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March 28, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 28, 2016, Monday, Hour #3
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I can't find it.
I can't find one place where people think that I'm in the tank for Kasich.
But it's amazing.
Depending on where you look in Twitter.
Some people are never listening to me again because I'm so in the tank for Trump and they don't understand it.
And over there, about the same number of people, I can't I don't know what's happening to Russia.
I can't listen.
He just abandoned Trump and now he's for cruise.
Meanwhile, I've not officially stated a preference, but one thing we can't find is anybody who thinks that I've sold out for Kasich.
Anyway, folks, I don't think we can find anybody else who has either.
If you want to be on the program, El Rush was serving humanity.
Okay.
Now, I want to go to the audio sound bites here.
The first hour of the program was devoted to a discussion of what happened in Belgium and why it's happening all over Europe.
Just uncontrolled immigration of militant Islamists and terrorists, combined with multiculturalism in all of these countries, which is destroying the native cultures of all of these European nations, which is done purposefully.
Left wing multiculturalism is aimed at destroying the culture of the host country it seeks to either conquer, overthrow, damage, or what have you.
And it's happening here, folks.
We've got a robust multicultural movement here, which is doing its best to discredit everything American it can, from the founding even before that to the discovery of this country.
It tries to discredit.
You know it as well as I do if you've got kids in school.
So here we go to audio soundbite number four on the roster today.
This happened on CNN this morning.
Carol Costello speaking with the director of the George Washington University program on extremism.
So we have an American college professor here.
The direct well, actually, it's a think tank, I guess.
The George Washington University program on extremism.
And who do you think the extremists are, by the way?
Take a wild guess.
Who the extremists this guy is warning students about.
And I'll guarantee you it's not militant Islamists.
And I'll guarantee you it's not communists.
And I'll guarantee you it's not dictators, and I'll guarantee you it's not totalitarians.
No way.
This guy, the extremism this guy is warning everybody of his right wing hooligans.
His name is Lorenzo Vedino.
And CNN was asking him today about anti-immigrant protests in Brussels.
And her question was this.
Let's just talk first about what happened in Brussels with those right wing protesters.
Those protesters blame the immigrants coming into Europe.
Do you do you believe that they were just hit by a massive terror attack?
Brought to you by ISIS, militant Islamists at the capital of the European Union.
We know the death toll.
Twenty-six people injured are still in the hospital.
And these people want to focus on right wing protests against it as somehow the problem.
This is exactly why I spent the first hour of the program on this.
And even some into the second hour.
So her question.
Let's just talk first about what happened in Brussels with these right wing.
No, we're through talking about the terror event, I guess.
Yeah.
Now we're going to move on to what was really important, the aftermath.
The protests by anti-immigrant right wingers.
She says those protesters blame the immigrants coming into Europe.
Is it right for them to place blame on the immigrants?
No, I mean, obviously, this is we're talking about a fringe group of people.
These are soccer hooligans.
As in most European countries, the soccer hooliganism scene is dominated by small right wing groups, and vis-a-people who create havoc every weekend in the stadiums.
And obviously they took advantage of the situation in Belgium as there were in a way um gatherings which are very peaceful in sending a positive message.
They hijacked uh what was happening over the weekend in Brussels and to make their political point.
They hijacked a political event.
They hijacked what happened.
He won't even call it what it is.
He won't say they hijacked the terror attack in Brussels to make their political point.
And here you have very aristocratic sounding European running a think tank at George Washington University on extremism.
And obviously, we're talking about a fringe group of people, the uh soccer hooligans, as in most European countries, this soccer hooliganism scene is dominated by right-wing groups.
And then these are people who uh create create havoc every weekend in the stadiums.
We're not even talking about the Islamic terrorists.
You see here, folks, you see who their real enemy is.
I'm sorry for getting exercised about this, but this is exactly the kind of thing I feel it necessary to warn everybody about, because this is dangerously outrageous.
What are we supposed to do after a terror attack?
Just passively sit by and either not mention it or apologize, maybe even?
Yeah, maybe that's it.
Maybe we should apologize and then ask Lorenzo Vedino to chair a seminar on why they hate us.
And that would give ISIS and the Islamic terrorists a chance to say that they don't like these soccer hooligans.
And the reason they blew up the European Union and the trace station and the airport is because they're fed up with right-wingers at soccer games.
And by this, we can reach a new level of mutual understanding and common ground with the it's terribly, terribly wrong to blame the terrorists here, the immigrants, terribly, terribly, terribly wrong to uh uh hijack uh unfortunate event uh uh there to make you a political point.
These people are going to be the death of Western civilization.
They are going to be responsible for the death of Western civilization because they are willing to excuse terrorism.
In order to make their political point, this guy's obviously a flaming leftist, and in order to make his political point, he tolerates terrorism, and then blames the fact that it happened on soccer hooligans.
Well, that's the natural extension.
If you're going to sit here and blame a post-terror attack, anti-immigrant protest.
In this country, aren't the protesters leftist protesters?
Aren't they idolized practically?
Aren't they treated as heroes?
Whenever they, I mean, they can be as militant as they want, and they can be as destructive as they want, occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter.
They can tear up, they can destroy, they can wreak havoc, they can destroy private property, they can injure people, and they're heroes because they're advancing leftist causes.
But you let people opposed to an un out of control immigration policy, letting in essentially militant Islamic terrorists who then engage in militant Islamic terrorism, and somehow it's the fault of the right wing.
Do not doubt me, folks, when I say we conservatism.
However, that's defined in your limited government, low taxes, individual liberty, individual freedom, high standards of expectation.
However, you define it, we are the threat.
We must be blamed for all the bad behavior in the world because we are so, so intolerant, don't you see?
Yes.
We're so intolerant.
We're just not willing to let militant Islamic terrorists move into our countries and blow up things and kill people.
And until we reach our enlightened state where we must let that happen because we understand why, we will always be considered the read the responsible parties.
And that is exactly how they think.
So I want you to listen to this again, keeping in mind everything I informed you about concerning what happened in Brussels and how.
It's a combination of two things, uncontrolled immigration combined with multiculturalism, which is destroying the dominant native culture of all of these countries so that there is nothing to assimilate to.
Immigrants can take over a country and make it their own, or the pockets of it that they live in and control, because leftists, liberals, in the name of whatever, equality, fairness, whatever the hell they talk about, they sit by and let that happen.
Because it's inferior or it's xenophobic, or you know, native culture nationalism is racism, is bigotry or what have you.
So you listen to this guy again, this exalted, obviously so impressed with himself.
Highly educated, very sophisticated.
European professor at George Washington University, tell us who's really to blame and what's really bad that's going on in Belgium.
No, I mean, obviously, this is we're talking about a fringe group of people.
These are soccer hooligans.
Uh, as in most European countries, the soccer hooliganism scene is dominated by small right-wing groups, uh, and these are people who create havoc every weekend in the stadiums, and obviously they took advantage of the situation in Belgium as there were, in a way, um gatherings which are very peaceful and sending a positive message.
They hijacked uh what was happening over the weekend in Brussels and to make their political point.
Well, what happened was a terror attack with multiple deaths.
People protested it.
That speaks for itself.
By the way, there's something else in this.
Here you have a European, obviously somebody who thinks he's an elite.
You can tell it in the way he speaks.
You can tell it is inflections.
It is that you can tell it, folks.
Dripping.
This guy's an elitist.
He's a he's uh is a very exclusive member of a rare, rare club of people.
And who are the real hooligans where he lives?
Soccer fans, football fans, the working class, the people who actually go to these bibatic contests, these oversized stadia, and watch violence actually take place in the field and applaud it while guzzling their cheap lager.
It's so beneath us.
And then these hooligans, after getting their field in soccer and being primed for violence, leave the city and create violent protests.
It's despicable, he's beneath us.
He hates these serfs.
And that's who they are.
And it's the same, same view from the top here, folks.
Maybe bowling instead of soccer.
Maybe NASCAR instead of soccer, maybe football instead of who knows, maybe a combination of all three, but it's the same thing here.
Back into that.
Washington Post story here by Sean Sullivan, and it was contributed to by a guy named Dave Weigel.
Why some Republicans are feeling shame.
What is this about, Snerdley?
Is this uh this Republican shame story is about embarrassment over both Trump and Cruz?
Is that what it is?
More.
I'm gonna tell you what's gonna happen.
Look, I want to repeat this again.
I I mentioned this late last week, and it was a holiday week for some.
It was a big holiday week.
It seemed like everybody I know from New York was down here last week.
It was just it's incredible.
So a lot of people were on vacation.
What's going on in the Republican primary?
That number that you all know, 1,237.
The New York Times had a story last week, two weeks ago now, that starting April 5th with the Wisconsin primary begins a 100-day plan by the party to deny both Trump and Cruz the nomination.
Now they say it's designed to stop Trump, but by extension, it's designed to stop Cruz.
They don't want Cruz, and it's evident when you listen to them.
The point that they are going to make, and these are the rules committee types, they are going to write rules and attempt to establish the following.
If neither Trump nor Cruz get to 1,237, they will both be considered ineligible for the nomination.
Because since neither got to 1237, that will effectively mean they have been rebuked by Republican voters.
And the fact that neither candidate gets to 1237 is going to be seen by the establishment, the people that run the RNC, as the opportunity they've long wanted to choose a nominee at the convention.
And it will be maybe somebody who ran but got out early, or maybe it'll be somebody who didn't even run.
Paul Ryan seems to be a popular name being bandied about in this scenario.
Now I know what you're saying.
Wait a minute.
If if neither Trump nor Cruz get to 1237, why are they disqualified?
Well, they're going to be said to be disqualified.
Remember, they're going to try to establish the fact that both have been rejected by voters since neither won the nomination by rule.
And if Rule says you need 1237.
Yeah, but but Trump people.
Yeah, but but Trump got to like 1,150.
Well, that's not 1237.
Yeah, but 1150, that's a lot of votes.
You can't just Yes, we can.
He didn't get 1237, so he may as well have gotten zero.
And the Trump people are going to have a cow.
And the Cruz people are going to do the same thing.
Wait a minute.
Okay, so maybe neither candidate got to 1237, but we're both in the running.
We can still be chosen to No, that's the point of doing a contested convention is to die, to deny these two frontrunners.
The Republican Party, if they have their dream, don't want either of these two.
And frankly, they don't want Cruz more than they want Trump, but they don't want either one.
So I'm just warning you brace yourself.
That's that's what they're angling for.
And so the effort's gonna be deny Trump 1237 under the belief that no way Cruz can get their own.
He'd have to win 83% of the delegates left to get to 1237 on his own.
Trump about 55%.
And they're the whole strategy is to deny Trump.
They don't want these two guys, folks.
And that's how they're gonna do it.
That's how they're gonna try to do it.
Now, Pat Buchanan says if they do that, a bunch of these Trump voters are just gonna vanish.
You're never gonna see them on election day.
And the Republican Party can forget about them forever.
But you know what?
What's happening on the Democrat side, the same thing can happen.
This this, what's going on over there with Crazy Bernie and Hillary, Hillary isn't winning anything, and she's piling up delegates.
Bernie won three more states over the weekend, one of them important, state of Washington.
By important, I mean big number delegates.
And nobody's talking about it.
But you know, if if Bernie keeps winning, and they just give him the shaft and yank him the hell away, don't be surprised if a bunch of Democrat voters have the same reaction toward the Democrat Party that Trump voters will have toward the Republicans.
The media wants you to believe that the Democrats are going to be firmly and fully united in electoral bliss with the Nomination of Hillary Clinton.
But that party is not unified behind her.
She is not universally loved, adored, respected by any stretch.
Bernie has gobs of anti-establishment fans in his camp.
Now let's add one thing to this.
FBI.
Evidence.
Trafficking and classified data.
Will there be an indictment or not?
What happens if there isn't?
If there's a lot of evidence, it's going to get leaked, folks.
If they don't indict, and the FBI has tons of evidence worthy of an indictment, somebody's going to leak it because somebody's going to be royally ticked off at the FBI.
It will leak if there's no indictment.
Now we're told the FBI wants to talk to Mrs. Clinton, wants to interview her.
Some people are saying, well, that proves they've got nothing.
And they're going to try to get her and catch her in a lie and charge her with that, like they did Martha Stewart.
And then it could be that Obama is waiting to see if her if her support begins to slip even a little bit.
Maybe he will tell Lynch over at DOJ.
Okay, go ahead and indict her.
I'll stand aside.
Indictment comes.
That's not guaranteed Mrs. Clinton gets out.
But if that were to happen, here comes Biden, because they're not going to let Crazy Bernie anywhere near this.
It is the most listened to radio talk show in the country.
And that reason is it is hosted by me.
Here is uh here's Matt in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
It's great that you waited, sir.
I appreciate your patience.
How are you doing?
Good, how are you doing, Russ?
Thanks for having me.
You bet.
Uh yeah, I I was calling because uh you had a guy that called in earlier.
Basically blaming you because he thinks you support Trump.
And that kind of ignorance in people.
Well, now wait, he thinks I support Trump because we live in the same place.
Because you live in the same place of all things.
It's ridiculous.
It is just it it goes to show the misconception, I believe, that people have of Trump.
Um believe it or not, I'm not even a Trump the border.
I'm uh I'm a cruise supporter, but I would defend Trump in those regards.
If Trump's a nominee, will you vote for him?
Oh, absolutely.
I I would.
Because I think that I I mean I think that people believe that Trump is a liberal in conservative clothing.
But in reality, I think he is a conservative in liberal clothing, and that is what draws so many people towards him.
Because of he he resonates with people because of he you know, just like the Democratic side, they point out the injustices to all these little groups of people.
And Donald Trump points out the injustices to us, the entire middle class.
You know, you have a point.
Let me, this reminds me of something.
Uh good job here, Matt.
You just reminded me of something I saw last night.
I received in the email a I think it was a YouTube link, whatever, it was a video, to a couple of guys who have an internet show.
Two guys that stand or sit behind microphones and act like it's the McLaughlin group.
There's just two guys out there.
I don't know who they are.
They're they're just I'm sure there's a couple guys in a podcast or whatever it is.
They came across, apparently Trump had a meeting with the Washington Post editorial board, and the video, the audio tape of this interview and a transcript of it was released.
And the point that these two guys were trying to make was that Trump is a blithering idiot, that he is the most illiterate on policy person that's ever run for the office of president.
He doesn't know anything.
He's incompetent.
He is embarrassingly uneducated on basic things that somebody running for president ought to know.
And they give three examples from the Washington Post editorial board meeting that Trump had.
And the first example they gave was, I think it was Fred Hyatt speaking.
He's one of the he is the editorial editor, I think, at uh the Washington Post.
I think it was Hyatt.
There was a bunch of obviously people in the meeting.
Somebody asked Trump if he thinks that there is an institutional racist problem with policing in America.
They didn't ask him about specific incident or city or place.
They asked him if he thought there was and would he comment on community policing and whether or not it was racist, biased.
I forget the exact wording of the question.
It may the word racism might have not been in there, but the impression I got was that these people wanted to know if Trump thinks the cops are corrupt.
That was essentially the question.
And Trump wouldn't go there.
What Trump talked about was high unemployment in the black community, black youth unemployment, and he was terribly troubled by it.
And overall, African American community unemployment.
And he said it's a bad situation, and it's got to change.
Not nearly enough attention's being paid to it.
And these two guys that were hosting this show, look at the he's so he's so stupid, he's so dumb, he didn't even know what the question was about.
He didn't even maybe know that there's a problem with policing in America.
He didn't even go there.
What a blittering idiot.
What a fool!
I've never seen anything like it.
Why, the question was, are the cops corrupt or racist?
And he probably doesn't even know anybody th.
And I watched this, and this was sent to me, by the way, by somebody who thought Trump probably looked bad in this.
But I looked at this as a Trumpist would look at it.
And I would think a Trumpist would see this as a trick question by the Washington Post that Trump cleverly didn't fall for.
A Trumpist, a true Trump supporter, would see this as an attempt by the Washington Post editorial board to somehow entrap or ensnare Trump into saying something one way or the other about the cops, so that they can then start some controversy.
Because the Washington Post thinks, like every leftist, that the cops are racist, and they're putting people in jail, Hispanics and African Americans who don't deserve to be in jail.
This is what the left thinks.
But Trump didn't answer that, but he also didn't defend the cops.
He talked about unemployment.
These two guys hosting this little internet show, whatever it was, just were beside themselves with Trump's ignorance.
And I I watched this and I say, you know what?
Um he's answering the problem.
He's basically saying we've got a crime problem because there are too many people with too much time on their hands.
We need people working.
There are all kinds of root causes for misbehavior in kids, in adults, the criminal misbehavior.
One of the root causes is too much time.
And it was clear, he didn't say any of this that I'm saying.
This is total interpretation, but it was clear that if you know how to listen to Trump, and then he and in this answer by the oh, this really ticked these guys off.
Trump, in answering the question about whether policing is racist or corrupt, started talking about fair trade and China and how we where everybody's at a disadvantage because we're losing jobs.
And I interpreted this as Trump sensing a red flag and going nowhere near it, not wanting to give the Washington Post editorial board anything other than he's stupid, ignorant of what he's talking about.
But his answer to the question was basically uh, in a lot of people's view, one of the solutions to the crime problem is get people back to work.
And I I don't know who really could argue with that.
I mean, some people might.
But if you if you were anti-Trump and you watch this, then you would conclude that Trump was evasive, didn't want to answer that.
So you might think he doesn't even know what he's being asked, but he's not stupid by any stretch of the imagination.
Well, there were two other examples of this.
And by the way, don't anybody go try to find this, because I'm not going to air it.
That's not the point of this is not to call these guys out.
And since I've already talked about it, look, this is just as good as hearing it, trust me.
That's, you know, explaining things, and I happen to be pretty good at that.
So you don't need to hear it.
I'm telling you what it was.
There were two other.
It was a 54-55-minute interview, and these two guys hosting the show cited three things that just embarrass them that Trump is.
And these are guys looked at their late 20s, early 30s, but they just thought Trump was a total embarrassment.
Total fool.
Doesn't know anything, can and cannot answer these questions because he's not informed on it.
He doesn't know.
And I forget what the other two were, but they were a long.
Uh NATO.
No, I don't think it was NATO.
It might have been terrorism in Brussels.
I forget.
I really I've got it here.
It's in my internet in my email inbox.
I can go back and look at it again.
But I anyway, my my point is that a Trump supporter watching this would not be convinced that Trump's an idiot.
They would think Trump's brilliant for not falling into the trap set by the enemy, the Washington Post.
And Trump started out by telling, look, you know what?
Oh, that would the SEG was libel law.
Well, just what the hell are you going to do about libel?
How in the world can he didn't say what he was going to do?
He started talking about how he's been mistreated, how a lot of people are lied about in the press and they can't do anything about it, and how it's got to stop.
The press is ruining people.
He said, You people have written things about me utterly false.
I can't tell you how many times it's terrible.
You're terrible what you've done.
He's telling them this.
And I'm telling you your Trumpist supporters, yeah, man, you tell him, you tell him.
But the anti-Trumpist is going to look at this.
What a blithering idiot.
This guy didn't even know enough to answer these questions.
So it would be a good Rorschach test.
Anyway, I'm up against it on time.
Got to take a break back after this.
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I don't think I don't I don't know anybody who looks forward to it.
Albeit, I mean, some people look forward to what they think is their big refund that they get for screwing the government.
But you get that.
But actually filing the return, preparing it, nah, nobody looks forward to that.
A lot of people resent the idea of doing it and can't afford anybody else to do it, so they have to.
But they would probably prefer that to somebody stealing their tax return.
And that has become big business.
By stealing a tax return, what I mean is identity thieves will go out there, all they need is your date of birth and your social security number, and they can make up a tax return.
That gets a refund.
The IRS does not audit returns as they come in.
If you're owed a $3,000 refund, you get, well, there might be a dispute of half of it or something.
Rare occasions they'll tell you, sorry, your calculations are wrong, you don't deserve anything.
But for the most part, you get the refund that you're expecting minus a couple bucks here or there.
It's later they get around to auditing and looking at things.
So the tax return thieves can file a return that is essentially a fake, get a refund, but they file for you, your name, your social security members, then your return gets sent in, and the IRS, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, we already got your return.
What do you do?
You're out.
You're you're you've got the royal shaft.
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Carter in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hey Russ, what an honor it is to speak with you.
Been listening to you for about five years.
Uh sitting in the back of my dad's car from as long as I know, listening to you and hearing your voice, and just what an honor.
You're sitting in the back of the car.
Yes.
Well, well, since I was six years old, I've been listening to you in my dad's car.
I got it.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
Yeah.
So I'm a millennial about to graduate at University of New Hampshire.
Um, and I've got roommates that are kind of the type of guys that just don't really go out of their way to you know, read and listen to people like you about politics, and they kind of go with the flow of uh, you know, the crowd, and they only really see the drive-by liberal rhetoric that no conservatives are just white bigots.
And um I just wanted to know from advice from you, something, I mean, not one thing to say, but you know, how to approach people like you know, here's the you you were asking, you were asking the time-honored question of how do we convert people, how do we get them to open their minds, how do we get them to listen to something else.
And for as many different questions, there are as many different suggestions, solutions, or what have you.
Well, what I have found is what doesn't work.
You you're you're not gonna succeed by getting in their face and telling them they're wrong.
You uh you're you're you might have some if if you can take the time, if you actually talk to them, ask them a series of questions to which the answer is obvious that proves your point of view.
And let the recollection or let let the correct answer sort of uh permeate their minds on its own.
And that could be fun to do.
It's it's you know, you're in a conversation with these guys and they're off on these tangents that right-wingers are bigots or races.
Well, let me ask you a question.
And then you come up with a question that uh you know either recites some great work by conservative and charity organization, charity worker, what have you.
The other thing you can do is challenge them.
And point look, you guys got nothing to lose.
And it's important to me, this is what you say.
It's important to me that you guys be right.
It's important to me, and we we're we're you're young, you're just starting out, you're gonna be leading this country someday.
It's important to me that you guys ask.
Would you try listening to limb on just a week?
Don't have to tell anybody, just listen for a week.
That's all I asked.
Just do it for a week and then come back and talk to me.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, that's that's that's good advice.
Make it sound like it's really important to you that they do this because you care about them.
That that the fact that you care, I mean, that's 80% right there.
Because they think people like you don't care about anything.
You really care about them and ask them to do it for you.
And then just trust the fact that if I have them here for a week, we'll own them.
The Clintons, the Clintons are warning crazy Bernie to change his tone.
And a super delegate for Hillary is deciding to go for Bernie because that's what the people in his district want.
We will be back tomorrow in 21 hours, revved and ready to go.
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