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Jan. 13, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 13, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast.
Wow, I look as orange on this ditto cam as Obama did last night during the State of the Union.
May need a white balance this thing at some point.
No big deal now.
Did you notice the orange makeup Obama had on last night?
Did you watch some birthday?
Some birthday have to sit there and watch this.
It was a replay, a combination of previous Obama speeches mixed with lines that were stolen from the West Wing TV show, which Obama has done before in these speeches.
But Obama's not the big news last night.
There was nothing un nothing unexpected from Obama.
It was more the same.
Everything I told you was going to happen, happened.
Limbaugh theorem was on full displace like he hasn't been president for seven years.
He just totally lied and made up.
Um this utopian vision of America that he's created that currently exists, and it's threatened only by elections of Republicans and redistricting.
It's not threatened by ISIS.
It's not that they're just a bunch of guys with pickups.
You know that ISIS is no big deal.
They're just a bunch of guys running around in pickups.
Um it's interesting that Trump goes after Cruz and goes after Trump, and so did Nikki Haley.
Nikki Haley's actually the story today in in a whole bunch of different ways.
And I by the way, greetings, here's the phone number if you want to be on the program.
It's 800-282-2882.
And the email address, Lrushbow at EIBNet.com.
There's so much here to say about the the Nikki Haley response.
First time in my life I can remember the the the response to the State of the Union, not going after the president, but rather going after the front runner of, in this case, her own party.
I don't think I've ever seen that before.
And it is quite telling to note where in the drive-by media and in the conservative media today she's being hailed.
It's quite instructive, very informative, and illustrative to find out where it is, particularly on our side of the aisle here.
She is being universally praised for giving one of the best uh responses to the State of the Union ever.
I'll tell you what it was.
You know, this is hard for me.
I have to say because I like Nikki Haley.
I've never met her.
I've I've I've never met her, but I've always admired her from afar.
I thought she's done good jobs when she's spoken at Republican conventions.
Uh I mean, that's a questionable things.
I mean, in the aftermath of that shooting in the church, South Carolina, the participating in the burning of the whatever it was the Confederate flag, a little bit questionable, but I mean on balance.
I haven't, I haven't had a whole lot of problems with her.
But boy, uh last night, her response, I think it's it's proof and it's it's uh it's an example of so much.
For one thing, it's it's almost absolute proof of what I have been saying for the last couple of years now that the Republican Party's trying to drive conservatives out of the party.
But I think it's more than that.
It's certainly that, but her speech last night sort of expanded the theme of who is and who isn't qualified to be a Republican.
And while the Republican Party is still anti-conservative, and that isn't anything new, what we learned last night is that they are very comfortable identifying themselves as elites and members of a club, and that you can't get in just by being who you are and doing what you want to do as a Republican and pursuing what you believe in.
Going after Trump last night the way she did.
She wasn't she wasn't going after Trump the same way the party goes after the conservative base.
Jeff Bush said famously That his objective was to win the Republican nomination without the support of the Republican Party base.
It's never been done before, and he was very proud saying so.
And he said it a number of times, and it became an objective of the parties to have a nominee that got the nomination specifically without the support of the base.
Now, the way Jeb was going to do it was by raising more money and spending more money than anybody else and freezing the opposition out by virtue of all the other conservatives in the race canceling each other out and dividing the support, dividing the money, and Jeb was going to be the last man standing because of the money, and the only option Republican voters had when it comes time to vote for president.
And it hasn't worked, obviously.
Although, did you see the latest Reuters poll that out of nowhere Jeb's in third place?
Now he's nowhere near the lead, but he's up from three, two and a half to three points to 10.5 or 10.6 in the latest Reuters poll.
You know, I got a note last night from somebody informing me of this before it hit the news, and I wrote it back.
You know, I've I've I should have mentioned this to you people because there's something about Jeb, particularly the past two assistants hit me over the Christmas break when I got back.
There's something in the back of my mind, it was gnawing at me that these numbers on Jeb are not actually correct, and that he's going to end up being reported as having more support than he does.
Something about this has just never seemed right to me, and I I'm not charging anybody with anything or alleging conspiracies.
This hasn't seemed right.
So uh but nevertheless, my point is I was not surprised that Jeb all of a sudden is at 10 and a half.
I've been expecting it.
The thing is I didn't say anything to you about it, because frankly, it wasn't at the top of my mind, and there were other things every day that nudged that thought out of the way.
But back to Nikki Haley here before we get to the sound bites.
Uh she goes after the loud voices, the angry voices, and that could be anybody, and she admits today that she was talking about Trump, to a lesser extent Cruz.
She also means talk radio.
She also means the conservative base, and don't believe anything other than that.
But here's the thing, folks.
This is to me one of the greatest bits of evidence that the Republican Party is not just anti-conservative, but it is very much pro-elite.
It is a club that they don't want a whole lot of people joining.
And it's this.
Donald Trump has put together a coalition of supporters that on paper is exactly what the Republican Party claims that it wants to do when it says that they can when they say they can't win with only Republican votes, that they've got to branch out, they've got to get women votes, they've got to get Hispanic votes, and this is why they're pro-comprehensive immigration reform.
Well, Trump, there was a story from the Hill.com yesterday.
20% of Democrats would defect and vote for Trump.
Trump's support comes from all over the spectrum, is the point, which is what I always thought the Republican Party said was their objective.
And this is why they do various things in Washington, because they very openly say we can't win the presidency with just Republican votes along alone.
There aren't enough of them.
We got to go out and we got to peel off some Democrats.
We've got to peel off some independents.
Well, there's the guy that's done it.
And they don't want it.
They don't want it.
Nikki Haley made it clear last night they don't want whatever Trump has done.
They don't want Trump.
They don't want the people supporting Trump.
They don't want the way Trump has done it.
But nobody can make the argument that Trump is a conservative in the same way the Republican base is conservative.
So the rejection of Trump is not specifically because he's part of the base and the GOP resents or is embarrassed by or Doesn't want its base to be dominant.
Trump brings something entirely different to this, and they're not interested.
Which is a in a sense them saying you're not one of us.
You are not in our club.
You are not the type of elitist we want, no matter what you bring to the party.
I thought it was fascinating to watch all of this.
It's I mean, they're worried, I think, or they want us to think that they are worried that Trump has tainted the party's image.
How can that be?
How can Trump have tainted the party's image any more than it already is?
See, this is the thing that I don't think these people, we call it the establishment, the elites, whatever.
I don't think they understand, and if they do, they don't want to admit it.
They've already tainted the image of the Republican Party with its base, and the base is what is what matters.
The base is the strength of the party.
It's why it's called the base.
Well, the GOP has already tarnished itself.
The GOP has already signaled that it is not interested in its base and what its base wants.
Now it knows what to say to the base when it comes time to campaign.
2010, 2014, these midterm veritable landslide victories.
Republican base voters thought for sure they were electing Republicans who were going to go back to Washington and stop Obama and stop Obamacare and stop all of this mindless spending and stop all of this destruction and transformation of America.
And there hasn't been any.
And in the process, they've done a better job than anybody ever could have tarnishing what they are, their own image and what they believe in and even their honesty.
Because their campaigns have been bordering on fraudulent in several respects, given that they've promised and they've let it be known that if you vote for me, we're going to go together in Washington, we're going to stand up to this stuff, and we're going to stop it.
There hasn't been one serious effort to stop anything.
And to the contrary, it appears that there has been more cooperation.
I hear people talk about grid, like I Frank Luntz's focus group last night was about as worthless as any focus group I've ever seen.
You see it on State of Watch Megan Kelly.
Normally Lunz's focus groups have some, but there's some clowns standing up starting, yeah, well, you know, I really upset all the gridlock.
Well, in any gridlock in Washington, they agree with each other there.
What gridlock?
That's the point.
We're dying for some gridlock.
We're dying for an opposition party.
We're dying for somebody to stand up and say, no, we're not helping, we're not going along with this.
Stop it.
Instead, we got a budget deal like we got, and we're told, well, that cake was baked before we got here with nothing much we can do.
And it's always the story.
Well, that was already pre-done.
There was nothing we could do, but you wait.
Next time we're going to really take it to them.
And it never happens.
So this tainted image business that they want us to think they're worried about regarding Trump.
Uh really what they're trying to say is that what Trump is doing, and the people that he is assembling his coalition, they said, hey, hey, hey, that's not us.
That's not us.
But it's it is, it's exactly what they claim they want.
What they don't like is the guy putting it together.
Because he's not in the club.
He hasn't been in the club.
He's been a businessman.
He's a TV star.
He's not a lifelong politician.
He hasn't paid his dues.
He hasn't been elected to anything before.
Who is this guy intruding on our turf?
It's as much about that as it is the Republican Party having a problem with their base.
Both things are true.
But opposition of Trump is not because he represents the base.
That's Cruz.
That's why they hate Cruz.
That's why they're universally opposed to Cruz.
But their opposition to Trump is not that he has stolen the base or has become the champion of the base.
Now they might think there's some of that going on.
I've I've remarked on this a number of times.
It really is curious.
I mean, here you have a party which claims and tells us they can't win with Republican votes alone.
We have to broaden the base.
Sorry, folks, don't be personal.
Personally offended, they tell us.
But we've got to go out.
We've got to fight this war on women business because we we need some women supporters and we and we need some Hispanics.
We can't win the White House without Hispanics.
Who says that?
Democrats say that.
You think the Democrats really want you guys to win the White House?
Democrats are telling you better.
You better be nicer to the Hispanics.
You better stop all this immigration stuff.
You better stop talking about the wall.
You better stop doing all that, and you better reach out.
Otherwise you'll never win the White House.
Like they're interested in us winning the White House.
Well, all that aside, Trump has a coalition of supporters that is much broader base than the Republican Party has.
And they're rejecting it.
And I'm telling you, they're not rejecting it because they're embarrassed of their base.
They're rejecting this because they don't like Trump.
It's personal, it's clubby, it's clickish, it's a whole bunch of reasons for it.
And they've set up a firewall in South Carolina to stop Trump.
And that's what Nikki Haley was doing last night.
Nikki Haley is the establishment of the firewall in South Carolina where the establishment's going to put the brakes on and bring all this Trump stuff to a screeching halt.
The next thing you can do with her universal praise here, and you'll hear from where it's coming as the program unfolds before your very eyes.
What's next is for Nikki Haley to endorse somebody.
Whatever's going on here with Jeb could be Jeb, but she's going to endorse somebody that comes from the establishment wing.
It's part of erecting the firewall and putting it into place in South Carolina to take care of whatever happens and mitigate whatever happens in Iowa, New Hampshire.
And I don't think she realizes that she's actually damaged her VP chances to a to an extent.
I'll explain all this as the as the program uh unfolds before your very eyes and ears.
But it's just weird.
Here you have the president who is.
It was almost indescribable last night.
I it was a heck of a birthday president to sit there and endure this.
It was not the State of the Union, it was the state of Obama.
And one lie, I mean, they've a bunch of fact checks on this speech.
It just roaring economy, job creation.
I mean, this stuff is just off the charts untrue.
But here's the thing, folks.
Again, being objective, if you just landed on this planet yesterday from Mars, and you watched Obama's speech last night, I guarantee you you would have thought it was reasonable and nice tone, nice guy.
You would not have known who he's criticizing.
These loud voices could be anybody.
You'd have to be a student of things and know he's going after Trump and Cruz.
And the low information voters by definition don't know that.
But it was weird.
Here's Obama going after the two frontrunners in the GOP, and here's the Republican response going after the two front runners.
So the establishment circing circling the wagons.
And they're sending a message.
You want in our club?
Well, you can't get in a club unless we invite you.
And we don't want you.
That's the message right now.
Sorry in advance short segment went long in the open.
John F. Carey served in Vietnam, by the way, has um thanked the Iranians for taking our sailors hostage and humiliating them.
Uh the audio soundbite will be coming up in due course.
Nikki Haley, uh audio soundbite's coming up, but more telling is the the quarters and the places from where she's being praised.
It makes the point that I just made to you.
But this is also quite telling as well.
Nikki Haley was on the Today Show today with Matt Wower.
Well, she was everywhere.
She was on CBS today, too.
And but with Matt Wauer on NBC, she said Mr. Trump has definitely contributed to what I think is just irresponsible talk.
Now, folks, I know why the GOP is upset.
It's amnesty.
Trump's talking about building a wall and putting a limit on immigration.
And the Republican Party doesn't want to hear any of that, and they think he's heard it.
Fact of the matter is Trump represents majority thinking on this.
The GOP is in the minority.
On amnesty and immigration reform, it's what they don't get, but it doesn't matter.
They're going to go down for amnesty rather than win without it.
She said Trump is definitely contributed to irresponsible talk, but going after Obama, that's just not my style.
Well, how can you do it one and not the other?
Okay, we got the white balance fixed on the dinnocam as well as the ditto cam audio.
Just a switch that wasn't thrown at the start, but it's back up and running normally now.
Welcome back, folks.
Your guiding light here, Rush Limbaugh, executing assigned host duties flawlessly, zero mistakes.
Now, tell me that there's a puff piece from NPR, typical of the drive-by media reports on Nikki Haley and her speech.
Now here's how it starts.
South Carolina governor Nikki Haley has a lot of qualities her party needs.
So here we go again with the left telling us what we need to win.
The problem with this is the Republican Party believes it.
The Democrat Party gets to define what the Republican Party is and isn't.
Then the Democrat Party and their allies in the media get to tell the Republican Party what they need to do to fix their problems, and the Republican Party buys into it 100%.
And they don't understand why a perceived outsider is wiping the floor with every other Republican here.
They don't understand it.
It's right in front of their face.
So here's how NPR starts their story.
South Carolina governor Nikki Haley has a lot of qualities her party needs.
She's a rising star who is young.
She's female, and the daughter of Indian immigrants.
So that, according to the people who define what is qualified and what isn't for a Republican.
Those are the things that make her qualified.
She's a woman.
She's young, daughter of immigrants.
Why?
Those are the three things that will dispel whatever the left has succeeded in doing in destroying the Republican brand.
How are any of those things qualities?
How are any of those things qualifications being young, being female, the daughter of immigrants?
And I guarantee you, the Republican established running around, they hear things like that, and they're seeing C, see, we made the right decision.
As it goes back to the same old thing.
Our party is so beat down, our leaders are so beat down and on the defensive such that they are seeking the approval of political opponents, and when they get it, they're happy.
They're happier when they get the approval of political opponents than they are when they win elections.
It's it's it's uncanny.
It's genuinely psychological, some might say pathological.
I guarantee you all these people on our side running around praising Nikki Haley are using the same kind of qualifier characteristics, because they know that's what the left wants to see in a Republican.
What is this?
She's young, she's female.
I thought that's ageism and sexism.
And the daughter of immigrants, why?
What why is that so important?
Because the Republicans are seen as anti-immigrant.
No.
That's what the Democrats tell people the Republicans are, but that's not what the Republicans are.
But the Republicans are too afraid to stand up and tell everybody the Democrats are wrong about the way they talk about them.
Republicans are, I don't know, too afraid to actually stand up and tell people what they're for.
Thank you.
Well, I don't know the answer to that.
That would require them to articulate conservatism, and they just can't bring themselves to do it.
So essentially what NPR, as a representative of the drive-by media is saying, is that the Republican Party is going to have to pander.
Here we have the Democrat Party, which is out of ideas.
Everything it stands for is on full parade.
They have they've begun the process of destroying this country.
With their president is in the 40s in approval ratings and the 60s in disapproval.
The number of people who think this country is on the wrong tracks at all time high, or close to it, close to Jimmy Carter's numbers, the number of people who have been let down by this president and this party, and they still think they're running the show, still think they're defining the terms, because the Republican Party lets them get away with it.
Why does the Republican Party have to pander to the young?
Why does the Republican Party have to pander to females?
And why is choosing Nikki Haley and having her do a good speech?
Why is that a sign of what the Republican Party needs?
It isn't a sign of what the Republican Party needs.
It's a sign of what the Democrat Party has succeeded in doing in defining the Republicans and putting them on the defensive 100% of the time.
So the Republicans think the first order of business every day is to tell people we are not what you see about us in the media.
Rather than dealing with that by going out proudly and happily declaring what they're for, issue by issue by issue, position by position by position.
They fall into this trap of accepting the allegations and accusations by the left in the media and then embark on a course to disprove it.
So they choose Nikki Haley.
And Nikki Haley goes out and does a speech criticizing her own party's front runner.
It's quite understandable she's going to be hailed as having given a great speech by people in the drive-by media, is it not?
What a godsend.
The Democrats are looking at this.
We've been so successful, they chose somebody to do the response to Obama, which was a pathetic speech.
She goes out there and starts attacking the two frontrunners in her own party.
Why wouldn't the Democrats be happy today?
Why wouldn't the media want to praise that to the hilt so the Republicans would do more of it?
It's mind-boggling to see how easy this is for the Democrats.
So the Republicans are now pandering to the young.
We're pandering to females, to women, pandering to illegal immigrants.
Yeah, she's a son, she's a daughter of immigrants.
Oh, that means she's qualified.
No, it doesn't mean that at all.
It means the Republicans have bought hook line and sinker the belief that they're haved.
I guarantee you, if they were, if all of these things the Republican Party thinks about itself were true, Donald Trump wouldn't be over 5% of the polls, folks.
Look at it that way.
But they even refuse to see that.
The people in the Republican Party that identify with the establishment, the elites, whatever you want to call them, look at where they are in the primary.
Look at where they stand to pull single digits.
But this pandering, this is this this acknowledging that the Democrats' allegations are accurate, then this defensive behavior in response to it.
And it's breathtaking to watch it.
The Republicans are never going to outbid the Democrats for Democrat voters.
The Republicans are never going to be able to out-immigration, the Democrats, or out Feminazi, the women.
The Democrats are always going to have a response to any of that.
It's going to be free this, free that, free this, free condens, free birth control pills, free tuition, free equal pay, free welfare, free right to vote, free in front of everything.
According to that same NPR article that I just quoted the beginning of, it says Haley went into politics, Nikki Haley, after hearing Hillary Clinton speak when she was in college.
I must take a break, but I'm not kidding on this either.
John Kerry thanked Iran for humiliating our sailors.
One of whom is a woman, by the way.
Thanked them for rescuing them.
Thanked them for humiliating.
Well, actually, did he thank them?
He thanked the Iranians for capturing Americans.
Engaged his harmless activity on a boat.
Anyway, well, I've got to come back with some sound bites to back all this up and to add to it.
Plus mix your telephone calls in with all of it, so hang in there, be tough folks will be back before you know it.
Mr. Sturdley, did you know something?
This is Niall Rogers and Sheik.
And this is the funny bone.
He's playing the guitar in the Did you know he produced Let's Dance?
I did not know that till yesterday.
I had no idea.
He produced the whole album, not just the tune, but he produced the David Bowie.
I had no idea, and he said, now Roger said it changed his life.
Getting that gig.
It was at the end of the disco era, the disco era was uh laughed at, and this was a joke.
Uh early 1980s, and David Boy came calling.
And I had I had no idea.
Anyway, welcome back.
El Rushbow here in the cutting edge.
Obama last night in his State of Obama speech.
I mean, we could go through it.
We've even got a condensed version here.
White comedian Paul Shanklin has put together a condensed version.
In fact, grab part one of that.
We've got we've got it in two parts.
Uh but did you see that the most ridiculous aspect of it's difficult to pick one?
When Obama said that the most disappointing thing of all the past seven years is that he was not able to create this post-partisan existence in America.
In other words, he was not able to fix the partisan divide.
And he's so disappointed.
He was so so really bumped by that, because it's one of the things he really, really wanted to do was to end partisanship in America.
Now he's the cause.
He is the reason for the division.
He is the reason for the exacerbated partisanship.
Anyway, here is Paul Shanklin, uh noted white comedian, and the first half of the condensed version of the State of Obama address last night.
Now the honest condensed version of the president's State of the Union speech.
My fellow Americans.
Tonight marks the eighth year I've come to report the State of our Union.
I want to make it a lot shorter, so I'm going to focus mainly on my accomplishments.
I don't want to talk about next year, because it looks like things are getting pretty bad out there.
So I want to talk about the next five or one hundred years and beyond.
Long after anybody remembers that this mess was my fault.
Now there are those who have told us to fear the future.
But it was in that spirit of change, panic, and uncertainty, that we've made progress in the last seven years.
Delaying the recovery, screwing up the health care system, and investing in my friend's green energy companies that went nowhere.
And that's how we created less care and benefits for our troops waiting outside the VA for help.
That's how we secured the freedom in every state to marry the person we love who looks like a woman, dressed like a man, dressed like a woman.
So there are four big questions we still have to answer.
How do we give everybody a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new slow ass economy?
Because I still don't know how.
Second, how do we make technology work for us and not against us?
Especially when it comes to solving climate change.
Does NASA really have a weather machine or not?
Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without actually doing anything?
And how can we make our politics only reflect what's best in us and what's worse in Republicans?
The reason a lot of people feel anxious is the economy has been changing in profound ways.
Changes that started long before I got here.
I'm talking about technology.
Technology is the bad guy here, not me.
So we really need to provide pre-K For all, including my vice president, who I just put in charge of curing cancer.
I believe a thriving private sector is the lifeblood of our economy.
But we can't let things get out of hand.
Food stamp recipients did not cause the financial crisis.
The government did.
And illegal immigrants aren't the only reason wages haven't gone up.
But they are the main reason.
That's the first half of the condensed version.
Is this curing cancer business?
There was a lift from the West Wing TV show.
Pretty close to verbatim.
But in addition to that, Obama promised to cure cancer in his State of the Union address in 2009, 2010, and last year, which is why last night he said once and for all.
And then whatever chance we had at curing cancer was blown to smithereens when he put Joe Biden in charge of it.
That was history.
But it was it was I don't know, folks.
It was just uh lies and distortions of how great the economy is post job creationism.
It was just blatant.
But it was hard to get too excited about it as his last year, except that it isn't.
That's the dirty little secret.
It's his last year in office, but it's not his last year by a long shot in trying to control the events of the future in this uh in this country.
Now to the Nikki Haley sound bites to get started on those.
Uh here's the first.
What do we have uh three, maybe four to start with start with?
And here's the first one.
We need to be honest with each other and with ourselves.
While Democrats in Washington bear much responsibility for the problems facing America today, they do not bear it alone.
There is more than enough blame to go around.
We as Republicans need to own that truth.
We need to recognize our contributions to the erosion of the public trust in America's leadership.
We need to accept that we've played a role in how and why our government is broken.
And then we need to fix it.
Now, she has a point, but not in the way she means.
Now, this was hailed.
The drive-by media loved this.
They always do.
When they can get Republicans to agree with them that Republicans are the problem, why that's a red letter day.
You can pack it up and go home.
You've had a successful day when you've been able to pull that off.
And they pulled it off.
And the Republicans and the conservatives and the media, oh, this was wonderful.
Because this is bipartisanship, this is owning up, this is honesty, this is showing that we can work with the damn all of this stuff that's guaranteed to lose them elections, they are having uncontrollable excitement over.
But let's go back.
We need to recognize our contributions to the erosion of the public trust in America's leadership.
We need to accept that we Republicans have played a role in how and why our government is broken.
She doesn't mean it in the way most people will agree with her.
And I'm sure you know where I am going with this.
The Republican Party contributions to the erosion of the public trust in America's leadership is exactly the Republican Party failing to come through on campaign pledges and promises after they are elected.
Republicans have indeed lost faith in their party.
They may have as such lost faith in the government as an agent of change or as an agent of stoppage.
So, yeah, the Republicans do own a lot of the lack of trust, but it's not because of the reasons she thinks.
It's because the Republican Party has ignored the people who have elected them to office for the most part, not in all cases, of course, but the vast majority of Republican voters are frustrated to no end and think that it makes no difference for the Republican Party to win, Because they see no evidence of the Republican Party behaving like winners.
They see no evidence of the Republican Party engaging Obama or the Democrats and making serious efforts to stop them.
Which leads, understandably, to a major, huge erosion in public trust of government with the Republicans involved.
Makes perfect sense.
She, understandably, doesn't mean it that way.
Isn't amazing how the drive-bys just go nuts when a Republican criticizes the Republicans?
And now we've even got some of the conservative media.
Who get as excited when a Republican criticizes a Republican?
It's amazing.
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