Jan. 7, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| A lot of people say, What do you mean Rubio? | |
| Said it Trump didn't qualify. | |
| He did. | |
| He wasn't talking about whether or not he's a citizen. | |
| He just said Trump's not qualified. | |
| So you gotta let that's what they're saying about crew. | |
| He's not qualified, not eligible. | |
| Rubio did not say that Trump isn't eligible, he just says they're not qualified. | |
| When it comes to uh uh Cruz, you know, Rubio and Cruz have this big fight going back and forth on fought in policy and immigration and uh other things. | |
| Rand Paul has chimed in. | |
| Rand Paul said, yeah, Ted Cruz is qualified to be president of Canada. | |
| They're all jumping in here. | |
| McCain has jumped in, as I measured. | |
| Grab some by number four. | |
| This is last night in Phoenix. | |
| He's on the radio out there, and he got a question. | |
| Ted Cruz says that uh Donald Trump jumped a shark with his suggestion a Cruz might not be an American-born citizen. | |
| The answer, according to lawyers, is that his mother was an American, so an American citizen. | |
| Did Trump jump the shark, Senator McCain? | |
| I do not know the answer to that. | |
| I know it came up in my race because I was born in Panama, but I was born in the canal zone, which is a territory. | |
| Barry Goldwater was born in Arizona when it was a territory. | |
| When he ran that's different from being born on foreign soil. | |
| I think there is a question. | |
| I am not a constitutional scholar on that, but I think it's worth uh looking into. | |
| I don't think it's illegitimate to look into it. | |
| See how this is all gonna it doesn't matter what the answer is, because the answer is years down the road. | |
| I mean, you let people who can write 75,000 word blog posts on what natural born citizen means. | |
| Well, you imagine when these people get to court. | |
| So Senator McCain, he would love to derail the crews campaign and they'd been trying to derail the Trump campaign. | |
| So that's what's going on. | |
| I want you to hear a ad Marco Rubio has uh started running in Iowa today. | |
| And it's right on his website. | |
| I don't know what kind of an ad by supports it, but it's on his website, and the left is apoplectic over this. | |
| Our goal is eternity. | |
| The ability to live alongside our creator for all time, to accept the free gift of salvation offered to us by Jesus Christ. | |
| The struggle on a daily basis as a Christian is to remind ourselves of this. | |
| The purpose of our life is to cooperate with God's plan to those who much has been given, much is expected. | |
| And we will be asked to account for that. | |
| Were your treasure stored up on earth or in heaven? | |
| And to me, I try to allow that to influence me in everything that I do. | |
| I'm Marco Rubio, and I approved of this message. | |
| Whoa! | |
| This is, I mean, this is blatant. | |
| I mean, this is right. | |
| This is up front. | |
| This is I am a Christian. | |
| This is what it means. | |
| This is how I live it, and this is who we are. | |
| This is on uh, you know, we're less than a month away from the Hawkeye Cawckeye. | |
| And that is Rubio making a pitch. | |
| It's a highly evangelical turnout on the Republican side in the Iowa caucuses. | |
| But man, you don't you I haven't I uh remember seeing an ad as pointedly proud and explanatory of Christianity as this one. | |
| Here's uh here's Rand Paul. | |
| This is on CNN again last night, Don Lemon, who uh did I read this right? | |
| Don Lemon uh had too much adult beverage on the air on New Year's Eve, and had to go to sleep on a sofa on the set or some such thing. | |
| Did I see that right? | |
| Or maybe no, he was out there some maybe it was in New Orleans, down in New Orleans with uh one of the infobabes. | |
| He did. | |
| He said Kathy Griffin had a nice rack, he must have been drunk then. | |
| He said Kathy Griffin had an ice rack. | |
| Well, anyway, he was he was overindulging adult beverage. | |
| Don Lemon cannot get fired, no matter what he does. | |
| I mean, this is from from asking if the missing Malaysian airliner actually got swallowed up by a black hole. | |
| Uh to any number of other things, uh the Ferguson, Missouri protest, the guy's got the lives of twenty cats. | |
| And that's good. | |
| We like Don Lemon here. | |
| He's uh he's all he's good, he's great for the Soundbite roster. | |
| And here he is, in fact, um, interviewing Rand Paul on CNN last night says, I want to talk to you about this issue uh this issue with Donald Trump and uh Ted Cruz, and whether he's a citizen or not, or whether he's eligible to be president, what do you think? | |
| You know, I think absolutely without question, he is qualified and eligible to be the Prime Minister of Canada. | |
| The one thing that I think is striking is you may be aware that some people thought the president wasn't a citizen. | |
| And this went on and on, and there was an entire movement, and they wanted to maintain that it wasn't partisan, it wasn't racial, wasn't this, wasn't that. | |
| But then when they actually have someone who is actually born in another country, I haven't heard a peep from any of the same people. | |
| I am the first Republican to say, you know what, there's been a double standard on the whole birth issue. | |
| I don't know the answer for Ted Cruz. | |
| Now, it this is what people that are trailing, uh a small amount, a large amount. | |
| This is this is how they join controversies like this. | |
| And I got a couple emails I checked them during the break. | |
| Some of you think that I'm not taking this that seriously. | |
| I don't know what you think that that's that's not the case. | |
| Um but I don't think it also is I I know fully well what's going on here. | |
| Uh I remember back when the whole Clarence Thomas Anita Hill thing hit. | |
| We were in the middle of the confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas, and I was in Oklahoma City, it was Saturday doing a uh rush to excellence performance that night. | |
| Giant arena in Oklahoma City. | |
| And that afternoon is when Anita Hill had come forward with all of these allegations, and I can't tell you how livid of I just was burning up, and I spent the entire afternoon. | |
| There wasn't this is no, it wasn't as easy. | |
| You didn't Google anything back then. | |
| I mean, it was it was difficult to well, not difficult, it was much different the way you gathered information back then. | |
| And I broomed the 90% of what I had planned. | |
| I spent the whole hour and a half to two hours talking about this. | |
| It burned me up. | |
| Now, I know that many of you, uh supporters of Cruz probably th think that this is similar and has you just as angry as I was uh during that in that circumstance, that that had a real, real chance of destroying Clarence Thomas's life and and of course defeating the nomination, | |
| because these were his confirmation hearings, and this was this was occurring under the auspices of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and by virtue of that it was given automatic weight and credibility, and it was a lynching. | |
| It was there's no question Clarence Thomas is right, it was a high-tech lynching that they uh launched at the very well, not the very end, but close to the end, because Clarence was going to get confirmed, and they just couldn't abide it. | |
| This was Thurgood Marshall's seat, and nobody had a right to be in it who wasn't a doctrinaire left-wing liberal extraordinaire African American. | |
| Clarence Thomas goes through no way, and they just they launched every lie in the book. | |
| Now, this with Cruz and his uh his citizenship, you can say that it has many of the same ingredients. | |
| Here we are with Cruz leading three weeks out from the Iowa caucus, and we've had the issue has already been part of the political fabric with Obama and so forth. | |
| What's what's interesting about this to me, in addition to all these other things is note that nobody apparently knows how to wants to or can go after Ted Cruz on substance. | |
| I don't care whether it's Trump or anybody Else, they're not going after Ted Cruz on the substance of his beliefs, his policies, his conservatism. | |
| I mean, you you have people who uh in a blanket generalized way attack conservatism as a as an alien life form. | |
| But the specifics of Cruz and his proposals, I mean, you've had you had people who have attempted, I mean, this was all over the blogosphere yesterday. | |
| There were people attempting to say that Ted Cruz had caved in his opposition to ethanol. | |
| And he had not, he had not said one thing different. | |
| But because of the way it was reported, I mean, you people who know better, people in the conservative blogosphere, people conservative media who know full well how the media does things, fell for a misleading headline and lead in the story to and and it didn't think, oh no, Ted Cruz is caved on ethical. | |
| Oh my god. | |
| And they think nothing is sacred. | |
| Now, one thing about conservatives, they are waiting for whoever it is they trust to turn on them. | |
| It just it's one of these things they fear and expect, and so all it took was a misreported headline and lead, and people were made to believe it cruz had caved on ethanol, which he hadn't said one thing different. | |
| He might have been a little too cute in an answer to a question, but the substance was that he wants it phased out, the ethanol subsidies and mandatory usage and gas phased out by uh 2022, five years, essentially. | |
| But he answered it in a different way, uh, which allowed people to write that he had caved on it. | |
| But aside from that, nobody's going after Cruz on substance. | |
| The way they're now going after Cruz, oh, he's not qualified, he's not eligible. | |
| And of course, it's gonna have legs, and there's I tell you something else. | |
| If if Cruz wins, folks, if he wins a nomination, if he's elected president, this is not going to go away. | |
| There will be lawsuits filed. | |
| There were lawsuits filed against Obama. | |
| Lawsuits filed against government officials all the time. | |
| It isn't going to go away. | |
| And Cruz knows it, and I think this is one of the reasons the worst thing Cruz could do is is deal with this head on in such a way that's really bothered by it, make it look like there might be something there, and then be distracted by it. | |
| The way he's dealing with this is right on, treating it as a joke. | |
| Trump's jump the shark, this kind of thing. | |
| Uh not make the mistake of not taking it seriously, but but don't allow it to bring everything to a screeching halt, and don't act righteously indignant offended over the because this is what happens in politics. | |
| And it's for that reason that to me it's it's part and parcel of it was going to be something. | |
| Somebody was going to do something to go after Cruz. | |
| He's a front runner. | |
| And it doesn't surprise me that's Trump. | |
| Trump does not want to lose in Iowa, and he certainly does want to lose in New Hampshire. | |
| So I not taking it seriously in any way, straight matter or form. | |
| I'm trying to keep it a perspective more than uh anything else. | |
| We'll be back. | |
| We have to continue a little break here, but uh be back before you know it. | |
| Donald in uh I guess it's Wacomico, Maryland. | |
| It's great to have you on the program. | |
| Hello. | |
| Thank you so much, Russ, for taking my call. | |
| Long time listener, first-time caller. | |
| Great to have you out there. | |
| Donald, I appreciate it. | |
| Uh, my comment, and I think you'll agree with this, and I'll be interested to hear your take on it. | |
| Uh the Democratic Liberal establishment for years has had an arsenal that has been hard to overcome, and that is the federal judiciary. | |
| I am very concerned that this situation with Cruz has never been settled in federal court, and that the Democrats will use the Federal Judiciary like they're using right now with Planned Parenthood and other social issues over the last thirty-five years. | |
| Well, you are thinking that they have the federal courts so packed with politically friendly judges that they could actually find a court that would rule Cruz ineligible. | |
| Well, I'm concerned that the fact that we have a congressman that's a real liberal idea log in Florida. | |
| That is Let me guess, you're talking about Alan Grayson. | |
| Yes, He's been making threats since November. | |
| And I'm afraid that what they will do is go into court and create a black cloud, and that this will drag on and it will create a problem. | |
| Actually, much like he did for President Obama. | |
| Well, but see, that's the thing. | |
| Now, wait this. | |
| With Obama, it didn't stop him. | |
| It didn't, because the political forces you're talking about were on his side. | |
| The lawsuits continued even after Obama was in office. | |
| But I didn't let me tell people what Grayson's doing since you bring him up. | |
| Alan Grayson is an attorney's Democrat, uh Senate candidate. | |
| He's wacko, he's looney tunes. | |
| Uh been in the House representative, really off the charts. | |
| And he's told U.S. News and World Report that he's going to file a lawsuit challenging Cruz's eligibility if he overtakes Trump and wins a nomination. | |
| Only if he wins a nomination, Grayson says, is he going to do this? | |
| And uh you're worried that they can find a judge, highly politicized, friendly to Obama and the Democrats, who will say, Yep, yep, I'm looking at this, and uh, Mr. Cruz, you're not qualified to uh run for review. | |
| That's what you're worried is going to happen after he gets a nomination. | |
| In my opinion, uh, and I'm very afraid that what will happen is that the Federal Judiciary, an Obama appointee, but also possibly a Clinton appointee going back twenty-five years. | |
| Yeah. | |
| We'll use this situation, and uh that's been a very powerful arsenal in achieving the liberal agenda over the last thirty-five months. | |
| Okay, now let me ask you some strategic question, Donald. | |
| You know that this can happen. | |
| I mean, you think it can. | |
| You're prepared for it. | |
| You have to think that everybody else involved, Cruz, others would be prepared for it. | |
| What can be done? | |
| If your scenario plays out, what can be done? | |
| Well, obviously, uh, as you've uh alluded to a little earlier, Senator Cruz, if he's successful, he's gonna have to pursue the nomination while at the same time having to deal with this circumstance. | |
| And uh, while I do not like making a comparison to the Obama administration, which I abhor and do not and have never supported, right? | |
| He will have to uh basically do the same thing that the current president did. | |
| I'm I'm afraid of. | |
| Yeah, here's the thing, though. | |
| I don't think anybody ever thought that this is gonna go anywhere with Obama. | |
| But you're thinking it could go somewhere with Cruz. | |
| That's the difference. | |
| There's no Obama was never ever going to be found ineligible. | |
| It was never going to happen. | |
| Everybody knew it. | |
| But you're not sure that that's the case with Cruz. | |
| Gloria Borger. | |
| This afternoon on uh Wolf Blitzer's show on CNN. | |
| I mean giddy. | |
| Gloria Bort, they are so excited here that McCain has gone after Cruz. | |
| They hate Cruz. | |
| They despise Cruz, they despise Trump, but they hate Cruz more. | |
| And the fact that McCain has gone after they know McCain hates Cruz. | |
| And they're so excited. | |
| McCain is that he's even ended up siding with Trump. | |
| That's how much McCain hates Cruz, and that's how much it all makes the media happy. | |
| Imagine how much John McCain does not like Donald Trump. | |
| Donald Trump was the man who said, if you recall not too long ago, that John McCain was not a war hero because he was a PLW. | |
| This gives you a sense of the kind of lack of respect that McCain has for Ted Cruz and the way he dislikes him, like a lot of other members of the Senate feel the same way, Will. | |
| John McCain has no great love for Ted Cruz. | |
| There's no great love for Donald Trump either. | |
| Exactly. | |
| But if he had to choose, obviously in this particular fight, look who's sidey took. | |
| It's so exciting. | |
| It's so exciting. | |
| You know, McCain hates Trump, but look what he they just can't barely contain themselves. | |
| Um yesterday on this program, we had, because of a phone call, a discussion about Hollywood and guns and smoking and cigarettes. | |
| And the discussion was um well, a caller said, Hey, I don't think Hollywood's trying to encourage or discourage anything or promote it. | |
| And I said, that's not why I was raising the issue. | |
| He's raising the issue, everybody thinks guns are rotten, everybody hates guns. | |
| Hollywood's a bunch of leftists and they make movies that glorify guns, and the bad guys have become the good guys. | |
| Well, he's got to send a message. | |
| I mean, whether it's subliminal or not, uh the caller said, why doesn't Hollywood get in gear and start making movies that don't have any guns? | |
| Wouldn't that be true to their political beliefs? | |
| Yeah, but it wouldn't be very much fun to watch a movie, in Hollywood's viewpoint. | |
| Same thing with smoking. | |
| Smoking is universally disapproved of. | |
| Smoking is yuck. | |
| We hate it. | |
| We don't need- I mean, people see an electronic cigarette and they panic. | |
| Don't want to be anywhere near it. | |
| It even looks like a cigarette. | |
| And yet everybody in movies and television show smokes. | |
| And they make it look so cool. | |
| And the point that I was raising is if if Hollywood wanted to stay true to their liberal beliefs, why all this gun glorification and the sexification, if you will, of cigarette smoking. | |
| And uh related things. | |
| Anyway, we talk about it and get this. | |
| Franklin Graham has uh spoken up on Obama and his uh executive gun control. | |
| And has uh said if violent films and games were taken off the shelves, I believe we'd see a dramatic drop in gun violence over the next few years. | |
| Franklin Graham said Tuesday that the real problem in America was that we have a government that has taken God out of society. | |
| Our founding father certainly did not intend this to happen. | |
| Is that Hollywood glorifies gun violence, exactly what we said in this program yesterday, and Obama's actions would do nothing to stop it. | |
| Every night the networks, the movie channels, the theaters are filled with programming that glamorizes gun violence. | |
| Guns are used to shoot, to kill, and to splatter human blood all over the screens across America. | |
| And he called for legislation to reduce such media violence, proposing a heavy tax on the manufacturers of any film or game that graphically depicts violence. | |
| I'm only bringing this up because it's right on cue. | |
| We talked here yesterday on the program, and bamboo. | |
| It becomes a featured topic. | |
| Prominent people across the country. | |
| What else? | |
| There's something else here. | |
| Where is it? | |
| There's a there's a somebody's proposed a tax on tampons or to reduce the hand this here. | |
| I must have put it in a different stack. | |
| Maybe I'm gonna have to find it and delay it until I I found it. | |
| Here it is. | |
| An assembly woman wants to cut taxes for millions of California women by exempting feminine hygiene products from taxation. | |
| Referred to as the tampon tax. | |
| Assembly Bill 1561 would provide exemptions on taxes from the purchase, storage, and usage of sanitary napkins and tampons. | |
| Assemblywoman Christina Garcia estimates women in California pay more than 20 million dollars a year on feminine hygiene products or $7 a month for 40 years. | |
| And she argues the cost only intensifies a difference in pay between men and women, because as you know, men do not buy feminine hygiene products, except for the transgenders. | |
| Basically, we are being taxed for being women, she said in a statement on Tuesday, no provisions are being made to cover the lost revenue. | |
| So uh how about giving men a tax break on anything to do with shaving? | |
| I gotta do that every day. | |
| Uh I don't know. | |
| This is just it's what is it with free birth control pills, unlimited supply of $3,000 a month for birth control pills that you can get for $12 at Sam's Club. | |
| And now tampons thrown in on the deal. | |
| Under the auspices that it's a bitch being a woman. | |
| And we need to be compensated for it. | |
| California. | |
| Here is Mike in Bethel, Connecticut. | |
| Great to have you on the EIB network. | |
| Hello. | |
| Hello, Russ. | |
| How are you? | |
| I'm surprised they haven't outlawed tampons in California. | |
| May even need them, yeah, right. | |
| Listen, uh raise a hypothetical with you. | |
| Let's say the uh Justice Department has an epiphany and uh does something proper with Hillary. | |
| And she's out of the race. | |
| I think uh Bernie Sanders, for all his popularity and everything you've discussed, he uh, you know, uh has a strong showing out there, but he doesn't have uh one or two of the things that Obama had, you know, one being the first African American president, and and everybody had glow in their eyes. | |
| Uh so I think the question becomes what do the Democrats do? | |
| And and there'll be lots of smoke-filled back rooms where people are wondering, and and is there uh because I don't think El Nalley will be the uh choice, and and O'By uh Biden is gonna come in. | |
| Well, no, no, wait just a second, because interesting that you mentioned this. | |
| Because I don't think Hillary's gonna be indicted. | |
| I I I know I respect Joe de Genova. | |
| And just to repeat, De Genova thinks she's gonna be indicted 60 days. | |
| She thinks the FBI, he thinks the FBI is just loaded up with evidence. | |
| It's so much evidence that if the attorney general does not charge that there's gonna be a revolt at the FBI, like there was in Watergate when uh the Solicitor General refused uh to fire somebody on Nixon's order, it's when Bork came along and did it. | |
| There's gonna be a revolt. | |
| She the Genovist says, and look at he's the guy, he's been there. | |
| He would he's not gonna just say this off the top of his head, he's got to know this. | |
| He he we kind of person would have the connections to know how close the FBI, or what kind of evidence they had, uh, how much of it. | |
| He wouldn't be going out saying this stuff. | |
| Oh, he's senile, and I just saw him on TV, he didn't look senile, and he's he's looking it is mountainous, and they are continuing to investigate. | |
| They're up to 1,400 emails that she trafficked in that are classified, and they're adding to it all the time, and there's more evidence than just that. | |
| And he thinks that there's no way she won't be indicted in 60 days, and that it if Loretta Lynch and Obama pull a pull a plug on it and don't indict that there's gonna be a revolt, that that that how much evidence they've got. | |
| I can't see it. | |
| For one of the reasons, you bro, who they have they're gonna if the Democrat Party runs this regime, or you should you can say this regime is the Democrat Party. | |
| I mean, if if they indict Hillary, they are knowingly taking her out of the race. | |
| Now, if that happens, folks, it means they never wanted her in this in the first place in 2007, 2008 was not a coincidence that Obama just didn't decide to run at surface, come out of nowhere and win. | |
| If that happens, it means that somebody somewhere doesn't want the Clintons anywhere back near the White House or presidential power. | |
| I can't see it. | |
| And it's not because I don't believe that the Clintons are immune and that they are not held accountable to the same forces we all are. | |
| I just I just don't see the Democrat Party Obama taking her out. | |
| I I might be persuaded, somebody who knew that maybe there's a genuine animus that Obama has for Hillary. | |
| Maybe Obama does not want her responsible for continuing his legacy. | |
| I I'd have to be told this, though, and I'd have to be told this in a very convincing way by somebody who knew. | |
| I just don't want to suppose this. | |
| But if it did if it does happen, Martin O'Malley's not gonna be the guy, but don't discount Bernie Sanders. | |
| I mean, yeah, he's not gonna be the first anything other than old guy. | |
| Uh Hillary would be the first woman, but you know, Bernie's not Hispanic, he's not female, He's not transgender. | |
| He's uh no no first there. | |
| But he is raising money. | |
| He's raising a lot of money, and his polling numbers are closer to Hillary in uh a few states than anybody knows. | |
| But don't forget over there, old plugs. | |
| Remember when Plugs made his big announcement, Biden that he wasn't going to run for president? | |
| When he finished, what was everybody's reaction? | |
| That sounded sure as heck like a guy who is running. | |
| He laid out what his agenda would be. | |
| He laid out what his reason for running would be. | |
| He laid out what he wanted to accomplish in the midst of saying he wasn't gonna do it. | |
| And some people said, you know what? | |
| This sounds like a guy who is laying down markers for getting in this race if something untoward happens to front runners and he has to get in. | |
| He's already got the groundwork laid, the framework put out. | |
| And he's talking about it. | |
| He's he's out there. | |
| There's a story, I got a story in the stack today. | |
| Plugs is thinks every day about running for president. | |
| Every day he thinks about doing it. | |
| Every day he thinks about his decision not to do it. | |
| Every day it's on his mind. | |
| So he would be a natural to uh pick up any slack if Hillary, in fact, I just found the story. | |
| Here it is, in fact. | |
| Biden regrets not running for president every day. | |
| Hill.com. | |
| Vice President Biden said yesterday he regrets not running for president, but stressed it was ultimately the right call. | |
| But it was the right decision for my family and for me, and I plan on staying deeply involved. | |
| He told this to the NBC of Villierton Hartford, Connecticut. | |
| So the uh Department of Justice. | |
| You ready for this? | |
| Justice Department is hiring all kinds of new lawyers to deal with all the pardons Obama plans on granting. | |
| No, I pretty much got to all of it today. | |
| There's some things that I didn't quite get to. | |
| There's a couple of stories here on uh Trump and Cruz sending shivers down the spines of the Republican establishment, but that's pretty much uh it's a different take on it. | |
| It's a little old news now that the issue of crew is in this this citizenship thing has been brought up. | |
| Anyway, that's gonna unfold as it unfolds. | |
| We'll be here on top of it, behind it, underneath it, whatever it takes to deal with it. | |
| We got open line Friday coming up tomorrow as we head into the uh wild card weekend, the NFL. | |
| Great weekends are coming up here. |
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