was absolutely stunned because how the hell does the O'Malley campaign afford a staffer?
I mean, it's amazing.
It's amazing to me.
But so she refused to go in until her security team had cleared the Obaley staffers out of the ladies' room.
And I think that is actually a revealing insight into how she thinks, what the hell happened to citizen representatives.
What's the point of a republic?
What's the point of a republic whose leaders won't use a bathroom when a Martin O'Malley staffer is in there?
I don't see the point of that.
Why?
It's like, aren't you?
Mr. Snurdley is suggesting that Martin O'Balley staffers are not fully house-trained.
I don't know about that.
I don't know about that, Mr. Snurdley.
But let me, you know, George III would have used a men's room that had a Martin O'Malley staffer in it.
He wouldn't have had any hang-ups about that.
So you can't have a republic in which your political leaders won't use a bathroom in which there's a Martin O'Malley staffer.
So that's the latest breaking development.
Now he's doing a shot across the bows, Trump, and warning Hillary not to play the victim card, not to play the war on women card.
But as I said, the only reason this guy exists is because of the state of the Republican Party.
Franklin Graham, Billy Graham's son, yesterday, I think it was, tore up his membership card in the Republican Party.
He effectively, I guess he listened to Rush a couple of days ago and said, you know, why doesn't the Republican Party just go out of business?
That's what they do in other one-party states.
They normally, they're given the choice between just merging into the ruling party.
And that's what they choose to do.
And it doesn't, there's no point in continuing with this form of Republican party.
It has outlived its usefulness.
It has completely outlived its usefulness.
For Billy, for Franklin Graham, the point was the Planned Parenthood thing, the full funding of Planned Parenthood.
Why can't you get aborted on your own dime?
What's the thing about that?
You know, in other words, why is that something that Republicans have to attach their names to?
Why is that something that...
And by the way, you can't even have responsible government in this kind of system.
Why is Planned Parenthood funding?
Why is it all or nothing?
Why do you have to sign on to the whole package?
Or nothing at all.
So the Planned Parenthood funding was a deal breaker for Franklin Graham.
For other people, it's like fully funding the Obamacare, the Obama refugee program.
Half the country is hopping mad.
They don't want these refugees coming here.
Even Democrat governors have objected to these refugees coming here, but the Republican Party in Congress fully funds it.
And then they say, well, this sets us up nicely.
This puts us, because we've got this out of the way, we've liquidated this as a political issue, so we're not going to be blamed for anything.
This sets us up nicely to reduce the rate of increase of the decline of the rate of increase of the rate of decline of the rate of growth of government by 0.003% in the year 2035.
That's essentially what the Republican Party in Congress is promising you.
Would you put up with this in any other area of your life?
I mean, if you hired a gardener and you looked out the window and the yard is like full of weeds and there's a mountain of dog feces from the neighbor's dog all over the place and the gardener said, well, I have got, don't worry about it.
Don't worry about it.
I've got plans to reduce the rate of increase in weeds by the year 2035.
Would you keep him on as gardener?
If you went into Dunkin' Donuts, right?
And they were all out of donuts.
There were no donuts to be had.
And they said, well, we have plans.
We are planning to reform our donut program and we may have a donut to sell you in the year 2028.
Would you keep patronizing Dunkin' Donuts?
I mean, this is the Republican Party.
All they can do is explain how they can't do anything.
That's what they do.
So you can elect someone who you can elect a Democrat and they say, I'm hot for Obamacare.
Gay weddings, bring it on.
We don't want any wars except we'll drone Afghan weddings occasionally, but you'll never hear about it.
We're going to release people from gitmo.
They're going to go back to the battlefield.
That's what we want.
And they deliver.
They deliver.
They do it all on the first day.
They see the poll numbers.
Nobody wants Obamacare.
They grab their mallet and they ram it down your throat like Ben Carson taking a hammer to his mother.
That's how keen they are.
They don't care how unpopular it is.
They shove it down your throat and they give their voters what they want.
And meanwhile, the Republican Party explains, well, yes, as Rush pointed out, there are more Republicans now than at any time since the Civil War.
That's 150 years ago.
So there are more Republicans than any time in 150 years.
And it's still not enough.
Come back to us in 300 years.
And maybe there'll be enough for us to do something then.
300 years since the Civil War.
What's the year where we're talking about there?
2265.
We'll be able to do something then.
You come back to us in the year 2265 and we may have marginally reduced the rate of the increase in the growth of government in the year 2265.
You wouldn't put up with that from anybody else.
You wouldn't put up with it from your baby.
If your babysitter said, if you came back from babysitting and the babysitter, they say, where are the kids?
And they say, oh, the seven-year-old said he wanted to go to a nightclub.
He'll be back at four in the morning.
But don't worry, I've got a plan to get the kid back in bed by 2 a.m. in by the time she's 38.
You wouldn't keep that woman on as a babysitter, would you?
But the Republican, that's all the Republican Party does.
Explain.
What it does is explain that it can't do anything.
And voters have had enough.
There's no point to a two-party, one-party state, which is what we have at the moment.
Mark Stein in Farush, by the way, I was plugging the Limbaugh letter, and I should plug my fantastic cat album too, because if you only buy one cat album for your loved one this year, and you probably, I know what it is, there's like tons of cat albums all that.
Don Rumsfeld, he's got a fabulous cat album out.
Chuck Hagel, he's got a great cat album.
They're all doing them now.
But mine is the original cat album, long before all these other guys.
Tony Bennett's got duets.
He's got a cat album of celebrity duets with Christina Aguriera.
You know, forget it.
Mine is the original.
I was the first guy to come up with the cat album concept.
And it's called feline groovy.
And I've had a couple of emails from people spelling it wrong.
It's not feling groovy.
That's Simon Garfunkel.
That's feline groovy, as in F-E-L-I-N-E.
And next year I've decided I'm going to do a cat Christmas album, Feline Navidad, because I think that's the kind of outreach to Hispanic voters about feline Navidad.
While we're at it, just a final thought on Trump.
You know, I keep running into people.
After the last election, people said the Republican base, this isn't Ronald Reagan's America.
You can't put together that coalition anymore.
And so we have to reach out to all the people we've offended, like Hispanics and gays and transgendered, and then because the dead white male isn't enough.
So we make nice to Hispanics, we make nice to gays, we make nice to transitioning people, and we will expand the Republican coalition.
I keep running into people who have never voted Republican, and they're all hot for Trump.
And they're not fashionable people.
Very few of them are Hispanic or gay or transgendered, but they're people who voted Democrat who now want to vote for Trump.
And the Republican establishment says, well, when we said outreach, this is the wrong kind of outreach.
This is to, you know, white blue-collar guys in depressed loser towns in America.
We don't want those.
We were thinking more of like a, you know, people at some fashionable gay nightclub at Coconut Grove.
They're the kind of people, Martha's Vineyard type people.
Fire Island.
There must be, we need to expand the Republican Party membership group at Fire Island.
No, Trump is actually bringing in a real, genuine outreach, not the fictional outreach that people talked about after the 2012 election.
So we'll see how that pans out.
We'll take your calls straight ahead on America's number one radio.
Hey, Mark Stein in Farush.
Let's go to Dave in Albuquerque, which Mr. Snerdley has kindly spelt out phonetically in case I pronounce right.
Feliz Navada.
Feliz Navidad to you too, Dave.
Great to have you.
I was born in Brooklyn, New York, 77 years ago.
Really?
You're like the old Bugs Bunny joke.
You did take a wrong turn at Albuquerque.
So you're from Brooklyn and you wound up in New Mexico.
That's the American dream right there, Dave.
What's on your mind today?
I want the Republican Party to think about giving to the people politicians that are all manipulating people in this country.
The Democrats have lost their people because this is founded on God and the Constitution.
Hey, Dave, we're going to have to leave you there.
Your line is cracking up.
I don't know whether that's a cell phone or something, but it's just the NSA interrupting you.
But we're going to have to leave it there.
Dave's point, though, is worth considering.
He said that he wants the people essentially to take back the Republican Party from the guys who already control it.
The Democrats have got a strategy.
The Democrats' strategy is basically to import a new voter base to prop up their numbers.
The Ted Kennedy Immigration Act essentially set in motion a huge permanent self-replenishing pool of new Democrat voters that Republicans can ever keep up with.
And so Republicans face a permanently shrinking base.
And Trump has decided essentially to draw a line under this.
And the great thing about it is that last time round, if you remember, Romney ran on a rather insipid, I would say a rather insipid program.
He talked about, he talked about the economy and he talked about entrepreneurs and he talked about success stories, but he didn't actually offer terribly much in the way to inspire people who are just flatlined, who aren't going anywhere, for whom economic mobility has kind of ended.
And the only thing he did do was he had ostensibly quite a tough immigration program.
And after the 2012 election, they said that's the one thing that's going to change.
We're not going to have Romney lost because of immigration.
So we're not going to go down the immigration path again.
And in fact, the public have wrested it back from the bipartisan conspiracy.
They've said, no, the last thing you need, when you've got the economy that this country has, the last thing you need is to be bringing in constantly millions and millions of unskilled workers.
That's why at the bottom of the economic ladder, real-time wages, real-time wages are basically shrinking in meaningful economic terms.
And not until this primary season have we been talking about that.
And the big change is this.
It used to be taken for granted by every nation on the planet until about 45 years ago that the point of an immigration system is to benefit the people who are already here.
That's why it exists.
And the immigration debate in this country, the last few election cycles, it's all been about, oh, what can we do to bring people out of the shadows?
What can we do about the pathway to citizenship?
This is looking at it from their point of view.
The question over any immigration policy is what's in it for the people who are already here.
That used to be taken for granted.
It used to be taken for granted by Germany, by France, by Australia, by Canada, by the United States, until the late 1960s.
Now, you're a racist if you think that there ought to be a rationale for an immigration policy.
And the great thing, and by the way, we have one way.
We have a one-way multiculturalism as far as that's concerned, because it's very difficult for you to go to Saudi Arabia and live as you want to do in Saudi Arabia.
It's very difficult for you to go to Yemen and immigrate there and live as you want to do.
It's all one way, one way.
And the great thing about this election campaign, this election season, is that it's changed the calculation.
And immigration for the first time in years is being discussed in terms of what ought to be at the heart of a government immigration policy, what benefits it offers to the existing citizenry.
And that is what has changed this election cycle.
It's not going to change back before Iowa or New Hampshire.
Three guys are going to come out of New Hampshire.
And on present form, the likelihood is there's going to be Trump and Cruz and whoever the mainstream money guys settle on.
Right now, it looks like Rubio.
If Christie continues to improve in New Hampshire, they might go for Christie.
But it's going to be three coming out of New Hampshire.
Yes, a man named Jihad was arrested after telling California police he had a bomb in his backpack.
This is from the New York Daily News.
Cops in El Monte carried out a controlled explosion on the bag after Jihad Mufadi Calaf Haddadin claimed he had left a bomb outside their police station.
The 52-year-old told police he left a bomb in the backpack and repeatedly, reportedly made repeated references to Jihad Tuesday morning.
Now, obviously he's going to make repeated references to Jihad.
It's your name.
Hey, what's my name?
Jihad.
So he's making, so he's called Jihad and he's committing Jihad.
And his parents must be really proud of him because, you know, it must be, it's always a gamble when you're naming your kid and you can't give him a name that doesn't match.
You know, if you've got the name Jihad, it's so embarrassing if you were like to grow up to become assistant choreographer on Glee or something.
You know, you want him to be a guy called Jihad.
Want him to grow up and be there committing jihad.
And this guy lived up to his name.
They're investigating it for any link to terrorism, Mr. Sterdley.
But right now, jihad, as you know, the official position of care, the Council on American Islamic Relations, jihad is not a word to be scared of.
Jihad is just an Arabic word meaning spiritual growth.
And so for you to be getting upset because when a guy walks in with a big, bulky, ticking backpack and says, hi, my name's Jihad, that's just the kind of stereotyping and profiling that is no help.
Jihad is a completely harmless concept.
It's like, yeah, Johnny Cash doing my, yeah, my name is Jihad.
How do you do?
Now you gonna die?
That's her wind at this California police station.
And so here's again, this is like Trump World.
Trump says, oh, we need to have an end to Muslim immigration until we can figure out what's going on.
That's all he said.
Because what the hell is going on?
So somebody is coming.
You let people into your country and say, oh, I love America.
God bless America.
Yes, my name is Jihad.
I have never heard more American.
My name is Jihad.
I call my son Jihad.
I'm calling my grandson Osama bin Jihad.
And we all love America.
And then you walk into the police station and he's got a backpack.
He says, I've got a bob in the backpack and my name's Jihad.
That's just diversity.
What the hell is wrong with you guys that you don't want to celebrate diversity?
This Air France thing, by the way, you hear this Air France thing from a couple of days ago, the Air France jet that has to be diverted to Kenya so Obama's brother can maybe hop aboard and get a chance to get a vacation in Mauritius.
He was flying from Paris to Mauritius.
And I got nothing against Mauritius.
Great economic growth.
Absolutely terrific.
Name a former prime minister of Mauritius, Sir Siwu Saga Ramgulam.
See, that's how good I am.
Anyway, this Paris to Mauritius flight, they have to detour to Kenya.
And they've got, there's something on board in the men's room.
And you know what the thing in the men's room is?
It looks like Ahmed the Clockboy's clock that he took to school.
So the guys, if you take it to a grade school in Texas, Ahmed's family will sue the school district for $15 million.
If you put it on a plane, the plane has to be diverted to Kenya.
Do you see a problem here?
How do we know it wasn't just Ahmed the Clockboy had accidentally left his clock in the toilet on the Air France plane while he was flying to Washington for his one-on-one meeting with President Obama?
This is the insanity of the world that the politically correct left has made.
If you see something, say something.
Oh, yeah, I live in San Bernardino and there's this couple that moved in next door and they're moving all this stuff into their garage and they left the door open.
Looks like they're building some kind of, well, it looked like a very large version of Ahmed the Clockboy's.
Racist, racist, you can't say that.
You can't say that at all.
If you see something, say something and get sued for $15 million.
That's the thing.
So in an American police station, a couple of weeks after San Bernardino, a man called Jihad walks into a California police station.
The Trump line, Trump is only nuts if you think everything else is normal.
If you think it's normal for Tashfin Malik to check the no box on are you planning to come to America to correct Trump, to commit terrorism, then Trump is insane.
If you think it's normal not to look at the Facebook page, to have the world's most expensive intelligence bureaucracy forbidden from looking at the Facebook pages to see whether anybody's been saying anything on there.
If you think it's normal to only be able to check databases of existing terrorists so that if you haven't yet blown anything up, you're not in the database, so they've got nothing to check against.
If you think all this is, if you think it's normal to land at LAX with a French passport and for the world's most expensive immigration bureaucracy not to check where you've been flying around on your Moroccan passport, if you think all that is normal, then yes, Trump is insane.
But if you think that all this stuff, if you think that John Kerry is right when he says that a guy standing on the table yelling Allahu Akbar and opening fire on you is nothing to do with Islam.
If you think a guy going into a rock concert in Paris and yelling Allahu Akbar and killing people is nothing to do with Islam.
If you think a guy opening fire at the Canadian War Memorial and yelling Allahu Akbar has nothing to do with Islam, then yes, if you think all that is normal and sane, then Trump is out of his head.
But if you happen to think that the official position and the diversion of resources of the government of the United States is what is totally nuts, then Trump is making a lot of sense.
Let's go to Tom in Huron, Ohio.
Tom, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Yeah.
Can you hear me okay?
Oh, I can.
You're coming through perfectly.
Beautifully.
Well, nice talking to you, Mark.
I was watching a news program and a poll jumped up at me that kind of surprised me, and that was that the question asked, and I don't know what polling data company did it, but, you know, who would you be embarrassed by if he was elected president?
And 53% said Trump would, they would be embarrassed by Trump.
35% said they'd be embarrassed by Hillary Clinton.
And it occurred to me just when they said that, you know, this is what I would call the bad boy syndrome.
You know, it's usually associated with girls that say, oh, geez, I wouldn't date that guy.
He's such a crude, you know, character and he's so rude and he does such bad things.
I would never date him.
And then they go ahead and date him on the sly.
I think that this is what is coming up.
People are not willing to admit to the pollsters that they would vote for Trump because they think he is crude or some other thing.
But in fact, he turns out he would be the best choice, in my opinion.
That's an interesting point, Tom, because can you recall any other...
I think this is a Quinnipiac poll to determine which presidential candidate you would be embarrassed to have as president.
Can you recall them ever doing that before?
I can't remember.
No, I don't.
I don't ever recall them asking if somebody would be embarrassed by it.
No.
No.
I mean, you're not meant to ask polling questions that are in and of themselves slanted.
And this seems to me to be that.
I mean, nobody ever said, would you be embarrassed to have Bill Clinton as your president because he's a draft dodger that all these women have made sexual accusations against?
Nobody ever said, oh, would you be embarrassed to have John Kerry as your president?
Because frankly, his French is appalling when you consider the money they spend on Swiss finishing school for him.
I can't recall any other poll in which they've asked, are you going to be embarrassed by a presidential candidate?
I can't think of one.
That's what jumped out at me.
That's what started me thinking about it.
Yeah.
Well, I think you got something there.
But you're saying this is one of those things where, because there is a difference.
In the online polls, the numbers for Trump are far higher.
And then when Gladys from Quinnipiak calls you up and she's got your name, the numbers are slightly less.
So you think what we're seeing is this kind of people are Trump is Trump is a secret pleasure for a lot of these people, as it were.
Yes, I do.
Okay.
Well, we'll see how that is.
And by the way, I am for Trump.
Okay.
And I'm a college-educated 73-year-old, and it's about time somebody started speaking their mind.
Okay.
So you're out and up front, but you think there's a lot of other people who are slightly more furtive about their enthusiasm.
Yeah, I don't think that the polls really pick off how keyo'd the general electorate is.
They're not doing a good job on that.
Yeah, you might be right about that, Tom, because Trump's only at 40% and Jeb Bush is at 2%.
So until Trump is at 41.8% and Jeb is at 0.2%, maybe they are underestimating how dissatisfied the Republican face.
Thanks for your call, Mark Snyder.
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Ah, yes.
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That's going to be from next year's Cat Christmas album that I'm going to be doing.
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We have an update on Schlongate because the Daily Mail, all the most interesting stories about America now in the foreign press.
The Daily Mail has uncovered the earliest use of schlonged known yet to researchers.
And it is in the student newspaper.
This is the Daily Mail in London.
They had to do this.
It's shameful.
It's disgusting.
The New York Times couldn't do this themselves.
But in the student newspaper of the City College of New York, Ellen Turkish, a candidate on the losing slate for student council, said we got schlonged.
This was in 1967.
That is the earliest schlonging we can yet find.
Somebody, they didn't, yeah, nobody, there was no, nobody complained about, oh, a microaggression.
Have you looked?
That's actually not a microaggression.
That's a macro aggression.
But in those days, in the city college, nobody said, I want to go into a safe space because people are being schlonged all around me.
They didn't, that's the earliest, 1967.
Somebody sent me a tweet of a Chicago Tribune headline from 1948 saying Dewey Schlong's Truman.
But I don't think that's genuine.
So that may not be.
We'll have to look into that.
But so far, the earliest use of the word schlonged is 1967.
Ellen Turkish on the losing slate for student council said we got schlonged.
So this one will run and run and go nowhere.
You know, it's a complete waste of time because if you're serious about what's happening in this election, you're not going to be diverted by stuff like this.
You know, because the real problems in America endure long after all these stupid media frenzies have passed.
The schlong is ended, but the malady lingers on.
That's how voters look at it.
That's how voters are looking at it.
And Trump's vulgarities, so-called, are not going to make a difference if your problem is with the Republican Party establishment that even with the biggest, biggest Republican caucus in 150 years, can't do anything.
Can't do a single thing.
Can't stop Obama importing 10,000 so-called Syrian so-called refugees that even Democrat governors don't want.
So at some point, if you're going to have a two-party system, there has to be a difference between the parties.
And the difference is not wide enough for the Republican base this year, and they have spent six months making it wider.
And even if Trump were to self-destruct now and be hanging on, completely self-detonate like a jihadist and be hanging from the rooms of the voting booths like limp bits of flesh and there's no Trump and he's completely ultimately schlonged himself, these voters are not going to say, oh, well, now that Donald Trump is self-destructed, George Pataki looks pretty good to me.
That ain't going to happen.
They've opened up this gap and that gap is going to stay.
Mark Seinfarush.
We'll close it out in a moment.
Sorry we didn't get to the We Go Wednesday update that at least one caller was demanding to know.
We'll try and get to that tomorrow.
We'll have ourselves a Merry Uyghur Christmas for the Christmas Eve Show tomorrow.
A Viennese disc jockey has been fired for playing last Christmas, the 1980s hit by the band Wham, 24 times in a row.
He barricaded himself into the studio.
And then he played that George Michael, what is it that George Michael thing, which Terry Fine at the University of Central Florida, do get her cover version because it's Last Federal Holiday, I gave you my heart.
And it's way better than the George Michael version.
She wants everyone to wish themselves a happy federal holiday instead of saying Merry Christmas.
And tomorrow we will do our best to live up to the best education that a Central Floridian can buy by having a happy Eve of Federal Holiday show right here on the Rush Lindborg show.
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