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Jan. 12, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 12, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #2
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With half my brain tied behind my back and talent on loan from God.
You are listening to the Rush Limbaugh program here on the EIB Network coming to you from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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So Obama's out there, he's being interviewed by Matt Wower, and Matt Wower talking about the country being divided, and Obama doesn't understand us, he's got things to work on.
And I'm gonna give an example that he knows exactly why this country's divided and how he promotes it, sponsors it, agrees with it, and is behind it all.
I think if if you if you have an honest perception and understanding of liberalism, you understand that all of this rot that's that's happening to this country, our cultural rot, the political rot, wherever you look, it part and parcel of liberalism.
Liberalism is not in any way, shape, manner, or form associated with positive.
Have you ever seen a liberal optimist?
Do you ever see liberals writing books on happiness and feeling good and being better than you can be, and uh generally that theme you don't.
Liberalism write books about how things are rotten and should be worse, they're gonna get worse, and this is what you need to do to prepare for it.
Liberals write books and do television shows on the misery and suffering in life and how to cope with it.
Liberalism is not teaching people to rise above anything.
Liberalism is not teaching people that they may be better than they even realize.
Liberalism is not about positive thinking or anything of the sorts.
Liberalism can't survive in that place, in that arena.
Liberalism cannot win in an argument in the arena of ideas in this country or anywhere else.
It's why liberalism has tyrants as leaders.
It's why liberalism does not like constitutions.
Liberalism does not like freedom of this or freedom of that.
Liberalism believes that people must be controlled because basically people are incompetent and incapable of doing what liberals want them to do.
And so they must be controlled and ordered to do things and punished if they don't.
Look at Obamacare for crying out loud.
You will have health care.
You will love the fact that you have health care, and if you don't, we're gonna fine you.
And we might even throw you in jail, depending on how bad you behave.
They use fear and crisis and panic in order to keep people in line.
They do not trust individuals, they hold people in contempt.
So when Obama is asked a question about claiming that uh he wanted to unite the country and unite the world, but now it's really divided, and everybody knows that, by the way.
Even these drive-by accolites of Obama can't help but notice the division.
It's another reason why liberals are constantly unhappy, because they're reminded every moment how what they believe in doesn't work.
Now here's the State of the Union tonight.
From the Hill.com, Muslim groups officials invited the State of the Union.
We've had the San Bernardino massacre.
We've had 9-11, we have repeated attempts at terrorism in this country that are what should I say, committed by largely militant Islamists.
I'm talking about acts of terror, not your average run-of-the-mill street crime, like in a Steelers Bengals game.
I'm talking about.
Yeah, I just had to throw that in there.
So of all people to invite and to herald and single out at the State of the Union of the United States, we're gonna bring in care, a council on Arab Islamic relations, and we're gonna bring in some why.
Don't tell me this is not purposely provocative.
This is not being done to unify anybody.
Obama may as well have an illegal immigrant sitting next well take it back, he is gonna have an illegal immigrant sitting next to his wife tonight in the form of a Syrian refugee.
You think that's to unify the country?
This is these moves are in your face.
This is to remind you that you lost.
This is to remind you that it isn't your country anymore.
This is to remind you and put an exclamation point behind your country's changing no matter what the hell you think about it.
And take a load of this.
Two officials of the Council on American Islamic relations will be attending a State of the Union show tonight as guests of Democrat lawmakers, Zoe Lofgren of California and Al C. Hastings of Florida.
They'll both be hosting representatives from care chapters in their respective states.
Zoe Lofgren will be bringing Samina Uzman, government relations coordinator San Francisco office, while Alcy Hastings will host Nizar Hamsey, the chief operating officer of the nonprofits Florida branch.
Will security pat them down?
Will they have to go through metal detectors?
That'd be considered too offensive.
I just wonder.
Keith Ellison, first Muslim elected to Congress, challenged Paul Ryan, Wisconsin, to bring a Muslim as one of his guests to the speech.
Keith Ellison said, this is an opportunity to really drive the point home that there are no Americans who are suspect just based on their religious identity, that all Americans are welcome in the people's house, Ellison said.
So it's not enough.
That Zoe Lofgren and Alcy Hastings are bringing in some care people.
No, now the demand went out to Paul Ryan, did he bring in some too?
Actually, Mr. Ryan's proving the point that Keith Ellison wants proven.
Paul Ryan has invited a group of nuns from the Little Sisters of the Poor who have been targeted by Obama and the Obamacare contraception mandate.
He's bringing in actual targeted Americans.
Paul Ryan is.
But uh Zoe Lofgren and Alsie Hastings think they're bringing in people being targeted, unfairly biased against, prejudicial against, and so forth.
But these are all provocative things, and everybody involved knows it, and it's why they're doing it.
There's not even this is not a pretense at unity here.
Folks, look, the left does not want to unify.
Just like the Democrats in Congress do not want to work with the Republicans, they want to cream them.
They want to eliminate them, they want to wipe them out, they don't want to cooperate and work with them.
Ditto, liberalism and generation.
Those guys don't want to work with anybody.
This is in your face.
This is screw you.
This is too bad if you don't like it.
There's no question it's provocative.
It's certainly not aimed at unity.
There are ways to do this.
If unity is really your objective.
But these people are constantly at war with us.
They're constantly in battle.
That's the that's the definition of their lives.
Every day is a battle for dominance, supremacy, and power, with the objective being the elimination of any opposition.
Pure and simple.
Bernie Sanders opens up a big leave in New Hampshire.
This is from the weekly standard New poll, likely Democrat primary voters in New Hampshire.
Finds that Bernie Sanders has a 14-point lead over Hillary Clinton.
Bernie Sanders, a self-proclaimed socialist, has 53% of the support according to this is a Monmouth University poll.
It's a big shift from the Monmouth poll in November.
That found Clinton at 48% and Bernie at 45.
So now it's 5339.
I mean, that's huge.
And she's also looking weak in New Hampshire.
It's looking bad.
I don't care how that they're trying to cover for this or portray this as something they expected and it's part of the process.
They are bamboozled.
I guarantee you that forces within the Hillary campaign are already starting to see visions of 2008 all over again.
And what it means is it's not that Bernie Sanders is being disloyal or whatever.
It is that.
They really don't like me.
This is Sally Field in reverse.
Hillary is looking in the mirror.
He's putting on her pantsuit one leg at a time, like all the other guys do, and she's saying, they really don't like me.
They really don't like me.
This is the second election where she has been guaranteed a coronation.
And now the fur is flying everywhere.
Forget Trump.
You got Biden now making comments about Hillary's lack of qualifications and preparedness.
Vice President Joe Bitney heaped praise on Hillary's opponent in a Democrat primary, Bernie Sanders, for his deep and real focus on income inequality.
Plugs said, I think that Bernie is speaking to a yearning that is deep and real, and he has credibility on that.
This is a yesterday on CNN.
And Biden was asked about the fact that Hillary has spoken about income inequality a lot too.
Biden said, Well, you know, it's relatively new for her for Hillary to talk about that.
Hillary's folk has been on other things up to now, Biden said, but nobody questions Bernie's authenticity on this shoes.
You know what the subtext is?
Don't kid yourself, Biden is saying.
Hillary Clinton, income inequality is her richest damn woman next to the Kennedy family, and you're trying to tell me she cares about income inequality?
Bollocks.
He's calling her a hypocrite.
Well, you know, Hillary's focus has been on other things up to now.
Here's Joe Biden, the vice president calling a Secretary of State insincere and relatively new in her so-called commitment to the income inequality issue.
And in the Washington Post, Bernie Sanders said yesterday that Hillary Clinton's in serious trouble, suggesting that the tightening polls in Iowa and New Hampshire have prompted her recent attacks on his positions on guns and health care.
CNN Ashley Banfield opened her newscast on CNN today, chronicling the problems of Hillary.
It's sound by 21.
Grab it real quick.
It's only 27 seconds.
We'll listen to it, get in, get it, and get out real quick.
Hello, everyone, I'm Ashley Banfield, and welcome to it may have once been considered a sure thing.
Well, that's one time ago because the race, the Democratic presidential nomination is now anything but a sure thing.
In New Hampshire, there is brand new evidence that Hillary Clinton is in trouble.
In big trouble in the granite state.
A new poll released just last hour shows that Bernie Sanders has a commanding lead over Mrs. Clinton.
53% to 39%.
I know, I know, I just told you that, but still I wanted you to hear it on a Democrat House organ.
Can you see Bernie Sanders being the Democrat nominee?
Can you see it?
Can you see Hillary not being a Democrat nominee?
You can.
Can you?
Okay, if Hillary's not the Democrat nominee, who is not Biden?
Well, it's not going to be Martin O'Malley.
How about Michael Bloomberg?
Michael Bloomberg's toying around running third party.
He's going to learn third party won't work.
What if he decides switch parties and become a Democrat and run in place of Hillary?
Is it too late for that?
Well, who knows about filing?
It's a Democrat Party.
Filing deadlines can be moved when it comes to winning the White House.
I'm just throwing names out there.
Let's go to the Hillary audio soundbite.
Some of this, some of This you haven't heard because this took place on the Fusion TV network.
It was last night in Des Moines.
She was at Drake University live on the Fusion TV network.
My guess is that eight out of ten of you could not find the fusion network on your cable system or on your satellite.
You'd have to go to a guide and try to.
Many of you probably haven't even heard of it.
Well, there she was.
Democrat for president, participating in the Brown and Black Democrat presidential forum.
I guess it's this thing that happens in Iowa.
And during the QA, the co-moderator, Rembert Brown, you've all heard of Rembert Brown Fusion Network, right?
Rembert, I assume it's a he.
You never know anymore.
Safe bet that Rembert is a he said, the danger of ISIS is clearly a major threat to American safety, but personally, I know many minorities are more concerned with racist attacks on a local level than radical Islamists.
Secretary Clinton, do you believe that white terrorism and extreme extremism is as much a threat to some in this country as something like ISIS.
White terrorism.
That's akin to white Hispanic.
White terrorism, fusion network.
Maybe maybe it's a Hispanic network.
What is it?
Do you know what it is?
It's got to be an ethnic network of some kind.
Because here comes this allegation of white terrorism.
So is white terrorism, is it worse than Islamic terrorism is clinical?
What do you think?
Here, listen to their answer here.
Let's take some of the white extremism that we see.
I remember very well going to Oklahoma City and seeing the ruins of the federal building where I recall 168 Americans were murdered by a bomb by a guy who hated the government.
When you have police violence that terrorizes communities that doesn't show the respect that you're supposed to have from protecting people, that can feel also terrorizing.
I saw homegrown terrorism in Oklahoma City and I saw it.
Foreign terrorism in New York City.
At some point, we all have to come together as a country again and stand against violence and do something to get the guns out of the hands of people who shouldn't have them.
Oh my God, what a what you talk about an answer that's incoherent, wandering all over the place in vain search of a coherent thought.
And Hillary Clinton's biggest disadvantage, if you ask me, is she any time she wants to complain about the way things are in the country?
How can she possibly win doing that?
She served in this administration.
Obama ran this country and still is for the last seven years.
Fusion Network, yeah, joint venture between Disney and Univision.
I knew it was an Hispanic network, had to be white terrorism.
So anyway, after going on about Oklahoma City, yeah, uh, you know, uh at some point we all have to come together as a country again and stand against violence.
Folks, I mean, this is just embarrassing.
This woman's lack of depth and substance, the degree to which she will pander to an audience, it's overwhelming.
I mean, this this answer that she gave here, it's it's just it's it's embarrassing.
First, she goes on about white extremism, white terrorism on this uh this by the way, fusion I found it's an English-speaking Spanish network.
Which is why she went there instead of Univision to speak Espanol.
You go to Univision.
Only Jeb Bush can do that.
So they created this new network for English speaking Hispanics and guests like Hillary.
But I mean, yeah, I've seen it ever.
I've seen this extremism here, I've seen it in New York City, I've seen the police, the terrorizing communities.
Uh at some point we all have to come together as a country again and say Politicians for a thousand years have been saying, at some point we have to come together as a country.
Nothing new in that.
It's never gonna happen anyway.
Come together.
Unless we're attacked again like 9-11, then we'll be unified for a day or two till the Democrats get in gear trying to figure out how to blame the Republicans for it.
But aside from that, this is it's just it's empty.
It's vacant.
It's wandering aimlessly in vain search of a coherent thought.
And then the standard operating clothes.
We gotta do something to get guns out of the hands of people who shouldn't have them.
Well now, uh, Mrs. Clinton, that's not your objective.
And it's not Obama's objective.
Let's be honest here.
Your objective is to get guns out of the hands of people who are law abiding.
That's who you really want to take guns away from, not the criminals.
Be honest about it.
I turn around from the computer and there's a piece of birthday cake there that I never knew would been put.
Wow.
Anyway, thank you.
Okay, look, I'm not through with Hillary.
There's still some sound bites, but I gotta get back to the phones because I didn't get enough phone calls in yesterday.
Um invite people to call here and a lot of them spend so much time on hold.
It's not uh it's not polite.
So back to the phones we go.
Judith in Houston, glad you waited.
Welcome to the program.
Great to have you here.
Hello, Rud.
Um, I've been listening to you since 1992, almost half my life.
And today, on my 50th birthday, I was wondering what your outlook was on your 50th birthday about the future of this country.
Um man, you know, you you know my problem is I actually answer questions.
This is why I would fail at politics.
I actually answer questions.
I don't take the asking of a question as an opportunity to filibuster on something unrelated to the question.
So I'd have to go back 15 years, which is basically what, 2001, 2000 George W. My um honestly uh outlook on the future of the country in 2001, 2002 was much better than it is today, if you want to know the truth.
Yeah, I'm uh mine's a lot different than it was in uh 25 years ago.
Not quite as hopeful as I was back then.
Starting to hear myself like my parents.
What's this country coming to?
Okay, that's interesting.
Uh you're starting to hear yourself as you heard your parents.
What about the possibility that's just a an aspect of getting older, that it's really not so much that the country's any different than it was.
It's just that you get older and for a whole host of reasons.
I mean, you've lived more than you have left.
That's a realization that people at our age have.
Um, and so there's all kinds of psychological aspects to that that it it makes it easier to think.
And I found it true every uh at whatever age I was, depending on how much older people were, the attitudes about the future of the country were pretty negative.
And every generation, every gener without fail, Judith, every generation has had some in it who think it's never been worse than it is now, and it's getting worse, they think, and we may even in fact be in the last days.
And yet every one of those generations has been wrong.
Every one of them has been wrong.
America has done nothing but grow and provide more opportunity for any number of things.
But see, I don't think that's the case now.
Now the argument we're hearing is that we may have the first generation which will not do as well or better than than their parents.
So I guard against this all the time.
I really I guard against what I call an old fogeyism.
I vowed when I was young that I would never become one.
And so I'm constantly on guard.
I'm I'm always asking myself, am I being objective?
And I w when I analyze where the country is and where it's headed.
And I think the situation is dire.
I I think this country was sold a bill of goods in 2008 and bought it, hook, line and sinker.
Uh and if this does not stop, there's always going to be an America, Judith, but what it's going to be like and how it's going to be governed and run and I mean the biggest thing I see, and there are many things, it's tough to single one thing out, but we are losing liberty and losing freedom.
At the same time, our government is growing exponentially.
It's getting bigger and bigger and incurring more and more debt.
Real problems that at some point in time have to come home to roost.
So I it's a it's it's a it's an ongoing effort here to not succumb.
It's very easy to think that we're in the a mess unlike we've ever been in before.
It's very easy to get seduced by that kind of negativism.
Negativism is something everybody's capable of without any effort whatsoever.
So but I can tell you my outlook in 2001 is different than it is today, just being honest with you.
No question that it's how old my outlook look in 15 years.
Hopefully good.
Well, we don't know because we don't know what's going to be.
We don't know what's going to happen here.
No, yes.
Uh well, my my outlook, um see, uh I'm balancing things because I do I do try to remind myself uh of my and sometimes it takes reminding.
This is my point, that I have a basic optimistic nature.
And I I can tell you I can't give you reasons.
Uh so it's it's not very persuasive, maybe.
But I do think all this is going to over be overcome.
I do think all of this liberalism is going to beat back.
I can't tell you how.
I can't tell you when it's a faith thing, not religious faith.
It's a faith in the country, a faith in the uniqueness of America, faith in the founding, of faith in a majority of the people.
I I I I just I just think the United States is going to be unique and survive where other empires have fallen.
But I can't tell you why.
And I I I can't give you specific predictions or reasons why, other than I just am a uh general optimist, and I I do believe that push come to shove, a majority of Americans will come to their senses or are in the process of doing it right now.
And that there will be a tipping point at some point and how it manifests itself, I couldn't tell you.
Uh it's not blind faith.
It's not it's not blind willful hopefulness.
It's a genuine optimism I have about it, but I can't be any more specific than that.
It's why I'm still doing this.
To be honest, I th I think it's like it all matters.
But any day there are events that happen that make even the biggest optimists question themselves.
For example, if you would have told me back in 2001, 15, 16 years ago, that gay marriage would be the law of the landers, no way I would have believed you.
And that transgenderism is in the process of being celebrated, no way I would have believed you.
If you'd have told me on September 12th, 2001, that anybody who thought militant Islam was an enemy of the United States would be attacked as biased and prejudiced and racist, I wouldn't believe you.
You know, those are things that have happened.
And many people think the very nature of those things happening is evidence of a decline that may be irreversible.
My belief is that at some point I I have this vision of millions of people collectively putting their foot down, pushing back and saying no More, and I think we are seeing the first reverberations of this in this presidential campaign.
I wish I could be more specific on my optimism.
I can't.
It's just an attitude that I have and uh a thought as well as feelings.
It's all combined.
Judith, thank you.
Gabriel, Riverside, California.
Great to have you with us, the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Thank you, sir.
Longtime listener, first time caller.
Great to have you here.
I got a question in regards to the helmet to shoulder hit.
This gentleman gets suspended three games.
Now, I'm a uh a very lonely Panther fan in the city of California, in the state of California.
Now the helmet, the helmet hit against the Giants get suspended only one game.
All right, I'll explain this to you.
There are there are answers here.
You may still object, but I can tell you the reasoning behind it.
He's a lone Carolina Panthers fan out there in Riverside, California.
He's talking about the game between the New York Giants, the Carolina Panthers, where Odell Beckham lost it and went nuts and incurred three separate personal foul penalties against number 24 Josh Norman, cornerback for the Panthers.
And in one instance, after a play was over, or for the most part, Beckham had run a pass pattern out on the um uh on the right seam from the slot.
The ball was not thrown to him.
He turned around and with a 15-yard flying start, launched himself helmet to helmet into the head of number 24 Josh Norman, right into his ear hole of the helmet there, which is a particularly vulnerable spot.
Flags through, it was the third time that flags flew against Beckham.
People were asking, why didn't Coughlin take this kid out of the game for crowd?
Why did the refs throw this kid out of the game?
The announcers, even, which try not to who try not to comment on this stuff, because they want to protect the league, even they were overwhelmed with what Beckham had done.
The next day Beckham suspended one game.
And what old Gabriel here wants to know is how come that guy only got one game when Von Tays Berfect of the Bengals got three?
Well, it's because those were isolated incidents for Beckham and first time occurrences, Gabriel.
But Von Tays Burfecht has been fined nearly a half a million dollars over the course of his career.
This seasonal, he was fined for three separate hits.
Illegal hits against the Steelers in their last meeting in December in Cincinnati.
One of them was an illegal hit, flag was not thrown, by the way, at Rotlasberger's ankles.
The week before this game, Gabriel, Von Tay's Burfick tried to decapitate a tight end for the Baltimore Ravens, who was also not involved in the play.
Play was over.
Helmet to helmet, not shoulder pad to helmet, helmet that got fined 50 grand for that.
So there is a uh shall we say pattern of behavior where Burfecht is concerned, and the league has decided that the fines are not having an adverse effect on his behavior.
Meaning they're not they're not helping things.
The guy is willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars in fines.
So the next step is the suspension, which is the first three games of next season.
Do you realize this guy was not drafted because of this?
He was even it was this kind of uh player in college.
Was not drafted.
The thing about the he's a great player.
That's the thing about this game against Steelers.
This was a career performance.
This is the greatest game of his career, maybe.
And he blew it up, throw it away.
Um there are problems here, folks.
There look, as I as I said at the top of the last hour, there's some things I just I can't go all the way here.
You people are gonna have to work a little harder at understanding what what's at stake here.
And And what and what's going on.
I'm not coming to you for the standpoint of being a Steelers fan at all.
This thing goes way beyond fandom.
This is symbolic.
It is representative of things happening culture wide.
The way it's dealt with, the way it's handled, the authority figures saying they can't do anything about it.
Anyway, I'll take a break.
I'm a little long.
But we'll be back and continue after this.
Sit tight, folks.
Don't go.
Yeah, yeah.
I still have some Hillary stuff.
We haven't even gotten to the Trump stack yet.
And still some things in the in the Hillary stack.
We're trying to squeeze a lot of things in here in every three-hour excursion into broadcast excellence.
Let me grab soundbite number four.
We've just heard Hillary answering on the fusion that we're about white terrorism, the host at the English-speaking Spanish network for Hispanic Millennials is what this.
It's a combination of Disney and Univision.
Jorge Ramos has a show on this network.
Anyway, Hillary has just responded by acknowledging that there is white terrorism and that the police are often guilty of it.
And that we've got to come together in this country.
We've got to come together.
We've got to come together, stamp out violence, we're going to come together and all this sort of stuff, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And she's talking about Oklahoma City and the horrible hate of government that led to the Oklahoma City ruins and so forth.
And I just want to take you back to who Hillary Clinton's husband tried to blame for the Oklahoma City bombing.
This is April 24th, 1995 in Minneapolis at the American Association of Community Colleges Conference.
We hear so many loud and angry voices in America today, whose sole goal seems to be to try to keep some people as paranoid as possible, and the rest of us all torn up and upset with each other.
They spread hate.
They leave the impression that, by their very words, that violence is acceptable.
You ought to see.
I'm sure you are now seeing the reports of some things that are regularly said over the airwaves in America today.
It is time we all stood up and spoke against that kind of reckless speech and behavior.
So we called him on it.
Because he's clearly, folks, in 1994, there still is no Fox News.
It's basically just me and CNN.
There are a couple of uh by that time uh conservative talk show hosts or shows that that have uh started and begun.
But in uh in 1994, still basically me in terms of national conservative media.
So when he talked about loud voices on the right, you know, everything he accused me of is what they do.
They're the ones that are merchants of divisive hate.
They're the ones that come up with crisis after crisis after crisis, and in almost every case, the crisis is caused by us, as in global warming or the illegal use of guns or whatever.
In most of these cases, when these Democrats and liberals get going, their complaints are always about the American people or American corporations.
Their enemies list consists of basically successful Americans, individuals and corporations.
So here comes Clinton.
I'm sure by seeing the reports of things that are regularly set over the airwaves in America.
So we called about, you know what they said?
We weren't talking about you.
We were talking about Michigan militia shortwave radio broadcasts.
Michigan militia.
You know, when the Michigan militia, they were uh featured on CNN.
They had B-roll of a bunch of guys wearing corn cob hats and plaid shirts with hunting rifles walking through the woods.
They told us that's a Michigan militia.
Bunch of anti-government rebels.
And that short wave broadcasts, and that's not what they were talking about.
That's not what Clinton was talking about.
He was trying to blame this show for Oklahoma City.
Yeah, people I hate government, get all people worked up, keep us at war.
it's the Democrats that keep people at war with one another, whether it's feminism, whether it's the war on whatever it is, they're the ones that want us constantly roiled.
I gotta take a break.
That's who Hillary Clinton is, who her husband is, and that's how they operate.
Next Hillary Soundbite coming up on that fusion interview.
She admits to swimming in an ocean of white privilege.
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