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March 22, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 22, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Yeah, you know, I've got that here.
I've I've had it for a couple of days, a story of Clinton.
By the way, two things on Bill Clinton.
Greetings and welcome back, folks.
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There was a I saw a video the other day, Bill Clinton standing behind Gabby Gifford's and her husband.
It was obviously a campaign appearance.
Uh and Gabby and her husband were talking about the upcoming election, the primary.
And Clinton was standing.
Did you see this, Clinton standing behind him?
I've got to be very careful here describing this.
But it looked like he didn't know where he was.
He kept chewing on his tongue, kept wise wide open and clad.
It literally looked totally, totally out of it.
As an aging person looked, not not inebriated or any of that, just not there.
It was striking.
It was whoa.
What is this?
And then the next story on Clinton was he's out there talking about speaking up for Hillary, so we got to clean up the legacy, the disaster of the last eight years.
What the heck is this about?
And everybody thought maybe Obama's gonna unleash the DOJ on Hillary.
And maybe Clinton's heard about it, and then they asked Clinton about it.
No, I want to talk about it.
I'm talking about the Republicans.
The Republicans' legacy last eight years.
It's an absolute disaster.
Here's something that only Hillary can fix it.
And everybody said, what what the Republicans didn't do diddly squat the last eight years.
The Republicans didn't do anything.
So there's a lot of people wondering, you know, what's what you know, where's where's Bill?
Clearly something's changing out there.
Um ladies and gentlemen, what uh oh, the the previous caller, the uh that that young woman from Chapel Hill, uh, which is where the University of North Carolina is.
I mean, it that was that what was that?
That was that was a model.
I mean, that that what I think that was your classically educated college student circa 2016.
And she was upset at my categorization of Hillary Clinton as a wuss.
Because Hillary's first reaction to the Brussels bombing was to say that the United States response must be consistent with our values and says we waterboarding and and so forth.
And the young lady was perplexed.
Why why would I call Hillary a wuss?
Because she was right.
We need peace.
We need peace.
The United States must be peaceful and and and uh it's a delicate thing talking to people of that particular mindset because they have been educated and raised in many places to believe that all conflict, any conflict, is injustice.
Competition is conflict.
Disagreeing with somebody about something, anything is conflict, and that's disagree.
So when the terror attack happens, to have an opinion about it that is in conflict with some that's not right.
That's injustice.
We should be more open and make blanket requests for peace.
Everybody come together, but don't start a fixing blame anywhere.
You don't have the right to blame anybody.
We're all guilty.
We're all victims.
We're all oppressors, whatever it is, and any conflict is injustice.
Because there should be unanimity in agreement.
We should all be getting along.
Now the reason this has been taught this way.
It is it is an adjunct to political correctness, which the purpose of which is to silence anybody who isn't a liberal from speaking up and saying anything, thinking out loud, speaking out loud.
And so to categorize conflict, i.e.
disagreeing with a liberal is injustice, you see.
So I spoke out against Mrs. Clinton.
That's conflict.
That's not productive.
It's injustice.
It's not fair, it isn't right.
And why would you call him a real?
Why would you the way they've been educated, it is it literally does not compute that you would be critical of a Democrat.
You would be critical of a liberty, you'd be critical.
They're not taught that Democrats are great.
They're taught it by by association of people.
Conservatives are rotten not because they say conservatives are rotten, they tar and feather everybody who is.
And they build up and celebrate and promote anybody who's a liberal.
They never use the word liberal or conservative in educating these kids.
But the message is clear.
If you disagree with a liberal, which is the norm, a liberalism is just what is.
It's as normal as water exists and air.
And to disagree with it is that's just injustice.
And that's as far as it goes.
There is no critical thinking involved here.
All there is, I can't believe he said that.
I can't believe he said anything that about Hillary.
You can't do that.
You just can't do that.
And that's what she was wanting an explanation.
How can you do that?
Now the answer is you really want to elect this woman president.
She not only, in her first statement after this thing, warns the United States about what it might do.
This is the woman who let Benghazi happen.
Four Americans dead, and then lied to everybody about why.
If you're a critical thinker, if you have any understanding of the way things really happen.
But that's not how they're raised.
That's not how they're educated.
All conflict is injustice.
But from their standpoint, conflict is dis it's everything.
Every conflict is, but disagreeing with a liberal is also conflict.
That's not supposed to happen.
Can I share with you something from the New York Times back on January, what was this?
Put on the reading class.
January 28th.
This is March the 22th.
So we're almost two months.
The headline is Donald Trump finds New City to insult.
Date line London.
He incensed Paris and London by saying that some of their neighborhoods were so overrun with radicals that the police were too scared to enter.
He raised Scottish tempers by threatening to pull the plug on his investments there, including his luxury golf courses, if British politicians barred him from entering Britain.
And now Donald J. Trump has upset the already beleaguered people of Belgium, calling its capital Brussels a hellhole.
Asked by Fox Business Network anchor Maria Barceromo about the feasibility of his proposal to bar foreign Muslims from entering the U.S. Mr. Trump argued that Belgium and France had been blighted by the failure of Muslims in these countries to integrate and to assimilate.
Trump said to Maria Barceroma, I know it's Barterromo, but if you listen to the way it's Barceromo.
Anyway, I'm just pronouncing the way I hear it, folks.
Anyway, he said to Maria Barcheromo, there's something going on, Maria.
Go to Brussels.
Go to Paris, go to different places.
There's something going on, and it's not good.
Where they want Sharia law, where they want this, where they want things that it just isn't good.
And less than two months later, Belgium blows up.
Brussels blows up.
New York Times, Donald Trump finds New City to insult Brussels.
Story today from Buzzfeed, Belgian authorities overwhelmed by terror investigations.
Within minutes of a bomb blast at Brussels main airport, mobile phone and internet networks crashed.
After a second attack struck a metro station in Maylebeak, which feeds the main European Union complex, and that's again from my first hour.
That's you see.
Look, you might think this is a little over the top.
It isn't, folks.
It isn't.
To leftists and to quasi leftists, to anybody who's not a conservative.
Let's just put it that way.
Europe.
That's the site.
Europe is the site of utopia.
Denmark, Brussels, Cividen.
It's all there.
That's that's where the grand experiment's already begun.
That's where it's going to.
Eventually flower, that's where utopia is Europe.
And these clowns have come along and they blew it up.
By God, don't they not know?
If we could all live together there, we can live in harmony.
We can live in peace.
We can live without conflict.
Don't they know why they They are taking this personally?
Blowing, I guarantee you, blowing up.
Mailbeak, which feeds the main European Union complex.
That's like that's that'd be like blowing up the underground railroad subway system, whatever to the U.S. Capitol.
Oh God, you know, hit anything, but damn, oh my god, this is a direct hit on our utopian site.
Remember in Utopia, utopia is where all conflict subsides.
Utopia is where all conflict goes away.
Utopia is with everybody realizes peace, unity, oneness, sameness, equality, justice, you know, all these things.
And these clowns hit it.
These terrorists, they just targeted it.
It's dispiriting.
Because the very existence of this place is supposed to send out like cosmic waves.
That this is the place where we are all finally going to come together as one.
And they went out and hit it.
It's double depressing to them for that reason.
Belgian counter-terrorism officials have been on high alert for years as hundreds of citizens and residents have departed for the battlefields of Syria and Iraq.
One Belgian official said that besides the names of hundreds of fighters believed to be abroad, the security services have more than 200 open files related to threats at home and in Europe.
Virtually every, listen to this.
Virtually every police detective and military intelligence officer in Belgium is focused on international jihad investigation.
There isn't any time for murder, robbery.
Any of the other everyday crimes that everybody is focused on jihad.
And even with that, the jihadists succeeded.
The official from the intelligence agency said, look, we we just don't have the people to watch anything else, and frankly, we don't have the infrastructure to properly investigate or monitor hundreds of individuals suspected of terror Links, as well as pursue the hundreds of open files.
This is utopia.
This is what everybody aspires to, and they are not equipped to deal with the harsh realities of the world, including that there are bad guys who want to kill us simply because we're alive.
They don't want to kill us because they don't like our values.
It's a this that's another Hillary and Obama.
We must maintain our value.
That's that's just not a value question for them.
This is a religious question.
We're infidels.
It's no more complicated than that.
Plus, we are at war with them, or we're going through the motions of it anyway.
But back to Trump.
So back in January 28th.
The New York Times gets all over him for insulting Brussels and telling everybody that's look it's gonna happen there.
They're not prepared for it.
All these all this massive immigration and in Belgium and other European nations, and there's no assimilation.
They're living together amongst each other.
They're not becoming citizens of these countries, and they are not learning the specific ways of life in these countries.
So the Times insults Trump and rigs on Trump, and now we have a story of the politico, Trump on Brussels attacks.
I told you so.
Donald Trump said today he's been warning about the importance of border security for some time.
A comment that comes in response to the explosions in Brussels.
I've been talking about this for a long time.
Look at Brussels, he said in a phone interview, this on Fox and Friends today.
Uh not on the Fox Business Network like he did originally with Maria Barcher Romo.
So what else do we have here?
Some uh Investors Business Daily, now just known as investors, I think investors.
Editorial Clinton email scandal, it's time Hillary suspended her campaign.
What that means is it's time for the Republicans to stand up and say, Mrs. Clinton, there's too much going on with you here.
There there's there's a lot of smoke now.
We think we see some flames.
We think you should suspend your this is what Dingy Harry would do.
Mitt Romney hasn't paid his taxes in twenty five years.
A friend of mine told me we think Romney should suspend his campaign to look into it.
Well, investors business daily thinks that Mrs. Clinton ought to be told she should suspend her campaign to find exactly what went on with who and how much intel classified data is out there now because of her screw ups.
Half my brain tied behind my back.
Every day, just to make it fair.
Barrington, Illinois, John, as we head back to the phones, you're next.
It's great to have you here.
Hi.
Good afternoon, Rush.
You know, I think I speak for some others who have been throwing drinks or shouting back at the radio when people like Susan from a couple days ago come on, and the first thing out of their mouth is there's no difference between Trump and Hillary.
And I can't believe that you let her go on without proving that statement up.
Wait a minute.
Now I'm having trouble remembering that.
Uh I'm not disputing you, but a lot of stuff happens here every day.
I think I know who you're talking about.
Was she She was the one that wanted to ridicule the Trump supporters into behaving?
That's not my m my memory is somebody getting mad at me for not supporting Cruz and condemning Trump.
Uh, but I don't I don't recall.
Go ahead and time is dwindling.
Make it make sure.
She she was not going to vote for Trump.
She I believe she was for cruise.
And, you know, my point is people need to get the priorities straight.
This is uh we have a 57-game exhibition schedule to pick our starter for the political Super Bowl, and there's only one political Super Bowl.
And you cannot undo the process.
And the people that are not that are not willing to put our best candidate forward, and the one that the that all of us are participating in uh choosing.
Wait, you you're you're you're laboring under a very important misunderstanding.
And that is that given this season, there are a lot of Republicans who are more than willing to lose this election rather than have Trump win it as a Republican.
Well, I think the priorities are out of order.
Pardon me?
Those priorities are out of order.
And not to them.
That's how they save their jobs.
That's how they save their prestige.
That's how they save their self-esteem.
Well, I think they won't have a job then because I don't think there will be a party after that, because I think between the Tea Partiers and the Trump supporters, they're gone forever if if if this is somehow undone.
Oh no, no, no, no.
They'll still have their magazines.
I'm not talking about.
They'll still have their pundit jobs.
They will still have their good standing in the club.
No, this is a serious point.
I'm not trying to interrupt you here, even though I'm out of time.
It's a serious there's the the unity you talk about it doesn't exist.
Okay, here's uh here's John back in Barrington, Illinois.
I didn't want to shortchange you on your time there since I since I uh interrupted you to try to um I I wanted to disabuse you of one of your premises, and that is that everybody's gonna be united and w behind the nominee if it's Trump.
That that I don't know I wish it would happen too.
I even said so on Fox News Sunday, that everybody would finally realize the enemy's Hillary cr Hillary Clinton, the Democrats.
Uh but there's so many people on our side personally invested in maintaining their own position in life and their you know, whatever you're the establishment club in Washington, wherever, uh, that Trump being elected effectively leaves them out of power.
That's that's horrible from their perspective.
So I number one, I think that's just as ridiculous as saying uh uh Trump is a Nazi.
I mean, Washington isn't gonna go away, and if the Republicans have control of all three branches of government, you know, there's plenty uh there's plenty of room in the government in the process for everybody to work on something.
And if Trump is going to do as much to push projects ahead, I think there'll be plenty of work for everybody to go around.
It may not be as much as they want to do in the area that they want to do, but I think he's just gonna reset the priorities.
You know, one of the things I was thinking about was since Reagan, there's only three four now four guys, including Cruz that I consider guys that are willing to completely go to the mat for Republican or conservative principles, and that's Gingrich, Trump, and Cruz.
Everybody else, to me, you know, Romney, if he would have had any uh would have taken it to Obama and made the made the last election about Obama's record, he didn't do that.
And to me, that's an evidence of you know, a lack of combativeness.
And, you know, under Gingrich and Reagan, there was progress made on conservative and free market principles.
So I think it requires somebody who's got some combativeness to push things ahead in those areas.
And if Trump is only fifty percent conservative, that's fifty percent conservative and combative to me is better than a hundred percent conservative and not combative.
Right.
No, I I all of that I uh we're we're talking past each other because you you're you're talking about this from a standpoint of perspective that the people I'm talking about are not interested in.
You're interested in winning the election, beating back liberalism, stopping the things going wrong in the country, repairing the economy, repairing the border, repairing all of these cultural rottings that are going on.
The people I'm talking about who are talking about voting for Hillary before voting for Trump.
None of that matters to them.
This is why I have spent so much time in recent weeks trying to explain it.
That it's personal.
It's it's about maintaining their current position in life that they fear would be imperiled if Trump were to win or if anybody outside the establishment were were to win.
Uh the opposition to Trump is categorized by the people I'm talking about, which is a finite number of people.
I'm not talking about everybody that opposes Trump.
I I'm not I'm not I'm talking about I don't know how to be more explicit than I have been.
I just the I just don't want to name names here.
But the the people that are responsible for this line of thinking, you you you can You can put them in a couple of blocks of Washington, D.C., and they are trying to motivate other people to agree with them.
And it's those people that are out there saying some of them are elected Republicans, others are in the punditocracy, some are in the media, some are at K Street, some are lobbyists, some are campaign consultants or whatever.
And they're all saying that that Trump is so bad, so unacceptable that we'll vote for Hillary first.
Now there's no way under the sun that a Republican in this era votes for Hillary Clinton or does anything to enable her to be elected, who is actually engaged in taking things seriously.
Can't do that.
This country is at a crossroad, and there's not a whole lot of time here between us and the edge of the cliff.
And the election of Hillary Clinton, or whoever would be get the nomination if she doesn't, is to anybody really thinking totally unacceptable.
These people are not analyzing it the way you did, uh, and the way you do.
They're not looking at it in ideological terms, and you know, Trump's acceptable because he's maybe half conservative or 25%.
That's he's not them.
He never has been them.
He's not part of them, he's not qualified.
Besides, he poses a threat.
Think of these guys as individual wizards of Oz, and somebody's about to rip the curtain open, and they're about to be exposed.
These are the people I'm talking about.
Wizard of Oz didn't care what happened to Ozzy cared what happened to him.
And it's not very many people, but it doesn't take many people to have the power to run the apparatus here that is known as the Republican National Convention or the upper echelons of the Republican Party.
Look, another politico story today.
Another L. Rushbow, see I told you so.
The headline, Trump's foreign policy team baffles GOP experts.
Now, one of the people named has is Waleed Ferris, who is excellent on international Islamic terrorism.
He's a frequent guest on TV.
I cite the guy practically every time he appears on TV.
He makes so much sense in identifying who the players are and what their real motivations are and what their tactics are, and what and where the real alliances are in this mess that we call the Middle East and Islamic terrorism and so forth.
But here's the nut of this story, if you will.
Trump's, it's it's the political, Michael Crowley writes it.
Trump's foreign policy team baffles GOP experts.
Republicans can't figure out the moguls' quirky mix of advisors.
And then we go to page two.
I'm not going to give the name.
I because I don't want this person to start getting inundated with mail.
That's not the point.
A former official in the George W. Bush State Department, who is now a fellow at the Hoover institution, said to the politico, I don't know any of these Trump foreign policy people.
You know, national security is hard to do well even with first-rate people.
It's almost impossible to do well with third rate people.
Well, this is pretty much translation.
I don't know these people.
They're not in the club.
These people, Trump's name, I never heard of, I don't know who these people are.
We can't have them.
I don't know them.
I never heard of them.
It's like the famous New York writer Pauline Cale after The elected election of Richard Nixon in 1972.
She's a New Yorker.
And she said, I have no idea how this happened.
I don't know anybody that voted for Nixon.
So here you have a former Bush State Department.
I don't recognize any of these people.
I never heard of them.
I don't know any of them.
You know, national security is hard to do well, even with people like me.
But you put people in there I never heard of.
Oh no, we can't have that.
Classic.
They're not in the club.
And that's Frank, what most people think is a plus is getting people not.
Let's face it, the club ain't doing too hot, folks.
The club has been messing things up here for at least seven years, if not longer.
Anyway, Steve, I appreciate the call.
John, I'm sorry, I appreciate the call.
I've got things to do that are backing up on me here.
I still have a lot of sound bites to get in here, so sit tight, folks, because there's much more straight ahead.
When are we gonna start questioning who's on Obama's foreign policy team?
What are we gonna start questioning who's on Hillary's foreign policy team?
When are we looking I know it's the Republican primary, and I know the contest right now is for the Republican nomination.
I get that.
But the problem is all of this vitriol at Trump or at Cruz or back and forth, when it's over, none of it's gonna end up being redirected at the Democrats where it really needs to be directed.
I mean, Hillary's out there, let me tell you what she just did.
As I made note, she was she was just on uh CNN, and she was talking about the terror attacks.
It was a lengthy interview they did, and it happens every time.
It happened after San Bernardino, it happened after Fort Hood.
It happened every time, even when it's an attack that has nothing to do with the Islam uh like the Colorado uh movie theater shooting, but when it might be when people think it might be.
Every time after Brussels today, Hillary Clinton went out there, and she said, Look, it's a mistake to start criticizing Islam.
We cannot go to war with an entire religion.
We need to recruit Muslims to help us stop these attacks.
Every time, every time there's an attack, Hillary Clinton or Obama or your average Democrat, the first thing they do is stand up and tell us what we better not be thinking, and what we better not be planning, and what we better not do.
And all of it adds up to you'd better not blame who's responsible for this, because that's not who we are.
American values are not that we are not going to blame who's responsible for this.
Meanwhile, has anybody noticed what ISIS is doing.
Well, I'll tell you what ISIS is doing.
ISIS is branching out.
ISIS is no longer a localized Middle East operation.
They are taking their war to the West.
They are moving their war, and they went to the seat of the European Union today and blew it up.
ISIS, this is not happening in Syria.
This did not happen in Iraq.
It did not happen in Libya.
It happened in Brussels.
There's NATO, hell, everything we negotiate.
The World Trade Organization, the World Court.
I'm telling you, it's the left's utopia, and ISIS just hit them in their roots.
And here's Mrs. Clinton.
We cannot blame an entire religion.
We cannot betray our own values.
We cannot be thinking of waterboarding.
We can't.
We didn't do anything.
But as far as Mrs. Clinton is concerned, we're on the cusp of also being culpable here unless we maintain our values.
I'm telling you, these people are gonna get us wiped out.
They are so conflict averse, except when it comes to us, they will happily and gladly be in conflict with us Republicans and conservatives 24-7.
Because apparently to them, we pose a greater threat to them than ISIS does.
You know why?
Because they see us as wanting to take away their power.
They see ISIS as some far-off distant little cult.
They're not taking it seriously.
Obama still doesn't take it seriously.
This is Cruz's whole point when he says that Obama won't even call it what it is.
But there she was again, Mrs. Clinton.
We cannot blame an entire religion.
Who is well, Trump is Mr. Limbaugh?
Trump is blaming.
No.
Trump is not doing.
He's simply saying when something like this happens, you've got to put measures in place to make sure that these kinds of people are not getting into your country via some other program.
The refugee resettlement program, the immigration program or what have you.
Anyway, first thing out of their mouths is a warning to us.
You better not be doing what I know you're thinking of doing.
You better hold on to our values.
You better not be thinking torture, you better not be thinking waterboarding.
You better not be thinking go to go to war with entire religion.
After every attack at San Bernardino after this, after 400, take your pick.
After the next one, she'll be out saying the same thing.
Warning us who had nothing to do with it, what we better not be thinking of what we better not be planning, what we better not be doing.
Meanwhile, ISIS is headed our way.
Here is Robert in uh Coronado, California.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
All right, thank you, Rush.
Um, conservatives like myself should share in the responsibility for what's gone on in the liberal universities and colleges across the country.
And and very briefly I'll tell you why.
Um we're very successful, many of us.
We graduated many, many years ago, 30 some years ago from these institutions, and we dutifully send money to them every year, you know, with some student calling calling us up and telling us how much they appreciate our help, and we you know, when you got into medical school so many years ago, and we send them the money, and incrementally these universities have become something totally different from what we attended.
Um, yet we send them money as if we're sending money to the same institution it was 35 years ago, and it's not.
Well, I yeah, I get your point.
I I think it still was pretty bad 35 years ago, but your point still is we you I didn't graduate from one, but you did, so we'll talk about you.
You got out of the place, you survived, you you became what you became became.
Um let's not use you, because I don't want to put you on the your point is that people who have known what these universities are for years continue to send money, continue to send their kids while condemning the product.
It's a bunch of it's a bunch of stuff teaching liberalism, they're indoctrinating kids with a bunch of leftist propaganda, but we're sending our kids to them, and we're paying the freight, and we're being boosters, we're donating maybe to the athletic department or what have you.
That's your point, right?
Uh, that is the point.
And Rush, I get the newsletters, you know, quarterly newsletters, and I, you know, I incrementally would notice more social justice stuff creeping in, gender studies, and so forth.
And I mean, it's not the same place.
Well, what do you think your kids are not going to be affected by it when you still send them there?
Not you specifically, but in general.
You think people know.
I I'm just saying, why should I why should I fund it?
I mean, it's like my kids are going to school now in a different place, and it's and and believe me, they they tell me the stuff that instructors tell them about, oh, if somebody was living in a uh a house and couldn't afford to pay it, wouldn't it be better from a social standpoint if they were allowed to continue to live in their house?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
That was from the housing crisis.
That was famous for the housing crisis.
Yeah, the bank should notice it because the bank screwed them in the first place, right?
Yeah, and you know, and and so I don't think the institution is necessarily going to change, but why should why should we fund it?
I mean, not only that, they have do you know what the Harvard endowment?
Nobody ought to be giving Harvard at nine.
Their endowment is in the double figure billions.
But yet, you know, some some erstwhile tycoon Will give them money to put his name on the next building they build.
Anyway, Robert, I've uh appreciate the call.
We gotta take another time out, folks.
Fastest three hours immediately here.
Be right back.
Yeah, I got this here.
More Republicans feel embarrassed by campaign polls.
Where do you think this story runs?
New York Times.
New York Times.
Most Republicans feel embarrassed by campaign poll says.
Well, we'll get into that.
And uh some sound bites that I still want to run by you here, folks.
The next hour is gonna go, I mean, whizzing by out there, so listen fast.
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