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March 11, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 11, 2016, Friday, Hour #3
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Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day, Rush Linbohr.
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Hang on a minute.
I need to listen to something real quick.
Yeah, the um funeral for Nancy Reagan just began.
We're obviously not going to join it in progress.
Battle Hymn of the Republic is being played, which is one of my...
They're singing it, but it's one of my favorite...
I call it a song.
At any rate, you...
This is going to be a profoundly beautiful service.
And I comfortably predict that people watching this funeral are going to be lifted and inspired and encouraged and reminded of great days in the past in this country.
What this country was, what it maybe it can be once again, culturally, politically.
The other night, the 1980s, Nancy Reagan is the last link that we have to the actual Reagan 80s.
Now there are a lot of people that worked for Reagan in his administration.
But I was thinking back to those years as as I lived them.
And it remains one of my favorite decades of my life.
It's where for the first time in my professional career I have discovered success rather than just fleeting attempts at it.
I actually discovered, I like to say what a success track looks like and feels like.
That would have been 1984.
And I will live in California when it happened, where a place that I have actually I'd I love if it if it weren't for a whole bunch of circumstances, I would live there.
We would live there.
But I was just thinking about those those years in the in the first four years of the Reagan administration, the first four years of the 1980s, I was uh making as little money as I'd ever made in my life.
But I was optimistic and uh happy, excited.
I'd had this job with the Kansas City Royals, which is a great, great, I mean, it was didn't pay anything, but man, it was exciting uh for the first couple three years.
The 80s was was where all of the dedication to my desires and all of the hard work that I'd put finally began to pay off.
And I have a nostalgic attachment that is almost universally positive.
What's ProCod doing that?
I never I'm not gonna ask.
I'm not gonna ask.
A fond, fond set of memories.
I've got this belief that nostalgia really reminds us only of the good times.
I mean, there was uh bad times for everybody at all times, but just the the things that that I recall that were meaningful and mattered are all upbeat and positive from the from the 1980s.
And Ronald Reagan was given my interest and devotion to politics and so forth, was he never knew it.
I never met him, I never met Nancy, but didn't matter because I felt like I knew them.
That was the one of the great gifts, I think that Reagan had.
Uh you felt like he knew you.
You felt like he was aware.
And not in a hero hero worship or idolatrous sense, but just in a real guy sense.
But I'm just gonna tell you if you if you see this funeral, if you watch it, if you see highlights of it, I guarantee you it's gonna seem like a throwback to you, a positive throwback.
And you're gonna long for ceremonies like this.
You're gonna wonder what happened to them.
Why do we no longer do things like this anymore?
Things like what you're gonna see today are what are mocked and made fun of and attacked and claimed to be uh discriminatory against others.
I I can predict that there will even be mocking criticism of this funeral today in uh various places.
Anyway, I want to get to the audio sound bites from the debate last night.
Uh no, take it back.
The debate didn't happen.
Well, it did, but it doesn't matter.
Debate's old news because Ben Carson and Trump appeared today at Marilago, where Carson made it official that he was endorsing the Trumpster.
Some people said, but well, you know, he said terrible things about you.
How can you support him?
Well, first of all, we buried the hatchet.
That was political stuff.
And you know, that happens in American politics.
The politics of personal destruction, all that is not something that I particularly believe in or anything that I get involved in.
But I do recognize that it is a part of the process.
We move on because it's not about me.
It's not about Mr. Trump.
It's about America.
And this is what we have to be thinking about.
I have found in talking with him that, you know, there's a lot more alignment philosophically and spiritually than I ever thought that there was.
Okay.
Well, that's you know, I'm sitting here thinking, if that's just politics, why are you so upset at Ted Cruz for believing what CNN tweeted about about leaving uh the campaign and hitting back in Florida?
Well, no, I'm just asking.
Well, yeah, how can you support Trump?
He said some terrible things about you.
Well, he buried the hats.
Political stuff, you know, that kind of stuff happens in politics.
Whoa, mustn't forgiven Ted Cruz.
Ted Cruz didn't do anything.
Ted Cruz never said anything like what Trump said about Ben Carson.
But we're not through here.
Carson continued.
Some people said, Well, why would you get behind a man like Donald Trump?
I'll tell you why.
First of all, I've come to know Donald Trump over the last few years.
He is actually a very intelligent man who cares deeply about America.
There are two different Donald Trump's.
There's the one you see on the stage, and there's the one who's very cerebral, sits there and considers things very carefully.
You can have a very good conversation with him.
And that's the Donald Trump that you're going to start seeing more and more of right now.
Man, oh man, let me tell you something that drives by's are all over that soundbite.
And what they're trying to say with that soundbite is that is that Trump is a phony.
That Trump is a performer.
That Trump is faking it.
That the personal Trump, the public Trump, what you see is not who Trump really is.
And Carson has let the cap out of the bag.
That's what the drive-by's have been trying to do all day with that.
That's not what Carson's saying, but that's what they're trying to infer and want others to believe.
He's actually a very intelligent man, cares deeply about America, two different Trumps.
There's the one you see on stage, and that's supposed to mean that's just the stage performance, man.
That's not who the guy really is.
Well, now wait a minute, that's the guy everybody sees.
The drive-by is saying.
The drive what do you mean that's the guy everybody sees?
What do you mean that's not who he is?
Well, you're gonna be seeing who he really is, Dr. Carson said.
More and more right now, you're gonna be seeing who he really is.
So we'll see if that has any impact.
I don't expect that it will, but the drive by is are gonna try.
They're gonna take that soundbite.
They've already started.
And the uh implication will be that Trump is uh well, he's he's he's putting you on.
He's not being who he really is on stage.
He's just being who he thinks you want Him to be, and he's doing it really well.
And if I didn't know better, I would say maybe that some of the Republican candidates might pick up on that soundbite at the same way.
But we will see.
Ben Carson then went on to say that he's forgiven Ted Cruz, too.
But that Trump is going to win.
And he thinks Republicans ought to unite behind Trump because Trump's going to win.
He's forgiven Cruz, but it would fracture the party if we don't unite behind the Trumpster.
One of the real factors for me is what will happen if we allow the political operatives to succeed in their endeavor to stop Donald Trump.
I think it would fracture the party irreparably.
And it would hand the election to the Democrats.
Why not Senator Cruz?
Because I feel that Mr. Trump is willing to do what needs to be done to break the stranglehall of special interest groups and the political class.
Are there any remaining hard feelings towards Senator Cruz over what happened in Iowa?
I've completely forgiven him.
That's a duty one has as a Christian.
So there you have it.
He's totally forgiven Ted Cruz.
He's united behind Trump, thinks everybody should, because Trump's gonna win.
If we don't unite behind Trump, it's gonna be the end of the Republican Party.
So Trump next came out.
This was in the press conference portion after the uh uh the the uh yeah press conference portion after the announcement.
And they had a reporter said, Mr. Trump, Mr. Trump, Mr. Trump, why are there two Donald Trump's?
Did you at some point make a conscious decision to behave differently in public?
I don't think there are two Donald Trumps.
I think there's one Donald Trump, but certainly you have uh, you know, look all of this, and you have somebody else that sits and reads and thinks.
And I'm a thinker, and I have been a thinker.
And perhaps people don't think of me that way because you don't see me in that forum, but I am a thinker.
I thought it was very nice what Ben said, actually, because uh it is another side of me.
I'm a very deep thinker.
I know what's happening.
Okay.
I'm a deep thinker.
I think a lot, I think big, I think small.
I think big I'm gonna think a lot.
I'm deep, deep.
I think a lot of everybody knows, right?
I'm one of the best thinkers there is.
In fact, it's amazing how deep I can think.
I think deep, I go deeper than most people even know what you can do when you deep think, but I do it.
I go there.
I get deeper than anybody else.
And I'm glad Ben pointed it.
People never see that.
You know, I only say I mean, who wants to watch somebody sit around and think?
That's why nobody puts think decks on TV.
Nobody does because nobody wants to watch, but I am great at what?
I'm not making fun of the Donald.
I'm not that's exactly that I'm not making fun of him.
Is that what you think I'm doing?
No way.
Not at all.
How could you possibly think that?
I'm just expanding on what he said there.
Uh see, this is uh another unidentified reporter.
Mr. Trump, Mr. Trump, Mr. Trump, do you think that the Republican Party leadership in Washington right now are disconnected from the base, the electorate.
Is that who you're seeing is as maybe potentially uniting the electorate against the party leadership?
What what what are they not understanding?
The Republican Party lost its way.
The Republican Party now, something has happened.
Call it a miracle, call it whatever you want to do, but they're talking about it all over the world.
It's the biggest story in all of politics, one of the big stories of the world.
The millions and millions of people that are pouring into the Republican Party, not to the Democrats, to the Republican Party.
And I want to take you back to the first hour of this program, folks.
In Pennsylvania, 46,000 Democrats have registered Republican, and there's a name for it.
And in Ohio, the same thing is happening.
And in Illinois, it's happening, and also in Illinois, Democrats are defecting from Hillary, according to her own campaign manager, Robbie Mook.
But the numbers of Democrats that are switching.
A la happened in Operation Chaos that we sponsored back in 2008.
Three separate news stories today.
Forty-sized Democrats switching to Republicans so far since last September in Pennsylvania.
A huge number in Ohio.
So he's right about that.
The question is, is it a Democrat trick like Operation Chaos, or is it genuine?
Mr. Snerdley, for one, believes it's too big to be successfully organized, and nobody had heard about it.
It's So it's got to be real.
And I think it is.
I think Trump is appealing to Democrats to join him with certain things that he says.
And his opening in the debate last night was, and I thought it was good, frankly, he said the Republican Party is expanding.
There are people coming to this party that that normally be would not normally be in the party.
And he encouraged the leadership to accept it and to build on it.
And as, you know, I've been noting that the Trump coalition just happens to be exactly what the Republican Party leadership has been claiming for years that it needs if it's going to win.
Next question was another unidentified reporter.
Mr. Trump, Mr. Trump, Mr. Trump, what are you going to say to Democrat voters in the general election if you're the nominee?
We're going to have Democrats for Trump, but it's going to be much bigger.
We're going to get tremendous numbers of Democrats.
I have people in Hollywood, friends of mine, saying, you know, everybody out there is voting for you.
But they're not going to admit it.
I say, why?
Aren't you proud?
No, because uh I have a tough stance on crime.
I have a tough stance on borders.
They all know I'm right, but they're liberal people.
They don't want to admit it.
But you know what?
They're going to vote for Trump.
Quick timeout.
Be back with more after this.
Don't go away.
Holy cow, man, Dr. Cars has taken some real incoming out there over this.
The Hill.com Carson's supporters are livid that he sold out and endorsed Trump.
National Review, Dr. Carson's disgrace.
Quinn Hillier.
Dr. Ben Carson has just made a hypocrite of himself and done great damage to the country by endorsing the moral monster, Donald Trump.
Apparently, comments on Carson's Facebook page are running 8020 anti the endorsement of uh of Trump.
Anyway, here's Doug in Peoria.
Great to have you on the EIV network.
Doug, hi.
Oh, hi, Russ.
Great to talk to you.
As you continue to play in Peoria, your opening song has been playing in my head for a long time now.
So my question's real simple.
How did the pretender song come to be the theme song for the program?
Well, it's a good question.
How did I end up choosing this song?
I had never had a theme song before.
I didn't even want theme song.
That's what Arthur Godfrey and those guys had.
Tonight's show had theme songs, a radio talk show that it just starts.
They said, no, no, no, you need a theme song.
This was in Sacramento.
You need a theme song.
And so it's not something I wanted to argue about.
Okay, fine.
So they said, well, pick one.
And I went through a whole slew of possibilities.
And since it was the first time I'd done it, none of them, none of them grabbed me.
I can I can't recall them until I heard this.
And the only thing I can tell you, Doug, uh, it's Sacramento, California.
I am going to be one of few conservatives in the media.
I mean, the Democrat voter registration out there.
When I got there in 1984, Sacramento County was 78% Democrat.
And the impression of talk radio audiences was that it was God's waiting room, that it was all old, unemployed, people on relief, as it was called.
And I never believed that.
But to the to those that were, I thought I'd pick just a thumping baseline rock and roll song to send the signal there was nothing old about this program.
That there was nothing dated about it, that it was nothing other than something young and hip.
And it was the baseline that that that uh that got me on the song.
I'd never heard it before.
I a bunch of people out there had uh just started suggesting things to me.
It was not a major project, but when I chose one, that was it.
I went to about four or five before I decided on that one.
And then an interesting thing happened.
Uh after using it for close to when was this?
Now this would have been in 1990s, but maybe maybe using it 10, 12 years.
All of a sudden, the owner of the song, the uh it was written by um Chrissy Hind, but the owner of the song, EMI, they said, You can't use it anymore.
Chrissy Hind doesn't want you using it anymore.
You can't use it.
She doesn't want it associated with your show.
I said, Oh my God.
No.
So we started offering money for it.
And they turned down all kinds of money.
And I said, Oh my God, I'm going to have to go out and find a new theme song.
And I did it all over again.
And then Chrissy Hind happened to appear on WPLJ in New York, which was the sister FM station, the station I was on.
And the morning, Scott Shannon, asked her about this, and she had not heard about it.
She said, I don't care.
He can use it.
My parents love the guy.
She didn't.
But my parents, my parents love the guy.
If Rush Limbaugh was fine with me.
So we got that.
We call the people of EMI.
So what do you say to this?
So they were they they when they told us that I think it was EMI, I forget now the owner of the licensee, but they told us that she was the reason that we couldn't use it anymore.
And she wasn't.
They were just imposing their own view in her name.
And she unwittingly didn't sell them out, but she she undermined them because she didn't have any idea this was going on.
But shot Scott Shannon did.
Oh, no, no, fine.
He can use it.
I don't care.
My parents love Russell Limbaugh.
Swearma, I can't stand the guy, but my parents love him.
So we settled on a deal after that, and it's forever now.
And we are back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh behind the golden E, I B microphone.
Talent on loan from God.
You know, it's been a while since I talked about a movie, but there is a movie opening today.
And I mentioned it a couple of weeks ago.
It's fascinating.
It's called The Young Messiah.
And it is about Jesus Christ, roughly age seven, uh, during a period of time about which there's little known.
And so it's filled with wide open possibilities, rooted uh in a book that was written by Anne Rice called Christ the Lord out of Egypt.
It is unlike any Jesus movie you've ever seen.
Stop and think of the premise here, the young Messiah.
At what age did Jesus become aware of who he was to become.
Well, the movie tackles it based on Ann Rice's book.
Um Early Miracles performed by seven-year-old kid that he doesn't understand and nobody else does, being able to restore eyesight, for example, being able to cure madness, as uh as an example.
And Sean Bean plays a Roman soldier legionnaire targeted with killing this young kid, because everybody, including old King Herod, become scared and frightened.
But it's a f it's a fascinating, fascinating.
Well, obviously, it's not a premise, it's actually an attempt here to uh document what probably was.
And I no, I they did they did get permission from Obama for the title, The Young Messiah, yes.
I just asked if they got permission from Obama for the title.
I'm told Obama granted them permission.
So the young, yes.
Speaking of that, you know, I read a couple of reviews of this.
One of them is in Forbes magazine, the other was the Forbes website, the other one is the UK Guardian, and they savaged this movie, and it makes total sense.
A Guardian is a is an ultra-left-wing publication.
They just trash it as a total waste of time, unimaginative, boring, and surprisingly, Forbes the same way, but it isn't.
Particularly if if uh you don't even have to be a devout Christian for this.
You can just be historically interested.
Uh but the premise uh itself is fascinating.
And, you know, I'm I'm not an expert on somebody who's a good actor or whether the score is good or the cinematography.
I've just watched these things and if they captivate me if time goes by faster than I'm aware of and if it holds my interest and it did all that.
So it opens today, and I think it opens in a lot of theaters.
It's it's uh actually directed and written by Cyrus Norasta, who also wrote The Path to 9 11.
Remembered the Path to 9 11, which was the truthful.
This was the prelude to the attacks on 9-11 and what all we knew and didn't act on.
And it was it wasn't just an indictment of of Clinton, but it it was the only story that actually put Clinton in the loop.
Um as many of the others tried to blame Bush and his immediate advisors.
Anyway, they they aired the movie, it was a TV movie, Path 911, and ABC allowed the Clintons to edit.
Remember, two minutes out of it, and then refused to take it to DVD.
Refused to sell it, so it only aired on TV, and if you didn't D VR it, you didn't have it.
Uh now I'm a powerful, influential member of the movie, so I uh of uh media, so I had a DVD copy.
But nevertheless, they wouldn't they still haven't put that on DVD.
It was a it was a one-time shot that Clintons were allowed to edit two minutes out of it.
So it's the same guy.
But it's uh I've never seen here's something else.
I don't pay attention to this, but Rotten Tomatoes, you do pay attention to Rotten Tomatoes uh reviews.
It's got 100 or did earlier in the week.
A 100, I mean that's unheard of.
That's universal.
Uh reviews, positive reviews.
So it's called the Young Messiah.
Here is Bob in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
Great to have you on the EIB network, Bob.
Hi.
Hey Rush, love you.
I've been listening to you, gosh, since way back at Dan's bake sale, and wow.
It's it's really a truly good to talk to you today.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I appreciate it.
I really do.
You've really done more to educate people between the differences between Republicans and Democrats, and and more importantly, uh conservatives and liberals.
I mean, you know, uh I mean you still got a lot of work to do.
And that's a never-ending project.
I understand.
And you're the man to do it.
Hey, listen, uh, what I wanted to talk about, you know, we hear about the the war on women, uh, the war on this, the war on that.
Why are not the Republicans talking about the war on millennials?
Why don't you tell me what you mean by it?
I'll I'll explain why they do or don't talk about it.
Well, okay, after the the last big downturn in the economy in when was that, 2008 when the stock market went to hell in a handbasket, and you know, everything went haywire.
I mean, anybody with a half a brain in their head would have done everything they could to nurture businesses and corporations and lower taxes and bring these people back to the United States.
You know, there's a saying that money goes where it is treated well.
And and the and the current administration, I mean, they could care less.
They were out demonizing uh oil, demonizing coal, uh everything that they could possibly beat up.
And then well, I think a big kick out is they beat their chest, telling everybody how we're gonna make them pay.
Well, I I learned a lesson from you and and I use the use it very often.
That is, did you ever get a job from a poor person?
And who's been hurt by this the most?
But the people that put Obama in office the first time around.
I mean, it was yay, yay, yay.
They were yelling and screaming like you know, the the new Messiah was here.
And and who is it today that's having the most difficult time finding a job, getting work finding it?
Well, when you when you say war on millennials, are you basically referring to the fact that their future is not as rosy as previous generations have been, and people need to be telling them why that is.
You hit it right on the head.
Well, here's the war on women.
Let's look at the war on women.
Who takes a bigger beating whenever corporations cut back and leave?
It's probably the women that are maybe not on maybe a lot of them not on the upper echelon of these corporations.
Yeah, but wait, no, no, you're you you're you're you're making a typical mistake in in trying to analyze This stuff and fix it.
It's not an intellectual war on women.
They're not, they haven't convinced anybody intellectually that Republicans hate women.
It's an emotional thing.
It's an image and perception thing.
Because there's no truth to it.
There are no facts to support it.
So they have to create the image and the impression, and they've done that not just about the war on women, but they've done it the education system.
I'll tell you when I first realized millennials were in trouble.
And when I first realized that actually we had failed them, was when I saw survey data.
And here we are, and this was two years ago.
So let's say we're we're six years, five and a half years into the Obama administration.
We've had a re-election.
The economy is just horrible.
There aren't any new jobs.
These kids are graduating with six-figure debt.
Obamacare has been implemented.
Work hours are being cut back to part-time levels so that employers don't have to offer Obamacare, health care.
They are genuinely believing that their futures for the first time in American history will not be as filled with potential and prosperity as their parents.
Okay, well, all that, yup.
And then I looked at who they blame for it.
And it wasn't the Democrats, and it wasn't Obama, and it wasn't specific Obama policies.
You know what it was?
They thought the best days of the country had happened while they were either unborn or young.
It was just the accident of their birth.
The date of their birth came after peak America.
Now that's our fault.
That's our fault for allowing them to think that for not educating them.
And look, we have access to the education system, and we have them at home.
We have a chance to reach them.
And for them to live in in the midst of six years of the Barack Obama administration, which you just described is an assault on everything traditional in this country.
It's an assault on the institutions and the traditions which have defined this country's founding and greatness.
Everything economic, everything cultural is under assault as Obama seeks to transform the country into something it was never founded to be and never intended to be.
But since the Republican Party was not saying any of this because they were afraid to oppose Obama.
They were afraid to propose anything opposite Obama because they didn't want to be called racist, first African American president, therefore historical.
They didn't want to get any bad press.
They didn't want to be seen as obstructionists.
And so nobody was told that the reason opportunity was declining and the chances for prosperity was declining was directly related to the policies implemented by the current administration.
They were never told that.
They were left to believe that Obama was trying.
He was working so hard, but Bush screwed it all up.
Bush is when we had the financial meltdown.
Bush is when we had TARP.
Bush is when we had Iraq.
Bush, Bush, Katrina, Bush just, and poor Obama was working so hard to fix it.
But those Republicans were standing in his way, didn't want him to succeed, and they felt the whole system was not caring about them, worried about them, concerned for their future, but he's trying to protect themselves.
And meanwhile, the country had seen its best days.
And I think, sadly, that's probably still an active view in the minds of many millennials.
So there is call it a war on millennials.
I think it's a war on everybody.
I think the left is perpetrating a war that is disguised as fixing all of these isms.
Yeah, we're going to fix the racism, and we're going to fix the homophobiaism, and we're going to fix the bigotryism, and we're going to fix all these horrible rotten things that were part of this country from its founding.
It makes me livid when I hear about it.
That's what this campaign is really all about is trying to stop this.
Stop the direction, arrest the direction, and change it and restore some things to what they were.
That's why you watch this funeral.
You're going to see what was once, what passed for.
Manners, respect, dignity, class.
You don't see it too much.
No matter where you go in the country today, and people are longing for it.
I appreciate the call, Bob.
Thanks so much.
We will be right back, folks.
Hang in there.
Here is Josh in Brit, New Jersey.
Great to have you on the EIV network.
Hi.
How are you, Russ?
I'm doing great.
Thank you very much.
Thank you for taking my call.
Very interesting.
I'd just like to know what you think.
Um, I have a lot of friends.
I'm a conservative.
Let me say from the outset I support Ted Cruz.
And a lot of my buddies, you know, we went to a conference in the summer.
Um we heard from Bill Crystal.
And this notion, um, a lot of my friends tell me, you know, if Trump wins, they're going to vote for Hillary.
And I told them, I said, my disagreement is not about Trump.
As I think the same thing you think about him.
You just don't understand the nature of the Democratic Party, what's going on there.
This is not some middle of the road, Joe Lieberman, whatever, what have you.
This is this is for real.
You know, that's exactly the Democratic Party.
That is exactly right.
That is one of the biggest op this is exactly right.
That is why.
I'm so glad that we got you in here before this.
That is why I keep harping on the fact that we've got to get people to understand what liberalism is.
The Democrat Party's not just the other option.
The Democrat Party is the most destructive force in this country, right?
The Democrat Party is the reason you're unhappy with the economy, with the things that government's involved in, that government is doing an artwork, Democrat Party, and it's on purpose and it's going to continue.
Excellent point, Josh.
We will be right back.
Folks, that is it for us.
We are out of time.
Fastest three hours in media.
It has been a great week, and we look forward to Monday rolling back around.
Of course, Tuesday coming up with the next round of primaries.
Big and important, and we'll be here for all of it.
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