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Jan. 7, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 7, 2016, Thursday, Hour #3
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Okay, here we go.
Final big busy broadcast hour performed by me, Rush Lynn Boy, your highly trained broadcast specialist, unique in the world of media.
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A lot of people say, what do you mean, Rubio?
Said that 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 got to let, that's what they're saying about Cruz.
He's not qualified, not eligible.
Rubio did not say that Trump isn't eligible.
He just says he's not qualified.
When it comes to Cruz, you know, Rubio and Cruz have this big fight going back and forth on foreign policy and immigration and 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.
McCain has jumped in, as I mentioned.
Grab soundbite number four.
This is last night in Phoenix.
He's on the radio out there, and he got a question.
Ted Cruz says that Donald Trump jumped a shark with his suggestion that Cruz might not be an American-born citizen.
The answer, according to lawyers, is that his mother was an American, so he's 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 looking into.
I don't think it's illegitimate to look into it.
See how this is all going to...
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.
You imagine when these people get to court?
So Senator McCain, he would love to derail the Cruz campaign, and they've been trying to derail the Trump campaign.
So that's what's going on.
I want you to hear an ad Marco Rubio has started running in Iowa today.
And it's on his website.
I don't know what kind of an ad buy 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 treasures 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 upfront.
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, you know, we're less than a month away from the Hawkeye caucus.
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, I haven't, I remember seeing an ad as pointedly proud and explanatory of Christianity as this one.
Here's Rand Paul.
This is on CNN again last night.
Don Lemon, who did I read this right?
Don Lemon had too much adult beverage on the air on New Year's Eve and had to go to sleep on a sofa on a 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 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 a nice rack.
Well, anyway, he was over-indulging adult beverage.
Don Lemon cannot get fired, no matter what he does.
I mean, this is from asking if the missing Malaysian airliner actually got swallowed up by a black hole to any number of other things.
The Ferguson, Missouri protest, the guy's got the lives of 20 cats.
And that's good.
We like Don Lemon here.
He's good.
He's great for the soundbite roster.
And here he is, in fact, interviewing Rand Paul on CNN last night.
He says, I want to talk to you about this issue with Donald Trump.
And 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, it 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, this is what people that are trailing a small amount, a large amount, 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 want you to think that.
That's not the case.
But I don't think it also is.
I know fully well what's going on here.
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 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.
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 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, supporters of Cruz, probably think that this is similar.
It has you just as angry as I was during that.
In that circumstance, that had a real, real chance of destroying Clarence Thomas' life and, of course, defeating the nomination, because these were his confirmation hearings.
And 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.
There's no question Clarence Thomas is right.
It was a high-tech lynching that they launched at the very, 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 could sure know.
And they just, they launched every lie in the book.
Now, this with Cruz and his citizenship, you could 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 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 have people who in a blanket, generalized way, attack conservatism as an alien life form.
But the specifics of Cruz and his proposals, I mean, you've 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, 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.
And it didn't think, oh, no, Ted Cruz has caved on Ethan.
Oh, my God.
Nothing is sacred.
Now, one thing about conservatives is 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 that Cruz had caved on ethanol, which he hadn't.
He 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 2022, five years, essentially.
But he answered it in a different way, 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 going to have legs.
And there's, I'll tell you something else.
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 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 jumped the shark, this guy thing.
Not make the mistake of not taking it seriously, but don't allow it to bring everything to a screeching halt.
And don't act righteously indignant, offended over it.
This is what happens in politics.
And it's for that reason that to me, 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 frontrunner.
And it doesn't surprise me that it's Trump.
Trump does not want to lose in Iowa, and he certainly doesn't want to lose in New Hampshire.
So not taking it seriously in any way, straight matter or form.
I'm trying to keep it in perspective more than anything else.
We'll be back.
We have to continue a little break here, but be back before you know it.
Donald, in, 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.
Longtime listener, first-time caller.
Great to have you out there.
Donald, I appreciate it.
My comment, and I think you'll agree with this, and I'll be interested to hear your take on it.
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 35 years.
What, 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 ideologue in Florida that is miserable.
Let me guess.
You're talking about Alan Grays.
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 it did for President Obama.
Well, but see, that's the thing.
Now, wait, 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 let me tell people what Grayson's doing since you bring him up.
Alan Grayson is an attorney.
He's a Democrat Senate candidate.
He's wacko.
He's Looney Tunes.
Been in the House Representative, really off the charts.
And he has 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 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 Mr. Cruz, you're not qualified to run for you.
That's what you're worried is going to happen after he gets a nomination.
It's all the time when it comes to the Constitution, in my opinion.
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 25 years, will use this situation.
And that's been a very powerful arsenal in achieving the liberal agenda over the last 35 years.
Okay, now let me ask you some strategic question here, 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, as you've alluded to a little earlier, Senator Cruz, if he's successful, he's going to have to pursue the nomination while at the same time having to deal with this circumstance.
And while I do not like making a comparison to the Obama administration, which I abhor and do not and have never supported, he will have to basically do the same thing that the current president did.
I'm afraid of.
Yeah, here's the thing, though.
I don't think anybody ever thought that this is going to go anywhere with Obama.
But you're thinking it could go somewhere with Cruz.
That's the difference.
Obama was never, ever going to be found ineligible.
It was never going to happen.
Everybody knew it.
You're not sure that that's the case with Cruz.
Gloria Borger.
This afternoon on Wolf Blitzer's show on CNN, I mean Giddy.
Gloria Borger.
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.
And even so mad McCain is, 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 POW.
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.
John McCain has no great love for Ted Cruz.
He has no great love for Donald Trump either.
Exactly.
But if he had to choose, obviously in this particular fight, look whose side he took.
It's so exciting.
It's so exciting.
You know, McCain hates Trump, but look what he just can't barely contain themselves.
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, 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.
It'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.
And it's got to send a message.
I mean, whether it's subliminal or not, 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.
People see an electronic cigarette and they panic.
Nobody be anywhere near it.
It even looks like a cigarette.
And yet everybody in movies and television shows smokes.
And they make it look so cool.
And the point that I was raising is 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 related things.
Anyway, we talk about it and get this.
Franklin Graham has spoken up on Obama and his executive gun control and has 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 fathers certainly did not intend this to happen.
He said Hollywood glorifies gun violence, exactly what was said in his 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 queue.
We talked it 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...
Somebody's proposed a tax on tampons or to reduce the.
We just have this here.
I must have put it in a different stack.
Maybe I'm going to have to find it and delay it until.
I found it.
Here it is.
An assemblywoman 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 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, how about giving men a tax break on anything to do with shaving?
They got to do that every day.
I don't know.
This is just its what is it?
Want 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 are 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, I'll raise a hypothetical with you.
Let's say the Justice Department has an epiphany and does something proper with Hillary, and she's out of the race.
I think Bernie Sanders, for all his popularity and everything you've discussed, he has a strong showing out there, but he doesn't have one or two of the things that Obama had, one being the first African-American president, and everybody had glow in their eyes.
So I think the question becomes: what do the Democrats do?
And there'll be lots of smoke-filled back rooms where people are wondering.
And is there, because I don't think El Nally will be the choice, and Biden is going to come in.
Now, wait just a second.
Because interesting that you mentioned this.
Because I don't think Hillary is going to be indicted.
I know I respect Joe DeGeneva.
And just to repeat, did Geneva think she's going to be indicted in 60 days?
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 going to be a revolt at the FBI, like there was in Watergate when the Solicitor General refused to fire somebody on Nixon's order.
It's when Bork came along and did it.
If there's going to be a revolt, Geneva says, and look at he's the guy.
He's been there.
He's not going to just say this off the top of his head.
He's got to know this.
He kind of person would have the connections to know how close the FBI, what kind of evidence they had, how much of it.
He wouldn't be going out saying this stuff.
Oh, is he senile?
And I just saw him on TV.
He didn't look senile.
And he's look, it is mountainous.
And they are continuing to investigate.
There are 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 there's no way she won't be indicted in 60 days.
And if Loretta Lynch and Obama pull a plug on it and don't indict that, there's going to be a revolt.
That's how much evidence they've got.
I can't see it.
For one of the reasons, you're who they have.
The Democrat Party runs this regime, or you can say this regime is the Democrat Party.
I mean, 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.
And 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 don't see the Democrat Party Obama taking her out.
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'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 does happen, Martin O'Malley is not going to be the guy.
But don't discount Bernie Sanders.
I mean, yeah, he's not going to be the first anything other than an old guy.
Hillary would be the first woman, but Bernie's not Hispanic.
He's not female.
He's not transgender.
He's no first there.
But he is raising money.
He's raising a lot of money.
And his polling numbers are closer to Hillary in 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 going to 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 frontrunners 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 out there.
There's a story.
I got a story in the stack today.
Plugs is toy 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 pick up any slack if Hillary were doing.
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.
He said, I regret it every day, 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 Billion Hartford, Connecticut.
So, and also the 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 Trump and Cruz sending shivers down the spines of the Republican establishment, but that's pretty much a different take on it.
It's a little old news now that the issue of crew is in this citizenship thing has been brought up.
Anyway, that's going to unfold as it unfolds.
We'll be here on top of it, behind it, underneath it, whatever it takes to deal with it.
We've got Open Line Friday coming up tomorrow as we head into the wild card weekend, the NFL.
Great weekends are coming up here.
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