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Feb. 11, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 11, 2016, Thursday, Hour #3
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I have a lot of time today being spent reviving Hillary Clinton from her debacle in New Hampshire, the congressional black Caucasians.
If you didn't know any better, just glancing at Fox News every now and again that you would think they've endorsed her ten times today.
Well, I mean, you have to look at the news that way.
You have to look at the cumulative effect of things.
You watch news doing other things, you see the congressional black Caucasians endorse Hillary.
Then ten minutes later you see it again.
Then the next hour, the next newscast tells you the dish, the same video taping.
But the time you finish the day, the congressional black Caucasians have endorsed Hillary twenty times.
Cumulative effect.
You get the news, I mean, and so forth.
So the cumulative effect, the impact it all makes on you, particularly if you're a uh a Democrat voter in their primaries, it's overwhelming by design.
Not just Fox.
I'm telling this the way the news happens.
It's not news, it's soap opera.
Uh great to have you here, folks, 800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program and the email address, El Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
Speaking of that soap opera.
Let me conduct consult yesterday's stack that I didn't get to because there was a there was a story in the stack that explained partially.
You know that sound bite we have where everybody in the news described the choice of Cheney as gravitas.
Well, there was a story that explained how this happens.
And it was about Hillary Clinton, and I I guess I didn't save it.
But you know what?
I don't need to because my memory being superb, and I remember what it was.
Hillary granted an interview to some news organization on one condition.
The news organization had to describe her and her campaign with words provided by Hillary.
They had to call her campaign vibrant.
They had to call it exciting, uplifting, or they wouldn't be granted the interview.
And the story was about how whoever it was, okay, we'll do that.
See, the the story was that Hillary Clinton, her campaign, was writing the news story.
Now there's no way a Republican could get away with that, but of course the the uh the Democrats do.
Marco Rubio, you know, he's uh got one shot left here.
South Carolina Jeb Bush, one shot left here.
Trump wants to wipe everybody out in South Carolina.
Trump is running around saying if he wins this, it's over.
There is no way he's gonna run the table.
Uh forgetting Iowa, he's gonna run a table.
If I take them all out here, there's nowhere else.
He now he's forgetting about the SEC primary super Tuesday on March 1st.
But he's he again, he's trying to create uh this impression of inevitability.
We'll start with Rubio in Hilton Head, South Carolina this morning during a campaign event.
Donald Trump has zero foreign policy experience.
Negotiating a hotel deal in another country is not foreign policy experience.
Jeb Bush has no foreign policy experience, period.
I can tell you today unequivocally that there are things we do not know about ISIS, and there are things we do not know about terrorists because of what Edward Snowden did to this country.
Ted Cruz said Edward Snowden was a great public servant.
I say Edward Snowden is a traitor, and if we ever get a hold of him, he's gonna stand trial.
Okay, so one of the rubs on Rubio is, and and Governor Christie, of course, with that kamikaze mission at the debate on Saturday night.
It was.
How else would you describe that?
It was a murder suicide.
He was a murder he decided kamikaze.
He's gonna take Ruby out, no Rubio out no matter what.
Now the objective was not to commit suicide.
The objective was to take Rubio out and get Rubio's voters, but it didn't move Christie at all.
It hurt Rubio, but it didn't help Christie at all, so it was a kamikaze mission.
And and what what what Christie was saying was this guy got no experience.
He hadn't done anything.
Marco Rubio, cute little guy, yeah, speaks well now and then when he's not repeating himself, Christie says, but he didn't have any experience.
So Rubio's countering that by saying none of these other guys do.
You telling me Trump's got foreign policy experience and you don't get that negotiating hotel deals, and don't tell me Jeb does, because Jeb doesn't have any.
And Cruz is out praising Snowden to hell with that.
So Rubio is coming with both barrels firing now.
Which don't get mad at me.
That's all that's the option he's got.
Now here's Trump.
Trump's explaining why we are in such dire economic straits.
Because we've let China take over our economy, as you've been hearing me say for a long time.
We are very, very vulnerable.
We are no longer controlling our own destiny.
We are in a big sphere of other countries all over the world that control us and they're manipulators.
They have a tremendous power over manipulation of their currencies.
And we are into that web, and even though we're not manipulators because we're not smart enough to be manipulators, believe me, our leaders are not smart enough.
We are nevertheless in the manipulation business because of the fact that uh some of the great money changers of all time are people that you know were wetted with them.
And China would be number one.
All well and good.
But I'm I'm um I'm sorry.
The biggest explanation for America's economic woes I just gave you in the previous half hour.
It's the Democrat Party.
It's liberalism, it is socialism, it is big government expansionism.
You simply cannot keep gobbling up pieces of the American economy, otherwise known as our pie.
You can't keep goblet.
You cannot continue to make it smaller.
You can't make it smaller while the government, which produces nothing, grows.
The government destroys wealth and creates debt.
The government does not create wealth other than with crony socialism or crony capitalism, but in that case it's creating wealth for donors.
It's creating wealth for political sympaticos.
It is not creating wealth for the government because the government can't.
It's 20 trillion dollars in debt.
Now the Chicoms are not our friends, don't misunderstand.
But this is a Republican presidential primary, and the opposition here is not the Chicoms.
The opposition is a Democrat Party.
The Democrat, I mentioned earlier that one of the reasons we're in this plight is something no more complicated than salesmanship.
Liberalism has done a much better job selling itself to the great unwashed and to the low information voter than capitalism has in selling itself.
The Republican Party has sought to let capitalism speak for itself.
They have not promoted it, they have not promoted free market entrepreneurism because they're they're afraid of being called conservatives if they do that.
So there hasn't been any competition.
The left really hasn't had to compete against any alternative ideas.
There hasn't been any salesmanship, except here on Talk Radio.
There has not been, coming from the Republican Party, any sustained message of how wonderful free market capitalism is, how it is the explanation for this nation as a superpower.
How free market capitalism is the sole reason why we have the greatest standard of living known to exist ever in the history of humanity.
Not socialism, not communism, not whatever other ism.
Capitalism.
But it has been denigrated, destroyed, beat up, maligned, impugned every day on college campuses for 50 years, if not more.
In junior high and high school classrooms, ditto, on the drive-by news every day and night for 50 years ditto.
There hasn't been any pushback.
There hasn't been any competitive cap.
In fact, the success stories in capitalism try to hide.
They try to hide so people don't come try to steal their money.
The success stories in capitalism try to remain hidden.
They don't talk about how they did it.
They don't talk about wealth because it's thought thought to be insensitive and unfeeling.
And so the success stories, i.e.
the motivators, those who can inspire, shut up because they have been made the suspects.
We have made suspects out of achievers.
We have made suspects out of success.
We have made suspects out of people who want to achieve.
We have made suspects out of people who want to who want to achieve and succeed at things.
We have even denigrated hard work.
Oh, yes, we have.
We have denigrated hard work, we have attempted to disqualify it and disclaim it on the basis, well, it's not fair because not everybody has the time to work as hard as so-and-so does.
If you doubt me, go back to half-baked Moon Bay, California, where they tried to ban homework because not everybody had a home, or not everybody had a decent enough home in which to do homework.
It wasn't fair that students had nice homes could do homework because they would get ahead of students that didn't have nice homes and couldn't do homework.
So homework was banned.
Education was banned, teaching, self-teaching, everything banned.
Under the supposed guise of freedom and equality.
And that's where we are.
Capitalism doesn't have anybody who wants to sing its virtues.
Everybody's afraid.
Everybody's afraid they're going to be attacked.
Everybody's afraid they're going to be maligned, impugned, maybe imprisoned.
They're going to be called thieves, whatever else.
So they just go about their business and shut up.
And then when they do become successful, what do they do?
Make excuses for it.
Well, you know, I lucked out.
I just want these lucky guys just had it.
Instead of being used as role models, people who inspire others to show how it was done.
We make suspects out of them.
It's a horrible, horrible thing.
Yeah, the check comes.
But our biggest problem, the biggest, the biggest obstacle to the creation of wealth in the United States of America's the Democrat Party.
You want some names.
Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, take your pick, John Kerry, Dick Durbin.
The names are endless.
Harry Reed, Nancy Pelosi, and Note, all of them have theirs.
All of them have their multi-millions.
They've all got their business.
Pelosi is filthy rich.
So is Harry Reed.
And they all do this on government salaries.
Wonder how that happens.
Yeah, Bernie Sanders is right, the game's rigged, but his party has been doing the rigging.
And you think the Republicans are totally blameless.
No, I'm not the Republicans are off the play field.
The Republicans are not even trying to advance the ball for what they believe in.
They're trying to make everybody think they're not who they are.
They've been so successfully tarred and feathered.
But yes, I'm here to tell you liberalism versus capitalism, it's hands down.
Liberalism is to blame for the plight this country is in.
Socialism is to blame communism or the desire to be one of those isms, which desires are harbored by Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
They've said so.
I don't have to make it up.
They say so, particularly Obama.
He has not hidden his desire and admiration for all of those isms, if you just listen.
And we have aired many of the sound bites where Obama has said these things over the years.
It's folks, we're seven years into this regime if what they believe in had any element of truth.
Don't you think there'd be some signs that we've turned around and we're getting better?
Wouldn't there be some job creation?
Wouldn't there be some economic growth?
Wouldn't there be some sign?
Wouldn't there be some optimism out there?
Wouldn't there be some indication that finally we got rid of the evils of the Iraq war and the Bush administration or whoever else went wrong there, and we finally turned the corner, but no, they don't even admit that.
They can't.
They still act like this country is in the throes of the Iraq War, and the Republicans are still running it after seven years of them being listen to their campaign.
Listen to Hillary, listen to Bernie Sanders.
You would think that Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan are still running this country.
Not Barack Obama, and not his Democrat cohorts, who have taken this country and run it right into the ground the past seven years.
You would not know any of that happened.
I wouldn't expect them to admit it.
But the education system is so, so inept and woefully out of whack.
That people are unable to critically think and arrive at these conclusions on their own.
It's a sad, sad, sad, sad state of affairs.
Back to the audio sound bites.
I mentioned earlier, Obama's blaming me.
He blaming me for the lack of a good tone in politics.
Blaming me for the lack of improvement in the good tone of the public.
Well, he's worked hard.
He's the president.
He's the most powerful man in the world.
I am holding him back.
And I held back Bill Clinton, folks.
Same thing.
If it wouldn't have been for me, why we'd be in so much better shape in this country.
And I'm just a guy on the radio.
Audio sound bites.
We'll start Bill Clinton.
Uh no.
We'll do Obama first.
Two bites, Springfield, Illinois yesterday, the Illinois State Capitol, Obama addressing the Illinois General Assembly.
It's been noted often by pundits that the tone of our politics hasn't gotten better since I was inaugurated.
In fact, it's gotten worse.
It has.
That there's still this yawning gap between the magnitude of our challenges and the smallness of our politics.
That's BS.
We had those an importation of our politics nationally and on cable and talk radio, and it seeps into everything.
What is he talking about?
What is this?
The still that yawning gap between the magnitude of our challenges and the smallness of our politics.
He's a failure in terms of the things he promised to do.
He was going to unify us, create a new tone, whatever it is.
He's not failed in his liberal agenda, but he's we're not unified.
We're not loved, we're not adored around the world, we're laughed at, we're joked about, we're mocked.
Now we got pictures of our sailors in tears being held captive by the Iranians.
Which John Kerry assured us, no, no, no, they were very polite, then they got rid of our we've solved the problem.
Don't sweat the Iran nuclear deal still on.
Of course.
Oh, wonderful.
Yes.
So Obama notes that the tone of our politics hasn't gotten better.
I thought he was the answer.
I thought he was the one we've been waiting for.
Barack Obama remember all the things people invested in him.
How can some little guy in a radio stand in a way?
How has that happened?
How's a guy on a radio stop Obama from changing the tone?
If Obama wanted to dwarf me with the success of his policies, Obama could render me irrelevant by making everything he believes in work for people.
Problem is it isn't.
It's all getting worse.
But see, in Obama's world, there shouldn't be any opposition.
That's the problem.
The reason he blames me is because I'm here.
There shouldn't be any opposition.
The objective of all leftists is to eliminate opposition.
No fair level playing field, no playing field, period, no opponents.
Just get rid of them.
The Soviet Union, Cuba, they put him in jail.
In this country, they audit you.
They don't let you have a 501c3 tax status, or they just try to destroy your reputation with elements they control in the media.
Whatever they silence opposition.
Here's the next Obama bite.
Trying to find common ground doesn't make me less of a Democrat or less of a progressive.
It means I'm trying to get stuff done.
The fact that that's hard to do is a testament to how difficult our politics has become.
Means that you're wrong.
Folks are worried.
Well, I'm going to get yelled at by here, or this blogger's going to write that, or you know, this talk show host is gonna talk about me, and suddenly I've got a challenger.
And calling me a rhino or uh not a real progressive.
No, it means you're trying to get stuff done.
It means you haven't gotten stuff done.
It means people are miserable and you need a scapegoat back after this.
And it's not just Barack Hussein Obama, who has sought to blame failures on talk radio.
After I get off the radio today with you, Rush Limbaugh will have three hours to say whatever he wants.
Would you like to leave a message?
I won't have any opportunity to respond.
And there's no truth detector.
You won't get on afterwards and say what was true and what wasn't.
Yeah.
That was the Clinton calling KMOX St. Louis from Air Force One back in 1994 in the summer.
Here is uh Canon Foley, Alabama.
It's great to have you on the program, Ken.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
Uh Marine Corps dittoes today.
Well, simplified.
Yeah, it was uh some of what you've been talking about as far as the 60s came out.
See, I was in college in the 60s, so I had some of those types of instructors, so they've had 50 years of this, and and uh, you know, I saw I know what you're saying.
Uh my question is, or I statement then asked for uh you know, for a question is you know the the the news media and and the liberal side has constantly is after uh Trump because he responds with dope you know double barreled response when somebody attacks him and yet they they they they don't say anything about Obama,
the Clintons who are masters at cutting people off at the knees if they disagree with them and there's any public and and you know comment and you know an example with that would be Brett Hume when he mentioned something when he was still the White House uh correspondent, and he mentioned something about Ginsburg, and uh, you know, Clinton just tore them up.
And you know, they don't they they again the double standard.
I I my question would be the one of the few um unfiltered uh venues that the Republicans can do are during these debates.
Why don't they bring some of this type of stuff out?
I mean, you know, during these debates when they start talking about you know countering the democratic movement.
Uh you are largely suggesting that they counter media.
Your your observation is about how media treats Trump differently than now media treats Obama and Clinton uh differently, all of which is true.
They don't want to be seen criticizing the media on that basis because it's be portrayed as uh childishness and so forth.
But the overall answer to the question is that uh look what they're doing to Rubio.
Rubio tries to focus on Obama being the problem, and everybody is trying to wipe that out because it by by denigrating Rubio for repeating it all those times and looking bad, but Rubio's one of the only guys running against the Democrats in these debates.
Dave and Spoke Ken Washington.
Great to have you with us, sir.
I appreciate your patience.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
What a great pleasure to talk to you.
Thank you.
I appreciate that, sir.
You bet.
They've been a long time listeners since 89, and you back then were talking about the incrementalism of liberalism and how we had to look out for it.
And you've been preaching that ever since then, and what we're seeing today with the millennials, as you said earlier in your show first circle.
They have come full circle.
They've achieved their nirvana as far as they've been conditioned and and educated.
You don't have the ability, you can't do it.
Uh they've been educated, the deck is stacked against them.
They've been educated that the game is rigged and that they don't have a fair shot.
Yeah, they've been their minds have been polluted and poisoned with all kinds of stuff.
Yes.
As Eric's Ericsson said in your newsletter, you will be made to care.
Mm-hmm.
That's right.
No matter what.
We're not going to do it through killing a lot of people, which the Well, now what that wait a minute, that's important.
What that means is belief.
Let me tell you what that means.
You will be made to care.
It's not just that you're going to get out of the way and let there be gay marriage.
You are going to love gay marriage.
And until you do, we're going to make an example of you.
That's that's what it's.
And you're gonna bake a cake, and you're gonna sell flowers to who we say you can do, even though you take the risk and open your own business and you have no say in it.
Exactly right.
It's a sad day.
Uh yeah, but there's always we're not we're not done yet.
It's it's incremental.
Uh I always am hopeful during campaigns like this.
Campaigns are golden opportunities to uh educate, inform, present alternatives.
You know, uh what's always been frustrating about the past seven years is there hadn't been any pushback or opposition.
But compounding that is we're living the reality of these people now.
We are it we don't have to warn people about what's going to happen if these people succeed.
We don't have to try to scare people into waking up.
It's happening.
The negative, the dreary, the absolute destructive results of liberalism are on display every day in most people's lives.
All that has to be done is to explain to people why.
The objective, most of them have been conditioned to believe it's the Republicans simply because they don't care.
I mean, you that may sound crazy to you.
How can how can you get away with blaming people for certain economic circumstances because people you don't even know don't care about it?
And you tell me how that works.
But appeals to emotion are very seductive.
But look, here's the thing about campaign.
The Republicans haven't been on the field, folks.
That's the frustrating thing.
That's what all this is about.
The Republicans haven't been pushing back.
Not only have they not been pushing back, they haven't been selling an alternative, promoting alternative or what have you.
It's got people fit to be tied.
Hello, Donald Trump.
Somebody appears to be opposed to this.
Don't care what he is.
I don't care if he's liberal, conservative, I don't care what he's seems to be opposed to what's happening now, and so am I. Republican Party, desperate to try to understand what's happening here, only needs to look in the mirror.
Dave, I appreciate the call.
Here's uh Jimmy in Brooklyn.
Jimmy, great to have you on the program.
Kiddos Rush, I want to add to your explanation of the communist movement.
In the communist publications, they talk about things like uh capitalism is racism.
To destroy racism, you have to destroy capitalism.
And you have World Marxist Scholars Conference, World Socialist Scholars Conference, the Communists control the t the teachers' unions, and here's the worst thing.
The communists control the schools that teach the teachers.
And they're teaching to build activists.
And in the communist publication, they call the schools the universities, they call them communiversities.
So this is like you were describing a little while ago.
This is a communist movement that's been basically unopposed.
They feel they're winning in their own literature, they say they're gonna win elections and get power legally.
And this is why you see young people gravitating toward Marxism socialism, perhaps without even realizing.
So I've been describing this as a slow motion coup.
It's revolution by evolution.
And they're winning because there really has not been an adequate uh fight back.
And one of the ways they do it too is political correctness, which is Marxist mind control.
Oh, yeah.
Censorship in addition to all of that.
You raise a good point here, and I I want to expand on it in a way.
Now, you go back to the 80s and the 70s, and you start accusing the Democrats or the left of being communist or pro-communist or communist sympathizers, which happened uh with uh the situation of Nicolagua the Sandinistas versus the uh the contest contrast and so forth.
It was a real tough sell because there was an evil empire back then, and that evil empire was the Soviet Union, and it was there were real people that led it.
People like Mikhail Gorbachev and Yuri Andropov and Leonid Brezhnev and so forth, and so too.
Accuse what you just did here, Jimmy, of the modern-day Democrat Party of actually being communist and advancing communist agenda, it was a tough sell because nobody wanted to believe that we actually had people in this country that loved the Soviet Union and wanted to turn us into it.
It was guaranteed to fail because of that.
Well, now there's no Soviet Union.
Russia is back, Vladimir Putin and the KGB, but there is no Soviet Union.
So there it's a little easier today, I think, to make the connection, whatever terminology you want to use, statism, authoritarianism, communism, socialism, liberalism, or whatever.
The fact that there isn't an evil empire today, a single repository, one kingdom of the place, makes it, I think an easier sell, because having an evil empire was actually a distraction in terms of trying to educate people who the Democrats are, what their ideology is, and what their ultimate objectives are.
Nobody wanted to think.
Nobody wanted to believe communists.
I mean, they did to McCarthy and others who who came along and tried to make the connection because of the existence of the Soviet Union.
Well, now the Soviet Union is gone, And the closest thing that you would have to need to be the Chikoms or the Castros in Cuba.
And so you basically eliminate those.
But it has not, just because the Soviet Union is gone, does not mean that communism doesn't exist anymore.
When the Soviet Union fell, I told everybody that the environmentalist movement would become the new home of displaced wayward communists.
And it was true.
It was true then, and it is true now.
Communism was never a devotion to a nation state.
And that's what made it a tough sell.
Communism was never a devotion to the Soviet Union.
Communism is a, just like capitalism, it's it's a it's a different way of organizing people politically.
It's evil, depending on where you go.
Certain communists have built walls to keep people in.
They've had dungeons to put political opponents in, they have murdered dissidents and so forth.
None of that happens here.
So it was always a tough sell.
But if you just stick with the simple organizational purpose and structure of communism, there's no denying what the Democrat Party is.
Liberalism, socialism, what have you.
Centralized government, command and control economy, uh, usurpation of individual liberty and freedom.
It's the objective.
What people have trouble getting her arms around is the purpose.
Why you talk to average ordinary low information voters, you try to convince them all of this.
The first question they're going to have is why do people want to do that?
Well, they want to control you.
Well, why?
What's worth why would anybody want to control me?
It's hard for people who are not communists to relate to the communist dream.
It's hard for people who aren't to understand why anybody would want to be.
Because there's nothing good about it.
So why would anybody want it?
The only people for whom it's good are the rank and file elites who lead it, who run it.
And for them, it's simply a way to organize the legal theft of a nation's wealth.
Pure and simple.
And in order to get away with the thievery of the nation's wealth, you have to have massive total control, punitive control.
You have to make people docile.
You have to make people complacent.
You have to do certain ways, usually fear, to make them go along with being stolen from.
The worst thing for you as a communist leader is a bunch of people who don't want to stand up and oppose you.
That's when you have to go grab the guns.
So what you do is you just shut them up.
You give them enough to keep them happy, whatever it takes, while you're stealing them blind.
But in order to get away with the theft, you have to keep them docile.
You have to make it perfectly clear to them that there's no point in resisting, that there's no future in resisting, that the only thing that can happen to you if you resist or to your family is absolute, you don't want to even think about what could happen.
And that's how they do it.
Anyway, I appreciate the call.
We got to go back after this, uh, folks.
Do not go away.
I've got this call up here.
Is that Lissy?
She'll never get her question in because she's not a highly trained specialist.
Here's her question.
If the Republicans don't win, Lissy, we'll try to get to you tomorrow.
Snerdley's going to get your number, and if you let us call you back, we will.
Her question is if the Republicans don't win, and with everything the Democrats are touting, if they win, why we're further down the road to socialism, communism.
She wants to know what I'm going to do if that happens.
Now I would have been easy to skip that.
You'd have never known we had that call.
I could have just told Snerdley thanks, but no thanks.
But no, we'll tackle that.
Open line Friday tomorrow, right?
Make sure we have a way to get hold of her.
That's right, folks.
We're out of busy broadcast time for today, but there's always tomorrow here, and we'll be back.
Open line Friday.
And you can prep, be thinking whatever you want to ask or say is what we permit.
Put on my benevolent dictator hat for open line Friday.
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