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Dec. 30, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 30, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
Thank you very much.
Welcome.
It is Eric Erikson here, filling in for Rush Limbaugh today, the phone number 800-282-882 here at the EIB network.
You can get me on Twitter and Facebook at E.W. Erickson and email me Eric at redstate.com for one more day, and then I'm moving on.
Tomorrow's my last day at Red State.
Folks, there is so much happening in the news.
You know, you always you fill in for Rush over the Christmas vacation season you're like, man, there's not going to be anything over Christmas.
Everything is well, there's not.
There's tons of stuff out there.
You've got Hillary Clinton campaigning now, running around the country.
She's now doing staged QA with kids.
She's not even letting the adults ask her questions.
And they're literally asking her questions like, What are you going to do to keep me safe from gun violence in America?
You've got the Republican establishment having an absolute meltdown.
They have pulled out the gold water card.
You know, Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, it'd be just like Barry Goldwater if if we nominate.
We can't do it.
Meanwhile, they're fighting amongst themselves, Bill Clinton's best friend rescuing one of the Republican establishment types to try to keep him in the race.
And we got tons of crime stories around the country in democratic cities.
But the big story of the day is Barack Obama spying on Congress.
If you haven't heard about this story, Barack Obama unleashed the National Security Agency to spy on Israel, Congress, and Jewish organizations.
What is it with this guy in Israel and Jews?
I mean, he he's worse than Jimmy Carter when it comes to not liking Israel and Jews.
He he wants to beat up uh Benjamin Netanyahu while coddling Iranian dictators.
He goes out saying that global warming is causing terrorists.
He tells the press behind closed doors that he didn't understand, he didn't watch enough cable television to understand why Americans were upset about Paris and the San Bernardino attacks.
Meanwhile, he's got the NSA spying on everyone, so he doesn't understand the the level of concern when he's spying on everyone, particularly Israel and Congress.
The Wall Street Journal has this report up.
It's a pretty significant report out in that what we're seeing from uh well the White House is some pretty deep damage control.
What essentially happened was the White House, remember a couple years ago the president came out and declared two years ago that we were spying on other governments.
This was the Edward Snowden revelations, the traitor who is still alive, who came out, exposed our security, exposed our surveillance, undermined the security of the United States in the name of self-promotion, revealed some things that the government was doing wrong.
One of the things that the government was doing, though, was spying on other countries.
And of course, the media was outraged.
How dare you spy on our enemies?
Many of whom are probably getting subsidized by our enemies.
And they were deeply upset that we would be spying on our friends and enemies.
We we actually had intelligence agents listing in on calls with the German chancellor, the Canadians, the British, the Israelis, the Turks, you name it.
We were getting espionage on our friends.
Which you know, if you were a competent government, that's what you do.
You know, I was a lawyer for a number of years.
Please don't hold that against me.
I'm going through the 12-step program right now.
One of the things that you did is you took depositions before you get to trial so that you had all the answers.
You never asked a question at trial that you didn't know the answer to.
You didn't want to be caught off guard in a trial.
Well, it's the same way diplomatically around the world.
You want to find out what's going on honestly by gathering intelligence so that when you're dealing with other world leaders, you already know what's going on.
You already have the answer.
So you know if there'll be yes and you or whatnot.
That's what we were doing.
Well, of course, Barack Obama was outraged, appalled that we would be spying on all these other countries.
So he decided to shut down the program.
He told the NSA to cut it out.
He told them don't spy on the Turks where there's an growing Islamic movement.
Don't spy on the Germans, don't spy on anybody except Israel.
You can spy on the Jews.
It's okay to do that, he tells the NSA.
Well, along the way, the reason they wanted we now know to spy on Israel was the Iranian agreement.
We needed to make sure, as far as Obama was concerned, that the Israelis could not woo the public, the American public, overseas, what have you, to undermine the president's precious deal with the Iranians whereby we would allow them to build nuclear weapons while t say to the world that we weren't doing that.
So he continued to let the NSA target Israeli leaders, target their officials, and their conversations with American Congressmen.
Also, by the way, American Jewish groups, AIPAC, the American Israeli Political Action Committee, and others, they were all being spied on.
One of the things that's interesting that comes out of this is that the White House was taking intelligence that it was gathering and feeding it to Jewish groups who supported the White House so that they also could rebut Israel.
Well, along the way, of course, members of Congress and their communications get swept up.
The White House never told the NSA to stop.
In fact, the Wall Street Journal says the White House just kind of decided we're we're not going to tell them anything.
We didn't say do it.
We didn't say not do it.
That's a quote in the paper.
They didn't want a paper trail.
So in other words, they wanted the NSA to spy on members of Congress and their communications with Israel.
But they didn't want to tell them to do it.
It was a wink wink nod nod.
Kind of like the White House say, we don't want to tell the IRS, we don't want a paper trail saying go investigate and harass conservative groups, go hold up their 501c3 status, but but do it wink wink nod nod.
This White House has an amazing ability within the bureaucracy to get them to do things without a paper trail.
So Congress can't find it.
Well, someone leaked.
They've been spying on members of Congress.
Marco Rubio out on the campaign trail is denouncing this, saying it's unacceptable.
Other candidates are coming out as well now, saying that this is an unacceptable breach by the White House.
Can I just say Richard Nixon was impeached for spying on the other party?
The President of the United States has used the offices of the government's executive branch to spy on Congress.
And of course, Democrats are going to give him a pass.
Republicans aren't going to do anything.
The Republicans will not impeach Barack Obama over this.
The irony here, if we are really honest about it, you know darn well that if George W. Bush had done this, John McCain would be the first person to the microphone saying we got to impeach George Bush.
We got to demand action.
Republicans would have gone after George Bush on this, but not the Democrats.
They will protect their precious at all costs.
Like Gollum holding the ring of power.
They so covet power.
They do not care about breaches of constitutional etiquette of what Barack Obama's doing.
The Democrats are playing for keeps.
The Republicans are not playing for keeps.
I mean, I would point you back to 2009, 2010.
The Democrats were willing to lose Congress to force through Obamacare, knowing Republicans would never fight to get rid of it.
They were willing to lose, knowing that they could expand big government.
Here, they're willing to spy on Congress, knowing Republicans will do nothing to them.
And neither will the Democrats.
Harry Reid doesn't care.
Chuck Schumer should care, but he doesn't care because it's the Obama White House and they've got to protect the precious.
They don't care about checks and balances.
They don't care about being Article I in the Constitution.
You know, the founders put Congress as the first article in the Constitution for reasons.
We talk about coequal branches of government.
Congress was the first branch of government written about by the founders because while we can give lip service to equal branches, they wanted Congress to be the preeminent branch.
Why you the president can't spend money without Congress's approval.
Although the president's been doing that, they've been letting him get away with that one too.
The checks and balances have broken down.
Here's an interesting flag for you on this.
It is that someone leaked.
And it seems like it's the intelligence agencies beginning to throw the Obama administration under the bus.
You know, we had that story a while back from intelligence analysts saying that the administration was doctoring reports on ISIS.
The administration was doctoring reports to play down the threat after the president called him Junior Varsity.
We're in 2012, the former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency says the rise of ISIS didn't comport to the president's reelection narrative that we were safer than we were four years before.
They they had to do something, so they were telling analysts to downplay ISIS to cut it down.
I want to put that in perspective for you here.
Barack Obama and the left are willing to spy on Israel, our purported ally, and spy on members of Congress who are talking to Israeli officials, but want to downplay threats from ISIS, want to downplay the ISIS impact, want to downplay the leadership of ISIS.
They're out there touting today there's a story out there that we've killed ten leaders of ISIS who were complicit in what happened in Paris.
Why were they alive to begin with?
Because the president wasn't doing anything until public outrage over Paris and San Bernardino.
He's been perfectly happy to turn a blind eye to what was going on abroad, except with Israel.
What is it about Israel?
You know, he says that climate change has a lot to do with this.
He's vastly more concerned about climate change than he is the attack in San Bernardino.
He's vastly more concerned with climate change than he is ISIS.
Why is it that climate change in the Middle East only turns Muslims into terrorists though?
I mean, there are Christians and Jews and Zoroastrians and animists and Buddhists and Hindus in the Middle East.
They're not turning to terrorism, but somehow global warming is turning Muslims to terrorism.
And ISIS grows, and he's concerned with spying on Israel.
For what purpose?
So that he can cut a deal with Iran to give them nuclear weapons.
I I tell you people, the question that we are going to have to ask on the campaign trail in 2016 is are you safer today than you were before Barack Obama was president?
The answer is decidedly no.
How many more people are going to get killed because of what this guy is doing?
I mean, San Bernardino, Paris, intelligence failures, but he wants to spy on Israel.
Unbelievable.
Eric Erikson in for Rush Limbaugh.
We'll be back.
Welcome back.
A listener who points out on Twitter I was caught up in the moment, says I should clarify Nixon wasn't impeached, he was gonna be impeached.
If you remember Howard Baker and the other Republicans went to the White House and told him that he needed to resign or he was going to be impeached, and there were the votes to impeach him.
But the Democrats will never have that talk with Barack Obama.
They've lost everything under Barack Obama except the presidency.
They will not go to the White House and tell the president you gotta resign, you gotta do something, you gotta stop spying on Congress.
They would never do that because they're in it for power.
And as long as he's there, they don't care about state house office.
They don't care about state legislatures.
They don't really even care about Congress.
They got the White House, they've got the executive branch.
That's what they want.
Terry Kerricson here, by the way, filling in for Rush Limbaugh.
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All right, let's go to the phones.
Let's go to Y I'm still doing Christmas baking.
I am.
I made cinnamon rolls the other morning and I wore my apron, snerdly.
Homemade cinnamon rolls.
I was gonna send you a picture just to harass you.
All right, Nathan, Lynchburg, Virginia, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hey.
How are you?
Good.
How are you doing?
Good.
I'm I'm just curious how the uh Jewish American population, who mainly are Democrats, and supported and and pretty much voted him in both terms.
How they're dealing with being spied on by the man that they voted in.
Oh, it should deeply concern them.
And you know, there have been a number of polls out there suggesting that it does.
Now we do have to remember that a lot of folks who who are listed as Jewish American, kind of like Catholic, it's it's a dum demographic identifier more than anything else these days, more than cultural.
But yes, there are a number of Jewish voters out there, according to polls, who are less and less inclined to support the Democrats.
And I wonder, Nathan, what Hillary Clinton is going to do about this, because remember when Joe Biden had his press conference that he wasn't going to run, he basically said if if Hillary, he didn't say her name, but essentially said if Hillary tries to distance herself from the president on any issue, foreign or domestic, that he's gonna be out on the campaign trail holding her accountable.
How is she going to walk this back?
Spying on not just Israel, but Jewish coalitions that are American.
She's going to do the same thing that she always does, say one thing and does another.
Um I'm Jewish and I've lived in Israel for a while, and I understand the uh difference even amongst the Jews of the liberals and the conservatives.
Um and I do understand because I'm a conservative Jew that there is a lot of those out there, but at the end of the day, I just don't understand how a liberal Jew who loves Barack Obama now sees what's going on with Barack Obama, even the spying on Israel, even the liberal Jew loves Israel and smile on his own people and on the Congress and all these other things.
I I don't understand why we're not uh getting rid of him.
I I don't understand why he's still around.
Well, you know, y I I'm I'm with you on that, Nathan.
I I still think that you know, when you vote Democrat for so long, sometimes it it it is hard for people to overcome that tendency.
They're just so used to just going and finding the D and clicking it.
But I think more and more Americans are gonna have to think about it.
I think more and more Jewish voters in the United States are gonna have to think about it.
And you know, there's been that deep concern since two thousand twelve that this was more and more putting Florida into play.
Even Debbie Wash Herman Schultz and others in Florida have come out concerned with the president on these issues.
Nathan, thanks very much for the phone call.
Let's go to Scott and Elmer, Ohio.
Am I pronouncing that right, Scott?
Yes, you are.
Hey, listen, isn't it patently obvious what's been going on for the past seven years with people like McConnell and Ryan and Boehner, uh in fact, the entire Republican Party, even to Romney, not saying anything uh uh about Barack Obama because he's been using the NSA, he's been using these organizations to spy on these people.
He's got a list a mile long, everybody's got something to hide, no matter who you are.
And here we are, we've got uh doesn't it make sense to you that the reason these people have been so tight-lipped over the past seven years is they don't want this stuff let up.
They've been threatened.
Oh, I think that they're just spineless.
I mean, maybe maybe he does have dirt on the I'm sure there are members of Congress who he has dirt on.
No, I I think that you've got a bunch of spineless Republicans who are so scared of not being liked by a media that go out there.
Oh, yes, they are you listen, Scott, you fail to appreciate the speckless spinelessness of Republicans in Congress who are scared of their own shadow.
It is amazing how these guys are willing to surrender on everything.
Now, to be clear, he may have dirt on some of them.
He absolutely may.
But I think most of them, they absolutely want to be liked.
I mean, that's why they're out there right now, and I want to get into this in the next hour.
They're out there beating up crews and Trump regularly, that all these guys that you just can't say stuff like that on the campaign trail.
They're just not being ice.
These guys are scared.
They are scared to hold Barack Obama accountable.
They I mean, look at the government shutdown back in the nineteen nineties.
This has become deeply steeped in the Republican psyche that if you dare to stand up to the Democrats and the government shuts down that you will lose when they didn't lose anything in the government shutdown.
They lost nothing other than two or three seats that everyone was expecting them to lose anyway, but they broke even really across the board.
They kept Congress, they kept the the rise of of governors around the country, and th they were just they were scared.
These people are scared of their own shadow.
They are scared of not being liked.
They are scared of Barack Obama taking to his bully pulpit and ridiculing them.
They are scared of the late night shows on Comedy Central that half the country doesn't even watch, mocking them.
They want to be liked, they want to be loved because they go to the cocktail parties with the press And the Democrats and they want to be buddy buddy.
They want it to be the way it was back in the eighties when everyone got around tables and had cocktails together and they were nice and the Democrats threw scraps off the table.
I mean, the Republicans own the table right now.
And they won't hold Barack Obama accountable for spying.
They won't do it.
They won't hold Barack Obama accountable for any of the things he's done.
They won't stop him.
They won't use the power of the purse.
You know, when Madison wrote in the Federalist Papers about the power of the purse, it was the tool by which you ultimately check a tyrant.
Here we have a tyrant of the White House who has spilled over the powers of the presidency beyond the constitutional bounds of the presidency.
And the Republicans in Congress are too scared to use the power of the purse to restrain him.
Because he might veto it and shut down.
Good grief.
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Folks, Hillary Clinton is out on the campaign trail.
You know, this stuff with Obama and spying on Israel and barely fighting ISIS, giving lip service to it and whatnot.
She's campaigning not in a vacuum.
She's campaigning with this.
And she's also campaigning around the country with staged town halls.
And they're giving her a pass on these staged town halls.
They're I mean, just listen, this is this is from the hill.
Hillary Clinton fielded questions from children and adoring fans at a town hall event in New Hampshire on Tuesday that looked more like a victory lap than a tryout.
The Democratic front runner played it safe on her final campaign swing of 2015, calling on four children in the packed crowd of supporters who had questions for her.
They were on note cards.
I mean, listen to this.
One boy reading a question from a card asked Clinton how she will make sure me and my friends are safe from gun violence at school.
And a little girl named Ella asked Clinton how she would help people who don't have enough money for college and schools.
Another boy told Clinton his dad works with people who have developmental disabilities and asked how she'd help those with special needs.
And the last one told Clinton that my mommy is working more harder than my father.
I don't think it's fair, he said.
That's so sweet, Clinton said.
I mean, this is the media's treating this as a serious story, but these are stage questions at a stage town hall.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump has someone who says something outrageous from the crowd, and they have three days of headlines on how Donald Trump or Carly Fiorino or Ted Cruz or Marco Ribio, you name it, didn't correct the person from the crowd who threw out something that the media fact checked as wrong.
But they're giving Clinton a pass to these staged press conferences.
She actually said at this at this town hall in New Hampshire, I really do love to call on kids because that is actually what the election is about.
And your little dog, too.
I mean, that this is an actual quote from Hillary Clinton on loving to call on kids who had questions on note cards staged to ask her, and every member of the press is Oh, Mrs. Clinton talks to the children.
Why is she doing this though?
Well, the political has the story.
She's struggling to reclaim New Hampshire.
Bernie Sanders, the socialist next door, is gaining on actually beating Clinton in New Hampshire right now.
Clinton, you'll remember back in 2008 when she lost to Obama, she rebounded into New Hampshire out of Iowa, surprised everybody with a big win in New Hampshire after coming out of the surprise loss in Iowa and and tried to steamroll Barack Obama.
It didn't work for her.
But New Hampshire was where she rebounded, and this time New Hampshire is where she's struggling.
And She can't well, she can't get her campaign in gear.
She's taking on this inevitability.
How is she actually going to get out there and encounter real voters who don't have scripted questions on the campaign trail?
Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait.
The media's never going to make her do that.
They're going to make the Republican nominee do that.
They'll never make Hillary Clinton do that.
They will never ask Hillary Clinton the tough questions.
They'll never do that to Hillary Clinton.
It is a complete double standard.
And you know, I I gotta tell you, I I agree with my buddy Brent Bozell that we should be mindful of the double standard.
And we should fight even harder because of the double standard.
It does us no good to just yell into the wind about the double standard.
We should certainly expose it and point out the hypocrisy.
But oh, we're going to get the double standard and and fight it and head into it and charge into it.
Do double what Clinton does to show we can actually get the job done.
Because they're going to give her a complete pass.
I mean, the media's already starting to shift away from protecting Obama so much to going after complete protection mode for Hillary.
They're ignoring the emails, which by the way, I'm told there's going to be another batch of emails released at the close of business tomorrow on New Year's Eve, well after this show ends.
You know how they always break news after Russia's show goes off the air.
They do that intentionally.
They're going to wait till the end of the day tomorrow and release these next batches of Hillary's emails.
And of course, they will compound in those stories.
Hillary Clinton offered no response because she was getting questions from kids about how to protect them from gun violence at school.
It was so sweet.
Good lord.
This is what we're into.
Let's go back to the phones.
I want to go to Blaze in Wenatchee, Washington.
I hope I didn't butcher the name of your hometown.
No, yeah, it's uh Blaze from Winatchie, Washington.
Thank you for taking my call.
You're welcome.
And avoiding the whole PC culture.
I usually agree with everything.
The one thing I disagree with is the reaction to spying on Israel.
Yes.
I think that this in the end is the one good thing he could possibly be doing.
I mean, we just released Jonathan Pollard, and I don't know if your audience is quite aware of the damage he did to the United States back in the middle of the year.
Yeah, he's a traitor that the Obama administration released after funneling information to Israel that got into the hands of the Soviets back in the day.
Yeah, and and he did untold amounts of damage.
And so I think I think you know Obama basically does everything that Israel wants it to do.
And if if the one thing we can get is a little bit of spying out of it to see what they're doing against us, that would be great.
I mean, see the Levant.
I would disagree with you, Blaze, and in just from two aspects.
One, I don't have a problem with the United States spying on every country on the planet.
But to say we're not going to spy on Turkey, where there's a growing Islamic uh Islamist movement led by their prime minister, by the way, and other countries, uh, while we're continuing to spy on Israel, I think is rank hypocrisy.
Oh, yeah.
The other issue there that I think we protect Turkey, we should not be doing that at all.
No, I I think we need we should be spying on every country, getting as much intelligence as we can so we know everything that's going on in the world and what other leaders are doing, plotting for us or against us and how well they're doing.
But you know, the other thing I I would point out though is yeah, Barack Obama did release Jonathan Pollard, who is a traitor, who funneled information knowing it would get to the Soviet Union, and he led that guy out of jail after everything else.
I don't think he actually does the things that Israel wants.
I think Barack Obama is deeply antagonistic, not just to Netanyahu, but to the whole idea of the Jewish state.
And I think it's because Barack Obama wants to realign the United States.
You know, and thanks very much, Blaze, before the phone call.
You know, Barack Obama said he wanted to fundamentally transform America.
There's a study or story circulating now that he intends to go travel the world in his last year in office.
Mark Thiessen of the Washington Post pointed out the other day.
There are countries that he's not going to go to, that he wouldn't dare to go to.
And the primary reason that he's not going to go to him is because it would expose just how badly his foreign policy has failed.
I'm very curious to see if Barack Obama's going to go to Egypt, where he decided that it was okay to oust Mubarak.
The Muslim Brotherhood rose to power, the Egyptian military had to take on the Muslim Brotherhood.
I've had several friends of mine who are in in this business and know what's going on say that Sisi, the new president of Egypt, who is a really good guy, was trained in the United States, very pro-America, has been flirting with the Russians because he can't get anybody from the Obama administration on the phone.
They clearly don't like him.
They don't like the fact that he's in charge.
They like the Muslim Brotherhood.
Barack Obama wanted to fundamentally transform the United States.
And I just don't think it's a coincidence that that fundamental transformation has been about disrupting long held alliances.
I mean, starting with returning the Winston Churchill bus to Britain.
Playing nice with Iran, turning a blind eye to China's expanding power, giving a grand state visit to the Chinese government just a while back, inviting Facebook and Apple and others in, the CEOs of those companies that to sit with the Chinese president.
He's stabbing Israel in the back.
We don't have as good a relationship with Britain as we did.
Our relationship with uh with Canada is only improving because they've just elected a socialist there, wanting to play nice with Iran again and again and again and again.
When the president of the United States has had a chance to side with our allies or side with our enemies, he sided with our enemies.
You there used to be the old Christian, though they're still the uh the criticism.
The Republican establishment, the John McCain's of the world, the Mitch McConnell's of the world and whatnot, they're far nastier to Republicans than they are to Democrats.
Far nastier.
John McCain is more likely to call Chuck Schumer my friend than he is Ted Cruz.
Marack Obama does the same thing except what's with the United States and others.
He's he apologizes for the United States.
He's far m dam more damaging, nastier to our alliances than he is to people who want to kill us.
It's like he really does think that if he's sweet to them, they'll like us, no, they still want to kill us.
Of course, it's all by design.
It's not naivety.
It's by design.
Eric Erikson in for uh Rush Limbaugh, we'll be back.
You'll have to excuse me.
I've been Instagramming the LSU score last night, fifty-six to twenty-seven over Texas Tech.
I am a native of Louisiana.
I have to root for those things.
I was reminded that I I just saw another story come across the wire about Al Jazeera, a Al Qaeda's favorite network, deciding to attack Peyton Manning and other football players and their key sources now were candid at all, so they didn't even know he was being recorded.
I just the media wanting to sensationalize and overplay these things like Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail.
Meanwhile, did you know, by the way, a fifth of Americans weren't alive during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
I got I gotta tell you, God bless him what Donald Trump did to Savannah Guthrie yesterday.
I'll get into that in the next hour.
Brilliant what he did.
I I I gotta gotta give him a shout out for taking on Savannah Guthrie.
But a fifth of Americans weren't alive during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
They they don't have a blue dr they don't know what the blue dress was.
We're gonna have to relive all of this stuff with Hillary Clinton as the nominee.
And we should, you know, I agree with Donald Trump that it is absolutely fair game to go after these scandals because Hillary Clinton is out on the campaign trail and she's talking about women's issues and the Republican war on women.
And she turned a blind eye to what was going on with her husband in the White House and even before he got to the White House, turned a blind eye to it.
And a fifth of Americans, according to the Washington Post, they weren't even alive at the time.
They don't know what she did and did not do.
She wants to go out and play the the poor pitiful me victim while she was orchestrating character assassinations all to protect at the time her precious, her power.
The Democrats are vastly more interested in power than they are the constitutional checks and balances in our system of government.
And the current crop of Republicans continue to give them a pass.
At every opportunity, Republicans refuse to rein in the Democrats with the power of the purse.
They refuse to do anything because Barack Obama has a veto pin.
Making veto it.
Expose him.
Show the American people what's going on.
But they don't want to do it.
They never want to do it.
Let's go back to the phones.
Dave and Albuquerque, New Mexico, you're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Welcome.
Hello, I'll get right into it.
This phenomenon about Trump.
Both parties are afraid of Trump because all these professional politicians in Washington know if he gets in, he's gonna break up this uh oh old boy uh situation there.
He's got the ready made uh let's say cabinet with all the people that he has uh running with or against him.
He has uh Christie could be a good attorney general.
This uh vice president could be Cruz, who's a real uh constitutional uh lawyer.
Uh could be Labor.
Uh Carson could be second uh well the uh surgeon general.
He has all these people with him, and it seems that the people will get back their government if Trump gets in.
Well, I you know both sides are afraid of him because he'll break up the old boy situation in Washington.
Oh, he would.
Dave, if you had a if you had a Trump Cruise ticket or a cruise Trump ticket, if you had a if either one of them becomes the nominee, I can assure you Mitch McConnell will never be constipated again.
Uh it just these guys in Washington, D.C. are absolutely apoplectic about the poll numbers right now, showing that the outsiders of Cruz and Trump are leading them, leading the establishment guys.
Now, I I would say that having watched The Apprentice back in the day, I hope that some of the people in the campaign trail Trump won't consider uh putting into his cabinet.
By the way, did you hear about Kasich?
Kasich is being bailed out by Bill Clinton's best friend Ron Burkle.
Kasich has been on the campaign trail telling people don't vote for Donald Trump because he's a closet Democrat.
Meanwhile, the Democrats are bailing out John Kasich's campaign.
John Kasich who tells the world Jesus told him to expand Obamacare in Ohio.
Angry John Kasich.
He's he has the audacity to go out and attack Trump and Carson as unserious people with unserious ideas, and Trump is a closet Democrat when the Democrats have decided to bail out him.
Now, of course, the intelligentsia in Washington is saying, well, they want to keep Kasich viable to keep the moderates divided, so that Cruz or Trump get the nomination.
Because if true Trump get the nomination, well, the Democrats have an easy path to victory.
Because it'll be like Barry Goldwater all over again.
Not my personal site, Eric on the radio.com, ERICK.
I actually went back to the nineteen seventy-nine, nineteen eighty news archives and pulled up all the stories about the establishment Republicans fretting about the rise of Ronald Reagan.
They were saying in nineteen seventy-nine and nineteen eighty the same things they're saying right now about Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.
The exact same things.
I want to spend some time walking you through this in the next hour.
It's fascinating how history doesn't repeat itself, but the media and the Republican talking heads do.
I mean, the attacks they're making now, including, you know, right now they're sitting about Ted Cruz.
Well, he says one thing behind closed doors and another thing in public.
They made the exact same attack on Ronald Reagan.
That conservatives really couldn't trust him because in closed doors he sounds very reasonable, but in public he's a firebrand conservative, radically right.
Just again and again again they do this.
I'll get into that at the top of the hour.
There's a lot of that material to go through.
You will be amazed by how much the talking points now from these guys who are opposed to to the conservative outsiders is exactly what it was in 1979 and 80 against Reagan.
Eric Erikson in for Rush Limbaugh.
We'll be back.
Friends, it's Eric Erikson filling in for Rush Limbaugh, and I apologize.
Someone other than my mother-in-law has put up a piece on Facebook that I just talked too fast in the last segment.
I apologize.
And I'm from the South, too.
I I am a professional and and here I I spoke I get worked up sometimes on this stuff.
When we come back in the next hour, you know, George Pataki dropped out of the presidential.
I I know.
I know you're as shocked as I am to find out he was running for president to begin with.
I I what whatever will we do?
I I have no idea.
How will the world go on?
And I maybe Schnurley wants to know if they're gonna do a uh a duo.
Maybe they will do a time life record album and it'll come out with them singing old songs of washed up hasbins.
That that that possibly could be George Padaki's next Career move.
Um he could be s getting a Vegas cocktail circuit where he gives boring speeches and reminds people of what he wasn't.
You know, the only reason the media treated him seriously was one, his last name isn't Trump, and two, I guess two reasons instead of only one reason, he wasn't Trump, and he was governor of New York.
And so many of the people in the media who cover politics live in New York, so they knew him.
So they treated him.
And he was willing to say bad things about Republicans.
They're always willing to give a pass to people who say bad things about Republicans.
I want to review the record on this when we come back, as they start talking about Barry Goldwater and how Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, they can't win.
They're just like Barry Goldwater.
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