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March 17, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 17, 2016, Thursday, Hour #2
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Well, okay, then get number five ready.
We'll use it.
I was gonna start at number six, but if you want to start at five, we'll start at five.
Find it dandy with me.
I'm just the vessel.
Greetings.
Welcome back.
Great to have you, my friends, Rushlin Boy here at 800-282-288-2.
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And the email address, Lrushbow at EIB net.com.
Here's another unrelated story, but actually it's not related.
It's a story from judicial watch.
This, like the story we had yesterday, is not from the onion.
Remember the story we had yesterday that uh 17-year-old Trayvon Williams, not Treyvon Martin, Trayvon Williams, 17-year-old broke into a house, South Florida to steal things.
Money, whatever else he could find.
The security system in the house alerted the owner who came home.
And the perpetrator, young 17-year-old Trayvon Williams, was spotted by the owner of the house, a 54-year-old woman, exiting through a window.
So she fired once, and young Trayvon Williams was killed.
His aunt, Nauke, I forget her last name, was just appalled.
How dare you don't you understand what it's like for young kids in the hood?
Where else is he gonna get his money for school and food?
That's what you don't understand.
He's from the hood.
What else is he gonna do?
How else is he gonna get the money he needs?
He's a great kid.
He loved learning.
He was a great student.
He was investing in his future.
He was at great plans for himself.
I read this and I said, this has got to be, this has to be a satire piece.
I said, please don't let me fall for this.
Don't let this be a satire piece and me report this as it so I dug in and I dug in and I d and it was real.
And was it the Washington Post or Washington Times that even even had a story on it that you found?
Well, then it was the local site that I saw, had the quote from Nokita.
I think her name was not Williams, because she was aunt.
But it was real.
She actually said, how else is he gonna get his money?
You have to understand he's from the hood.
As though, I mean there's two different worlds here, as though that's perfectly acceptable, and we ought to, if you have it and somebody else doesn't, and there's somebody who doesn't lives in the hood, you have to understand this is how they get stuff.
And you've got to be tolerant.
So where does that come from?
Where does that kind of thinking?
Now you might say, Rush, that's a one-off.
Pete, that's not that's not cultural.
Oh, I disagree.
Profoundly I disagree.
I think, folks, I think our political system has corrupted so much of this country.
It hasn't corrupted just the politics.
It has corrupted everybody who has become dependent on the political system.
Everybody, and and and the Democrat Party is primarily to blame here.
The Democrat Party pushes dependence.
The Democrat Party encourages it.
The Democrat Party is who essentially tells people, you don't have a future without us.
You aren't capable.
You aren't competent.
You're not smart enough unless we open doors for you, pave the way for you, take care of your benefits or what have you.
They promote that, they foster it, and they are causing the breakup of families.
They've taken over the role of husbands in in way too many families.
It's just it's a mess, and the political system is right in the thick of it in terms of responsibility.
I I hold the American political system responsible for quite a lot.
People already have, excuse me, people already have a a hopeful view of government, that it's competent, honest, fair, and government lives off of that.
Every day, they they they play on that.
They take advantage of the fact that that's what people want government to be, so in many cases, they think that's what government is.
How else do you explain every one of these messes that government has made by virtue of government programs?
Government, the war on poverty, the great society, the gigantic welfare state we have has destroyed the lives of I don't know how many Americans.
It's busted up American families.
So when all those messes happen, where do people turn to fix it?
The very people who broke it.
And so the problems continue to be compounded.
And that's why, folks, I have to tell you, I don't have a lot of sympathy in patience for political people upset that some outsider may take over.
Exactly what is there that the American political system, predominantly the federal political system, what is there to recommend it?
The military, maybe, but I uh I just and then you look at this.
Remember, remember the story where we had Obamacare, we had to come up with uh contraception.
They had to include that in Obamacare.
And even if churches disagreed with it, screw the churches, you're gonna do it.
You're gonna provide contraception, you're gonna provide abortive fashions.
You're gonna do everything you disagree with.
And we had all kinds of women running around doing fake TV commercials.
They couldn't afford it.
You, we all have to pay for their contraceptives.
The government has to make everybody pay for what they don't want to spend their own money to buy.
It's just it it it's it's one slam after another.
And I don't know how much our our culture, the society can take with this never-ending political corruption that doesn't stay confined to the political process.
By definition, it's going to impact the people who are governed.
So look at this.
On two different occasions, Judicial Watch, the story actually published yesterday on their website.
On two different occasions, Congress has rejected laws to give needy families government subsidized diapers in addition to free food and medical care.
But President Obama is determined nevertheless to make it happen, allocating $10 million in taxpayer money to the cause of free diapers.
There is actually an issue now called diaper disparity.
That the government is concocted, and because there's diaper disparity, we need free diaper laws.
They have failed to pass twice, but Obama's coming back, and if he has to, he's going to do it by executive order.
He's going to see to it that diapers become part of some government program where they are free.
And everybody else is going to be paying for diapers.
The multimillion dollar initiative is being promoted by the White House as essential to eradicate a national diaper divide.
And the goal is to abolish diaper disparity by expanding access to affordable diapers for America's poorest families.
Affordable health care for all Americans, affordable this for all affordable housing for all America.
Now affordable diapers.
Behind this mission is Cecilia Munoz, the White House domestic policy director, a renowned open borders lobbyist in Washington.
Cecilia Munoz was the vice president of the National Council of La Raza before Obama brought her on as White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs.
So what?
Diaper deserts, diaper disparity, diaper divide, that we now need diaper equality.
Oh yeah, it's plenty of yucks.
I mean, there's all kinds of stuff to laugh at about it.
But it's also one of those things, come on, Rush, they just die, don't it?
Don't sweat it.
What do you what do you want to sound like you're opposed to free diapers?
Because where does it end?
Doesn't say whether it's adult diapers or not.
It just says diapers.
It doesn't.
This is diapers for America's poorest families.
So I'm I, you know, I didn't even think of the adult diapers.
I should have, you know, Senator De Penns and all that.
Leaky leahy, I should have thought of that.
That's a good catch.
But I actually didn't.
I want to read to you some of the some of the verbiage in the Washington Post editorial demanding that the Republican Party do a brokered convention to stop Trump.
This is hysteria.
No, Mr. Trump must be stopped because he presents a real threat to American democracy.
Okay, now I don't care what you think of Trump.
I mean, even those of you who hate the guy and oppose him for whatever reason, is this actually true?
How does Trump maybe I should throw it open to callers?
Maybe there's some people that think that teachable moment for me.
Trump must be stopped because he represents and presents, not just representing, but he poses, he presents a threat to American democracy.
The next sentence is Mr. Trump resembles other strong men throughout history who have achieved power by manipulating democratic processes.
Their playbook includes a casual embrace of violence, a willingness to wield government powers against personal enemies, contempt for a free press, demonization of anybody who is not white and Christian, intimations of dark conspiracies, and the propagation of sweeping ugly lies.
Mr. Trump has championed torture and the murder of innocent relatives of suspected terrorists.
He has flirted with the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacists.
He has libeled and stereotyped wide swaths of humanity, including Mexicans and Muslims.
He considers himself exempt from the norms of democratic contests, such as the release of tax returns, policy papers, lists of advisors, and other information that voters have a right to expect.
Flirted with the Ku Klux Klan.
The Ku Klux Klan.
The whole story of the Ku Klux Klan is a very teachable moment in how a particular political party has been successfully able to whitewash every bit of association it had with the Klan.
The Democrat Party and the Ku Klux Klan were one and the same.
The Democrat Party and the Ku Klux Klan were allies.
The Ku Klux Klan was the militarized wing of the Democrat Party.
Way, way back all the way through the 1950s and 60s.
The Klan was made up of Democrats.
Southern governors and others did the work of the Klan.
The Republican Party had nothing to do with the Klan.
In fact, an actual member of the Ku Klux Klan was elected to the Senate as a Democrat.
If anybody's been flirting with the Ku Klux Klan, it's the Democrat Party Of years and years ago, and the success they've had in whitewashing that relationship is one of the major success stories of American political politics.
The whitewashing and then the shifting of the relationship of the Klan from the Democrat Party to the Republican Party.
But anyway, how about the rest of this?
Some of this stuff that the Post writes, you could easily attach to Obama.
A willingness to wield government powers against personal enemies.
Hello, IRS and T Party.
I mean, Obama's actually done it.
Trump has done none of this.
He hasn't been elected yet.
Contempt for a free press.
How many stories have we had from drive-by media people talking about how this is the most closed administration they've ever dealt with?
The most discriminatory administration they've ever dealt with.
There are countless such stories.
What is this demonization of anybody who's not white and Christian?
The New York Times recently sent a reporter to Trump's campaign office in Tampa, expecting to find a bunch of Mussolini devotees and Klan members working in there.
They really did.
They were shocked and they were stunned.
They found very few white people.
It was all Hispanics, African Americans, and other minorities, and they were happy and they were supporting Trump.
And the New York Times was bamboozled and flabbergasted.
Anyway, it's the classic, it's right out of the playbook, how to demonize whichever Republican frontrunner happens to be the guy.
That's what they did to Romney.
It's what they did to George W. Bush.
It's the same thing.
Threat to American democracy.
No.
Trump poses a threat to the existing political class and its exclusionary existence.
That's what the what the great fear is.
But here's the real reason for this.
If you turn to the next page, there are some Americans, Democrats in particular, who are happy to watch the Republican Party self-destruct with Mr. Trump at the helm.
We here at the Washington Post cannot share in that.
In that equanimity.
For one thing, though Hillary Clinton, a likely Democrat nominee, would be heavily favored, a Trump defeat is far from certain.
For another, the country needs two healthy parties and ideally a contest of ideas.
That's what this is really about in the deep dark crevices of their minds.
They are scared to death that Donald Trump can beat Hillary.
That's what this is about.
Patrick in Gainesville, Florida.
Great to have you.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Love your show.
Thank you.
I want to point out that, although I'm not a Trump supporter, I can't see how he doesn't get the nomination with all the winner takeoff states that are still remaining.
I mean, if you look at California, New Jersey, Delaware, and PA.
I can't see how he loses those.
Then he only needs 254 votes.
Then you have a couple other winner takeoff states that I think you're going to get.
Maryland, Wisconsin, Virgin Islands, American American Samoa.
So now he only needs 156 out of the 377 proportional states.
That's 41%.
He's getting that, and the pundits are saying he needs 60.
So I don't I don't understand their math, but would you agree based on those states that he's going to win those?
I'll tell you there's something that interests me more, and I'll get to that in just a second here.
But I did see, I didn't print it because it's charts and graphs which are worthless to me in trying to explain something to you on the radio.
But the New York Times has a story.
I found out last night, in which, you know, using their math with their charts and their graphs and the things that you were talking about, remaining states, proportional delegates, congressional delegates, uh, winner-take all.
They have a formula there where they say that people are wrong.
When they say Trump cannot get to 1237, they say he can.
They sit back, they say he can hit the number exactly, according to their formula.
But I'll tell you what what fascinates me now.
There's this is this whole thing's taking a new twist now.
And I really can't tell you how much I resent this Kasich situation of what he's doing, because Kasich is really gumming up the works.
I I well now I've got to take a break here.
But look, I'll like I'll hold you through the break so you can react to it, Patrick.
So don't uh don't go away.
Be patient, folks.
We'll be right back after this.
Don't go away.
And we are back.
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Where'd Patrick go?
Did he hang up?
Well, okay, it doesn't matter.
He brought it up.
There's two stories here.
The New York Times story on how Trump can get 1237.
They still say he can, and it's because Rubio's exit.
Rubio's exit leaves Trump with an open path to 1,237.
Everybody else is saying he can't get there.
Everybody saying Trump cannot get there now.
Especially with this uh with Kasich staying in.
But no, no, no, no.
And from the article, New York Times, I say it's a lot of charts and graphs, which are worthless.
There's I mean, how do I describe a chart to you?
And I'm not going to hold the damn things up on the on the ditto cam.
But let me read and see what it says.
Mr. Trump maintains his current level of support in the remaining races.
If he does, he would almost certainly secure the nomination.
If he continues his current performance and wins a series of key states like Arizona, California, New York, he would get the needed delegates.
If Mr. Trump loses California, he could miss the delegate cutoff, but even that may not prevent Mr. Trump from winning the key states like California that ensure him enough delegates.
That's a little out of context here, but the bottom line is the New York Times thinks they can get there.
The AP, on the other hand, Trump still not doing well enough to guarantee nomination.
So who do you believe here?
Donald Trump is the only candidate with a path to clinching the Republican nomination for president before the party's convention in July, according to an analysis of the delegate math.
Well, why isn't that the headline?
What is this?
Trump's still not doing well enough to guarantee convention.
How do you square that with the opening paragraph?
It's just a media question.
It's not this flummoxes me again.
There's the usual media flummery out there.
Donald Trump is the only candidate with a path to clinching a nomination before the convention.
That's the lead, the headline, Trump's still not doing well enough to guarantee nomination.
But despite four more wins on Tuesday, the billionaire businessman still must do better.
Trump's rivals can only hope to stop him, forcing a contested convention with an uncertain outcome.
Which is why a contested convention is all we are going to be hearing about.
Now I said to Patrick before the break, there's something else about this now.
There's a new twist of this that is fascinating to me.
And Kasich has gummed it up.
I really was looking forward to this two-man continuation here between Trump and Cruz.
I wanted to see.
We've had Trump anywhere at from from from state to state.
Look, I don't have the exact numbers.
And I'm not I'm not going to talk about this 50 cent, 50% business, because that's, I think, uh a distraction.
Because Trump's been winning.
And I don't care what the 50% because there have been a lot of people in the race.
However, he's been winning 35, 40%.
But throughout this, whether it's been 17 candidates or four, there's always been More Republicans voting in primaries for people other than Trump.
You want to talk about math, that is some math.
Before you put personalities into it.
On the one hand, you've got Trump and his solid support, 35%, let's say 40.
But when you add Cruz and Kasich and Rubio, and then who was uh Carson and then all no matter how many, down to those final four, including all the other the 17.
There was a greater number of Republican primary votes, particularly in closed states where Democrats couldn't cross over, who were voting for candidates who are not Trump.
And I know the Cruz campaign has been so eager.
They have been looking so forward to this moment.
They were hoping it would come earlier.
They were hoping candidates would drop out earlier, like Carson, but it didn't happen.
But it when they wished it would, but it has happened except for Kasich.
So we still don't have the two-man race.
We're still going to have the anti-Trump vote diluted.
And it's, by the way, I'm not concluding that all of the anti-Trump vote would go to Cruz.
That's what I wanted to see.
I wanted to see how much of it would.
I was really hoping to see that.
And we're not going to see it with Kasich staying in the race, and Kasich's not going anywhere.
Because this whole thing, all of this has become about him now.
In his mind, all of this is about him.
You go back to his acceptance speech.
It was all about how remarkable a path to all this he has taken.
What a remarkable career he's had.
What a remarkable and unique life he has led.
And it's taught him to tell all of his supporters, there's only one of you.
You're special.
There's nobody like you.
And there'll never ever be anybody else like you.
And your mission here is to take what that uniqueness is and go make something out of it, which sounds good, but in his case, he's saying it so that you'll think of him that way.
Some people are just, you know them.
Self-focused, self-importance, it is it it's deep here with Governor Kasich.
I mean, the confetti launch, did you did you see that?
The confetti guns, and he's talking about, hey, go on, and win these other states, I will be elected president.
And you might say, well, Russ, that's what all candidates say.
You've got to talk positive like that.
Well, yeah, but I mean, you can't be delusional.
You can say it, but if you really mean it or think it, then you might be problems.
But for all of you anti-Trumpers, there was there was going to be one way of finding out if the anti-Trump sentiment was a majority.
I guess you still might say that it is.
What's say the combo of Cruz in Kasich still in in some states is larger than Trump.
It's not going to be the case in every state.
And I know that some of this doesn't matter in delegate portion of it because there are winner-take all states.
So that for example, in Missouri, they still haven't called Missouri.
And I'll tell you why.
Last I saw Missouri, Trump, and it was it was this is Thursday.
So but in yesterday, during yesterday's show, uh, I saw that Cruz was 2,000 votes behind.
But Trump was going to get all the delegates.
Fifteen delegates and Cruz was going to get zero.
Now there were nine bonus delegates in Missouri to be a portion based on who wins.
It's that close, but in a in a you know, in a winner-take all state, that's what happens.
So the popular vote, you know, who wins states uh really doesn't matter.
It's it's the delegate pile that does.
And that's what all these analyses of uh states yet to come are based on.
What is it gonna take to win enough where to get a majority of the delegates to equal 1237?
And they're concluding, and the AP Trump can't do it in the time left.
The New York Times is saying, oh, yes, he can.
And everybody's concluding that Cruz can't.
For the Cruz people, it's a I'm sure it's a mixed bag.
On the one hand, with Casey staying in, they only hope now is that Trump does not get to 1237.
But that brings up the conversation of, well, if he doesn't, how close does he get?
If he's within 50 or 100, do you go to the convention contest it, or do you just go ahead and say, okay, you want it?
The people have spoken.
Well, then we next turn to Republican rules committee people who are out there saying, wait a minute, the voters don't choose the nominee, we do.
We're gonna have a rules meeting.
We can make, we can change your rules in April, we can change the rules a day before the convention.
And I know if you watch enough TV, you're seeing enough people say that that's all a pipe dream, that by the time we get there, all these people talking about a contested convention will have back down, and they'll realize they can't take it away from Trump for a whole host of reasons.
I do not believe that.
I do not believe this party is going to concede this without some kind of protracted, intense fight over it.
Just my humble opinion.
You've got like the owners of the diamondbacks out there and the owners of the Cubs.
I mean, these are big donors and so forth, and they're saying, no way, no how Trump.
How do you unify that?
Then you got these guys out there promising to have a meeting today to come up with maybe going third party, then choosing a candidate.
It's pretty late for that.
You know, signatures get on the ballot, find somebody.
Uh but there's uh there's a there's a whole potload of people here that that are making it very clear, they have, I mean, they're making it so clear, how do they walk back their refusal to unify behind Trump?
Just the diamondbacks people, a Cubs people, how they walk it back.
I mean, you got the diamond diamondbacks people, we are willing to lose a hundred thousand fans by publicly stating we abhor Trump.
That's our morality.
We must be true to ourselves.
And if it costs us a hundred thousand fans and a related uh economics, fine.
And the Ricketts family, Chicago saying the same thing, essentially.
Okay, so we move to July, we get to Cleveland, it's convention time.
How do people like them and others walk back their positions and unify?
I don't know.
I doesn't say.
Chris Wallace asked me a question.
I tried to anticipate every question.
I always do that.
And the one he always ends up asking me one that I didn't think of.
And he said, how's this gonna end?
And since since I don't endorse and haven't gone that rude, I haven't, you know, I I let things play out to find out who's gonna win.
I do make predictions and so forth.
So I said to him, I think what's gonna happen, because this is what I hope happens.
What I hope happens is that by the time we get there, everybody's gonna realize that the real threat, the real political opponent here is the Democrat Party.
The Democrat Party is why all of this is happening.
No, I'm not absolving the Republican establishment, don't misunderstand.
But the Democrat Party has been running this country.
The Democrat Party one where the Democrat Party and its social programs and its cultural rot, cultural invasion, everything else is going.
Democrat Party is why this country is in its dire straits.
The country is where it is because the Democrats want it to be here.
They want to transform this country.
They do not like this country the way it was founded for all the reasons, and Obama epitomizes it.
So you go to Supreme Court nominees, that's just part of it.
Yeah, that's big.
But we don't Need a third Obama administration and then a fourth.
So I always thought that at that point somebody would realize.
Enough people would realize.
That the real objective here is to beat Democrats, which is my objective, folks.
I answer the question again.
Whatever, however, we beat the Democrats is what I'm for.
as opposed to investing in various candidates or personalities.
I think the task is much larger and beyond a single candidate.
But a presidential candidate is a person and a set of policies and issues and so forth.
Everybody can coalesce around to advance that objective, which is defeating Democrats.
I think the Democrat Party is the most destructive force in the country today.
I don't think the Republicans are.
The Republicans, as we all know, have enabled this by not attempting to stop any of it.
And yeah, there may be individual Republicans, moderate liberal Republicans who support it, but in general, the indictment against the Republicans is they've let it happen.
While promising during campaigns that they would not.
Anyway, take a break and be back and continue after this.
Yeah, I'm gonna get to it at the next hour.
I I've got to share with you the latest attempt by John Pedor's commentary in the conservative intelligentsia to try to explain to themselves why you who support Trump do so.
They just can't figure it out.
They think they've got it now.
Um not that they agree or understand with it understand it, but they're just ticked.
They're just puzzled.
They're just they feel sorry for you in a number of things.
But uh you'll be interested in hearing what it is.
Here's Joe in Memphis.
Great to have you on the program high.
Hey, Rosh, I'm a big fan.
Um you kind of touched on what I was g I I'm really uh I'm a big Ted Cruz supporter.
I'm really upset about uh Donald Trump backing out of the debate.
That's what I've been waiting months for a head-to-head with him.
And uh, you know, I've heard over the last you know few weeks you've analyzed some of the uh what makes up a Donald Trump supporter, and I I'm just for what it's worth, I wanted to give you a heads up of I'm I'm a big uh volunteer for the Ted Cruz campaign, and I and uh the you know, we are made up of groups of people like myself who have been waiting thirty years for a candidate like this.
And I've never donated before until Ted Cruz came along.
I've never volunteered for a campaign.
Uh and I just think, boy, over the next few weeks this is gonna deter this is I mean, we've got a golden opportunity to it it it elect somebody as close to Reagan as I've ever seen.
What do you think Cruz needs to do?
Or you uh and other volunteers, uh aides, supporters, what do you need to do?
Well, I I wouldn't presume to it to to presume you know how to direct him what to do other than it you know, when I listen to the news, I really just hear all about Donald Trump, and it seemed like it's focused on the horse race aspect, and t I was really looking forward to uh more or less head-to-head debate where the the contrast could be laid out as far as policies.
I'm I'm really not interested in all the drama and all the uh you know uh name calling and everything else.
I just I feel like where it's well, this is a window of time over the next few weeks.
There isn't there isn't any policy contrast.
Trump Trump does not do policy.
Trump does tr Trump does attitude.
Trump Trump is transactional.
Trump Trump doesn't look at government as a series of policies to implement.
Government is a series of transactions that you engage in.
Right.
That that that end up in his view um with the country winning.
Uh if you uh a debate between I I know why why why Trump's not gonna Trump Trump knows.
He's I in in many debates, you know, Cruz has had a brilliant answer to a very detailed policy question, and Trump said I everything he said is right on.
Yeah.
That's why Trump's not going to do that debate.
That's two different worlds.
Two different worlds.
I I you know you resent Trump dropping out, and a lot of people do, but it's like incumbent presidents.
Why should I debate this clown?
I got the job he wants it.
Why should I help him get it?
Screw that!
If he wants to win it, have him go win it.
I'm not gonna help him.
That's why incumbents only have one debate.
And they don't even want to do that back in a moment.
Lindsey Graham, is it official?
Is that what he was officially came out behind Cruz?
Senator Graham's the only way to stop Trump, he's now fully four square behind Senator Cruz, it's Lindsey Graham.
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