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Jan. 19, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 19, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #3
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So, uh Senator Dick Turbin, Illinois out there saying that Bernie Sanders could easily win Iowa and New Hampshire.
Let's let's play a little game.
If Bernie Sanders wins Iowa and New Hampshire, then I predict you are going to see panic and rats scrambling around in the Democrat Party like you haven't seen before.
I mean, when when Obama made it clear he was going to beat Hillary back in 2007, yeah, 2008.
And remember, Hillary benefited Operation Chaos, uh being orchestrated and run from right here at the EIB network.
She'd have been out of that race three months earlier if it hadn't been for Operation Chaos.
But with Obama coming on, that was that was new, fresh, African American historical.
It was cool.
He was well.
I mean, if, oh, well, but with Bernie Sanders and aging 81-year-old Brooklyn socialist.
Upsetting once again the apple cart of a Clinton coronation, I guarantee you that it may not take Hillary losing South Carolina after that for that race to be over.
But I just don't see it.
I have to remain true to my proffered opinions, up to not that I'm inflexible and can't come off of them.
I just, for the life of me, I still think what's going on here is a well-orchestated campaign to make it look like Hillary had to fight off this major big, huge, unexpected challenge.
The powers that be thinking much, much better picture of Hillary Clinton fighting off and surviving a big challenge and overcoming the odds and proving that she can do it, as opposed to a coronation tour.
Top to bottom.
So we will we will see.
Anyway, greetings, welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh here, 800-282-2882, and the email address L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
I just got an email.
Dear Mr. Limbaugh, I am much more worried about 20 million illegal aliens and a hundred thousand Syrian refugees than I am to Corinthians.
So could we please stay focused here?
Trump hasn't lost focus, and I don't want you to.
People are indeed able to look at this.
Sense of humor.
Back to the audio sound bites here because there's still a lot of them.
We just finished with Tom Yamas, Stephanopoulos, and uh Jonathan Carl.
Over to NBC now, Peter Alexander.
This guy gets it right.
This was uh on the Today Show today.
He had a report about the recent battle between Trump and Cruz.
Conservative commentators are questioning Trump's tactics.
Take Rush Limbaugh.
Whatever you want to say, Cruz is not a nasty guy.
When you get into criticism, it better be believable.
All right, I said that, and it's in context, and so it's out there.
But they love it.
The drive-by's relish it.
See, the drive-by's it's fast.
The drive-by's want to take both these guys out, but they know they can't do it at the same time.
So they have to take one of them out, then they go get the other.
Whoever gets out first, the second one survives, they'll get them.
And they're looking for help.
And so they're they're they're turning to me, who happens to be just an entertainer.
Anytime I happen to utter something that they think is helpful to the objective they have, well, they write in there and they find it and they prominently broadcast it on all their big shows.
Conservative commentators questioning Trump's tactics.
Take Rush Limbaugh.
This is classic, and the media loves to get other people to say what they think themselves.
As a way of maintaining this facade that they are objective and fair and honest.
NBC Nightly News, this is um Hallie Jackson.
She's the NBC correspondent reporting about the Republican presidential primary.
Conservative radio hosts are now warning Trump he may be turning off some Republicans with his attacks on Cruz, watching it all unfold.
The establishment candidates since this Trump Cruise battle could open up space for one of them to rise.
Yes, and you see that happens to be one of the unspoken little secrets.
That if Trump Cruz heats up and one of them starts doing real damage to the other, then maybe one of the guys we really want can get a push.
Maybe a little vacuum is created.
Maybe Jeff would some uh Jeb would somehow want you to fill it.
But don't forget John Kasich in uh a poll today New Hampshire showing up at twenty.
Are you kidding me?
Is that the big answer?
Is that the big announcement?
That can't be the big announcement.
Jesse James uh Instagram post on Trump.
That that can't be.
This is the guy that used to be married to Sandra Bullock.
The chop shop guy, the motorcycle guy, the tattoo guy.
Jesse James endorses Trump praising him.
That just happened.
That can't be the big announcement Trump promised.
No, no, it's not.
It's an Instagram post.
Okay.
Um so here's this guy, uh, Hallie Jackson on NBC.
Conservative radio hosts are now warning Trump.
He may be turning off some Republicans with his attacks on Cruz.
So they went last night's CNN, got a Trump spokesman to be on with Aaron Burnett.
Name is Katrina Pearson.
And here's the uh chit chat.
You just heard Rush Limbaugh saying, Donald Trump, not a good idea.
Another one saying you could lose votes if you keep attacking Cruz.
Is Trump nervous?
Is that why he suddenly went silent on Cruz today?
Donald Trump wasn't attacking Ted Cruz today, is because Ted Cruz wasn't attacking Donald Trump.
Mr. Cruz was attacking Trump over the weekend in the media, and Donald Trump was responding in kind.
There is no way someone's gonna go out there and attack Donald Trump and him just sit there and take it.
It's not gonna happen.
And that's been the standard operating procedure from the get go.
No uh no news there.
Staying on CNN, Anderson Cooper 360, he had Dana Bash on, their chief political correspondent.
And the conversation continued.
Cooper's question to Dana Bash, did uh did Trump attack Ted Cruz at any of his rallies today?
No, not at all.
Uh and actually it was quite surprising.
But earlier today in Virginia, here in New Hampshire, not one word about Ted Cruz.
Now, Trump has been getting some blowback from some conservative talk radio saying, wait a minute, be careful, Donald Trump, before you go too far in attacking Ted Cruz, warning that he's attacking him and he could risk alienating his own voters.
Right.
So uh I I got an email too.
And this is an interesting endeavor to answer this.
Paraphrasing, I'm not reading it, I didn't print it out.
I have it right in front of me.
The premise of the question is, Rush, why is it so important to warn Trump that he may be making a mistake?
I don't hear any of you warning Cruz that he might be making a mistake.
And I don't hear any of you warning Jeb Bush that he's making mistakes.
And I don't hear any of you warning Kasich or Rubio or why.
Why is it so important that you warn uh Trump?
And well, the answer is actually multi-faceted, but it is rooted in the idea that whatever happens here, and I know this is this is gonna be tough for some of you out there based on things I've read in the stomach.
But speaking for myself, I do not think it is helpful to have conservatism bashed as part of this process.
So anytime anybody, I don't care who it is, any time anybody mounts a con an attack or a criticism, and I don't care if it's on cruise, I don't care who it would be on.
If it was on Trump, if anybody mounts an attack on any of these Republicans that is like something a liberal Democrat would say, I'm gonna step up and comment on it.
I remember back in 2000, I'm sure you'll remember this, George W. Bush out there campaigning as a compassionate conservative, and he said we can't balance the budget on the backs of the poor.
And I'm sorry, but I had to launch on that.
That is not the way conservatives talk.
To talk that way, to be to be critical of conservatism that way is not helpful or useful or any of those other things, and it's wrong.
So speaking for myself, it is an objective here to protect conservatives.
Now, some of you might, but doesn't it prove that Trump's not a conservative?
I folks, can I can I take you back to the first story that I shared with you today?
It's by David French.
It's at national review, and its focus is on how the Republican establishment has overestimated its conservative base.
And the upshot of the piece is that the Republican establishment is shooting itself in the foot because it doesn't really know who its conservative base is, doesn't understand it, and has a totally wrong conception of who they are, Or we are.
The Republican establishment considers there to be many types of conservatives.
And they think the primary definition of a conservative is a social issues conservative who is pro-life, rigidly law and order, small government, reduce the size of government, stop this needless spending.
They think that is what animates the Republican base today.
And, of course, that's anathema to them at the extent they live and work in Washington and government.
They don't want to hear talk of it getting smaller.
They don't want to hear talk of there being less money.
This is how they live.
The government's their business.
Spending money is their business.
Spending their money is how they get elected.
What they are missing is that the primary animating aspect of conservatism today, I mean, it's a given that conservative principles define a conservative.
It's the application of those principles.
And the way they manifest themselves today is a total opposition to the Democrat Party, to liberalism, to the left, whatever it is.
That is what is energizing conservatives, not conservative principles, because those are a given.
And if any of you rock-ribbed conservatives out there still can't figure out why Trump appeals to people that you think would automatically disqualify him because he's not conservative, is because he is doing a bang-up job criticizing the party and the policies which are destroying this country.
So is Ted Cruz.
Jeb Bush doesn't understand this language.
Jeb Bush doesn't understand criticizing the left.
He doesn't.
And Rubio does.
But the rest of them don't.
You want to know why they're not resonating well.
This is not a contest here.
Over here is the most, over who is the purest, the most doctrinaire conservative.
Who is it that recognizes the immediate threat this country faces?
The immediate threat this country faces, and we have been facing and fighting for at least recently seven years, is the Democrat Party of Barack Hussein Oh.
An authoritarian, leftist, statist, transformative agenda which seeks to turn this country into something it was never founded to be nor intended to be.
That's the immediate threat.
The immediate threat is stopping what is happening to this country today as implemented by the Democrat Party.
And if if a Martian landed here and understood the threats posed by the Democrat Party and was able to spell them out, the Martian would be supported.
If a Corinthian walked in here from the Middle East and landed on CNN and knew how to criticize Obama and the Democrats and was able to articulate the dire consequences of this nation's future if this stuff doesn't stop, the Corinthian would be automatically supported and celebrated.
And this is according to Mr. French, this is what the GOP doesn't understand.
The GOP does not think there's a crisis.
The GOP does not think the Democrat Party is any different today than it was ten years ago, 15 years ago.
The Republican Party today does not think the Constitution is threatened.
They don't think the spending is out of control.
There's nothing that we can't deal with.
It's so out of whack.
The Republican establishment doesn't even understand why this economy is tanking.
Can I tell you why the economy's tanking?
It's very simple.
The federal government under Obama decided to print four and a half trillion dollars.
They gave the money to Wall Street.
So the banks could remain solvent, so the banks could continue to be bailed out.
So that the one percent, I mean, if if if if there's anybody in this country, any single person who's responsible for the divide between haves and have nots for this income inequality, it's Barack Hussein Oh and his buddies at the Federal Reserve.
Barack Obama has done more to widen the gap between rich and poor than any Republican conservative could ever hope to.
Four and a half trillion dollars, and not a penny of it.
If you're gonna print money for the purposes of stimulating, and not a penny of it ends up in what you and I would consider the mainstream economy, it ends up on Wall Street as securities, bailouts for banks, solvency for the banks, what have you.
A, you can't print that kind of money and not have it come back and bite you.
And we're having it come back and bite.
You see, the stock market plunges recently.
The bubble.
All of a sudden, these people have gotten used to corporate welfare from the Fed.
And all of a sudden it's gotten turned off now.
Four and a half trillion was it, and they're panicking.
So everybody's selling off, taking their profits.
And you hear rumblings of 2008 all over again.
This this artificial injection of four and a half trillion that we didn't have that we just printed it.
Things like this, people out there understand from the first days of Obama when he first announced his stimulus, all this spending, this irresponsible spending got to stop.
It's eating away and destroying the future of people's kids and grandkids and great-grandkids now.
And the Republican Party seems oblivious.
It's nothing that's just the Fed.
They're just okay, we had to keep the banks going and keep Wall Street going.
I mean, we can't, the rest of the economy was sort of hurting, so we gotta keep one end of it up, Wall Street.
There was anything really wrong with it.
Those people all donate to political candidates, so the money, some of the money came back to politicians, which is the money laundering little secret.
You want to know why our economy hasn't recovered?
You want to know why the 94 million Americans out of work?
It's because there hasn't been one single responsible economic policy implemented since Obama took office that would get the government out of the way and allow this economy made up of free markets and investors and entrepreneurs to grow.
I gotta take a break.
I'm a little long, but do not go away.
Sit tight.
Back to the phones quickly.
This is Steve in Bear, Delaware.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello.
Hey, um, after Hillary's invited.
Uh, I'm gonna make a prediction that uh crazy Uncle Joe Biden will reluctantly agree to be the candidate for the Democrat Party.
Uh well, i there have been others who have advanced this theorem that uh uh there's two schools of thought on this.
And And one is that there will be no indictment of Hillary because if there is, don't forget there's Bill Clinton involved here.
And Bill Clinton's played a lot of golf with Barack Obama.
And on the golf course, Bill Clinton would perfectly be fine saying, hey, now, Barack, I just want to say something, bud.
You know, I may be a little bit older than you, but it doesn't mean I don't know the game.
You if you if you even think of indicting Hillary, you better be prepared, because I happen to know she's not the only one been doing stuff, and I got to go.
So hope you have a tea shot.
Great.
Keep it in the fairway next time, but let's keep playing.
Or Obama doesn't want Hillary or Bill Clinton anywhere near his agenda.
And his drip, drip, drip, drip, dripping, all this stuff out about the investigation and 150 FBI agents and leaking news and how much evidence they've got.
And that he is indeed going to have them drop the hammer, and she is going to be indicted, and Joe Biden, the way he said he wasn't running.
I never see a guy said he wasn't running and announced his agenda at the same time, which is what Biden did.
And Obama would totally trust Biden with his agenda.
Biden has shown 110% loyalty here.
So they're both school of thoughts.
Schools of thought are out there, and you can take your pick as to uh as to which one.
I don't discount the fact that Bill Clinton's lurking out there.
And anything done to his wife that would have a negative impact on him, he's gonna come jump in and do something about it with his own version of threats.
Here's uh here's Da in uh West Memphis, Arkansas.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Oh, hi, Rush.
I'm so excited.
I can't believe it.
Well, I'm glad you got through.
I love you.
I'm like the biggest dittohead ever.
Well, thank you very much.
I appreciate that and welcome.
Okay.
Well, I just wanted to say I'm a little sad because with the state of the country and the track record in the last few years, we have a huge opportunity to win by a landslide, but we're totally messing it up with the GLP establishment.
It's like we're gonna screw ourselves over.
Yeah, let me ask you who is this we?
I because I understand your frustration.
You think we we've got, and by the way, I have to agree with you.
If we can't, if we can't make the case against liberalism now, we'll never be able to make it.
If we I mean we're living it, it's not theoretical.
We don't have to warn people.
We had I mean, we're living the disaster.
If we can't make hay out of this now, so so when you say uh we seem to be screwing up, who is we?
The GLP, the people who are catering to the liberals, and I want to know what can we do with the base to get it across to them that we need and want to strong conservative.
They get it.
De Nera, they totally get it.
They don't want any part of it.
They're not going to acquiesce.
Politics is not about majority rule winning.
It used to be that when an election was held and the people won, the side that won took a look at what the people wanted and tried to keep doing that, and the people that lost tried to figure out where they had lost touch with people and get back in touch.
That's not what happens today.
When uh when the Democrats lose an election, they blame the voters.
When the Republicans lose an election, they blame their own base.
Neither party thinks they have to modify, moderate, or change.
It's always the voters' problem.
So then they look for ways to do what they want to do, no matter what the voters say, either in an election or in any other venue.
So now politics is has become about the establishment, both parties finding ways around popular majority public opinion.
Well, it's so very frustrating.
I know it is, but there that that's why the battle is being waged here.
You've you've got you've got two candidates here who are explicitly running against that establishment.
One's Cruz, the other's Trump, and some people might say, well, Trump is, but he doesn't know that he is.
That's not but Cruz definitely is.
Let me give you an example.
Since you you you call, listen to this.
Let me give you this headline.
This is from the Hill.com.
Iowa governor, don't vote for Cruz.
The Iowa governor is a Republican.
The governor of ethanol rich Iowa says voters there should reject Ted Cruz over his position on federal renewable fuel mandate.
That's ethanol.
Speaking with reporters today at the Iowa Renewable Fuel Summit.
Governor Terry Branstadt said that voters should oppose Cruz when they turn out the caucus next month, calling Cruz the biggest opponent of renewable fuels in the presidential race.
Branstadt said the Cruz is heavily financed by big oil.
So we think once Iowans realize that, they might find other things attractive, but he could be damaging our state.
Cruz hasn't supported renewable fuels, and I think it'd be a big mistake for Iowa to support him, the governor said.
They're trying to destroy Ted Cruz.
This is the establishment trying to take Ted Cruz out.
And this ethanol business, I remember I have taken heat from uh callers in Iowa.
Some years ago.
I just remember one incident, but it's it's uh illustrative.
I happen to be critical of ethanol as unnecessary.
It's not helping automobile engines.
It's not helping them.
All this stuff that's used to say it's it's just it's it's corporate welfare for Iowa farmers.
Well, I was I was deluged with phone calls from Iowa Republican voters shouting, you just want to throw the election away, Rochester what you want to do?
That's that, because that's what you're gonna do.
If you're gonna come out and you're and you're gonna come out against that, you may as well just be given Iowa to the Democrats.
Because I guarantee them to you that no Republican gonna win Iowa here unless they're all in for whatever helped to the corn farmers.
It's that simple.
And it's not new.
It's been that way for a while.
And this is mother's milk of politics.
This is this is this is how it works.
And they just need to find other uses for corn because they can't depend on people wanting to eat it as much as you can divert production into fuel.
I mean, everybody uses gasoline.
Uh and will use gasoline from now until the end of time.
So, and I don't care what you renewable people think.
The gasoline, fossil fuels are not going to be out of favor anytime soon.
But the point is, here you have a sitting Republican governor on the war path, urging Republican caucus voters not to elect Ted Cruz.
Now, Ted Cruz happens to be great conservative who wants to implement conservative principles and ideas, which include reducing the size of government, reducing the dependence on government, reducing corporate welfare like this, and you can see what an enemy anybody who speaks this way is.
So Nara calls this.
I don't understand.
We've got the best Terry Branstadt doesn't care a whit about beating Democrats, Denera.
Terry Branstadt at the end of the day doesn't care about stopping whatever the Obama agenda is that's wreaking havoc on this country.
Terry Branstadt cares about making sure that ethanol remains used and paid for by the federal government.
It's money, it's economics for his state.
He didn't have time to worry about whatever damage the Obama agenda is doing.
In that sense, the old saw about all politics is local.
Back after this.
Rushlin bought talent on loan from God.
And West Palm Beach says, Noah, great to have you, Noah.
Welcome, sir, and how are you?
Thank you, Russ, for taking my call.
I'm a first-time caller.
It's a little nervous here.
Um I just wanted a cut two comments if I can.
The first comment was about the drive-by media kind of bashing you in a way as far as uh biasing people's decisions, but you know, at the end of the day, I'm reading from your website, it says that you know they're not really be they're they shouldn't be taken seriously, they're just entertainers.
They're kind of doing the same thing what they're saying not to do.
What's that?
I lost you.
Uh oh, do you hear me?
Yeah, but uh they're kind of doing the same thing, what they're saying not to do.
Oh, so I'm just saying that they're trying to convince people not to listen to you guys.
So they're trying to kind of brainwash in the way.
So what they're trying to teach not to do, they're doing the exact same thing.
It's kind of like rhetorical in a way.
Uh I don't know if you got that, but I'm I'm I don't understand.
Are you saying the media is becoming like a bunch of entertainers?
Yeah, basically that uh, you know, the talk radio, the people, they're just entertainers, they're not really to be taken seriously, they're just entertainers.
So them saying that, they're trying to talk to an audience to convince a mindset, which is pretty much what you do with conservatives.
So it's like, in fact, they're I don't know if I can make uh here's why I'm confused is because the last week the drive-by media is treating me as an oracle.
Right.
They're not treating me as an entertainer today.
They're treating me as the oracle of the day who has the power to determine who survives and who doesn't, the campaign.
But that that's not the I mean, we're we're independent thinkers, but you're doing you're you're you're running a conservative talk show radio.
So anything that is non-conservative in a way or is conservative, you're going to preach about it.
So I just don't understand the media saying that you're going to be biasing us like we're robots.
Well, look, the the the uh the explanation for that is that depending on the day, the the media does not look I I don't know how many times uh there is a this is not what he said he wanted to talk about, folks, at any stretch.
He wanted to talk about how he's lost faith in Trump.
So I'm I was prepared for that.
Now he's I don't know if you're sucking up or being critical here.
But if the media had their druthers, I wouldn't exist.
They're upset at me and mad at me because I blew up their monopoly.
But other days they think I can be useful in accomplishing what they want.
They right now want Trump and Cruz destroyed.
They think, because you people are a bunch of my numb robots, that if I set my mind to destroying Trump that you will believe me and abandon Trump.
They don't understand you, they don't understand the program, they don't understand how I look at you.
You are not my numb robots.
You are independent thinkers, you're individuals, and you make up your mind long before you turn the radio on.
But they don't think that.
And it's not just of this show.
That's how they think of everybody.
They think they have their audience of my numb robots who don't know what to think until they watch the NBC or ABC, CBS Nightly News.
They do not have any concept of an American people or a population that is intelligent and capable and competent to go through life making up their own minds.
So whenever voters do something that liberal Democrats don't like, it's not because the voters are genuinely that way, it's because somebody's poisoned them.
Like me.
I, on the other hand, do not look at members of this audience with anything but respect.
I certainly don't look at people with contempt, and I don't sit here thinking that you don't know what I'm talking about.
Quite the opposite.
I think you understand everything I'm saying, and I treat you that way.
They're the ones that they had a monopoly.
There was nobody challenging them.
So whatever whatever they wanted people to believe, that's all the news was.
And they can't get away with it anymore.
So every day they're confused.
I mean, some days they wish I wasn't here, other days they're glad because they hope they can manipulate me into doing what they want done that they can't do on that.
They can't take Trump out, so they're hoping I will.
They can't take Cruz out.
They're hoping I will.
Well, they have well, they've tried.
Oh, they've they've tried to try to take me out 27 years.
They can't.
That's the whole point.
Frustrates them.
But look, the uh um the the the end of the day here, um they can't accomplish what they want universally on their own.
They want Trump and Cruz both gone.
They want Hillary to be president.
So they will respect me for a fleeting moment if I happen to say something that they think might achieve something they want.
So if they think I've really ripped into Trump, oh, they can't wait to give me all kinds of credibility and report it as though I'm an oracle.
And that's what you're saying.
Another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence brought to a screeching pause.
Nothing ever really ends on this program.
We just take breaks.
And we'll be back here in 21 hours.
Look forward to it, folks.
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