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March 21, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 21, 2016, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
So Obama lands in Cuba.
We can call it one small step for man, one giant leap for Marxism.
It's incredible.
Everything out there is just incredible today.
Greetings, my friends.
It's a delight to have you here, Rushlin Boy, as we kick off a brand new week of broadcast excellence.
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Yep, so Obama is in Cuba.
A bunch of the drive-by media are in Cuba, and they're wearing Shea Guevara shirts and other Cuban revolutionary garb.
Chris Cuomo, the son of Mario the Pious, is wearing a shirt that some that Castro gave Mario the Pious.
Uh and as he's there with uh with with ABC.
We had Hillary at the American Israel Political Action Committee uh meeting today, and she re I mean she dumped on Trump.
Trump's a bully this, there can't be any neutrality whatsoever in dealing with Israel and Palestine.
And you know, my reaction to that is you know, she said America can't ever be neutral when it comes to Israel's security or survival.
And yet, doesn't this woman support our deal with Iran?
How in the world can you support the Iranian nuke deal and be pro-Israel?
That's the question.
And I would I wouldn't be surprised, I don't know, you know, Trump and Cruz and uh case is Kasich?
Yeah, I think Bernie Sanders is a crazy Bernie's the only one not speaking to the group today.
I think Casey's Kasich is a whole other story.
Kasich I d folks, this guy uh he he said his continued candidacy, I am not making this up.
John Kasich said Republicans should thank me for remaining in the race.
John Kasich said that his continued candidacy is an opportunity for Republicans to reward him for past accomplishments.
And he said it was on Meet the Depressed with Ep Chuck Todd, and he said the Republicans should quote thank me for remaining in the race.
And he's got some convoluted theory.
The problem remaining in the race and taking delegates away actually propels Trump.
But anyway, we've got to get to these protests because that's not what they are.
Uh the things that happened Saturday in Arizona, the things that happen at Trump rallies.
I'll tell you a little story to set this up.
I played golf yesterday.
Oh, speaking of which.
Tell exercise, I hit some of the best golf shots I have ever hit in my life yesterday.
I went to sleep thinking about one of them, reliving it over and over.
I'm not going to describe it so you can stick to the issues, crowd will go nuts.
But after golf, uh, and it was a large group of people, it was a bunch of friends of mine and their wives.
And the guys played a force them, and the wives played a force them, and the wives followed.
And after it was all over, uh, began talking to people about the campaign, obviously.
And I hadn't seen uh a couple of these people in a while.
And they came up to me and said, Oh, Russia, I just so miss having a chance to ask you, you've got to tell me what do we make of these Trump protests?
Isn't it terrible?
And I said, they're not Trump protests.
What do you mean?
I said, Well, you do you think that these are Trump people protesting you Trump is responsible for this?
Well, yes, isn't that no, it's not.
See, this is how this works.
Because Trump has an attitude about these protesters, and because he says he's not going to tolerate it, and because he doesn't tolerate it, um, you have a bunch of people who, because the drive-by's want you to think this, I mean, it's understandable, drive-by's want you to think that it's Trump responsible for all this,
that Trump and his very existence, Trump and his speeches, Trump and his rallies are causing otherwise normal and sane people to lose their minds and start protesting and shutting things down.
And folks, this is the point I was trying to make on Friday on this program.
We get we get caught up in this Republican campaign, but I remember I told you on Friday that what's happening in this campaign is tiddly winks compared to what's going to happen when we get to the general.
Doesn't matter who our nominee is.
This is tiddlywinks compared to what's going to happen.
The left, they got their guy, they got Obama for two terms.
We are in the midst of the official, long-hoped for, long-awaited transformation of this country from capitalism to socialism by the left and the Democrat Party.
And they're not just going to abide by the results of an election if they lose it.
They're not going to sit by and let this happen.
And it's not, and they never have.
They have always used what is commonly called public protest or dissent or what have you.
It's actually what it's become now borders on criminal behavior.
Let me give you an analogy to explain what I mean.
Let's take protests at abortion clinics.
Let's say protests at Planned Parenthood.
What are the rules for those?
Well, Planned Parenthood's what's a private company, whatever you want to call it, organization.
It's privated in public.
So anybody that wants to protest what goes on in there cannot walk in and start harassing employees and start beating up employees.
They have to stay outside the building.
In many cases, they're required by law to stay a few feet away.
Imagine what you would do.
Imagine what Obama would do.
Imagine what anybody would do if anti-abortion protesters stormed Planned Parenthood facilities, actually went inside and started beating up people that work there and trashing the place.
Do you think anybody would say it's the time-honored art of American dissent?
Isn't it wonderful?
Look at what these protesters know.
It would properly be called criminal behavior.
There would be arrests, and the cops or anybody would go in there and kick them out and get rid of them, forcibly remove them, as should be the case.
Well, it's the same thing in a Trump rally or any of the other rallies.
These are private events.
They are not rallies held by an American politician open to the public.
They are private rallies, paid for by the candidates.
They rent the arena.
They have to provide security.
The Secret Service does not go into the crowd and keep order.
The only thing the Secret Service does is react to what they think might be a threat to the person that they are assigned to protect.
And in this case, it's candidates.
So if somebody storms a stage, yeah, they'll go into gear, they'll get into action.
If they hear somebody make a threat against the candidate, they'll take action.
But if there are fisticuffs out in the crowd, Secret Service doesn't touch that.
That's up to local security, local law enforcement, and whatever private security the candidates have purchased to take.
And in no instance is a protester allowed to come in there and do what they've been doing without being kicked out and arrested.
But that's not how this is portrayed.
This is portrayed as normal, everyday American people protesting what they think is the dangerous Donald Trump.
These are purposefully planned and executed strategies to disrupt these events.
There are the people doing this in no way will ever become Trump supporters.
They are there to shut down these events.
They are there to cause these problems to make it look like it's Trump and his supporters.
And I would say this if it were happening to Cruz, I would say this if it were happening to Kasich.
I would say this if it were happening to Hillary.
Except it doesn't happen to Democrats because our side abides by the law and doesn't seem to see the benefit in doing this kind of thing.
But these groups are the same groups they've always been.
They are climate change groups, global warming groups, they are Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter.
Whatever the protest groups over the course of the years, it's the same people, just with different names, the organizations that have been created that they supposedly are members of or represent.
But the people that run the Trump rallies have every right to throw them out of there.
They do not have the right to come in and disrupt these things under the guise of peaceful protests.
Look at the blockade of the street in Arizona that happened on Saturday, where Trump was supposed to speak.
These people blocked the street.
That's not a protest.
That's criminal behavior.
They were trying to keep people from getting to the Trump rally.
And so they shut down the one road that people had to get there.
And law enforcement wasn't prepared.
It took a while for law enforcement to show up and be able to do anything about it.
You had people with vehicles linked across the street, people laying down on the street, making passage impossible.
It was backed up for miles.
That one road led to the only hospital in the region.
How many people in those cars that were that were tied up and unable to get to the Trump rally were not even going to the Trump rally?
How many of them are doing other things, going other places?
How many ambulances might have been in that line trying to get in to the hospital?
How many people had their young infants?
They're down in the desert here, folks.
Miles and miles.
There was this this is not a protest, and it's not Trump people.
And if you want to say, well, Trump's causing it, you're wrong.
This was my whole point on Friday.
The enemy is not Trump.
The enemy is not Cruz.
The enemy is not Kasich.
The enemy is not, the enemy is the left.
The Democrat Party, the American left.
They are the most destructive force in this country today.
And they are doing whatever they can to create havoc and discomfort, and they want the reaction to be you blaming Trump.
Or you blaming the Republican, whoever the Republican happens to be, they want you blaming Trump for it.
If Trump weren't doing what he's doing, this wouldn't be happening.
That's what you're supposed to conclude.
And then you're to conclude Trump should stop, Trump should get out, Trump's a menace, Trump's this, it isn't Trump doing this.
It is not Trump's people doing this.
It is not Trump's supporters.
These are people that are going to vote for Hillary Clinton doing this.
Or Crazy Bernie or whoever ends up with the Democrat nomination.
These are criminal leftists.
These are not protests.
These are provocations and riots in waiting.
Shutting down a highway, as they did is not lawful.
It's not a protest.
It's not dissent.
It is criminality and it needs to be dealt with as such.
These are private events.
Protesters do not have the right to enter and disrupt.
In no other circumstance would this be tolerated.
You can come up with any number of analogies in addition to the planned parenthood, but that that is probably a good one because you you know how many people would tolerate something like that.
Zilch.
Even on our side, Zilch Zero Nada.
That's why, even at uh at the Republican convention, Democrat Convention, you don't see this.
The protesters are kept away from the arena, away from the venue, they are kept outside, they are not permitted in, they are private events.
For that specific reason, the hall has been rented and leased by the candidate.
He has total control of the usage, of course, within the bounds of law.
But it's it struck me, I mean, these are these are good people that I played golf with, they're fine, and they're they're they're up to state, they're up to speed, but but it's like everybody else, they react to what they see in the media.
We're never going to get around that.
Don't care how many Fox News there are or talk radio, there's always going to be a drive-by media.
We're never going to get around the fact that they are supportive Of the Democrat Party and everybody else that supports it.
They are tolerant, they encourage all of this.
And not only do they encourage it, they follow along and make it look like the victims of these things are actually the perpetrators.
So that the people I was talking to after golf, you should have seen their faces when I told them what I just told you.
And their eyes lit up.
Yeah, yeah, okay, that makes it.
They don't hear that anywhere.
In the media that they consume.
And so they they uh I I guarantee you that there are whole lots of people pro-Trump, anti-Trump, you name it, but especially anti-Trump people, who are eagerly eagerly gloming onto this as just another reason to criticize Trump.
Yeah, look what he's causing.
I guarantee this goes on before Trump.
Didn't you saw this in Ferguson?
You saw this against Mitt Romney.
You see, folks, the point is this is standard operating behavior for these people.
It's going to happen whether Trump's the nominee or not.
If Trump were to drop out of the race, just in a wild hypothetical, it's going to continue to happen.
They're going to move on to whoever they fear.
Whoever they think poses them the greatest threat is who they are going to act on.
I have to take a break.
We'll do that and be back.
Continue right after this.
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There is some news in these upcoming primaries.
Ted Cruz is within striking distance of Trump in Arizona.
A poll of Arizona Republicans conducted last week, but released actually toward the weekend shows that Donald Trump leads Cruz 31 to 19 with uh Kasich and Rubio tied at 10%.
The most encouraging news for Cruz is that the poll finds 30% of Republicans remain undecided and late deciding voters in all of these primaries, maybe a couple of exceptions, but late deciding voters have not voted for Trump in almost every state that has voted so far.
Now, 31 to 19, it's a 12-point split.
He's factored the margin of error in there, three to four percent.
So you're looking at seven or eight-point spread here.
If enough of these voters and Rubio supporters back crews, he could pull off an upset in Arizona.
Fifty-eight delegates at stake here.
That'd be a big haul.
Now, Trump is favored to win in Arizona on Tuesday.
Uh not just because of his polling advantage, he's got the backing of Jan Brewer, the former governor's popular.
Of course, immigration's a uh huge issue in Arizona, and and Trump is personally identified with uh with that issue.
But it says here this a weekly standard story that uh Trump may have hurt himself among these voters by announcing he was softening his position on immigration in a recent debate and showing himself to be ignorant about the details of his own plan in an earlier debate.
Now you gotta you have to read that or or listen, take it with a grain of salt, because that's from the Weekly Standard, which is William Crystals magazine, and the New York Times big huge story yesterday, Republican leaders mapped strategy to derail Donald Trump.
And one of the Republican leaders heavily involved is William Crystal of the Weekly Standard.
And in addition to uh in addition to that, we've got Rince Prebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, you said I cannot 100% guarantee that one of the three remaining candidates will be the nominee.
He was asked about a contested convention.
Well, it probably not, you know, people like to talk.
And then he was hit with the bolt out of the sky.
Well, can you guarantee the nominee is gonna be one of the three?
Trump Cruz Kasich.
Well, and he started hedging his bets.
Well, I don't know.
I don't think I would 100% guarantee that, no.
And if you read this New York Times piece on Sunday, you'd understand why Republican leaders adamantly opposed to Trump are preparing a 100-day campaign to deny him the nomination, starting with an aggressive battle in the Wisconsin primary on April 5th, and extending into the summer.
A delegate by delegate lobbying effort that would cast Trump as a calamitous choice for the general election.
That's the lead.
The story goes on from there.
Details on that and much else yet to come here on the Rush Limbaugh program of the EIB network.
Hang in, folks.
Back before you know it.
Where was the GOP's 100 day plan to take out Obama?
Anybody remember that plan?
Where's the GOP's 100 day plan to take out Hillary Clinton?
Anybody heard of that plan?
Now that that plan doesn't exist either, but they've got a 100-day plan to take out Trump.
Now, folks, and I don't, I'm I'm not particularly eager to be repetitive here because there's so much new every day, but I do I want to go back.
I've I've spent a couple of days here trying to make case with analogies and everything at my disposal to try to illustrate and inform just precisely how the Republican establishment is not going to sit by and let somebody take away from them what they have.
And it's it's not just their power.
I mean, that's a large element of it, but it's their entire reason for existing.
Positions of standing in one of the only two major political parties in the country.
There's so much tied into it.
You look at five of the seven wealthiest counties surround Washington, D.C. The networking there, the contacts, the power structure, the ladder of success that you climb there.
It's well laid out.
It's perfectly structured.
It is a very exclusionary club, and it is not merit-based.
Entry into the club is not something you can just apply for and become a member.
It requires breeding, it requires certain pedigrees and resumes and education and so forth.
It has provided a lot of power, a tremendous amount of wealth, huge self-esteem.
These are people that walk around feeling really big about themselves.
There's a lot of swagger.
People walk around, they feel very happy with themselves, very powerful, very smug, very confident, because the future is laid out, the uh the structure is what it is, and members are taken care of.
Everybody's got everybody's back.
And the idea that something like this could be busted up with an election, sorry, not gonna tolerate it, not gonna even give that a chance.
They are going to resist whatever effort is made to wrest power from them, to assume their positions or what have you, which is how they see Trump.
So despite all the talk that you hear, and I think it's smokescreen talk from this establishment member or that particular Republican or that consultant or that lobbyist or whatever, despite talk of unity and coming together, believe me, behind the scenes, there is none of that.
Behind the scenes, all there is is scheming that is designed to protect what they've got.
That's more important than the party-winning elections.
Do not doubt me.
So when I saw this New York Times story, headlined Republican leaders map a strategy to derail Donald Trump, I believe every word of it.
I think there's probably even more to it than what the story Includes, but here are some highlights.
Recognizing that Mr. Trump has seized a formidable advantage in the race, they say that an effort to block him would rely on an array of desperation measures, the political equivalent of guerrilla warfare.
There is no longer room for error or delay, the anti-Trump forces say, and without a flawlessly executed plan of attack, he could become unstoppable, and that is unacceptable.
But should that effort falter, should they fail to stop Trump and his army of supporters?
Should that falter, leading conservatives are prepared to field an independent candidate in the general election to defend Republican principles and offer traditional conservatives an alternative to Trump and his populism.
They describe their plans in interviews after Trump's victories last Tuesday in Florida and three other states.
Now, if your reaction oh, wait a minute, that guarantees Hillary, exactly, and they know it and they're fine with it.
Hillary Clinton winning maintains the existing order.
The existing order is not based on winning elections.
If it were, half the people in this club would have been thrown out by now.
I mean, half the people in this club are the reason Republicans don't win elections, and they're still there, and they're still members in good standing of this power structure, whatever name you want to give it.
And by by throwing a third-party candidate out there, where principled conservatives can once again vote to guarantee the continuation of socialist Marxism in the United States, that's considered a wise move.
Because it preserves what's important to the establishment.
The names of a few well-known conservatives have been offered up in recent days as potential third-party standard bearers, and William Crystal, editor of the Weekly Standard, has circulated another of his famous memos to a small number of conservative allies, detailing the process by which an independent candidate could get on general election ballots across the country.
Among the recruits under discussion are Tom Coburn, a former Oklahoma Senator who has told associates he'd be open to running.
And Rick Perry, the former Texas governor, who was suggested as a possible third party candidate at a meeting of conservative activists on Thursday.
So you got that conservative group that met on Thursday that could not come to a consensus, apparently.
This is an entirely different group.
We got two different establishment and the conservative groups.
Now, Crystal was not a member of the conservative group.
He's party establishment.
He runs the weekly standard.
And I'm sure he thinks, who's going to read this?
Who's going to want to read this if we're not in power or if we're not in charge of the opposition, if we're not perceived to be in charge of the opposition.
Now, Coburn said, he he left the Senate early last year to get cancer treatment.
But he said that Trump needs to be stopped, and he expected to back an independent candidate against Trump.
He said he had little appetite for a campaign of his own, but he didn't rule it out.
I'm going to support that person, whoever this group comes up with to stop Trump.
And I don't expect that person to be me.
Trump opponents convened a series of war councils last week to pinpoint his biggest vulnerabilities and consider whether to endorse Cruz or Casey.
This is you know what gives this up, you know what exposes this is as not being about the party.
Why are these people not unifying around Ted Cruz?
You got a guy who is second in delegates.
You have a guy is in the Senate.
I know look, it's a rhetorical question.
I know they answered the question.
It makes the point.
You've got Trump.
They don't want any of these three.
They really don't want Trump, and they really don't want Cruz.
They're in a panic.
They've got to come up with somebody.
Why?
If they were serious about winning, why and unity, why not, if you don't like Trump, and you're going to take Trump out, why not unify behind Cruz?
And the fact that they don't want to do that should be all you need to know about what really is going on here.
And it isn't about winning the presidency, folks.
And that's you want to it's another and a long line of reasons of why Trump exists and why Trump has supporters.
You go back to these protests, which are not protests, these criminal actions.
I will guarantee you that Trump supporters, they are made up of a lot of people, folks.
They are, you know, there's another thing happening, by the way.
The Trump supporter is being presented as a poor, dumb, uneducated, white working class person who has lost his manufacturing job ten years ago and wants to blame somebody's for his for his failures.
That's who they want you to believe Trump supporters are.
It may be the most disadvantaged group in this country to be a member of today, the white working class.
Seems like everybody's dumping on that group of people.
The white working class, in their view, in their minds, they're the ones that have gone off to fought the wars.
They're the ones who have voted the existing Republican power structure into office year after year after year.
They are the ones that pay their taxes.
They are the ones who do the work that very few other people in the country want to do, including joining the military, and everybody's dumping on them.
Prior to joining Trump, you know what they did?
They were Tea Partiers.
And by the way, the Tea Party and Trump supporters are not monolithic.
They're not all poor white.
Look at let me just call this fade a spade.
What they want you to believe is the average Trump voter is an uneducated hick.
White trash.
Upset over his own or her own personal failures, looking to blame somebody else.
And Trump has come along and given them comfort.
That's not who they are.
Sure, some people in that group might fit that description.
The vast majority of them are Tea Partiers.
The vast majority of them are really middle class, some of you upper middle class, who are fit to be tied.
You look at these protests that are the criminal actions that are called protests.
I don't know how to emphasize this.
Since the 1960s, there has been a building anger and resentment at all of these protesters and everything they've gotten away with, and everything they have destroyed.
People have sat in their homes and watched this stuff and they have cursed it.
They have opposed it.
They have wondered why nobody does anything to stop it.
They have wondered why malcontents like this get away with destructive criminal behavior.
They know it's not protest.
They know it's not these are random mobs, these are bought and paid for, these are anarchists, these are just miserable bunch.
A miserable lot of collected leftists who are never happy and never going to be happy.
They're bought and paid for, and for years.
Nobody has done a thing about them.
They have been permitted to become what is seen as an active political force for the Democrat Party.
The Republican Party doesn't stand up to them, tries to coddle them.
The Republican Party doesn't do what Trump comes along and simply isn't taking it.
And it's another reason why people are supportive of Trump.
I mean, there's a lot tied up in all of this, in terms of reasons to explain Trump support and so forth.
But the great misunderstanding exists inside the beltway.
Great misunderstanding of just who and what the majority American body politic is, who they are, what they think, what their dreams are.
That's foreign territory to people inside the beltway, and they are resented to boot.
Republican Party had a chance to embrace it.
I never could understand why they wouldn't embrace the anti-Obama coalition, Obamacare.
There was a built-in majority waiting for the Republican Party to join and become a majority.
And then the Tea Party came along and they wanted no part of the Tea Party.
And the Tea Party presented an opportunity to once again become a majority party, and they wouldn't unite with a Tea Party.
What do they expect going to happen when they reject their own voters when they reject people that want to support them over and over again when they mock them and laugh at them and make fun of them?
What do they think's gonna happen?
When somebody like Trump comes along.
Anyway, time to get your phone calls in on this and other things is still popping, so we'll be back and continue in a sec.
Okay, to the phones we go, Dave in Columbus, Ohio.
You're up first, Danny.
It's great to have you.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
I'm fine, thank you.
Uh about these protests.
The thing that frustrates me the most, I'm an attorney, Rush, and no one seems to understand the very basics of Constitution Law 101 First Amendment free speech.
The First Amendment protects the content of your speech.
It does not protect your conduct when you speak.
Uh people get this so wrong.
All I hear these talking heads on TV everywhere, they say, well, if as long as they're nonviolent or they don't enter into private space, they don't do this, they don't do that.
If you're in public and you annoy people, that's disorderly conduct.
You can't grab a megaphone and start marching around blocking foot traffic and screaming at people, getting in their faces.
That's disorderly conduct.
Well, you can do it, but you're gonna be removed.
In any other circumstance, you're gonna be removed if you do it.
But it's not the time honored free speech, history of the United States, you know, everybody has a right to do it.
You don't.
It it's you can't act like you can't be a nuisance and then carry a Bernie sign and you're inoculated.
No one on TV seems to get this.
They say that it's they're allowed to march down the street.
You know, when you see protesters with megaphones and signs marching around, they have to get a permit from the city to do that.
There have there has to be a a space, a time set up.
There was I I get your point.
There was no permit to block traffic, given.
His point is that the First Amendment does not provide you freedom of conduct.
You may have freedom of speech, but there's no freedom of speech in these private events anyway.
You do not have a right to be heard.
You know, that is another thing about the First Amendment that a bunch of idiots seem to misunderstand.
They equate the right of free speech with the right to be heard.
Nobody has to listen to you.
You can go where you can say whatever you want to say, and nobody has to listen, and you can't do anything if they don't.
The minute you start forcing them to listen by shackling them or imprisoning them or trapping them or whatever, you are in violation of the law.
The thing is, the media's always gonna do this, Dave.
The media is always going to promote leftist protesters.
They're always going to categorize them as great heirs of the American tradition.
They're gonna promote them as great freedom fighters and free speech lovers, civil rights leaders and all that.
They're nothing but a bunch of thug criminals.
And for the first time, somebody's calling them out.
It happens to be Trump.
For years, Republican voters have ached for something to be done about this.
I'm telling you, you do not know how fit to be tied so many people are that crap like that ends up being a factor in policy.
Crap like that that goes on in Ferguson, crap like that that goes on in in in Baltimore or Los Angeles or ends up becoming public policy.
Influencing public policy.
You don't know how many people are fit to be tied over there for years and years and years.
It's one of the many things Republican voters feel ticked off about.
What was it?
I just had a uh uh oh, it was Lindsay Graham.
We we we we must be prepared to lose an election to maintain our heart and soul.
We must be, we as Republicans, we must be committed and prepared to losing an we're only talking about the future of the country, not your heart and soul.
And we're not talking about your job, and we're not talking about maintaining the establishment.
People are concerned about their own futures, not yours.
Their own lives.
Yours is set.
You're a member of the establishment.
You're gonna be fine no matter what happens.
That's the problem.
We'll be back.
So the big Apple event starts pretty soon.
You interested in a smaller iPhone in there?
You want to go back to a four-inch iPhone, anybody?
I haven't found anybody who does, but apparently there are some who do.
Anyway, a little brief time out here at the top, my friends.
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