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April 1, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 1, 2016, Friday, Hour #3
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Despite everything, meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
That's right.
Still pulling that off despite everything.
Rush Limbaugh here at the EIB Network.
Great to have you with us as we head on.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny, South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Open line Friday.
One big exciting broadcast hour remains at 800-282-2882.
Delight to have you here.
I'm just telling you, folks, two things.
You're going to run for president of the United States.
You're going to seek the Republican Party presidential nomination.
You had damn wetter, better study up on the way they go after you on abortion.
You had better study up and figure out what you think about it, and you better be able to rattle it off, and you better be able to spot a phony premise right off the bat and refuse to answer it and totally change the subject or the direction of the question, because I'm here to tell you.
The question that Chris Matthews asked Trump was not aimed at getting an answer.
The question was meant to shape.
It was meant to accuse.
It was meant to characterize.
When you listen to these interviews, particularly things like Matthews, MSNBC, CNN, forget that there is a question mark at the end.
There's no doubt in my mind, Trump looked at Matthews as a guy he can deal with.
Somebody he's got to do a deal with.
He doesn't look at Matthews as somebody trying to destroy him.
Thank you.
I don't know, maybe Trump thinks he can't be destroyed anyway.
But it's clear.
If you're going to make up your mind to go on MSNBC running for the Republican presidential nomination, you have got to be prepared for what it's really about.
It is aimed at destroying you.
It is aimed at ruining your candidacy.
It is designed to make you look like a fool.
That's what they think we are anyway.
It is designed to help Hillary Clinton.
It is not designed to find out what Donald Trump or anybody else really thinks about abortion because they think they already know what you think about abortion, and I think about it, and everybody else.
Journalists, I've gotten blue in the face.
Explaining it took me a couple years to learn it.
Whenever you do an interview, they're not really interested in what you think.
And if you think you can change a journalist's mind, don't do the interview because that's not the agenda.
The journalist is there.
When you're a conservative and the journalist is a liberal, the journalist is there to embarrass you, to expose you, to destroy you, whatever, however, they can do it.
There's no real desire to find out what you think about something.
And if you're not, you've got to be prepared for that.
Anybody running for the presidency on the Republican side has to be prepared for this.
It's amazing how few really are, even after all this time.
And the same thing goes for anything about race.
There are ways to deal with it that our side hasn't figured out.
The whole point of interviews like this is to establish, not answer, not elucidate, not learn.
It is to establish as the pigeonhole.
Topic doesn't matter.
Whenever it's one of these these defining issues, where the left thinks they have the morally superior position.
You're not going to change their mind.
You're not going to enlighten them.
You're not going to open their minds.
You're not going to show them that you might be right.
You're not going to intrigue them.
They're not there to be intrigued.
They're not there to learn.
They're not there to do anything other than expose you for the fraud that they believe you are.
They did it with Romney.
They did it with George W. Bush.
They did it with Ronald Reagan.
They're doing it with Trump.
They're going to do it to Ted Cruz.
They have been doing it to Ted Cruz.
And they did it to McCain.
And they're going to get around to doing it to Kasich if it's ever necessary.
And yeah, it may only be March when this happens.
I know it's April today, and it may only be March when this happens, but remember, all of this is aimed at helping Hillary Clinton.
It's all about winning in November.
Plain and simple.
Look at these story, a political story.
Trump's uh Trump makes nice with RNC.
Donald Trump has broken the Republican Party on Thursday to this political.
So it's not my words.
I'm just reading what the political rights here.
Donald Trump has broken the Republican Party on Thursday, took his most visible steps to fix it.
With a looming loss in Wisconsin, vastly increasing the odds.
Trump went to Capitol Hill to meet with RNC chairman Rince Prebus, with whom he's had a lukewarm relationship.
Sure are a lot of assumptions in that opening sentence.
Trump has broken the GOP.
Trump isn't broken a GOP.
Trump is a result of a broken GOP.
The GOP broke the GOP.
The Republican establishment broke the GOP.
Those close to Trump say, despite appearances to the contrary, he's interested in coalescing the party around him and reaching out to Keith.
There's no question he is.
There's no question anybody running would love to have the party behind him and unify and so forth and go forth as a major big powerful force.
But that isn't going to happen.
So a lot of candidates have the mindset they have to do this without the aid of the party, and some think even with the aid of the party, that is not helpful.
I just soon go it alone without the party behind me.
That would be pretty much any conservative.
Carl Rove today, Washington examiner, fresh face might be best GOP nominee.
One thing that unites many supporters of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz is the suspicion that party elders might try to hand the nomination to another candidate.
If neither Trump nor Cruz arrives in Cleveland, 1,237 delegates required to win.
Carl Rove, a man many view as the physical embodiment of the establishment, has poured gallons of fuel on the Republican fire.
Appearing on the Hugh Hewitt radio show Thursday evening, Rove said a fresh face chosen at the convention might turn the Republicans' fortunes around and win in November.
So Rove is of the belief that many of you are just you're tired and you're worn out.
You're tired of Trump, you're tired of Cruz, you don't want Kasich, so maybe a fresh face.
Hugh Hewitt said to Rove, well, who is the most electable Republican of the people who could be available to run?
And Rove said, well, they all, all the current candidates have their problems.
There might be an outsider, though, with just the right combination of attributes.
Who could lead Republicans to victory?
Here's what Rove said.
If we have somebody who we think has uh been battle-tested, strong conservative principles, the ability to articulate them, and they are nominated at this convention, there'll be a lot of acrimony from the people who were seeking the nomination.
But if it's somebody who has, you know, has those convictions that they can express it a compelling way, we could come out of the convention in a relatively strong position.
And a fresh face might be the thing that could give us a chance to turn this election and win in November against Hillary.
Well, am I wrong in assuming that Mr. Rove thinks we're destined to lose if uh as things stand now?
Let me let me read this again.
A fresh face might be the thing that could give us a chance to turn this election and win in November against Hillary.
That sounds to me like that Rove and others in his group believe that with Trump we lose, with Cruz we lose.
Kasich's not a factor, At least not in the primary process.
I just folks, I was just talking about the passion that exists on both sides here.
The passion that Trump voters have for him is equaled by the passion they have in opposition to Cruz.
And it's the same with Cruz Beeble.
Cruz supporters are so passionate of Cruz, and they are so angry and frustrated at Trump supporters.
We're not seeing the light.
And the Republican Party had better be careful because if they end up turning a fire hose on the passions of all of these voters, there is no way the party survives.
And that's what this you've got this burning passion.
You've got a significant segment of Republican voters.
It's a large group of people.
All of the energy in this primary season is on the Republican side.
Look at that turnout.
That turnout is through the roof.
The establishment doesn't have a single person can generate this kind of turnout.
There's not a single person they can choose from their fresh faces that would come anywhere near equaling this kind of excitement.
Nowhere near maintaining this kind of excitement leading to continued turnout records, which are happening in primaries.
If they do what these stories indicate they're thinking of doing, it's the equivalent of turning a fire hose on these passions.
and And potentially on both groups of voters.
And if if just one of these groups of voters decides to sit it out, then it doesn't matter what fresh face they come up with.
And that's why there are some people who think that the Republican establishment is totally cool with that.
Totally cool with maintaining the establishment, but losing to Hillary.
Because at least they maintain themselves.
They sustain in their jobs.
They sustain in their lifestyles.
They remain entrenched where they are.
But I don't know, I don't know how you quell these passions and then convert this passion to somebody who has not run or somebody who has run and has been shellacked.
But apparently it's what they're plotting or planning.
Here's Tony in Philadelphia.
Great that you waited, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
It is an absolute honor to speak to you from our the birthplace of our nation, Philadelphia.
Thank you so much for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
Um to get to my point, um, you had mentioned something earlier in the show, way, way in the beginning, that I think is foundational to any thought uh for a conservative and for a liberal.
And I think what basically separates us, and that's and that's this.
Democrats, and please correct me if I get you wrong anywhere, but that the Democrats want to change the country in a way that not only relativizes the Constitution, but delegitimizes it.
Basically rendering it unnecessary.
Is that correct?
Yeah, short of being able to erase it, to basically sort of being able to render it irrelevant on the basis that it is immoral and illegitimate because it was written by racists, it was written by wealthy uh uh white guys, whatever.
Everything they could do, particularly in the Bill of Rights, First Amendment, if if they if they could rewrite those or somehow make those irrelevant in people's minds, if they can attack the first amendment, they can attack second amendment, free speech, freedom of religion, freedom to assemble, I mean, that would be 50% of their ball game right there.
And look, and they're succeeding, they're succeeding in against religion and speech, religion generally speech on college campus.
Yeah, well, uh, I I'm gonna go further than you, Rush, and I'm gonna say that's basically just foundational principle for their thought.
And it's really I I think a lot of, I think you would agree with me, all those things about you know, they were racist, they were homophobic.
Um, I I've even heard that, you know, it's old and outdated.
Um, those are just smoke screens.
They absolutely hate the Constitution.
They cannot stand it.
And the reason why I believe that's the truth is because the Constitution limits their power.
It says, no, the power doesn't rely on the government, it goes, it the the the power lies in the people.
And for them, it's all about power.
It's all about power.
Now, me as a conservative.
Now, now, unfortunately, of course, you as you pointed out earlier, uh, under the Obama administration, that process has been greatly accelerated, and that is very unfortunate.
And I, as a conservative, just to speak to the passion that you were talking about just a few seconds ago.
I, as a passionate conservative, want this not only to be stopped, but reversed.
I think there needs to be a massive recheck, a recheck that brings us back to the Constitution that reverses everything that Obama has done, not just Obama, but with the establishment Republicans have allowed and and vacillated on and promoted.
Well, you know, you're you're let me tell you something.
You're right about two things.
You're right, number one, that all we do for do is talk about stopping things.
And the reason is because we're overwhelmed.
We wake up every day and we learn of a new assault that they are making on everything we used to consider as normal and happy and fun and okay and not problematic.
We wake up every day and find out there's a bunch of miserable, agitated, angry people who think that they're being discriminated against for whatever reason or another, and they are launching daily assaults on our core beliefs.
So we marshal forces to just stop it.
There isn't even time to think about reversing or advancing any of this.
And I agree with you, that's got to happen.
The second thing you're right about is your interpretation of their view of the Constitution.
They hate it precisely because it limits government.
They even admit this.
Their intellectuals write things.
Starting way back in FDR, they wanted a second Bill of Rights that established the powers of the government.
But this isn't even taught anymore.
The proper role of the Constitution, the reason, it's why Hillsdale is doing all that they're doing, giving free courses online, advertising them here on this program.
They're desperate to spread the word the Constitution because it's not being properly taught.
The Constitution was written specifically to limit government.
The founders knew all too well what the natural tendency of government and bureaucracy is.
It is to grow, to smother, to assume power, never relinquish it.
It's the end of freedom.
The only way government can grow is that is to deny liberty and freedom as often as possible, under the guise, of course, of expanding it.
It's all a big lie.
The um the There's this guy named uh forgetting his name.
Um he's the husband of Samantha Power.
This is a big lawyer, weird name.
Anyway, it'll come to me in just a second.
He has actually written, and people debate this intellectually, that the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties.
And I remember when I first heard that, some think tank people were explaining it.
What do you mean charter of negative liberty?
What kinds of scene what kind of perverted mind looks at the Constitution as a charter of negative liberties?
And they took me through it.
I said, well, all it does is limit government.
From the standpoint of a pro-big government authoritarian tyrannical thinking type human being, the Constitution is an enemy document.
And it's its liberties as to government are negative because all it does is tell government what it can't do.
It can't stop free speech.
It can't stop people worshiping.
It can't stop people using guns to protect them.
It can't stop this.
It can't stop.
And they hate it because it is a direct assault on their quest for power.
And it's not even something secret.
They're open about it now.
And because education has been so woefully corrupted, a bunch of young people have no idea what the Constitution really is, and it's a foreign language when they hear it limits government.
Okay.
Pew survey for people press, whatever, uh Pew Research Center for People in the Press put out this massive research product.
Recently, ten demographic trends that are shaping the United States and the world.
And if you read these, if you go into reading these with any kind of a pessimistic attitude, you would be totally within your logical bounds to conclude that the country's done as you've known it.
It's always going to be in America.
But it increasingly looks like it will be less and less like the America that was founded.
There'll always be a United States, we think.
Starts out this way.
Americans are more racially and ethnically diverse than in the past, and the U.S. is projected to be even more diverse in the coming decades.
By the year 2055, United States will not have a single racial or ethnic majority.
Much of this change has been driven by immigration.
Can I sum this up for you?
But what you're going to hear here, I'm going to tell you why all of this happened.
The Great Society of LBJ in 1964 coincides with Ted Kennedy demanding that immigration be reinstituted in 1965.
And I am here to tell you that the problems we face today are the direct result of the Great Society being used to hide massive numbers of illegal immigration.
The Great Society, of course, was founded with great compassion.
It was founded to uh part of it the war on poverty.
Part of it was to end the great disparities that existed economically from both groups of people, classes of people, and what have you.
And of course, its objectives were purely wonderful.
Oh my goodness, it's so much classes, so many good intentions and so much compassion.
And it was all about government picking winners and losers.
It set the table for affirmative action.
It set the table for pretty much every destructive thing the left has come up with.
The great society.
Which, of course, was a perverted belief that government could be the sole architect of an acceptable, good and fair and just society.
And of course, the premise under which it took place was that America was not good and was not nice and was not fair.
And only the government of Lyndon Baines Johnson would be able to fix this.
So they come up with a great society, which a lot of people instinctively support, oh, that sounds so wonderful.
Oh my God, it's just so wonderful.
And while all this is going on, illegal immigration began in droves, and it was basically hidden.
What was going on in immigration happened out of sight.
Now, Pew doesn't say any of this.
Pew just talks about all this as though just an act of God.
This is just normal human evolution.
That the racial and ethnic and religious and other demographic shifts, why, they're just happening.
No, they're not just happening.
They're the result of policy.
They are the result of purposeful objective policy put together by leftists.
So again, by 2055, the U.S. will not have a single racial or ethnic majority.
And you are some people, well, that would be wonderful, Mr. Limbaugh.
That would be absolutely wonderful.
Then nobody would have an unfair advantage over anybody.
Is that what you're saying?
No, that's not what we're saying.
It means it means bye-bye dominant culture.
Means bye-bye.
Distinct American culture.
It means bye-bye.
What we all grew up in.
Nearly 59 million immigrants have arrived in the U.S. in the past 50 years, mostly from Latin America and Asia.
They don't tell you how many are illegal.
And then they don't tell you about further results such as birth of illegal immigrants in America.
The children of illegal immigrants.
Today, a near record 14% of the country's population is foreign-born compared to just 5% in 1965.
What's wrong with that, Mr. Limbo?
What's wrong with it?
You understand how it happened is what's potentially problematic about it.
It's not just evolution.
It's not just people seeking a better life.
This has been a purposeful assault on a distinct and unique American culture.
Item number two.
Asia has replaced Latin America, including Meiko, as the biggest source of new immigrants to the U.S. In a reversal of one of the largest mass migrations in modern history.
Net migration flows from Meiko to the U.S. turned negative between 2009 and 2014.
But that's because the economy plunged.
There was less reason to come.
And the inflow was mitigated by people leaving and going home until they found it was time to return.
Anyway, number three, America's demographic changes are shifting the electorate and American politics.
The 2016 electorate will be the most diverse in U.S. Histoire due to strong growth among Hispanic eligible voters, particularly U.S. born youth.
Well, there you go.
This is precisely what everybody's been warning about.
This is exactly why all this illegal immigration hidden behind the great society has been a votration drive.
Massive voter registration drive commenced by Teddy Kennedy in 1965.
It is coming to fruition.
Number four, millennials, that is young adults born after 1980 are the new generation to watch, according to the Pew Research Center.
Millennials have likely surpassed baby boomers as the largest U.S. generation, and they differ significantly from their parents in many ways and their elders.
They're the most racially diverse generation in America.
43% of millennial adults are non-white, the highest share of any generation.
And while they're on track to be the most educated generation to date, this has come at a cost.
Many millennials are struggling with student debt.
Exactly what I've been saying.
They have destroyed the entire advantage and purpose of a college education by making it a millstone.
You graduate with insurmountable debt.
You cannot get ahead.
You remain dependent on government, which now controls your student loan, by the way.
And, of course, the Pew Research Center, while claiming that this is the most educated generation in recent years to date, they don't say educated with what, And by whom they don't at all get into just what is it these young millennials know?
Do they know?
For example, the Constitution was written to limit government.
All you have to do is read, take your pick.
There's some exceptions, of course.
But, you know, read things written by millennials, and without fail almost.
Every Republican referred to as either a joke or a pig or a racist or uh dangerous, certainly not somebody to be respected or taken seriously, and that is a product of education.
They don't even know what they're saying.
They're just regurgitating the crap that they have heard, been educated with, taught, what have you.
Number five, women's role in the labor force and leadership positions has grown dramatically.
The labor force participation rate for American women has risen steadily since the 1960s.
Mothers were the sole primary breadwinner in a record 40% of all households with children in 2011.
Mothers were the sole or primary breadwinner in a record 40% of all households.
What is it?
What's too wrong with that rush would?
If you do not understand the dramatic, significant change this represents, and how it advantages liberalism in the Democrat part.
That's all I'm saying here.
You can argue whether stuff is good or bad.
I'm not.
Remember, everything here happens under the premise that these people have got to be stopped politically.
You can't deny what is happening to our country.
You can't deny these dramatic attacks, assaults on the very fundamental building blocks of this country.
Number six, the American family is changing.
After decades of declining marriage rates, the share of American adults who have never been married is at an historic high, yet a lot of them have kids.
Two house uh two parent households are on the decline.
One in six American kids now live in a blended family.
The roles of mothers and fathers are converging, due in part to the rise of breadwinner moms.
Dads are doing more housework and child care, while moms are doing more paid work outside the home.
Number seven, the share of Americans who live in middle class households is shrinking.
And that is really all you need to know about the future of economic growth, the potential for it, and the viability of the American dream, which really was never a house.
I mean, it was that was a symbol.
The American dream, American exceptionalism, the one place in the world, one place in the history of humanity where average ordinary, everyday middle class people had all kinds of opportunity to move up, to educate themselves, to earn more money, have a higher standard of living for themselves and their family.
Now, even the quest for that is condemned.
Selfish and materialistic and so forth, but traditionally this is what people wanted.
It was always for the betterment of their children.
It was always to improve the lives of their kids.
Everybody wanted their lives to have better lives than they did, and that was just.
It was considered decent and good.
Now it's not.
Now it's selfish, it's greedy.
Now it's not realizing daily realities that not everybody can.
Now we've all got to know our place.
You've got to realize your lot in life may be where you're born.
No, no, that's always the way it was everywhere else in the world.
Number eight, Christians are declining as a share of the U.S. population.
The number of U.S. adults who do not identify with any organized religion has grown.
Plays right into the hands of the American left.
You can replace religion with climate change.
They can replace religion with the environment in general or whatever else.
Number nine, the world's religious makeup will look differently by 2050.
I don't have the details for this.
We'll post a link to this piece at Rushlimba.com.
And I gotta take a break.
I'm looking at the clock.
If I don't, I'm gonna be in heap big trouble.
Be right back.
We will post.
We'll link to that Pew Research Center on the demographic shifts in the country.
You you go through that, each of these points.
There's much data included I didn't share when you didn't read, take too much time, but apply it to whatever issues are happening in like the bathroom law in North Carolina or the religious freedom laws in Indiana or Georgia.
Apply this demographic stuff that you see in this story with all these so-called controversial things happening.
Uh why why why in the world do I mean these bathroom laws are absurd?
And people who haven't even read this legislation are coming out totally in support of it, which basically lets anybody use whatever bathroom they want to use based on how they want to present that day.
You'll understand how all this is happening and and and you you'll see it it folks, it is imperative that Hillary Clinton not be elected.
This stuff's got the we have to stop it first before there can be any reversal and advancement.
Anyway, let me grab one more call here before we have to say bye for the weekend.
This is Hank in Travis City, Michigan.
Great to have you, Hank.
Welcome to program.
Not there.
Who do we have?
Uh where should I go next?
That'd be David in Fremont, Ohio.
Great to have you.
Hello.
Are the phones dead?
Is nobody there?
Okay, we'll try Janice and Rancho Cucamonga, California.
Janice, are you there?
I think we got a di.
What was this?
Oh.
Our phones are dead, folks.
We have literally somebody's talking out.
Janice.
You are Janice.
Janice, welcome.
Uh I'm fine.
Glad we finally connected with you.
How are you doing?
I'm good.
Thank you.
First time caller.
I am a Trumpster.
Ted Cruz is my second choice.
I was more excited about it before the fighting started, of course.
But I wanted to share that I think for us to win, that we do have to unite these two camps.
And as difficult as it may be, I think we have to learn to appreciate the strengths and the weaknesses of these two men.
And I kind of a biblical analogy that I have is I see Donald Trump as like King David and Ted Cruz like King Solomon.
And uh Donald, you know, King David's job was to drive the giants out of the land.
And um, and I see Donald's strength as an ability to do that, and to um he stands up to the media, gets crossover votes.
Uh well, look, let me let me jump in because I'm I'm really out of time now, but you've got a point here about if the establishment Republicans and Democrats are to be beat.
Somehow there's got to be some unification.
I don't know how, but it has to happen.
Back after this, folks.
Okay, folks, that's it.
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