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March 22, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 22, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #3
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I'd be remiss if I didn't do this.
I have to do a public service announcement here.
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So make sure it does what you want it to do before you start.
They've totally changed.
Anyway, greetings.
Welcome back, folks.
Great to have you.
See.
This is what, if I had my new website up and running, which should have been last December, I would have a section in it for tech updates with screenshots and everything.
I was still looking forward to getting that done at some point.
But that way I could just direct you to the website for that.
I guess I could still do it in this case, but not today because I'm too swamped.
Anyway, greetings.
Welcome back.
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Back to the audio soundbite.
Just some really good stuff here.
It's reaction to what went on in Brussels and some stuff that happened at the AIPAC meeting last night.
I want to, let's see.
Yeah, let's pick up what this is.
One last Obama who is speaking in Havana this morning.
El Gran Tietro de Havana.
Obama addressing the people of Cuba.
And this is our last soundbite of his remarks.
In the United States, we have a clear monument to what the Cuban people can build.
It's called Miami.
Is that not...
Here in Havana, we see that same talent in cuentas propistas, cooperatives, and old cars that still run.
El Cubano inventa del aire.
By the way, that last is translated as the Cubans invent from the web.
So there you have it.
There is a clear monument to what the Cuban people can build.
It's called Miami.
Well, to the extent that's true, the people that built Miami are the people that fled the place, Mr. President.
They fled the place.
After Batista left and Fidel came in, they got out of there.
They lost everything in Cuba, Mr. President.
Their property was taken from them.
Their property, their estates, everything they owned was taken from them by the regime.
And they fled for their lives.
And they fled for their freedom.
And they took their good old conservative values and they built up parts of Miami where they live.
But Castro had nothing to do with it.
The people you're talking to in Cuba had nothing to do with it other than the fact they'd love to get out themselves and go to Miami.
This really, you know, this is beyond the pale how insulting this is.
It's just the latest in a long line of them from this guy.
Speaks for itself.
Got to move on.
Ted Cruz responding to the Brussels attack, ripping both Obama and Trump.
Here we go with the first of three.
It is long past time that we had a president who will acknowledge this evil, will call it by its name, and utilize the full force and fury of the United States to defeat radical Islamic terrorism, to defeat ISIS.
In the wake of Brussels, we don't need another lecture from President Obama on Islamophobia.
We need a commander-in-chief who does everything necessary to defeat the enemy, and we need to immediately halt the president's ill-advised plan to bring in tens of thousands of Syrian Muslim refugees.
The time for the president's political correctness has passed.
That's Cruz on the Fox News channel this morning.
They had special coverage of the terror attack in Belgium.
That's Cruz and Obama.
Here's Ted Cruz on Trump.
The day after Donald Trump called for America weakening NATO, withdrawing from NATO, we see Brussels, where NATO is headquartered, the subject of a radical Islamic terrorist attack.
To withdraw from NATO, to withdraw from Europe, is sadly consistent with his statement that he intends to be neutral between Israel and the Palestinians.
It would be a mistake to elect another president who buys into the same left-wing moral relativism that equates the terrorist blowing himself up and murdering innocent civilians to the brave soldiers and law enforcement officers risking everything to keep us safe.
Trump did say we need to get out of NATO.
He's backed it up later today by saying we can't afford it.
We can't spend all this money.
We don't have this money to spend.
Let them defend themselves, which has been a theme of his campaign.
Let these European people defend themselves.
Why should we pay for it?
Then they turn around, they insult us all the time and don't offer us anything in return.
So let them defend themselves.
And of course, the neocons.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
They can't.
And of course, NATO is almost gospel pulling out of NATO, because we are NATO.
If we pull out of NATO, NATO's not going to exist because those nations don't have any defense budget.
As we are seeing, Brussels, they don't have any kind of a defense budget or even an adequate police force to handle what's happening to them.
That was a news story earlier today.
They have devoted every single person they've got to investigating this attack.
They don't have time to police the streets for other run-of-the-mill everyday crime like murder, robbery, bunko, prostitution, whatever the hell it is.
Well, is that not illegal over there, right?
That's why it's utopia.
Anyway, it's there's a lot of things you can do.
Well, Erkul Poirot was a fictional figure who lives in the hearts and minds of many.
But give me Nero Wolf every day.
Nero Wolf over Erkul Poirot.
Of course, I'd love to go to a dinner where both of them were attending.
You could be damn guaranteed you'd be doing nothing but eating for six hours.
Actually, I can't do that anymore.
But anyway, Trump is making the point that we can't afford NATO.
We can't afford to spend all this money to defend these people when they don't know how to defend themselves and they've got to start assuming some responsibility, he said.
So I know they are.
I wasn't making it up about brothels.
It's big business.
The whole thing is Nevada.
Money ranch here, money ranch there is big business.
It's utopia.
And now here's Cruz going back again on the Fox News channel during special coverage of the Belgium attacks back to Obama and Castro.
While our friends and allies are attacked by radical Islamic terrorists, President Obama is spending his time going to baseball games with the Castros and standing at a press conference with Raul Castro as a prop, while Castro denies there are any political prisoners in Cuba.
And then even worse, President Obama goes out of his way to agree with Castro's attacks on America.
I recognize President Obama began his presidency with a worldwide apology tour.
But the people of America deserve a president who doesn't grovel before a communist dictator who hates America.
That's true.
America doesn't deserve a president.
Yeah, true.
Okay, now here's Trump.
This is, well, no, I'm not giving that short shrift.
I'm just, I don't disagree with anything he said there.
It's embarrassing, Obama.
52 seconds he gave the Brussels attacks when he did address it.
The big applause line that Obama got today was, Jackie Robinson, he also came to Cuba.
Jackie Robinson came.
Yay!
And we have 52 seconds of what happened in Brussels.
But a big applause line for Jackie Robinson.
Having played what that means to anybody.
Well, to them, it, I mean, to Obama, it's got symbolism out the wazoo.
Anyway, here's Trump.
We move on to Trump now.
This is on Fox and Friends.
And he's talking about the Brussels attack.
Ainsley Earhart, the new info babe, anchor at there, says, if you do become president and we're in a situation like this, what would you do to protect America?
I would close up our borders to people until we figure out what is going on.
Look at Brussels.
Look at Paris.
Look at so many cities that were great cities.
Paris is no longer the beautiful city of light.
All you have to do is speak to the people that live there.
And you look at other places where the same thing has happened and they're in fear.
The city's in fear.
And do we have to be smart in the United States?
We are allowing thousands and thousands of people to come into our country.
And we don't even know where they come from and who they are.
I'm not going to allow them to come in.
They're not assimilating into society, and there's something different.
And we have to be very, very careful, and we have to be very vigilant.
Brian Kilmead, co-host, said, what is your message to the Muslim community?
It's not to them.
My message to us is we better get smart and we better get smart fast.
My message to them.
Stop the tank.
We have to be more smart.
Stop it.
Stop.
Now, I know I'm going to be savaged here.
But this is exactly right.
And it means no more than that.
But see, even the question bothers me.
What would you say to the Muslims?
What do we, we didn't do anything here?
Why do we have to explain ourselves?
This is like Mrs. Clinton going out there and saying, we must maintain our values.
What in the hell are these people talking about?
The politico headline today.
Why do they hate us so much?
And this idea here that what would you say?
What would you say?
And Mrs. Clinton out there says, you better not be thinking what you're thinking.
We can't go to war with a whole religion.
From the architect of Benghazi to the incompetence of the State Department that she ran for all those years.
And the answer to, no, no, Killmee can ask what he want.
He can ask what he, but the answer is, Trump, this is not, I'm not talking to Muslim people.
What do you mean what are you asking me?
What's a message to the Muslim people?
It's right because we're so focused on the wrong things, Ms. Guy.
Anyway, here's Trump's answer to the question.
It's not to them.
My message to us is we better get smart and we better get smart fast.
My message to them is they have to be more open with the police.
They have to become part of the community.
Then it's going to get worse and worse.
In my opinion, this is just the beginning.
It will get worse and worse because we are lax and we are foolish.
We are foolish.
We can't allow these people.
At this point, we cannot allow these people to come in.
Right now, again, folks, in case nobody's noticing, let me point out to you where ISIS hit today.
This is not Syria.
This is not Iraq.
This is not the Kurds.
This isn't Libya.
They hit the heart of the European Union.
They hit the subway, the airport, the feeder lines right into the European Union.
NATO, and they blew it right.
They are moving west.
They are moving to Europe.
There are going to be more attacks in Europe.
And if they can pull them off, there are going to be attacks here.
And after every attack, we're going to get somebody like Mrs. Clinton going out saying, we must respond within our values.
We can't go to war with an entire religion.
We must recruit Muslims to help us in this important fight.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Fine and dandy.
It sounds wonderful, except she's been saying it since 9-11.
There isn't any evidence.
The people in charge have the slightest idea what to do about this.
Now, we have to allow for the fact that some smart people obviously have stopped attacks we don't know about in this country and elsewhere.
They can't brag about that to give away techniques.
But in places not prepared and where they don't near nearly the kind of intel abilities and so forth that we have, ISIS has a free rent.
Paris.
And now this attack happens four days after the ringleader of the Paris attack is arrested.
And by the way, you want to know something else?
This is fascinating, folks.
Everybody's, gee, why weren't we able to decrypt their messages?
Why weren't we able to listen to their phone calls?
Why weren't they able?
Why were we able to crack their email?
They didn't use smartphones.
They didn't use computers.
You know what they used?
Burners.
They had crates and crates of burner phones.
Use them once, throw them away.
There was nothing to decrypt.
So all this talk about back doors and getting into phones and finding out what these clowns are doing.
They're not using iPhones or Galaxy S7s or whatever they are to chat with each other.
They're using burners and other techniques.
There's no way to track a burner.
You don't even know the number of the burner unless you go to a place where it was sold.
They're buying them in bulk.
So go out and buy a crate, say, of 48 burners, spread them around, start using the phone.
You don't know who's got what phone where, if you're any kind of intel.
That's why you need human intelligence on the ground, infiltrators, informants, and this kind of thing.
But the Europeans, they haven't been capable of anything like that in years outside of the UK, maybe decades.
So it's not that.
It's not that the NSA failed to notice the chatter.
It's not that the FBI or whoever else, Interpol, wasn't able to intercept.
There was nothing to intercept.
They've gone way beyond that.
They've gone backwards, in fact, with burner phones.
Well, it's not backwards.
It's just they're not smartphones.
You know what a burner is, right?
It's prepaid.
You go to the store, the number's already assigned for X number of minutes.
You use it and you throw it away.
Do we have time for one more?
Not let's take a break.
We'll take a brief time out.
We'll come back and just keep rolling, folks.
Hang in there.
Rush Limbaugh back in just a moment.
By the way, Hevson Byte 29 standing by.
We got Mrs. Clinton that I was just describing to you in her own words.
Isaac in Arizona City, Arizona.
It's great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi.
Thanks for taking my call, sir.
You bet, sir.
I called because I know I'm in Livier in Arizona, and I went and voted this morning.
That's what everybody's talking about.
But I just wanted to call and thank you because my wife and I were raising our kids.
They're all rush babies.
She was.
Unfortunately, I didn't listen to you until I turned 19 and I was still on active duty in the Marines.
So when I heard that you were writing children's books based on history, I was ecstatic because unfortunately, when I was little, I got basically the same history they're getting now, but I knew stuff was missing, so I looked for it on my own.
Well, then your books came out, and I thought it was a perfect opportunity to read them to my kids.
They enjoy them very much.
Well, now they read them on their own.
One of my kids, the middle one, he actually has special needs.
He's a moderate functioning autistic.
So it's hard to get him to focus.
How old is he?
He is seven.
Seven.
Wow, okay.
Yeah, so it's very hard to get him to focus, and he also has a mixed expressive receptive language disorder.
So sometimes it's very difficult for him to understand.
But when I pick up a Russian Revere book, or his brothers do, and they read it, it's got his attention.
And that, to me, is amazing.
Or anything to be able to keep his attention.
And he's very, very, I know the behavioral patterns and I know the challenges and all that.
And there are varying degrees of this.
What is it about the books do you think that focuses his attention?
The thing that he catches onto most is Liberty.
Obviously, most kids like Liberty, and it's his quips.
It's his quick wit.
And he just seems to anticipate the next joke or the next funny comment that Liberty will make.
And so he gets a kick out of it that a horse is saying anything or that a horse is doing it.
Yeah, because he's a literalist, right?
And horses don't talk.
And yet, here's a believable.
So he keeps reading for the next instance of Liberty being a smart Alec.
Yes, yes.
Wow.
But he also retains the points that you make in between.
Like I told the gentleman that took the call, my youngest is seven.
And he very quickly made the correlation between some of the things that, say, the King of England was doing and saying that he said to Elizabeth with his attitude and quickly made that connection to Obama does that.
We don't have a king.
Well, wow.
I mean, that was the exact, that was the objective.
At seven years old, she figured this out.
Yes, sir, he did.
You must be raising some really smart, aware kids.
Oh, my wife and I were trying.
I mean, they do say some things out in public, like, oh, I like Ted Cruz because my wife and I do.
There are college students who wouldn't make that connection today.
And your seven-year-old reads that, well, Dad, this reminds me of Obama.
That's exactly.
His oldest brother, a couple of years ago, his teacher won an essay contest that you had going on.
So she actually won a big bunch, 60 or so books for her school.
Well, hang on.
I'm going to take a break here, Isaac.
Hang on through the break.
It won't be long.
I need to ask you a couple questions till we get back.
This is amazing, folks.
And we are back.
We rejoin Isaac in Arizona City, Arizona, who's describing an autistic son, one of his children, who magically is able to focus attention when he's reading any of the Rush Revere, Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans, history books.
Would you tell me again how old your autistic son is?
He's seven.
He's seven.
And your daughter that you just described, I thought I heard you say she's seven as well.
Are they twins?
No, I have three boys.
Two of them are seven.
They're not twins.
They're just very close.
And they're the youngest actually just turned seven.
And he is about to turn eight at the beginning of April.
Okay.
Well, look, the reason I wanted you to hang on here is because I needed to ask, I would like to send you and the family one of these new iPad Pros, the 13-inch, with an Apple pencil.
I don't know if your autistic son, does he draw?
Is he into art and artistic?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
If you put him down with something to draw or write or give him a puzzle, he'll be occupied for a while.
Let me tell you something.
This iPad Pro and the iPad Pencil, he can draw to his heart's content in any number of apps that are on it.
The Notes app has a great sketch section on it.
It's a stock app.
It comes with it.
And it's amazing.
It is exactly like drawing on paper.
It'll blow him away.
And this is, I mean, I really want to do this because it would be helpful, but it's also some gratitude here because this is an exceptional story, what you've told me here.
Well, thank you very, very much.
We're very appreciative.
A second ago, he ran inside from the backyard and said, Are you talking to Rush Revere?
And I told him, no, I'm talking to one of his friends.
Well, let me put you back with Mr. Sturdley, Isaac, and he'll get your address, and we will ship it out.
We'll put some other stuff in there, too.
There's going to be two things.
We'll put together a package of stuff that we send also from the actual Rush Revere library.
The iPad Pro will come separately.
We'll take care of all the rest of that stuff to come two different packages, the iPad Pro and the pencil and the keyboard.
It will come tomorrow.
He'll eat it up.
Absolutely love this.
You talk about focusing attention because I imagine he's going to just love the tech as much as what he can do with it.
So I really appreciate it, Isaac.
Thank you more than you know.
Mary Joe, Jennison, Michigan, you're next.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Thank you for taking my phone call.
You bet.
I'm calling Rush because I've been listening to you, and you've done a very thorough job discussing the establishment who oppose Trump.
And you have acknowledged those of us who oppose Trump and also vehemently oppose the establishment.
But I feel as if I believe that you have not maybe done as thorough a job explaining why we oppose Trump while we still oppose the establishment.
And I think I can bring it down to a couple of words.
And I think I would say for me and a number of other people I have spoken to, it comes down to character and integrity, Rush.
And I believe that the reason we are in the position we are in right now as a country is because we have had a president for eight years and his administration that completely lacked character and integrity.
And I find that to be true of Donald Trump.
And I don't want to just throw that out there without giving you some examples.
I can start with one.
And that, Rush, is the way that Donald Trump deals with issues about Ted Cruz.
Ted Cruz is a conservative of substance who doesn't even need any explanation.
No one needs to explain that he's a conservative and that he would actually be a superb president.
But whenever Donald Trump is asked about Cruz or he feels any threat about Cruz, he immediately says, Lion Cruz, Lion Cruz.
He refers to him as a liar.
He refers to him as a Canadian citizen.
And Rush, I learned from you that when liberals don't like the substance that's being brought to them, they attack.
They attack with names.
They attack with threats.
They attack with phony accusations.
And I see that consistently with Trump.
And I don't think that would change when he became president.
And I do believe character matters when it comes to being a president.
You can cite many things.
You can cite.
I can.
I can even cite another thing, Rush, that I haven't heard.
Well, have at it.
I mean, I've seen it.
The floor open to you.
Have at it.
Okay.
When Ted Cruz's, when Rick Tyler, who worked for Ted Cruz, I can't remember exactly what it was.
There was some questionable things that wasn't, I don't even know if it was actually proven that he did something intentionally, that he lied intentionally.
But immediately, Donald Trump started calling for Ted Cruz to fire him.
And actually, Ted Cruz did let him go within a 24-hour period.
But the campaign manager for Donald Trump grabbed what you called a Trump BART reporter, grabbed her by the arm, clearly bruised her arm.
And then what did Trump do?
He let his campaign manager attack her, attack her integrity.
He attacked her integrity.
He did not stand up for the person who brought forth an actual claim with proof.
He stood with his campaign manager, but he told Ted Cruz that if he had any integrity, he should fire his.
That is not in character.
I remember the incident.
Tyler had, there was somebody posted something that said he wasn't true, and I forget what it was, but Tyler repeated it.
He repeated it, but he didn't, he probably should have checked, but he didn't make up a lie on his own and probably.
No, no, I understand.
But Ted didn't fire him because Trump demanded it.
Ted fired him.
No, because he's a man of character and integrity.
He decided he did not want that sort of thing going on in his campaign.
That's right.
What about Trump and his, what would you call it, focus on Megan Kelly?
Well, I think to me that shows a lot of immaturity.
I think that shows a man that can't handle someone who brings hard questions to him.
And both Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio had to deal with that same sort of line of questioning in the Iowa debate that Donald Trump refused to participate in.
They had very difficult videos brought before them that they had to explain, and they did it.
They stood up.
What would you say about the dirty trick that Ted Cruz pulled on poor Ben Carson?
I would say that that was not a dirty trick that he pulled on poor Ben Carson.
He had nothing to do with it.
It's been proven.
And Rush, you have said numerous times that was not a dirty trick.
I know.
I just wanted to find out what you thought about it.
And that's another thing.
Donald Trump propagated that lie.
And nobody really talks about the fact that in Utah, Donald Trump started telling people when the caucus was going on.
I'm sorry, not in Utah.
I believe this was in Nevada.
That Ted Cruz had left the state.
He had given up and he had left the state.
And Ted Cruz was at a caucus event at that very time.
Well, I mean, Trump's out there saying that Mitt Romney's not a Mormon.
Well, exactly.
I'd like to know, Rush, why do you feel that you need to spend so much time talking about kind of explaining Trump to people when we have this incredible man president who needs no explanation?
No, that's not what you're asking me.
You think that I am supporting Trump and you don't know why, and I should be openly supporting Cruz.
And that's what I'm saying.
I don't believe that necessarily, Rush.
I know you say you don't, so I believe you.
I just don't think there's a need to spend this much time explaining a man who needs so much explanation.
If you are a conservative, I'm not explaining him.
I am explaining, to the best of my ability, the people who support him and why.
I am trying to help people who are beating their head against the wall, trying to understand why Trump has support.
I'm trying to explain it to them so that it might be helpful to them in making a play for them.
I wonder if it would be helpful to them if you explained to people like me why you don't like Trump.
Yes.
And it's not just, it's not.
I feel that a lot of people who are voting for Trump are angry.
And they are angry and they are making decisions in anger.
And, you know, nobody makes their best decisions when they're mad.
Moment of anger.
Never go to bed mad.
I agree with you.
Stop and think.
Well, the reason I don't explain to people why Trump is disliked is because it's manifest.
You know, it's obvious.
It's everything that you said.
It doesn't need to be explained.
And because those things are obvious, people don't understand why he has support.
Everything you just mentioned and others that you could have mentioned that you equate with lack of character, lack of dignity, a careless attitude and a disrespectful attitude toward people, that has to be explained.
Because it's easy to understand why people wouldn't like a guy like that, but it's not so easy to understand why people do.
And the reason I'm peppered with it all the time, I got more people who want to know because they don't understand it from all walks of life.
So I'm just, all I'm trying to do is be informative, explanatory, and helpful, not engaging in any advocacy here.
I find it fascinating, too.
Why do these things that you listed, and you could spend the rest of the show listing them and not repeat yourself?
What you would consider character defects.
I know people who support Trump, who never in my wildest dreams would they have accepted a candidate like that before.
But in this case, they do, and it fascinates me why.
So I've endeavored to explain it and to understand it.
I would think by the same token, Mary Joe, many Cruz supporters like you who believe completely in Ted in terms of every which way is good.
Character, integrity, honesty, conservatism, honor, all these things.
Unquestionably present, unquestionably, Ted Cruz possesses all of them.
Why isn't he the frontrunner?
Fascinating question.
Why, when you have what a lot of people are calling the closest thing we're ever going to get to Ronald Reagan, the one two Lancelot, why?
People have that question too.
And to endeavor to explain that would take some effort.
And I'm sure that puzzles you too.
I'm sure that's a big question a lot of people have, whether Trump's in the race or not.
And beyond that, even if you don't like Trump, why is the Republican Party passing Cruz by and trying to come up with a contested convention that consists of nobody currently running except maybe Kasich?
There's a lot of things I'm sure that you're scratching your head over trying to figure out that don't make any sense.
Me too.
So I'm going to do my best to try to explain them as best I can here to people.
I do have one other, I've got to take a break though, but there's one other Trump characteristic.
And I think above all else, besides the character stuff that you described and the coarseness, if you will, that many people assign to Trump, there's another characteristic that he had that scares people.
And I will share that with you when we get back.
Look, a lot of people, when they listen to Trump talk about anything, they're rubbed the wrong way for a host of reasons.
It may be he says something that they think is immoral or indicative of character problem, morality, integrity, whatever.
But there's something else.
What is Trump?
He's a CEO.
As a CEO, Donald Trump's day, like any, is solving problems.
People present a problem, you make a decision to deal with it, and you move on.
And that's what you're hearing.
You're hearing a blunt problem solver.
They don't speak in clichés.
They don't speak in sign language, hoping not to offend people and yet hope that people understand them.
They just tell them straight out: you need to do this.
This is what we are going to do.
I've got this problem.
I'm going to solve it.
And a lot of people, nobody's supposed to be that sure themselves.
Nobody's supposed to be, no, they're supposed to be asking questions, maybe seeking other people's opinions, seeking counsel.
Nobody's supposed to know everything.
Nobody's supposed to be able to say it puts a lot of people off.
And I think that's one of the characteristics above and beyond the other things that our previous caller mentioned.
But I'm out of time here, folks.
Sadly, be back to wrap it up in a sec.
Man, it already feels like Thursday to me.
Maybe because I wish it was.
I don't know.
At any rate, folks, have a wonderful night.
We got Utah and Arizona tonight, and whatever happens besides that, in addition to that, we'll have it all for you.
We get together next in 21 hours.
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