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March 18, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 18, 2016, Friday, Hour #3
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I have here story from the New York Times.
And I don't know if this is a straight out news story or if it's a review of something.
I guess maybe it's a it's a movie review.
It is by somebody named Genslinger, Neil Genslinger.
Review The Brainwashing of My Dad examines the influence of right wing news media.
Now wait till you hear this.
It isn't very long.
Apparently somebody named Jan Senko, S-E-N-K-O, has produced a documentary about how her dad was brainwashed by me.
And Fox News.
And her documentary has been reviewed by this Genslinger guy.
Starts out this way.
A lot of people, especially on the liberal side of the spectrum, will certainly identify with the brainwashing of my dad, Jen Sinko's documentary about how right wing news programs, talk shows, and internet sites turned her once reasonable father into a raging embodiment of intolerance and suspicion.
First, can I ask any of you?
How many of you would a documentary, slamming your own father?
How many of you would attempt to get noticed and maybe earn some money by producing a documentary designed to humiliate and embarrass your own father?
Well, that's what we have here.
Apparently Jen Cinco felt she had no other choice.
She had no other way of explaining what had happened to her father.
Now the reviewer Neil Genslinger says here that the film feels as though it's arriving late to its discoveries.
And given the current political claimant, as if it's really only even scratching the surface.
So the reviewer says, okay, fine, but where were you 20 years ago?
Where were you 20 years ago, Gensinko?
And besides, you're not even getting down to the depth that you really need to get to here.
Ms. Cinco says that her father Frank was a non-political Kennedy Democrat until the 1980s.
There's no such thing.
Well, let me not take issue with it yet here.
Let me just Ms. Cinco says that her father Frank was a non-political Kennedy Democrat till the 1980s when he began listening to a lot of right wing gum flappers.
Mr. Genslinger here says that Jens Cinco spends too much of the film detailing what anybody who watched John Stewart even once already knows.
So right here, the reviewer says, we don't need your documentary, Cinco.
All you need to do is watch John Stewart one time to understand what your documentary says.
So in Genslinger's point of view, John Stewart's not political.
John Stewart is not ideological.
John Stewart isn't in him.
John Stewart is the embodiment of fairness and objectivity, and he gets it right about everybody, and all you have to do to know everything you want to know is watch John Stewart one time.
Now, in liberal circles, that I imagine that's quite a put down.
I imagine Miss Cinco thinks that she has a work of art here.
And her work of art has been reduced to something totally unnecessary.
If anybody's ever watched Jon Stewart one time.
But let me continue reading.
Ms. Cinco says that her late father, Frank, non-political Kennedy Democrat, till the 1980s, when he began listening to a lot of right-wing gumflappers.
She spends too much of the film detailing what anybody who watched Jon Stewart even once on the Daily Show already knows that Fox News, Rushlin Baugh, and the like fabricate and distort routinely.
Oh yeah, John Stewart never did that.
John Stewart never fabricated.
John Stewart never distorted anything.
John Stewart never made anything up, did he?
No way.
Why, Jon Stewart was biblical.
Jon Stewart was the left wing Bible, and all anybody had to do to understand these right wing crazies was to watch one episode of his show.
And what did John Stewart properly point out about these right wing gumflappers?
Well, the right's most incendiary figures are entertainers, not journalists or academic experts.
The film has an interesting segment on the neurology of the phenomenon, how alarm is addictive, how repetition of the same messages transforms the brain.
But the subject is left under export.
So you see, according to this reviewer, this woman's documentary doesn't get anywhere near there.
She does explore how shows like this are addictive because we do nothing but alarm you all the time.
This is so cockyed.
Who is it that has the whole crisis politics manner battened down?
Who is it that owns that genre?
Every day we are faced with multiple crises presented to us by the drive-by media.
Either our latest favorite phone is going to give us cancer, our latest greatest food is going to cause us to gain weight and die of a heart attack.
Our latest greatest beverage is going to give us diabetes.
Fracking is going to destroy the planet.
Miami Beach will be underwater in two years because we have done nothing about global warm every day, multiple crises, and yet we are being held responsible and accountable here for that.
In addition to telling her own family story, Ms. Cinko invited video submissions from others who have had similar experiences with loved ones.
And those provide the film's most heartfelt moments.
So apparently, this documentary is not just about Miss Cinko's dad becoming a pod person, but a number of other leftists have sent in similar horror stories included in her documentary about how once tolerant and open-minded and touchy-feely and non-political fathers and parents and other relatives had been co-opted to mean-spirited,
extremist, racist, bigot homophobes by right wing media.
But the nastiness that has been brought out into the open by the current presidential campaign demonstrates that hatred and suspicion are more endemic than a collection of personal stories suggests.
So this guy takes another swipe with this poor woman's documentary.
Yeah, she did a documentary about her dad.
Yeah, but it's too late.
John Stewart told us this 25 years ago.
And yeah, well, no, he won, he was 14 years, sorry.
John Stewart told us this 14 years ago.
And where was she 25 years ago?
This is old news.
In fact, the presidential campaign is a greater testament to the insanity of the right wing than anything Miss Cinco could do in her documentary.
Right wing outlets may be exploiting humanity's ugly side, but Miss Cinco's frail looking father who died in January of age ninety-three isn't so much the face of the phenomenon as he is a small and not especially representative stamp.
Boy, this guy cuts her documentary and he agrees with everything in it.
Can you believe he agrees with everything in her documentary?
It was too little, it was too late.
I guess there wasn't enough homage paid to John Stewart in it.
But this is who they are.
Folks, this is why, from the first days of this program, the focus here has been to try to inform people that the greatest destructive force in this country today is American liberalism as personified by the Democrat Party.
And we all have our grievances, and we all have our problems.
Let me tell you what irritates me most about the Republican establishment, everything we've mentioned, but it's this.
Not recognizing the enemy.
Not having the guts to recognize the enemy, but the political enemy, not having the guts to recognize them, not pushing back against them, for all the obvious reasons.
There have been times I have felt like I'm in this all by myself.
I mean, there are others who do what I do.
Don't misunderstand.
But in terms of the supposed political party that's supposed to be the repository of our set of values and beliefs, there hasn't been any recognition whatsoever in the last ten years that liberalism is it used to be the Republicans had no problem using the word.
And every time they did, they won elections.
Every time they successfully characterize their opponent as a raging lunatic leftist, they won.
Well, not every time, but I mean it was it was it was frequent.
These people are sick, they are dangerous, they are close-minded, they are not the tolerant, open-minded, loving, harmless people they want us to believe.
They're the architects of political correctness.
They're the architects of censorship.
They are the ones that want to take your constitutional rights away from you.
They are the ones that want to make you an economic serf dependent on them for your day-to-day living.
They are the ones who hold you in contempt.
They're the ones who think you do not have the capability, the competence, the ambition to succeed on your own without them.
They're the ones that call you racist, sexist, big, and homophobe.
They're the ones that create race wars in this country.
They are the ones that create economic division.
They specialize in creating division.
The American left, liberalism, the Democrat Party.
And I can't get anybody in Washington to ever utter a syllable of that, much less act on it.
That to me is the enemy.
Not Donald Trump, not Ted Cruz, not John Kasig, not Ben Carson, who'd just been named the dean of the Trump University Medical School.
Well, it's a check to see if you can find a news site, the website called News Busted.
That's where it is.
Some woman at News Busted, not newsbusters.
Newsbusters quotes this babe at news busted.
The stories posted at Newsbusters.
But you want to know what animates me, what informs me, what energizes me is beating these people, beating them politically, beating them culturally, which is why, you know, I've probably bored you silly telling everybody how important it is for everybody to be able to taught to recognize liberalism everywhere they see it.
It's destroying us.
Liberalism is tearing the country apart.
And liberalism is found throughout the Democrat Party, so I guess they're inseparable.
That's my enemy, folks.
That's my focus.
That's who I'm opposed.
Anybody can beat them.
That's the objective, is to beat them.
Thank you.
I realize people are mad at me thinking that I've letting conservative principles waft by the wayside.
Hell's bells on that.
No freaking way.
But it's also not a suicide pact.
You can talk about honor all you want, and I understand it and I agree with it, and I applaud it.
But it is whatever they call it, nutcracking time here.
This Supreme Court nomination, this whole thing ought to be waking everybody up To what the future portends if we get this wrong.
They have to be beaten.
Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, whoever.
They have to be beaten.
And then after they're beaten, they have to be marginalized.
And none of that can happen in one election.
Not all of it.
You know what I told you I think is going to happen after this election.
If a conservative Republican wins this election, whoever the next president is going to be harassed and haranged every day by the usual leftist suspects.
And as each element of the Obama agenda is attempted.
We try to get rid of it.
Obama himself is going to be on TV with his buddies in the media trying to defend it.
It's not going to be for the faint of heart.
That's why what's happening in our camp campaign right now, this whole Republican primary.
This is tiddly winks compared to what the future's going to be if we succeed in beating these people back.
It's tiddly winks.
And people have got to know how serious this is.
Okay, it's a parody.
News busted is newsbusters parody site.
I knew it was.
That's why I prefaced it that way.
I always treated it as a joke.
But see, it has an element of truth in it.
I mean, I can see Trump doing it.
I can see me doing something like that as a as a one of my famous bits putting people on way back when.
Early days of the program.
I'm folks, to me, this there's one objective here.
And it supersedes all the intramural skirmishes that are taking place here.
Which is why I said when I was up there on Fox News Sunday, two Sundays ago with Chris Wallace, and he said, What do you think is going to happen?
I told him what I thought, what I hope is going to happen.
That when all this is all over, we end up with a nominee everybody rallies behind, unifies behind.
I love the idea.
I have to tell you, I love the idea of the Republican Party growing.
I love the idea stealing Democrats from the Democrat Party, because there's a bunch of them that are fed up.
White working class blue-collar people are fed up with the Democrat Party.
I'm more than happy to welcome them in.
Not as liberals, but as us.
And I fully understand, some of you think, "Well, that may be a good thing, Rush, but what about Republicans that might leave the party for the same reasons those blue-collar Democrats are joining the party?" I understand.
I know what's going on.
I just don't want you to be in any suspense or have any doubt about what my objective here It has never changed.
And in fact, I am more.
To me, it's a greater sense of urgency in this election than it has ever been.
I have to take a break.
We'll get back to your phone calls right after this timeout.
I didn't doubt it was real.
Snurdley just found the sound of Nautica, the ant, the Trayvon Williams story.
Apparently, some people have doubted that that was real.
I know I was one of the early doubters.
We found audio sounds by to document it.
Look, folks.
I meant it.
What's happening now in the Republican primary process is tiddly winks compared to what is going to happen if the Republicans win the White House.
You worried about riots right now.
You haven't seen riots until somebody tries to unwind Obamacare.
You haven't seen riots until the next Republican president takes dead aim at numerous Obama policies, illegal immigration amnesty takes dead aim at all of Obama's executive orders.
You haven't seen riots.
And they're already promising that us that it's going to happen.
The Occupy Wall Street crowd, they're already promising these things.
They're bragging about the biggest riots anybody's ever seen this summer to protest Trump.
They're going to protest us no matter what.
Whoever on our side wins.
And what worries me is that we do not have a Republican Party apparatus that is equipped and prepared for this.
It's a genuine concern of mine.
I don't like using the word cave, but it's patently obvious.
They're not much into conflict.
It's pretty clear that they are willing to compromise what they believe so that the media doesn't call them names.
Well, we don't, we don't even know what name calling is yet.
We're w people are involved in this right now like it's an academic exercise.
Conservatism has to triumph here.
We need to be true to our principles there and all of that's right on the money.
But that's all well and good, but it better also maintain and grow after the election is won.
There are a whole lot of different competing objectives going on out there.
You have a lot of people trying to show they can still have influence and power.
A lot of people still trying to show they can affect outcomes of events.
You have a lot of people trying to say claim they're the real conservative standing up for conservatism doing what fine and dandy.
But if it's not focused and targeted on beating back the American left, what good is it?
My point.
That's right, folks.
Turn it up to at least 800 decibels.
Make sure you miss nothing.
Here's Tom in Grand Rapids, Michigan, back at you, sir.
Great's and welcome to the program.
Hi.
Well, thank you, sir.
It is an honor and a privilege to speak with you today.
I hope I make you look good.
Um I believe that uh the Trump campaign is being run like uh reality show, sir.
And the reason I believe that is partly you when you tell me there's no consultants over there, they don't have the same setup as maybe any campaign that's run.
Secondly, he makes character caricatures out of all the the uh um candidates such as Lion Tad, Little Marco, um Low Energy Jeb, you name it, they've got a he's g he's got a name for everybody.
And what happens is now we're just trying to vote him off the island.
And the only unfortunate part about this, sir, is that these people have no idea what the consequences are gonna be because normally they they get on the phone and they make a call to vote for uh American Idols, and you get more votes on American Idol than you do in a presidential election.
And I think that's where all these people are coming from is is they think they're on this reality show, and it's gonna be their 15 minutes of fame without knowing the consequences.
You're you're talking about uh Trump supporters.
Yes.
So you're you're not one.
You are not it because you're not falling for this ruse.
Uh uh, no, sir, I'm not.
Uh I think we're really made well, I was watching his campaign.
I actually watched uh him do a stump speech over uh, you know, he gets off his plane in Cadillac, Michigan, and all he did was sit there and tell everyone how great his parents are and sit there and run down other candidates.
He never talked policy, he is a diatribe for over an hour, and and these people are sitting here listening to it.
I'm wondering where where are these people coming from?
This isn't a campaign stump speech.
This is just it's a reality show.
Well, I you know, see, I like your analogy.
Uh the only thing missing is diplane!
Dip pain and Irve Billish.
And of course, uh Mr. York, uh, welcoming everybody.
Remember, all the people showed up at Fantasy Island got the shaft before it was all over.
Uh I like the analogy.
Uh especially that Trump lands, gets off the plane, starts talking about how great his polls are, starts talking about Lion Ted, low energy Jeb Little Marco gets back on the plane, flies away.
And uh his audience thinks they've been on TV.
They've been on American Idol, they've been on uh celebration survivor celebrity uh apprentice because Trump never talks policy.
Yeah, I know.
I know Trump never talks policy.
Uh well, that's actually not true.
You see, he does talk policy, just not the way they do in professional politics.
But he talks about policy all the time.
At least I know that his supporters hear policy.
Make America Great again is not hope and change to them.
It's not open and vacuous and define it as you want.
Make America Great Again is very specific.
I'm gonna build a wall with a beautiful door that they it's pretty specific.
Uh we're gonna let him in, we're gonna let him in, we're gonna let America, they gotta go, they gotta go, we're gonna let him in legally, legally.
Yay.
I he does stream a consciousness.
I've as I say, I'm working on my Trump uh impersonation.
It really isn't hard to do.
The the hardest thing about a Trump impersonation is just actually saying whatever what comes into your mind, whatever it is, and whenever you say it.
You don't have any governor on you what it p you're talking about your polls and something reminds you of low energy jeb, and you go off on low energy jeb.
We're talking about low energy jeb.
Your mind's how you were killing little Jeb in the polls, and you go into little Marco, how you're beating everybody, the polls, and you just never stop.
You do that for an hour and a half.
There's no damn on the stream of consciousness.
There's there's there's there's no uh you know, there's no depends diaper for the uh incontinency of the emotions.
Just it just goes and goes and goes.
And that's what very few people can do.
It's it comes off as undisciplined uh and unprepared to the buttoned-down professionals.
But it's uh that's right, to other people it comes off as as uh confidence and uh you know an a willingness to say whatever pops in.
Anyway, uh I appreciate the call.
Next up we have this is this is uh Daly from Houston, Texas.
Hi Daly, great to have you on the program.
See you're 14, is that right?
Yes, sir.
Hi, Mr. Limbaugh.
Hi, great to have you on the program, Daly.
It's such an honor to speak to you.
First of all, I want to thank you so much for all you do.
Well, thank you.
I've actually been listening to you since I was a baby, and I love your show so much.
You're doing so much for America, and I can't thank you enough.
Well, you have made my day.
You uh I can't, I it is I who thank you.
I really appreciate that.
My question is do you think that Cruz still has an honest chance to land?
I really like Cruz, and he's inspired me, and I think that he's the kind of leader we haven't seen since Reagan.
And I was wondering if you think he has an actual chance to land.
Have you met Senator Cruz?
Yes, sir, I have.
What do you so you uh you've obviously you've been inspired by him.
What how long a time did you have to speak with him?
Um, well, actually, he was at um an event in Houston, and I got he took four questions, and I got to ask him a question, and he answered it, and so probably about like 15 minutes.
Well, let me look let me answer your question this way, Daly.
The question basically young Daly here wants to know if I think that Ted Cruz has a chance to win.
And in answering that question, let's take a look at where he is.
He right now is in second place.
And because of something I said earlier, I think the fact that Ted Cruz is in second Place is astounding.
Ted Cruz has been ignored from the first day of this campaign.
Whatever the news of the campaign is, day to day, he is not in it.
And particularly from last summer through the fall and winter, he was not.
The news was always about Trump.
But then it was either about Jeb or Marco or Governor Christie.
Even at the debates.
Everybody at the debates never is reviewed as such, never commented on.
After the debate, the post-debate coverage is usually how did Trump do, or what did Trump say about this moderator or that moderator?
But but daily.
My point is Ted Cruz is in second place.
He has been given no time by the drive-by media.
He has been shown no respect.
They have not treated him as a viable candidate.
He has been hammered over and over by every other candidate.
One way or another.
Ted Cruz has been lamb based.
He is very rarely given a chance to rebut the things that are said about him.
He is routinely one of the speakers at each debate that speaks the least.
There's some exceptions and some debates, but for the most part, he's among the least.
He is haved by the establishment, and they're the ones that totally ignore him.
The party has not lifted a finger to help him, and even now when they are starting to, they make it known that they're not happy to be doing it.
You're completely right.
Now, hang on, though.
He is being dwarfed and swamped by unprecedented coverage of Trump, who hasn't had to spend any money to get it.
Ted Cruz has raised money left and right.
There are all kinds of people giving money to Ted Cruz, and nobody talks about it.
Nobody wants to talk about Ted Cruz.
We are told over and over that everybody in the Senate hates him.
We're told over and over everybody in Washington hates him, but yet he's in second place and he's won nine states.
So you're asking me if I think Ted Cruz can win?
Yeah, I do.
I don't think it's anywhere near over yet.
Everybody wants you to believe that it is.
Everybody wants you to believe one of two things.
It's over, Cruz is not going to get there, Trump is, or we're going to go to a contested convention and it's going to be between Kasich and whoever else the establishment can throw up.
It still amazes me, Daly.
You have the establishment types with their secret dinner meetings like last night here in Palm Beach, trying to figure out how to game the convention so that one of theirs can get the nomination.
Then you have these conservatives who are plotting, trying to come up with a third party candidate, and here again, nobody's talking about Ted Cruz, and he's there every day.
He's out campaigning, he's going everywhere, and he is in second place despite all of the obstacles that have been put in his way.
So I think he can.
Now, if it goes contested the establishment doesn't want him even more than they don't want Trump.
But I think it's remarkable what he's been able to accomplish and pull off here, given the way the deck has been purposefully stacked against him.
What do you think of that, Daly?
Thank you so much.
I I completely agree.
He's made my day too.
Thank you.
You bet.
I'm glad you hey Daly.
Have you have you read my uh my books, the Rush Revere books?
Yes, sir, I have.
You have?
Okay.
Well, I was gonna say I love them.
They're awesome.
Do you have an iPad by any chance?
Um, no, sir, I don't.
Would your parents mind if I sent you an iPad, do you think?
I don't know.
Sounds like they wouldn't.
I'll tell you what, you asked me.
I'd be so grateful.
Oh, good cool.
Okay, there says fine.
Okay.
So you want a big one, or do you want the little one?
You want the iPad Air or you want the iPad Pro?
Um, I think the iPad Air, whatever is great.
I literally think you so much.
Okay, all right.
Well, I'm you know, Daly, I don't know.
I'm gonna I'll tell off.
You do you have big hands or small hands, Daly?
I small hands.
Okay, small hands.
Well, it's you know, but the pro could grow into the pro.
The pro is like 13 inches, the little ones like ten inches.
But the whatever you think is best, you know it.
I knew I liked you, Daly.
Really, so few people ever say that to me.
Whatever you think best, Rush.
Nobody ever says that to me.
You made my day.
Okay, Daly, hang on so Mr Mr. Snerdley can get your we'll get a FedExit, you'll have it tomorrow, okay.
We will be right back.
Don't go away.
Here's Janice in Billings, Montana.
Janice, your last call today.
Great to have you with us.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Um, I I want to suggest a way to stop the plan for a contested convention.
Okay.
This is this is the way.
Trump and Cruz agree to be running mates.
One of them suspends his campaign, the other one wins the remaining delegates.
Problem solved.
Well.
Okay.
Uh who goes who goes number two in your scenario?
Who is the V?
I think uh uh Trump should be president first because he's the older front runner.
And so we could have two Trump terms and two Cruz terms.
And they'd be great together.
You know, Trump understands messaging, Cruz understands the Constitution, and I I want both of them.
Well, you know what?
The nominee is gonna be one of the two of 'em.
When you when you you know, you can say all you want, but when you boil this down, the nominee's gonna be one of those two people.
I think these people having their dreams and fetishes can do it all they want.
It's gonna be one of those two people.
And although they're great men, they're both strong men.
The that's true.
That's true.
The other uh I don't know, some cruise people might abandon him if he did it.
I mean, there's some there's some the anti-Trump vitriol is pretty anti, pretty vitriolic, I should say.
But it's an interesting thing to chew on over the weekend.
I'm glad that you made it through here, Janice.
We've got to go, folks.
We'll be back to wrap it up after this.
Okay, folks, that's it.
I hope you have a great weekend.
We will be back on Monday.
You can count on it.
Hope you have a great weekend.
And thank you so much as always for being with us today, every day.
Look forward to the next time.
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