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Feb. 12, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 12, 2016, Friday, Hour #2
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One thing here, folks, I know that every time there's a Democrat debate, we tend to laugh about it and joke about it, which is I think a protective measure for what it's scary what these people believe, and that's my point here.
I don't want anybody to think.
And it amazes me that anybody could after as many years I've been doing this.
But I check email during the breaks, and there's some people that think, You know, you're not taking this seriously enough, Russia.
These people are really posing a break.
I, I think of all people know that.
But it's a long campaign.
People's emotional reservoirs are only so deep, and they're going to empty out long before we get to November.
People's emotional reservoirs are going to empty and refill and empty and refill numerous times.
I don't think there's anybody more attuned to the clear and present danger that we face with either of these two, Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders, because we face it with Barack Obama, and I mean it.
I'm I'm I'm not trying to be clever or come up with a sound bite or something somebody finds pithy that they want to repeat.
I believe the Democrat Party is a major destructive force in our country today.
And the evidence is just to listen to these two people.
Now, the tendency here is to come here and next day report on it and crack jokes and make fun of them.
That's what we've always done here.
But one of the things that I have learned over all of these years, making fun of some of the really just far out, wacko, insane stuff.
My mistake all these years, I failed to comprehend just how many Americans didn't think it was funny, that believed it.
In large part students, primarily college students, but high school as well, who graduate believing this stuff because they end up having it taught to them.
I remember give you an illustration of this.
Whenever this was, it was sometime back in the 90s, the first week or month or whatever that media matters for America went live.
I was their clickbait.
I was who they highlighted because, like I'm a great fundraiser for the left.
That's why I'm in all their fundraising because they hate me.
And they use me to scare people.
That's why Howard Dean was out there in the whatever it was, the 2004 campaign, telling everybody flag doesn't just belong to Rush Limbaugh belongs to all of us.
It was a badge of honor to be so hated by these people.
So Media Matters posted, I think it was the top 25 most outrageous things I've ever said.
And I looked at it and I wanted to thank them.
It was hilarious.
There were some of my greatest lines.
It was some of the funniest stuff I've ever said.
Well, lo and behold, what I didn't get was that the numbskulls, the lunatic fringe that reads media matters, that just made them outraged and livid, they're unable to spot satire when they are the targets.
They're unable to laugh at parity or any humor, particularly when they are the targets.
But even if they're not the targets, they're not, these are not people that are normal in the sense that they want to enjoy life because they don't.
Their lives are spent immersed in misery to one degree or another, and practically all of it is self-made, self-imposed, and self-manufactured.
It's their natural state.
And I've gone through this a couple of times, the psychological makeup of your average middle class, lower middle class Democrat voter.
They really are.
You can type them.
They don't amount to much.
They don't think they're going to amount to much, but it's because everybody else is discriminating against them or mistreating them or doesn't realize their value.
And so they're just obsessed and consumed with victim status, victimization, and they lash out at all the people and forces they think are responsible for their failures and for their lack of ability to amount to anything.
And when Democrat politicians come along and start punishing, start talking about how they're gonna punish powerful employers, CEOs, bosses, these are the people your average middle class, lower middle class Democrat thinks is responsible for his or her plot lot in life.
They know that they're abnormal in a whole lot of weird ways, and they just can't deal with it.
So their lives are a quest for normalcy and acceptance and a desire to get even with all the people who have mistreated them, laughed at them, made fun of them, or otherwise stomped on them and kept them down.
So there's no la there's no joy.
There is there's no laughter, there's not even any design.
When they win, when they get everything they want, it just makes them angrier because victory itself reminds them of their plight.
But the worst thing about it for them, victory does not change their plight.
It's impossible for it to.
If you grow up or if you currently exist, thinking that your life, what you think is miserable and shrouded in unhappiness, is the fault of others.
Well, okay, go out and punish whoever they are, but it's not going to change your life any, and that's what happens to them.
So the Democrats come along and they either raise taxes or impose regulations or deny them tax exempt status at the IRS or some other form of punishment meted out from the authoritative branches of government.
They revel in this.
They love people that they blame suffering.
To them, equality is misery spread equally.
As such, even when they get what they want, even when Democrats come along and politically or culturally punish the people they blame for holding them back, they're never happy because their lives never change.
How could it?
It's no different than if you hate the rich, because they've got more money than you do.
But they ought not.
You ought to have as much as they do.
You're just as smart.
You're just as clever, but the odds were stacked against you.
You have something wrong with you that makes you a victim of something.
Somebody has stood in your way, or a group of people have stood in your way and have purposely denied you success or whatever.
So the Democrats come along, and in the economic example, promise to get even with those people who are going to raise their taxes, they're going to do whatever, and they applaud you.
Go for it.
Class envy works every time it's tried on these people.
But what happens?
Okay, the government, the Democrats raise taxes on the enemies of the middle and lower middle class, average ordinary Democrat American.
And they do pay more taxes, but it doesn't change the economic circumstances of these Democrats at all.
Fred Rich guy having to forego an additional $2,000 in taxes does not mean that average ordinary Democrats get the $2,000.
They never see it.
So their entire happiness depends on what they perceive to be the misery and defeat of others.
And of course, in that circumstance, it's impossible to ever be happy.
That's why I've never been motivated by a desire to show those people who didn't think I had what it took when I was younger.
We all have that.
Every successful person in the world will tell you that there were people along the way who told them they never had a chance.
They were not good enough.
Everybody, it's a universal truth.
Because it is true.
If your motivation in life is to prove those people wrong, you can you can make it work if you if you're disciplined about it.
But if you lose control of that, if that becomes your sole motivation, you're never going to be happy.
Because they're never gonna tell you.
They're never going to apologize.
They're never gonna call you up and say, you know what?
I thought you didn't have what it took.
I thought you were never gonna make it.
I thought, and you know why I was wrong?
Congratulations, it's never gonna happen.
You know what's gonna happen?
They're gonna continue to deny that you had what it took, and they're gonna claim that whatever success you've had is because of some dumb luck.
It's just the way people are.
So if you if you're motivated to succeed because you want to show your critics they were wrong, you're never gonna be happy.
Because you're never gonna get that satisfaction from them.
Your motivations, your inspirations have to be more realistic and they have to be personal.
They have to be positive related to you.
And that's who these average Democrat voters are.
They're not capable of that.
They're not capable of self-satisfaction because their happiness, their quasi, their faux happiness depends on them thinking other people are miserable.
Other people are unhappy, like they are.
And there are a lot of these people, folks.
My point here is you watch these debates, and as crazy and insane as you and I, I'm telling you, I watch these debates and I think I'm listening to a foreign language.
I think I'm listening to people from different countries.
Maybe certainly a different world.
I don't have anything in common with them personally, individually, politically, it's it's it's it's shocking.
So we come in and joke about it, but the fact is it's a lot of people who believe that what Bernie Sanders is saying is gospel.
Ditto Hillary Clinton.
Like that media matters, that first piece they posted on me.
You I guarantee you, Coco, don't go find it.
I it's not worth that.
I'm not, I don't want to give them the hits.
I'm just, I'm just telling you, when I looked at it, I was thankful.
I thought, these people are making me lose this.
They some of my funniest, greatest lines ever.
I forgot these people don't see anything funny.
They thought everything that I was quoted.
A lot of it was out of context stuff or cherry pick a line here.
But I knew where it came from.
And if you just read all 25 of them, they were uproariously like feminist uh the undeniable truth of life number 24.
Feminism and I I challenge anybody to tell me this is wrong.
Feminism was established to ask to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.
There's no question about it.
They hate me for that.
You read that.
Uh and if you understand if you know me and understand the context in which I've said it, it's uproariously funny because it happens to be true.
And good comedy requires truth, an element of truth, or it isn't going to be funny.
But they were filled with things like this, that list, and they just the victory all and the sheer unmitigated rage that people felt over this thing.
I thought they were just humorous and these people have no ability to laugh at themselves.
They are intolerant of satire and jokes, or even criticism aimed at them.
They can dish it out.
They can't take a wiffle ball's worth of a hit.
And the point is there are a lot of them, and this election coming up is about which vision of America is actually going to have a chance here to thrive.
And it's it's scary to listen to people like Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders promise what they're promising, list the problems that they list, and realize so many dunderheads in this country agree with it.
So I don't want any of you to think I'm laughing it off.
That's just one way of dealing with it.
I even said yesterday that I I think more of what these people are saying ought to become part of the Republican primary now.
I understand the objective in the Republican primary is intramural, so to speak.
But that would be useful.
For example, some of these Republican candidates, they're gone now.
Some of them don't see the Democrats even the way you and I just described them.
We know the Republican establishment doesn't.
They just see the Democrats as people to I don't really go through it again.
You want to you you you get the point.
I just don't want you to think, based on a couple emails I got here, I don't take these people seriously.
I think I do, maybe more than you do.
Back after this.
Open line Friday to Chicago.
Michael, glad you called, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Hello.
Hey, Mr. Limbaugh, love the show.
Thank you.
I wanted to ask you real well, first of all, go Donald Trump, but I wanted to ask you about uh Tiger Woods.
Do you think that he'll ever get out of this debacle and break Jack Nicholas's record finally?
If not, who will come closest to it?
Maybe a McElroy, maybe uh uh uh uh uh Ricky Fowler, maybe uh Jason Day, maybe uh Jordan Speed.
I think speith, if he can maintain his consistency.
That's but that 18 majors, we're finding out just how difficult that's going to be to break it.
One time we thought Tiger was gonna blow past that and double it, maybe, if not that blow blow way past it.
Now Tigers for short, right?
Is it 14?
Right.
Is that right?
Got four to go.
Yeah, this a it's a tough question.
Uh one thing I I I would I would say in answer, I don't think that Tiger is ever going to become the dominant player he was in his twenties.
Now I just I don't I don't see that for a whole host of reasons, uh some psychological, but many of them physical.
I mean, he's just had too many injuries, too many surgeries.
Uh his swing speed is is gonna deteriorate now compared to the young guys.
And it's that's swing speed and distance are crucial.
Right.
As as this as the as the pro game is played.
But could he improve and play much better than he has the past couple years?
Yeah.
I I just I don't think he's ever going to become the dominant player he was.
I don't think he's ever going into sand traps and hitting seven irons for two hundred and twelve yards just to show the field he can do it and intimidate him.
The days that Tiger intimidating the field are not there, they're over, I think.
Right.
They all love him, by the way.
I mean, he's very popular out there.
They're They're not afraid of him anymore.
They all want him to come back.
Everybody in that tour wants Tiger Woods to come back because with him coming back comes back ratings and audience and money.
They're all pulling for it.
But there's always in athletics, it's all about youth.
Athletics is for the young.
And it's one of those things, it's a it's a I don't know what I if somebody would have told me that my career is over when I'm 35 to 40.
I don't know how psychologically I would deal with that.
Now these guys know that starting out and they go into it, but they all think they're going to be able to defy it.
It's part of the makeup of who they are.
They all think that it isn't going to apply to them.
And everybody, every athlete has it hit them.
In the NFL, when a running back turns 30, if there have been just one serious injury, the odds of getting a big contract are way, way low.
But there are other things with Tiger that have happened to him that may make it very difficult for him to get back to the indomitable attitude about himself that he had.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
One more thing about Tiger Woods and the game of golf.
And I realize that a lot of people, most people don't play the game of golf.
There's a number 24 million is the University Golfers.
Uh, and I know this because the people in the retail golf club business, and that's the number they use.
They're always trying to grow that number.
There's a there's that there's people that make golf clubs are at odds with the poo-bas that make the rules of golf.
It's a real challenge.
Uh they they need people to start the game and then stay with the game.
And the way people watch the game on TV, they see these guys bombing it 300 yards.
They want to know what that's like.
Your average duffer would love to be able to do that.
And it's my contention that club manufacturers could make a driver that would not be legal, but that your average duffer who's going to play once or twice a month could go out there and hit the ball a lot farther than he does now.
But the grand poo boss of golf will not permit that because of the sacred nature of the rules and all, all of which is understandable.
But it's a it's a it's a conflict.
I mean, the people in the retail business at golf need people joining clubs and playing the game, and it's a very, very hard game.
It is for those, this is my point about it.
For those of you who don't play it, have never played it.
The aspect of it that you'll never get is the mental.
It's just you.
There is nobody else to rely on.
There's nobody to pick you up.
There's there's nobody to give you a day off.
There's it's just you, and it's just your head and whatever is going on in your head.
And it doesn't take much to shatter confidence.
It is such a tough game.
It is so hard to play this.
Particularly tournament golf, winning tournament golf is next to impossible.
The guys that do it well make it look easy when you watch it on TV.
But even beyond the physical challenges there are playing golf, it is it is a it is requires athletic ability.
Golf swing is akin to a pitcher and how fast they can throw a fastball.
You can't teach somebody to throw at 95 miles an hour.
They either born able to do it or they can't.
You can't take somebody can throw at 75 and teach them how to push off the rubber, how to lift weights, how to how to get it up to 95 miles, and you just can't.
Same thing with a swing speed of golf.
You can either swing that club a hundred, a hundred and ten miles an hour, or you can swing at 75 or 80.
And if you can only swing at 75 or 80, you're never gonna hit it farther than 240.
And that's only gonna be when you really flush it and connect with it.
That's why they have different distances, T's and so forth.
But when you're talking about people like Tiger Woods and professionals, what goes on in their heads, the confidence, once that's gone, you could have all of the skills in the world and if you start doubting them it's over and that's the risk the most amazing amazing thing to me about those guys is their ability to triumph over adversity uh they don't win I mean that the
number of times that you play really really well and win a tournament look how few they are now you can make a good living out there with sponsorships and so but you still have to play really well and it's really really hard and if something breaks down in your head your confidence level gets blown up and it can take nothing more if you're playing bad you get to the first T and your shot goes right in the woods or what it can ruin your round if you are not able to control your attitude your confidence your emotions.
And when Tiger Woods owned the game of golf the thing that amazed me most was not the the physical I mean everybody was dazzled by that as I was but the performance pressure that he had going on every week dealing with the expectations that everybody had he does everything he does in front of the TV audience in the galleries that were there and they've all done this.
But when Tiger was at his peak, you remember all the talk none better this is incredible guaranteed wins what if you however you remember it took incredible mental toughness concentration and and the ability to deal with performance pressure week after week after we're at least weeks in which you're entered tournament that's when always having played the game myself that's I I marvel at the people in this game that play it well.
Tom Watson is playing this game well he's well into into senior status now and nearly won the British Open as a senior a few short years ago.
So it it can be that's rare though.
But I know a lot of people make fun of golf and poo-poo it but uh the the just the mental toughness and focus that's required to excel at that game.
That's it's more fun just go out and hit the ball and have you know maybe you tabulate your score or not but you just try to have fun out there and enjoy the time you're out there and maybe hit the ball well three or four times and end up going home happy.
Those guys doing it for a living it's an entirely different thing.
Here's uh here's Nathan in Clear Lake California.
It's great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
Thank you.
You bet.
What I wanted to talk about, you brought up the fact that the NFL has all these jerseys out and they're alternate jerseys, and a lot of them are gang-related or can be gang-related.
When I was in high school, I was actually asked to remove some of my jerseys because of the colors that they were.
Wait, wait, wait.
Hold, hold, hold.
You were asked...
you you mean you were a player?
No I was just a fan.
I played high school football my freshman year, but I didn't get much better than that.
Wait a minute.
Now, you're a fan, and people are asking you to change your jerseys?
Yeah.
I was a Steelers fan and still bleed black and gold.
But I'm up here in the San Francisco Bay Area.
And I had a supervisor, a yard supervisor, say, and this was just after the Steelers beat the Seahawks in the Super Bowl, in 2005, 2006.
And one of the guys said, look, Nathan, I'm going to have to ask you to remove your jersey.
And I said, well, why?
he says because it's black and gold and I said well what's that mean?
He says, well, it's Latin Kings colors.
And I didn't know what the Latin Kings were.
And I said, what, is that a video game or something?
And he says, no, it's a street gang, and those are their colors, black and gold.
So I said, okay, fine.
Took it off.
The next day I showed up wearing a Willie Mays jersey.
And same thing.
He says, you either have to turn it inside out or you've got to take it off.
And I said, okay.
Wait a minute.
Willie Mays never wore a black jersey.
The gangs had not infiltrated baseball by then.
Yeah, but what it was was the number 24 on the back.
apparently it's related to the 24th street gang or something like that.
Well I now this you you're You got average people on the street telling you this stuff.
Take off your Steelers jersey if it's black and gold and it's a Latin Kings.
Look, I that may well be.
Well, I know people get shot at over this kind of stuff.
If you wear the wrong thing in the wrong gang neighborhood, yeah, you can particularly if you're doing it on purpose.
It's like, you know, waving red in front of a bull down in Meiko City.
But the this is a different thing than what's going on with official team apparel.
Look, folks, you're going to have to read between the lines here.
I mean, I'm not going to college recruits are telling universities they're not going to come unless there is a black jersey as part of the uniform scheme.
Who are we talking about here?
You have the players are the ones who want to wear black because it symbolizes something to people they care about.
Okay.
My only point here is for the NFL for the this to be.
It's an ESPN story, so that right with a grain here a little bit.
Okay, take it with a grain of salt.
But still, the word out of these NFL meetings on moving a team to LA, they didn't want the Raiders because they're afraid that LA street gangs are going to co-opt the Raiders' apparel.
And the league doesn't want to be seen.
My only point is they already are.
When a team that has never had black in its color scheme, ends up wearing all black?
You've seen black jerseys, black pants.
Where do you think that comes from?
Go back 10, 15, 20, 30, 100 years.
That was never any team's official uniform.
You had to go to college or pop Warner to find uniform uh colors and arrangements like that.
But you you know, Nike and Adidas have now become designers as well as manufacturers of these uh jerseys and so forth.
So it's I'm only point here is the the the NFL for all this talk about not wanting a gang takeover of the Raiders' apparel.
Well, uh have you seen over there?
And you've all saying.
And it's not me, just me, folks.
You can find this have been written about any number of places in even the drive-by sports pages.
We're back on the cutting edge.
L. Rushbow here on open line Friday at 800-282-2882.
Here's Tim in Lake County, California.
Great to have you, sir.
I appreciate your patience.
Hey.
Uh Jim, you say Jim, oh, sorry.
Yeah.
Are you not from are you from Lake County, California?
Yes, I am.
Okay, well, hang on just a second.
Put him back on hold.
He's obviously confused.
Is he back on hold?
Okay, Jim, Lake County, California.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, hey, Rush.
Yeah.
Hey, great.
Great to have you here.
I'm so take off my little gal, Hillary, you know.
She's lying through Benghazi now.
She's lying through her teeth about the State Department of emails.
She's bringing pressure on my Crown Family Foundation, Limbo.
I'm telling you, I'm going to fall harder than John Gotti, you know.
They're going to start looking into this.
They're going to bring in, you know, sweet little energy.
We can all do a little jail time.
Don't worry.
Right now we're not going to go, Rush, but I'm on a tarmac now with the Jeffrey Epstein and the jet.
We're going down to Bardado for a little RR limbo.
Speaking of the city.
I'll call you next week, Rush.
He's done a tarmac with Jeffrey Epstein on the way to Barbara.
Way to go.
I've got let me, I've got the Epstein story here.
I was going to get into this today.
Jeffrey Epstein is a New York billionaire, donor to Democrats left and right.
He has endowed universities with various departments, his name's on them.
He was discovered to have been running a child sex ring for all intents and purposes.
It's called a massage operation, but it was underage girls that he would hire and bring into his homes and for his buddies and treat them to whatever these girls offered.
Well, Bill Clinton has to turn out to be one of these guys, one of Epstein's big, big friends.
And Epstein flew Clinton all over the world on his airplane while Clinton ostensibly was making fundraising appearances at various uh disaster sites or other places.
And Epstein was convicted, tried and convicted of a year, put in jail for a year, and then there was house arrest after that.
Uh and a number of people, Prince Andrew, a number of famous A listers have been identified as being in the Epstein circle, including Bill Clinton.
Now, none of the women who have come forth now, they're adults, none of them have ever said Clinton participated, but they've some of them have placed him on the premises.
So I was thinking Mrs. Clinton is losing women, right?
Millennial women, the only women that Hillary Clinton's able to attract are 65 plus.
This is the demographic.
This is in all the polling data in New Hampshire.
That's the only demographic she won.
Women 65 plus.
So I was thinking that idea for Hillary Clinton to ingratiate herself to young women would be to take a personal interest in the Epstein case.
The underage abuse victims.
They are suing the government, saying they were kept in the dark about a sweetheart deal that Epstein got.
Immunity and all that, after he pleaded guilty to hiring teenagers for sex.
Some of them are now trying to sue him sibly.
Well, this would be a perfect example for Hillary to show that she can relate and feels bad for young women like this by joining this action against the Epstein friend.
The problem is her husband's involved here.
But then they can fall back.
It's just sex.
It's nobody's business, but it.
Wait till you hear the latest reason from the environmentalist wackos why sea levels are not rising to the destructive levels they were to have risen to by now.
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