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April 7, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 7, 2016, Thursday, Hour #3
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See, this is exactly right here.
This is exactly the kind of thing that the Republican Party is doing that is hammering nails in its own coffin.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
Great to have you back, Rush Limbaugh, a man, a legend, a way of life.
And at one time I could have been a member of the establishment.
They were putting the full cord press on me, but I resisted instinctively.
I was thinking the other day how easily they could have owned me.
Way back long ago when I was naive and didn't know what was going on.
That's just about as much as I'm going to say, just a little tease there.
But this, there's a little blurb here in the New York Times that you have to dig deep into a New York Times story.
And it's it's it's exactly to my point about the problems the Republican Party is facing.
That's the wrong way to put it.
problems that they are creating for themselves.
There is a New York Times story today.
Ted Cruz and donors.
And you have to read extensively into this story.
The story is basically about how donors are gritting their teeth and supporting Cruz.
Now, admittedly, I will acknowledge this is the New York Times.
And the New York Times is a troublemaker, and the New York Times often purposely gets things wrong and purposely tries to undermine conservatism.
And when they have a chance, they will do their best to undermine the Republican Party too.
They don't need much help there.
So what we have here is a story on Ted Cruz and donors, and the Times is making it look like the donors really don't like having to get behind Cruz, but they've got no choice because they can't get behind Trump.
And there's no way they're gonna get behind Kasich.
So the story is designed to be injurious to Cruz and maybe helpful to the Republicans by casting them as mature and reasonable, and here they're having to really grit their teeth and get behind this extreme right winger.
They really wouldn't any other situation do.
And here's this little blurb.
A wider embrace by donors has also been hampered in some quarters by genuine political disagreement between more middle-of-the-road potential donors and Mr. Cruz, a professed conservative purist on economic and social issues.
Andy Saban.
Now, this might be pronounced Sabin.
It might be pronounced uh, I'm not sure.
It's S-A-B-I-N.
And I'm I'm not I don't know how Andy pronounces it, so I'm mentioning all the possibilities.
Andy Saban, a former Bush supporter who runs a Long Island precious metals company, said that when a fundraiser for Mr. Cruz's campaign reached out recently, he insisted on one condition.
Andy Saban told the Cruz campaign, for me to have any interest in Ted, I need him to accept that the earth has warmed and that we can solve the problem and create plenty of jobs.
In other words, here you have a donor in a story in the New York Times about how they don't really want to get behind Cruz, but they're gritting their teeth and doing it, telling Cruz the only way they're gonna donate is if Cruz acknowledges man-made global warming so that Republican industrialists can make money off of it.
Well, I'm sorry, eighty-ninety percent of Republican voters don't believe in man-made global warming.
They recognize it for what it is.
It is a Democrat Party trick that is designed to promote anti-capitalism.
Man-made global warming cannot be proved.
The only thing that suggests it's happening is computer models.
There is not one shred of data.
In fact, there's a story out today that I just shared with you.
Recent research has proven that the computer models predicting massive rainfall in the 20th century, it didn't happen.
In fact, there were more dramatic rainfall totals, periods, shifts in centuries prior to when fossil fuels were developed in wide use.
It's designed to fleece the United States and other Western industrialist nations.
It's designed to damage capitalism.
It is designed to grow government and raise taxes.
It's designed to have people blame themselves for an excessive lifestyle.
And it's designed to make people feel guilty so they will dial back on their excessive lifestyle.
It's designed to make people feel guilty so they will stop trying to achieve an improved standard of living.
Because if you'll notice, everything that causes global warming or climate change happens to come from an increased standard of living in the United States.
More fossil fuel use, more travel, cheaper energy, all of these things are said to contribute to what the destruction of the planet.
It is a signature issue for the Democrat Party.
This is the second story I've seen this week about Republicans trying to get Republicans supporting climate change as an issue in the party platform.
And now here's a story about donors demanding that Cruz acknowledge and accept the earth is warmed, man-made global warming, and that we can solve the problem and create plenty of jobs.
Andy Saban said that he was offered a spot on one of Cruz's policy advisory committees.
But that when he still asked Mr. Cruz publicly to voice a belief in climate change he never heard back.
Even a signal in the right direction would have been enough for him, Saban said.
All he had to do was say we think it's an issue for the general election and maybe put Ted on the phone, Saban said.
I felt I was being hustled for a donation.
Wait a minute.
According to this, who's hustling who?
It sounds to me like, and this is just one of the donors mentioned in the story.
It sounds to me like we've got a donor here who needs the party to officially announce it believes in man-made global warming, because somehow this guy's business stands to gain from that position.
What about the issue?
What about the fact it's a fraud?
What about the fact there isn't any man-made global warming?
I know, I know.
Some people really believe it.
I know they do.
Most of them are Democrats.
Most of them are liberals.
The conservatives, if there are any, and the Republicans who have fallen for it have been duped.
Or either they are just afraid of the power of the opposition personified by the Alliance of the Democrats and the Media.
Or maybe what these donors have seen is the crony capitalism or crony socialism that has existed between Obama and some of his donors, and see how some of his donors are made out like bandits.
By getting in business with the government when your competitors can't.
At any rate, this is the kind of stuff that the Republican Party is going to keep losing.
I mean, it may have plenty of people donated money, and these donors may think that they got friends in Washington, and they might have friends on the losing side of elections, but they still might have friends in Washington.
But here is an attempt to get a potential nominee to compromise his belief on the issue of man-made climate change global warming for donations.
And right on the spot to tell us all about it is the New York Times.
this is the kind of thing that is dooming the Republican Party to consistent losing.
This is the perfect issue on which to draw a contrast between Republicans and Democrats.
But apparently it won't work because there are too many Republican donors who are also business people who have found a way, either via marketing, public relations, or whatever.
There's value in making people think they believe in man-made climate change.
So you see, it's all cynicism.
It doesn't matter.
I can hear the conversations.
I can if they were talking to me, let's say they listen to this program and they get very mad and they call me in Rush.
You're missing it, Rush.
Smart guy you are, you're missing it.
It's not whether there's climate change or not.
People already think there is.
We have got to maximize that.
People waste of time arguing out of it.
It's true, people think it's true.
We've got to find a way to prosper with it.
Of course, I would sit there and say, no, it isn't true, and it's helping to destroy the greatest economic engine in the country.
I would ask them, why are you so unconcerned?
Don't you see 94 million Americans not working?
Don't you see what the United Nations is doing?
Don't you see what this issue is really all about?
And they don't because they're not ideologues.
They are Republican partisans, but they're not ideologues.
Conservatism, liberalism, that doesn't.
In fact, they're probably anti-conservative because they think all that is is pro-life.
And they're tired of their wives nagging them about all the preachers and a lot of the family research groups and so forth, don't want to go to convention with these people, so they don't want any part of conservatism.
So they're not ideologues at all.
Rush, our customers think that there's climate change.
I can't stay in business if I argue with them.
They think there's climate change.
I got to tell them they got to believe that my company and my business is doing everything I can to save the climate.
it.
And Rush, I'd rather do that than get in an argument with them and tell them it ain't happening, because they already think that it is.
And this is how we lose issue after issue after issue.
But no sooner had I made the point than somebody points out to me this New York Times story today.
That Ted Cruz, potential donors, gritting their teeth, not happy about it, have no choice now.
But they may as well get what they can get, and they're holding out money.
Little carrot sticks there.
Hey, Ted, here's some money for you, but you gotta publicly acknowledge man-made climate change.
We'll keep a sharp eye on Cruz and see what happens here.
This is how, this is how, you know, you wonder what happens to these great conservatives on the campaign trail who tell you that they're gonna go to Washington and fix this stuff and they're gonna finally stop all this damaging stuff from happening, and then it doesn't take long after they get there, and they're missing in action.
This is what happens.
We will be back.
Your phone calls are next.
Hang in there and be tough.
Folks, I decided to look up Andy Saban during the break.
This donor that the New York Times says told Cruz you'd give him money, but only if Cruz accepted and went public with the fact that man-made climate change is real, and that we Republican Party need to embrace it.
Andy Saban has spent big money to create a climate law center.
This guy's a true believer.
It's not just that he needs this for his business.
This guy is probably ideologically committed.
I'd say the Chamber of Commerce has taken over the upper levels of the Republican Party.
If you want to know what's really happened here.
And the Chamber of Commerce, Like everybody else thinks big business, a bunch of Republicans, these guys are flat-out leftists in the chamber, and they organize the big donors for the Republican Party, and that's what's happening.
And this Andy Saban, who the New York Times reports trying to influence Cruz has spent big money to create a climate law center.
He's plowed five million dollars into the Saban Center for Climate Change Law.
He's a donor to Planned Parenthood, both to his local affiliate and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
His foundation grants Planned Parenthood annual gifts of $5,000, enough to get him invited to parties, where he hobnobs with leaders of the country's largest abortion corporations.
I mean, he's he brags about paling around with Cecile Richards, the daughter of Ma Richards.
This is his opinion of Trump.
By the way, we're talking about a Republican donor here who has spent millions establishing the Saban Center for Climate Change Law.
Massive donations of Planned Parenthood.
And this is his opinion of Donald Trump.
Donald's a bird brain, all right.
He's a TV star.
He's not a realistic candidate, in my opinion.
He's like on a TV show.
I just, I just have to laugh.
He is he claims to be pro-life, by the way, naturally, funding Plant Parenthood.
He claims to be well, he he claims to care about life.
He's even funded a rattlesnake preserve.
That's the donor, the New York Times found, trying to exert pressure on Cruz to acknowledge.
In the general, not now, the general election campaign, make it a Republican issue climate change.
Here we go.
Seth in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
Back to you, sir.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Trump, uh, Rush, it's a huge honor.
I'm sorry.
I'm a little nervous.
I uh it's a huge honor.
Thank you for taking my call.
I wanted to mention Trump's uh greatest asset, and that's his ability to be unaffected by satire.
Uh Solinsky said in his book, Rules for Radicals that satire and ridicule are the organizers' greatest weapon.
And if you don't believe me, look at what happened with Bush.
Look what happened with uh Sarah Palin.
Uh we almost identify Saturday Night Live skits more with with more so with the SNL skits than we do with the actual people.
Uh and you had mentioned earlier, you know, the convention looking at Jeb and Ryan and uh maybe Rubio in the uh a contested convention, and I have to ask these people, and I I like Cruz too, but I have to ask, you know, can these people take it?
Can they take the vitriol that's gonna be pointed at them once Trump is out of the picture, if he is out of the picture at the moment?
Wait a minute.
That's really not what you're asking.
It's a good question.
You know what you're you know what he's asking?
Okay, Saturday Night Live is gonna make absolute fools of whoever the nominee is.
Your question really is not who can take it, but who can remain unaffected in terms of public opinion by it.
Yes, sir.
In other words, who has got a who can survive being made fun of by Saturday Night Live and not have their image destroyed or ruined, and you're thinking Trump much better qualified for that than anybody else.
That's what you think.
Yes, that's I I truly believe that.
I I I, you know, I believe that the left uses satire as as a weapon greater than anything else, and I think that, you know, any time our guys get put on these late-night talk show shows or anything like that, we kind of wring our hands and go, oh, geez, we gotta sit here and watch him take it, watch the audience laugh at him.
And with Trump, I don't we don't see that.
You know, we see sketch comedies and things making fun of him, and you just kind of laugh along with it and go, well, yeah, you know, it just doesn't affect your opinion of it.
It doesn't, it it doesn't change anything.
Yeah, I know I know what you mean.
Let's last Saturday night is a good example.
Saturday Night Live did a parody.
You know, I haven't watched Saturday Night Live in years, But they're bits if they're good, they make YouTube.
So you can you can watch what happened on Saturday Night Live in a couple of minutes without having to spend 90 minutes on Saturday night watching it.
And they did a parody of all of these women on TV defending Trump, no matter what.
And they parodied these people as no nothings.
Trump advocates on TV, his official spokesman and others, as literally brain-dead ignoramuses defending Trump against the most outrageous things.
And the audience is laughing itself silly.
Now what Seth here is saying is that when you say Trump isn't affected by it, you don't mean that he doesn't get depressed and angry.
What you're really saying is all of those parodies do not destroy Trump like they have destroyed Sarah Palin, for example.
Or like they destroyed Gerald Ford, like Chevy Chase destroyed Gerald Ford.
So his point is that despite all the making fun of, and despite all the satire, it doesn't change people's opinions of Trump.
They still respect him.
They don't end up thinking he's a joke.
But these other guys, Saturday Night Live has been able to make a joke out of Sarah Palin.
I'll tell you, you know what?
One year, I was one of Barbara Walters' most ten top ten what most famous uh personalities of the year, whatever it is.
And also in the top ten was Tina Faye.
And she was in the top ten most fascinating people of the year because of her impersonation of Sarah Palin.
And I said, why isn't Sarah Palin in this list?
You're putting an impersonator of Sarah Palin, and this is exactly what Seth.
And he may have a point about this.
I don't know.
I have to think about that.
But I'll do that and be back.
Here is Sylvia in Spokane, Washington.
Sylvia, I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Thank you.
Love you, Rush.
Hey, the the what happened with Cruz in the Bronx yesterday is a prime example of the mainstream media doing everything they can to tell the story wrong.
When I read it last night on internet, it was twenty-nine pastors meeting with Cruz in a restaurant and twelve uninvited citizens showing up.
By the time I heard it on the radio this morning, it was Cruz throwing a rally, and twelve people showed up.
So it was a total mischaracterization by the mainstream media of what's really happening out there.
And they're fighting Cruz just like they fought Reagan.
Lots of us are in that generation that loved Reagan.
We love Cruz.
We see that he he's against the me.
It's he's the media's gonna do everything they can, but he may win anyway.
And boy, I I'm for Nike like never before, I'm giving money to my candidate, Ted Cruz.
I happen to have here a New York Post version of the event that you're talking about.
Sylvia, let's uh read this together.
Uh headline, Cruz Campaign Stop of the Bronx, a complete dud.
Okay.
It's by Jennifer Bain and Bob Fredericks.
There are more than 1.4 million people in the Bronx, but Ted Cruz couldn't even muster 100 at a campaign event in Parkchester with State Senator Ruben Diaz Sr., a conservative Christian minister.
Cruz visited uh Chinese Dominican restaurant where Diaz said the presidential candidate could listen to the social economic and spiritual needs of our community while dining with other clergymen on the eatery's famed fried rice and plantains.
Aside from about 70 ministers affiliated with Diaz, only twelve voters showed up, and two of them were tossed out after screaming protests about Cruz's hardline stance on immigration.
Protester Rebel Diaz said he is anti-immigrant, he denies climate change, a right wing bigot, and he's not welcome here.
So this story pretty much dovetails with the way you saw the rest of the drive-by is reporting the event.
Well, that's what I saw last night, because but the emphasis last night was yeah, it was a meeting with ministers.
By the time it got shortened this morning on the morning radio news, it was a rally and only twelve citizens showed up.
That's all it was.
And and so the mainstream media is willing to do it.
Oh, there's no doubt.
Look, if they hate him, they're threatened by him.
There's no question they're threatened by him.
He's a conservative and he means it.
Damn right they're threatened by him.
Here's another one.
This from the New York Daily News.
They've got their cover photo today is Cruz standing by a subway car.
Take the FU train, Ted.
I mean, I think the everybody knows what the FU train means.
How many years ago would you never see something like that in a newspaper front page or not?
Anyway.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's true.
Here's this story.
Ted Cruz's visit to Bronx High School canceled after students threaten walkout.
Quote, his views are against ours.
Ted Cruz came into York Wednesday talking about education, but he's the one who got schooled.
The lesson came from a group of Bronx high school students who told Cruz to stay away.
Cruz was scheduled to speak at the Bronx Lighthouse College Preparatory Academy until students wrote a letter to the principal asking her to not let Cruz come.
That prompted staffers to cancel the appearance.
We told her if he came here, we would schedule a walkout, said Destiny Dominic, 16 years old.
Most of us are immigrants who we come from immigrant backgrounds.
Ted Cruz goes against everything our school stands for.
Well, if it's a public school, that's for sure.
Because that's what the public schools are teaching these kids.
Yeah, well, you ought to read the letter they wrote.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's it's they're not learning much about English comp, I can say.
Hey, Rush, I went to the big rally here uh near Spokane in Court Lane, and then the next day later the preacher was shot.
You remember reading about that rally?
Uh wait, is this uh when did this happen?
Uh three weeks ago, a month ago.
No, that's the no, I'm it's confusing.
There's a uh some some people shot a priest thinking he was a KKK member recently.
Oh, well, uh what I'm saying is that was a last minute rally.
They talked Cruz into coming through uh doing a last minute rally in an agriculture building.
There were three thousand people there.
Most of us had to stand in the rain to get in.
I devoted four hours to to get in and get out because of their rallying.
You know, you don't have there's no denying Cruz is on a roll here.
We just had the story he's won more delegates since March 15th and than Trump has when when Rubio got out March 15th.
He's on a roll here.
I mean, a 13-point landslide win in Wisconsin.
Now the polling date of New York is not good.
It's got him in third place.
We'll see.
It's uh April the nineteenth is uh when it comes up, and uh Trump's at fifty-two percent in uh in that poll.
Now, on the other side, on the Trump side, uh there's been a campaign shakeup.
There's been an actual professional added to the campaign team.
A professional in uh delegate relations, Paul Manafort is his name.
And there's a story here at the uh SoundCloud.com is it's a Breitbart story.
Roger Stone warns after Wisconsin lost, Donald Trump's campaign has no infrastructure in the States.
Stone is firing both Stone's out there saying that there's nobody in the in the Trump campaign that knows a thing about dealing with delegates.
They've got no offices open in any of the states.
They're not working anything other than these massive national rallies and trying to win big national media.
And everybody scratch, what's this going on?
I think I know what's going on.
I think I think there's a bunch of people making a move on Corey Lewandowski in the Trump campaign to get him.
I think I think that uh I think all this public pressure being brought through, all these public statements about the incompetence of the Trump campaign is actually they're all hit pieces on Lewandowski by people from within the Trump campaign or close to it, who don't like the guy.
Just my wild guess.
I, of course, am like Sergeant Schultz.
I know nothing whatsoever about what's going on in the campaign.
By the way, folks, I want to one thing about this point that this uh uh I think Seth met a caller's name Seth saying that we need to take into account uh parody and satire of our candidate.
Who can survive that on things like Saturday?
I'll have to say something about that.
I I really believe that that stuff doesn't work against a person the American people really like.
I mean, people really liked Reagan, and there was there was endless satire and cartoon attempts to uh make Reagan out to be just the biggest walking dunce ever, and it and it didn't work.
And I really think the key to it is if you're likable, and if the American people like you, they end up laughing at the sometimes they even get offended at it.
But I think it's it's hard for satirists to really destroy somebody that's that's liked.
It's it's an Olinski rule to ridicule somebody.
The Alinsky rule is you use ridicule to get people to concede to what you want them to do, so the ridicule stops.
That's the Linsky point with it.
Um Syracuse, upstate New York.
Great to have you with us.
Hello.
Hi, Russ.
Thank you for listening.
Um I had to tell you I'm from upstate New York, Syracuse, not New York City.
And I was a little offended by what Ted Cruz said about New Yorkers.
Because we are not them.
We New York City is a totally separate country from the rest of us.
Are you hearing this folks?
And all of us in upstate New York agree.
Okay.
Wait a minute.
So he was right about Manhattan Knights?
I don't know.
But it is a little insulting that he that everything is focused on New York City.
We are voters too.
And we feel very put aside all the time.
Uh Hillary Clinton.
The only reason that she's running in New York is because she decided that's where she wanted to run and she bought a house there.
No, it's because, well, yeah, maybe she wanted to, but the reason she wanted to is carpet bagging.
She saw Robert Kennedy do it.
Why couldn't she?
I mean, there's a Clinton's grease the skins of Democrat Party do what it takes to make her a senator from there.
But it's that's why they're not uh so overjoyed with her out there, I think, right now, because uh not only the history, the recent history, but she's not a New Yorker.
We will see.
Bill Clinton's out there talking about how the world has changed.
You know, that world's a much better put-together place when I was president, but it's fallen apart out there now.
It really is.
I just saw the link.
I haven't a chance to check any more than that.
They're also booing Clinton and put.
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