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March 8, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 8, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Greetings, my good friends, and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh here on the cutting edge of societal and political evolution.
Meaning if you're here every day, you're going to be a step ahead of what happens and falls out on a day-to-day basis.
And it's great to have you here.
The telephone number is 800-282-2882, the email address, Lrushbo at EIBNet.com.
Why is Donald Trump causing what he's causing?
Why is there so much rabid interest in Donald Trump?
We all know the answer to that.
He's perceived as anti-establishment.
He's perceived somebody as an outsider that is just going to represent the interests of people who have been lied to, ignored, whose life circumstances have been made worse by people in the establishment running as much as they can run.
And folks, there isn't any question about that.
We're really down to it here when when in describing the divide that exists between the ruling class, I don't care what term you come up for, the elites, the establishment, the ruling class, they consider themselves to be our betters.
They do think of themselves a cut above us in education and training and breeding.
And I'm not kidding about that.
Breeding, better families, better bloodlines, uh, Ivy League or similar education.
They do consider themselves better and as such, smarter, much more competent.
Uh we who are not permitted in that club are robes.
Uh might not be an act of dislike, it's just there's a contempt.
We just don't know what they do, and we can't learn what they've learned, and we simply will not make the choices that must be made as they view it.
So more and more control is sought over daily American life.
But look what they've done, these betters.
They have, under the guise of fixing things that have gone wrong, think fixing things they broke in the first place.
We're $19 trillion in debt with them in charge.
We have one after another failing entitlement program, starting with Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid and Obamacare.
I think, however, it's a much more powerful thing to point out what they have done to the college education than to continue to harp on welfare because that's almost become cliched and can easily be misconstrued into an attack on the poor, which we do not do.
And by we, I mean all of us, people in this audience, uh fellow Americans I know, nobody makes fun of or wishes the poor on the poor, nothing like that at all.
But here's the point.
In America, there has always been this reality.
It wasn't just a concept, it was a reality that whatever class differences existed were not exclusionary.
You could be born poor and end up in the top one percent.
Not everybody, but you could.
You could be born in the fourth quintile.
You could be born in the lower middle class, middle class, and work your way up.
Now, since the Great Depression, the number one requirement to pulling something like that off has been a college education.
This is what we've been told, and for the most part, it really can't be denied.
It's it's become, and it has always been a major requirement.
Whether it's actually used to limit the number of applicants that have to be interviewed or whatever, the importance of a college degree cannot be denied in terms of advancement.
For those who didn't go to college, there were vocational schools where people could earn a living, being construction workers or mechanics, or manufacturing line workers or whatever.
And but in any case, there was a way up.
That's what you want to boil it down the American dream was not just owning a house.
It was the opportunity to improve yourself.
Unlike anywhere else in the world, whatever you're born to, that's your life.
But not here.
But look at what our betters have done.
Under the guise of being smarter and brighter, they have botched everything.
They've screwed up the healthcare system now.
They have turned the greatest healthcare system in the world into something that is inaccessible for a large number of people.
They run the banks, right?
What are interest rates?
Zero percent.
What's that cost the banks?
Nothing.
Well, how does it help you?
For all this longest time, these people have been the ones telling us to save our money.
Then chiding us if we don't.
Publicly chiding us for not saving for a rainy day, right?
News stories predictable once, twice, three times a year.
These people wringing their hands over the fact that the saving rate is too low.
It's going to put additional pressure on entitlements when people retire.
No matter what we do, we're screwing up.
We're eating the wrong things.
We're drinking the wrong things and too much of the wrong things.
So all of these things have to be controlled on the premise that we don't know what we're doing.
They know what they're doing.
Well, this one ticket out for everybody, as it was portrayed and as it has been sold and explained to people, the college education.
Look at what they've done to that.
Oh, yeah, it's still available.
It cost an arm and a leg.
But it has become an impediment to climbing the ladder of success.
The debt that the vast majority of college graduates incur, acquiring their degrees, makes it impossible to do anything but stay even for a while.
Got to pay back the loans.
And many people have student loan debt that's in six figures.
But it doesn't take a six-figure student loan debt to make it cumbersome and to make it an impediment.
And to actually act like a ball and chain in slowing you down.
And yet that's the big ticket out.
That's what they've sold it.
Everybody's bought it.
Everybody's believed it.
Everybody has signed on to it.
It has become a cultural given you nothing if you don't go to college.
Well, not you just don't have anywhere near the chance if you don't go to college.
So they've sold that.
Who runs colleges and universities?
They do.
Whenever there is talk of consumers being ripped off with rising costs, how come universities never are mentioned?
Big oil's always targeted.
Big pharmaceuticals always targeted.
Big box retailers always targeted.
Big auto is always targeted.
But big school isn't.
No, no, we'll handle the big school expenses.
We'll loan you the money.
My point is, forget conspiracies.
They've just botched it, folks.
They have not fixed any, they've made it actually tougher.
To climb the ladder of success.
These are the people in charge of all these things.
These are the people.
These are the people that have always said they know better.
It's no the the Trump has been coming.
It's been in the cards for years.
We didn't know who it was going to be, but this was going to happen.
At some point there was going to be a revolt against this because after enough time passes, enough people have been demonstrably negatively impacted by all this to keep it a secret.
They're going to figure it out, which they have.
It doesn't hurt that the Republican Party came along in the last two midterm elections and promised to stop all this and turn the ship around, Start sailing in the right direction didn't happen.
Voters believed them, invested in it.
The evidence isn't theoretical, it's real.
Where does all this lead?
Here's the danger.
You see, the danger is that these the betters, the elites, the ruling class, whatever you're going to call them the establishment.
Everything they have done has been designed to affect a number of things, but among them public opinion.
They have, they have made it look like they are aware we are in a democracy that people vote and they winners triumph and implement what they believe.
And yet, all the time this is going on, the ruling class and establishment has been setting itself up to survive and thrive no matter who wins elections.
And at some point, down the road, this is what always happens.
The ruling class is going, what why are we even going through this charade of elections?
Why are we even wasting our time?
And this is how democracies end.
This is how republics fall by the wayside.
The ruling class finally tires of going through the motions of pretending public opinion matters, winning public opinion matters.
They get tired of it and they realize it's a wasted exercise.
It's been it's necessary in order to get the power and keep the power for a while, but after a while, you don't even need the elections because no matter what happens in elections, you still run the show and still do what you want to do.
And that's why there's Trump.
Somebody has come along and has convinced a lot of people here that he's the agent of change that can stop all of this.
It's quite natural that the establishment would not want any part of this.
It's quite natural that the people who have considered themselves our betters by virtue of breeding and intelligence and education and position, they're not just gonna sit by and let an election take it all away from them.
For those of you who play golf, let me give you an analogy.
Let's say you live in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and you are a member of the Oshkosh Country Club, and you have people who've wanted to become members at Augusta National for 50 years, but Augusta National won't give you the time of day.
And you finally said, you know what?
We're just gonna take over.
We're just gonna move there and we're just gonna take over again.
Do you think the members at Augusta Nash are just gonna sit there and let Oshkosh country club take over?
No way.
It's not how it happens.
So now clearly they are organizing to try to stop Trump.
Now they're doing it within the confines of the electoral process, which means they still consider that to be relevant, but if they have to, they will act outside the electoral process to stop Trump.
By denying the electoral process by taking over the convention and making sure that whatever the expressed will of voters is not reflected when the convention is over.
That's what I mean by outside the political system.
And make no mistake that this is being planned right now.
Now let me couple of things that you might think are not related, but they are.
A story here from Breitbart News.
Facebook suspends frack nation page for telling the truth about fracking.
There's a fracking trial going on in Pennsylvania.
It's not going well for the left.
They're losing it.
Facebook has shut down the page of pro-frackers.
I am not kidding.
By the way, little side note, Hillary Clinton.
She may have stepped in it last night and nobody knows it yet.
In that little thing they did with Fox News, Hillary Clinton came out against fracking in Ohio.
And what Pennsylvania?
Two states the Democrats need.
I mean, it's one thing to be against coal in these Southern Hick states.
But you know what the Democrats really never came after coal in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Hillary, whether she knew what she did or came out against fracking, fracking is why Ohio has a booming economy.
And here's Hillary Clinton telling him she's going to shut it down.
Believe me, and it's going to come back and bite her.
And the same thing in Michigan here, folks, same thing in Pennsylvania, whatever.
She's out there heavy.
But my point about the social media is this.
Let's go back to this secret confab that took place at Sea Island, Georgia over the weekend.
You had all kinds of tech CEOs from Silicon Valley, Tim Cook from Apple, Larry Page, Google, Sean Parker, Napster, and Facebook.
You had Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX.
You had Mitch McConnell, you had Carl Rove, you had Paul Ryan, you had numerous Republican senators and congressmen.
You know who wasn't there?
The drive-bys.
Now wait, other than Bill Kristol, there were no media people there.
Don't laugh.
What this means is if the tech people are there, Facebook, Google, if they're there, what that tells me is that social media is usurping the role of traditional drive-by media.
And take a look at this story in Breitbart about Facebook simply suspending a pro-fracking page based on what's happening in Pennsylvania in fracking.
Fracking there's a trial against it, and it's not going well for the left, for the Hillary, the P the Democrats, the people who oppose fracking under the climate change, they just don't want any uh oil at all.
It's got to be totally solar, renewable, wind, what have you.
Anything that makes oil, fossil fuels cheaper and more plentiful, they oppose it.
Fracking does that.
The anti-fracking forces are losing.
Facebook has shut down the pro-fracking page.
In other words, don't even need the media to do stories anti-fracking.
Because the actions on social media now just shut down access.
Just shut down free speech on social media of the people you don't like.
And in this case, the pro-fracking people have been silenced and shut down and shut up on Facebook.
And they're working hand in hand with the Democrat Party on anti-fracking, and they don't need one drive-by reporter there to accomplish this.
They're not even worried about the media shutting down public opinion or shaping it or what.
They're using social media to silence it.
So don't think that wasn't on this agenda of this super secret thing that happened at Sea Island, Georgia this past weekend.
And this, I think, is a great indication of how they might end up using social media to harm damage what have you, Trump, and then Cruz, if they succeed in taking Trump out, then they're gonna focus on Cruz until they get the lap person, the lackey that they want in there.
No doubt that's their objective, in my humble opinion.
One minor but important correction.
And the super secret conf at Sea Island, Georgia.
I said there were no drive-bys there, and there were.
Arthur Schultzberger, the third little pinch, who runs the New York Times, was there.
None of his reporters, but he was there with all, and of course, little pinch, the New York Times, folks, is party establishment, obviously, and Bill Crystal from the Weekly Standard.
Back to the phones, we go, Mark in Port St. Lucy, Florida.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Uh, like you, I read the Wall Street Journal almost every day.
And for the last five months, I know you've seen that they've been hammering Trump with two to four articles a day.
Yeah.
I don't think they realize that this is like trying to put out a fire with gasoline.
Can you imagine what a brokered convention with the passion of Trump representatives would look like?
It's gonna make the debates look tame.
Well, we need to get into that because even if they succeed in denying Trump 1,237, if the primaries work out, let's say Cruz, let's say Cruz continues to gain ground, um, and I don't know, Kasich, what happens if Kasich does it wins Ohio?
You know, there's a whole lot of stuff here yet to be decided.
Bottom line, if Trump goes into Cleveland with, say, 1,100 delegates, not 1,237.
It looks like right now that the Republican Party is going to use that as an opportunity to blow up this whole thing and use it to get rid of Trump and choose somebody else on the second, third, whatever how many ballots it takes.
Which case you've got not just Trump delegates that show up in Ohio.
You've got Trump voters all over this country in a in an explosion of outrage.
If they try, let's say Trump gets within 50 delegates or 100, and nobody else is close, and if they try to yank it away and don't acknowledge the will of the people, that's what they will be flouting.
They will be flouting the will of Republican primary voters if they try that.
There's going to be chaos, and they may want the chaos.
But there's there's another factor in this too that I don't have time to get into now.
I'll do before the program ends, I promise.
But this Wall Street Journal observation you had, too.
You're you're right about that, and they have not been able to stop Trump.
So now they're out there on TV saying it's my fault.
Trump hasn't been stopped.
Okay, folks, I just learned that the pro-fracking page has been put back up at Facebook.
So the Facebook attempted censorship of pro-fracking forces failed.
And they're uh both sides of the fracking discussion regarding a trial going on in Pennsylvania are now back up.
Um the story I have on this is from uh Breitbart, and it's from uh admittedly it's from yesterday's last night.
Facebook suspends frack nation page for telling the truth about fracking.
It's a pro-f there's a fracking trial, and the left is using it, losing it.
And Facebook shut down the pro-fracking pages for comment and what have you, whatever you do there at Facebook.
But the forces overwhelmed Facebook censors, and it's back up now.
So that's good.
It's and it's a microcosm of what's happening.
In the old days, the people who had been shut down or shut out would just have to deal with it.
They really wouldn't have any mechanism to uh to overcome the, in this case, censorship, but they are so large in numbers.
I actually should say we, we are so many now.
Our numbers are so huge.
I think it's the left that is the minority.
I think it is establishment thinking, ruling class thinking that's the minority.
That's another thing that's frustrating about it for a lot of people, is that we're actually being governed or ruled, if you will, by a uh a minority of thought.
So but but make no mistake, social media is being used by the left to censor anything they don't want to hear or see.
Now the fracking attempt was beat back, but it's happening throughout Twitter, and look at all these websites that are now prohibiting and eliminating comments.
The LA Times, for example, has announced it's not that recent, it's past few months.
The Los Angeles Times announced that they are no longer going to permit letters to the editor or comments on their website from people anti-global warming.
They're just not gonna permit it.
So the the point here is that social media is overtaking the drive-by media in terms of where people who want to influence public opinion go.
Now, don't don't misunderstand.
I'm not saying the drive-by's are history.
No, don't it's it's it's still in an evolutionary phase, and the social media aspect of it is relatively new.
But I'm making the point because look who was at this meeting.
You know, there was a similar meeting in 1957 at Sea Island, Georgia.
And it was called the Kingmakers.
That's what the group was called then.
Same, it was the political and media and corporate elite of the day met for the same express purposes back in 1950.
So Phyllis Schlafley writes about it in her biography or one of her books.
And it's as the same objective.
It's always, but but uh you know, back then uh it it wasn't it wasn't known to exist the way it's known to exist today.
And back then when the elites got together, everybody wanted to be there.
It was uh, you know, oh wow, these are the real powerful people, and people trusted them, obviously.
Some did.
It's a massively changing landscape now, but we're in the middle of the landscape changing.
So don't I don't want anybody knee-jerk me here again on this and think I've said that the drive by's are finished, they're not.
It's just social media has developed and evolved into another quiver in the in the ammo bag, if you uh, if you will.
And censorship is the objective of the new left.
They're not happy with me in Rio Linda, a little brief, brief departure here until we get back to the news of the day.
But I just found out, apparently in Rio Linda, which is uh well, I I learned of Rio Linda when I lived in Sacramento.
I drove through it one day and I was anyway.
Um they're not happy with me there, and I think they should love me.
I have put Rio Linda on the map.
I have no doubt been instrumental in in elevating and raising property values and a nationwide awareness of the of the place.
But I have here a report in KCRA TV 3, the NBC affiliate in Sacramento, and it's from Thursday night, and they reported about folk art in Rio Linda.
Apparently they got a new project out there to uh to make barn quilts.
They're putting folk art barn quilts around town to combat stereotypes spread by me.
So we go to the soundbite here.
This is KCRA TV 3 Sacramento.
New American folk art.
This is the anchored Lisa Gonzalez, new American folk art is popping up all over Rio Linda.
It's called Barn Quilts, courtesy of a group of women in town.
And this is the report.
As KCR3's Letizio Rodaz reports, the brightly painted blocks on barns, homes, businesses, and landmarks are helping to erase stereotypes and spread community pride.
Deborah Crow is the brainchild behind the real Linda Alberta quilt drill project.
Instead of fabric, wood or metal is used as a canvas that represents important things in the community.
Deborah thought it would be a powerful way to change real Linda's image.
Rush Linboss says some nasty things about our town, and it's not it wasn't hard to recruit women to join her group.
We were the housewives of Rhea Linda.
They've already placed some twenty pieces of artwork all over town.
When you go and drive down the street and you're looking for the barn quilts, you don't notice a lot of uh trash on the street or graffiti or anything like that.
Well did you did you catch all of that?
You have what's the question?
What's the question?
They're they're they're making barn quilts to distract people from the trash and graffiti that they would otherwise see as they drive through town.
Look, it's still there.
This this is this is this is 28 years ago.
Uh I offered to move to Rio Linda when I lived there.
If they would change the name to Limbaugh, California, they turned that down.
I also offered to move to West Sacramento if they would change.
They turned it down.
But I mean, when I drove through Rio Linda, I was stunned.
I was that there's there's no number on the population sign on the on the city limit sign, so nobody admits living there.
And I drove the main drag of town, and then people's cars are up on concrete blocks, and the washing machines are on the front porch.
And I went back to the radio standard, what is this place?
It was right near the Air Force.
So what in the world is this place?
That's, oh, that's real Linda.
Everybody loves real Linda.
So I I made it my pet community, and so forth.
And did you hear this?
She says Rush Limbaugh says some nasty things about our town, and it's not true.
And then later on, yeah, so now when you go drive down the street, you're looking for the barn quilts.
You don't notice the trash on the street or the graffiti or anything now.
I love Rio Linda.
Where would this program be without it?
I had I had heard, I've been told for many, many moons that property values in real Linda had skyrocketed since I put the place on the map.
So yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm watching House of Cards.
Folks, I realize a number of you in the it's season four now on Netflix.
And it just hit Friday, so I'm sure very few of you have binge watched the whole thing.
There's 13 episodes.
Some of you may not have even started it.
So I am not going to.
I'm not even going to give you an indication of what I think about it, because that itself would be a spoiler alert.
I'm tempted to, but I'm going to hold back.
I'll give people a couple weeks to get into this.
And then I will share my uh my thoughts on this.
Uh, one thing here before we get back to audio sound bites, Reuters diplomats from Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia join forces to complain to U.S. officials about Donald Trump.
Foreign diplomats expressing alarm to U.S. government officials about what they say are inflammatory and insulting public statements by Trump.
Officials from Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia have complained in recent private conversations, mostly about the xenophobic nature of Trump.
That's not what bugs it.
Don't fall for that.
You know, these powerful people they couldn't care less that somebody might insult them and their race and their ethnicity.
I mean, maybe a few here.
This is not about this is a these are the same elites in their countries and in their structures who are just worried that some outside force is going to come in here and upset the balance, and they're using as an excuse.
This guy's racist, he's xenophobic.
You know, you can you know how to tell they're panicking?
Is all of these people now comparing Trump to Hitler?
And Trump rallies to the Nuremberg rallies.
Yeah, that's that's our old buddy David Brooks of the New York Times.
David Brooks of the New York Times actually, you know, Trump is gone, one of his bits now.
He started it, I think, maybe it was Saturday in Orlando, it might have been earlier, but at his rally in Orlando Saturday, he asked Saturday, he asked people to raise their hand to take a pledge to vote for him.
And he kind of botched it because he he gave them a pledge to recite that was too long.
It did every sentence was where he stopped and asked him to repeat was too long.
So he revised the pledge now.
But this, this just injected fear in the in the establishment class.
David Brooks out there, oh my God, this is just what Hitler did.
Oh my God!
Let's bring back the Nuremberg rallies.
Why don't we?
And then there were pictures of the Nuremberg rallies, people lined up posted next to a Trump rally in Orlando.
Now, when they when they haul Hitler out at you, that tells us the degree to which they're panicked and how they're nearing their last stops to pull out here in trying to head this off.
You know, let anybody call Obama a Muslim or a socialist or a Marxist, and these people jump down your throat, and they tell you how uncivilized that is, how unsophisticated that, how embarrassing that is to see that of you and hear the same people running around trying to tell Trump supporters that he's nothing more than a modern incarnation of Adolf Hitler.
If that's not exasperation and frustration, I don't know what it is.
Now back to the audio sound by starting here at number nine.
This I mentioned this earlier.
This is a panel on CNBC's squawk box.
Joe Kernan, and they're talking with Becky Quick out there, and uh what their guest is the political chief economic correspondent Ben White, and they're frustrated trying to figure out where I am in all of this.
You saw like Limbaugh.
He was talking about Ted Cruz saying that this guy, it was like a treatise in constitutional conservative thinking.
But then with Trump, he said that the upside for Trump presidency far outweighs the downside that all of his critics are trying to do.
He's been fairly supportive of Trump over the last couple of months.
But if you had a lot of people.
It's coming down to Cruz and Trump.
Yeah, that's the establishment's worst nightmare.
And Limbaugh will not pick one.
Limbaugh will not get off either one of the establishment's worst nightmare.
I gave the answer to this on Fox News Sunday.
It isn't a mystery.
They so desperately want me to endorse somebody so that they can go to town on that.
But I never do endorse.
It's not it, it's not an unheard of thing here.
This is not anything that's unprecedented.
What I said on Fox News Sunday, because Chris Wallace, I he asked me one question I was not anticipating.
You know, you do these shows, and they give you, at least Chris does.
He gives me the general topic areas.
I don't want the specific questions, actually.
I do some of my my best thinking on the fly.
Rather than if I sit down and brainstorm things I want to say.
I've got so accustomed to working this way, that's that's when I do my best.
So I just want general areas.
He asked me one question that I I did not even conceive as a possibility.
It wasn't a trick.
He asked me, how do you think this is going to end?
And of course, it's a it's a good question because it calls for, if I if I've if I fail to do this right, it calls for me to name somebody I think is going to win.
So my brain went into such fast action I could barely keep up with myself.
And I told Chris Wallace.
When this thing is all over, we're going to have a nominee.
Because this always happens, these heightened battles and the seemingly irresolvable arguments during a primary, and people say the party cannot possibly unify after this, and we always do.
And I said, We're all going to realize at the end of this process at some point that the real objective is to stop the most destructive force in this country, and that's the Democrat Party and Hillary Clinton.
And at the end of all this, that will be the objective.
It must be the objective.
And it is what I most care about.
I'm not into endorsements to see what kind of power I have, see if the guy I endorse can win.
I'm not interested in basking in the light of whoever's hot at the moment.
My objective, and I've not hidden this.
The Democrat Party has got to lose.
We have got to beat them.
We can't work with them.
We can't cross the aisle.
We can't do any of that.
The Democrat Party has to be defeated.
They are the most destructive force operating in this country today.
They are single-handedly more responsible for the messes in this country than anybody else.
And they've got to be defeated.
Whoever can do that is going to have my vote.
What about conservatism?
Well, it goes hand in hand.
If we don't have articulate good conservatism, we're not going to beat them.
We can't beat them being Democrat light.
We can't beat them crossing the aisle and meeting them halfway and showing them we mean them no harm.
To me, the two go hand in hand.
And by the way, that's not a uh unique position.
I have always in in in campaigns past, in years past, my objective has always been beat the Democrats.
Not nominate my favorite guy.
I can't control that anyway.
And I don't endorse people because I don't control them, and I have no idea what they're going to do after I endorse them.
And the last thing I'm going to do is endorse somebody who goes out off the rails, jumps off the cliff, some oddball thing that people call here demand I defend, and I can't.
The primary is a losing cause doing that.
You know, talk to anybody who has, and get on to be honest with you, and they'll tell you that it's it's a they'd rather have it back.
Anyway, Wall Street Journal blaming me.
That's coming up next.
When we get back, don't go away for it.
Colin Powell, Colonel Colin Powell, Secretary Colin Powell, so he was in Africa.
What was he doing in Africa?
He was in Africa.
He was uh he was in Africa.
He said they're scratching their heads in Africa.
They can't figure out what's going on in the Republican campaign.
Not in America.
Not in Africa.
Secretary Powell says they can't figure out what's happening in the Republican campaign.
Well, I mean, that may be the straw that breaks the camel's back right there, right?
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