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April 21, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 21, 2016, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
Great to have you here.
It's Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone.
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I'm out tomorrow.
Therefore, we're going to do open line Friday today.
We call it Open Line Friday on Thursday.
And we're going to.
Well, we're not going to really expand the universe of uh permissible calls, but I'm just going to include in the possibility that many of you just want to have at me.
I I know it.
I can I can I can the people that do get through here, I know you're holding back.
You're trying to be polite.
After all, we have a 27-year relationship here.
But some of you I know you really want to unload and you you're holding back.
And I just want to let you if you want to unload, if if you want to take the occasion of this opportunity here to let me know exactly what you think I'm doing that's screwing things up, or on the other side, if you think something's praiseworthy, have at it.
But it and in addition to the normal and usual invitation to talk about things that don't have anything to do with politics.
That's what Open Line Friday is all about.
Whatever you want to talk about, um is what we strive for.
So again, the telephone number 800-282-2882, the email address, Lrushbow at EIB net.com.
Donald Trump confounding his supporters today.
And confounding many in the drive-by media.
Donald Trump and his acceptance remarks after the New York primary referred to Senator Cruz a couple of times.
Did not refer to him as Lion Ted.
And this prompted many in the drive-by media to applaud the Trumpster for now making the transition to presidential candidate.
A more serious and respectful demeanor.
And gone is the off-the-cuff, politically incorrect, insults, and barbs.
Except it didn't last.
Here is the Trumpster in Indianapolis at a campaign event yesterday.
In the case of Lion Ted Cruz, Lion Ted, lies.
Oh, he lies.
You know, Ted, he brings the Bible, holds it high, puts it down, lies.
You know, Bernie's gone.
You know that, don't you?
Bernie's gone.
I love running against Crooked Hillary.
I love that.
I mean so much.
Better.
Better.
Bernie wouldn't be as much fun.
Yes, a Bernie's gone.
He can't wait to run against Crooked Hillary and Lion Ted.
Lion Ted just keeps lying.
He holds up the Bible, he puts it down and he lies.
Lion Ted.
The drive-by's are beside themselves.
They can't figure it out.
The softer side of Donald Trump.
All of that is out the window.
We're back to Trump being Trump, referring to Ted Cruz as Lion Ted.
Reverted to his nasty side when referring to top rival Ted Cruz.
Today's back to it is a tax on Cruz calling him Lion Ted.
Just when we thought Donald Trump was trying to act more presidential, he was back with his classic attacks.
That moderation did not last through today.
He's all sharp elbows in the Lion Ted.
Today Donald Trump's calling him Lion Ted Cruz by the middle of the afternoon.
Today, he's back to calling him Lion Ted.
Look who's back.
He's back to using Lion Ted.
We're all the way back, and we'll be at Scummy Ted in a week.
Scummy Ted, it's Chris Steyerwald at Fox News.
Lion Ted will become scummy Ted, but the point is, gone is Senator Cruz.
But we just getting warmed up here on the new Donald Trump.
This is the Today Show this morning.
They had a town hall event with uh with Trump.
And during the QA with the audience, a woman stood up and said, My relative is a natural born American in the military.
His father and stepmother are undocumented people here In the U.S. for the last 25 years without any way of adjusting their status.
Means they're illegal immigrants or undocumented.
There's no way to change their status.
Mr. Trump, Mr. Trump, if you're president, what will you do for those members that are the fabric of our country?
I.e., what are you going to do, Mr. Trump, for the illegal aliens and the undocumented who are the fabric of our country that have been here for 25 years undocumented?
What are you going to do for them?
Look, we're either going to have a country or we're not going to have a country.
But many people are very fine people, and I'm sure these are very, very fine people.
They're going to go, and we're going to create a path where we can get them into this country legally, okay?
But it has to be done legally.
It's going to be, and they're going to come back, and they're going to come back legally.
We have some wonderful people.
It's too tough to say you'll never come back again.
They're coming back, but they're coming back into our country legally.
Okay, so now this is really nothing new.
This has always been what Trump has said he's going to do with this.
He's going to deport them and then bring them back.
Legally.
They're going to come back legally.
They gotta go.
They gotta go.
But they're gonna come back legally.
And when they come back legally, then everything is gonna be fine.
But we don't have a country.
We don't have a country who don't have borders.
We don't have a country if this stuff doesn't stop.
So we're gonna we're gonna send them back.
We are gonna deport them.
They gotta go.
They gotta go.
But then we're gonna bring them back legally.
But he wasn't through, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Correspondent Willie Geist read a Twitter question.
Mr. Trump, Mr. Trump, please be specific.
Tell us your views on lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders, and how you plan to be inclusive as president and speak about the North Carolina bathroom law in particular.
North Carolina did something that was very strong, and they're paying a big price, and there's a lot of problems.
Leave it the way it is.
North Carolina, what they're going through with all of the business that's leaving and all of the strife, and that's on both sides.
You leave it the way it is.
There have been very few complaints the way it is.
People go, they use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate.
So if Caitlin Jenner were to walk into Trump Tower and want to use the bathroom, you would be fine with her using any bathroom she chooses.
That is correct.
Okay, so Trump is all in for LGBT people using whatever bathroom they feel like using.
That day, that year, that hour, whenever.
However, they decide to present, however they feel, whatever they think they are at that moment, he's got no problem with Caitlin Jenner.
That may not be the best example because Caitlin Jenner's a celebrity.
Trump likes celebrities, and but but just your average ordinary unknown.
Uh 25-year-old guy wants to go into the women's restroom with a four-year-old he met on the playground.
No problem.
What Trump's answer seems to indicate here is that what North Carolina's doing is bad because it's causing harm for businesses.
And that's not good.
We we can't, we can't be doing things that's gonna hurt business.
We can't do things that are gonna cause businesses to leave and all of the strife.
So he says, just leave it the way it is, meaning whoever wants to use whatever bathroom is fine.
Uh and then there was this.
Do you believe in raising taxes on the wealthy?
I do.
I do, including myself.
I do.
Well, so we've we've got we got a trifecta here, folks.
We have a pathway to citizenship.
In one town hall meeting on the Today Show Today, we have a trifecta.
We've got a pathway to citizenship spelled out.
We have no problem whatsoever with.
In fact, North Carolina and Georgia and all these states should not be doing what they're doing.
People want to use whatever bathroom is fine.
It isn't a problem.
People should be able to use whatever bathroom they want.
And raising taxes on the rich.
Yes, absolutely raise taxes on the rich.
Now, interestingly, uh, ladies and gentlemen, there's also this from the Wall Street Journal, a headline.
Donald Trump plans to adopt more traditional campaign tactics.
Says his campaign is evolving.
Coming soon are policy addresses, teleprompers, and a speech writer.
And all of this is being chalked up to the hire he made, guy named Paul Manafort, the convention manager for Trump's.
By the way, you know what we've just learned?
Paul Manafort, who's now essentially, he elbowed Corey Lewandowski out of the way there, and he's now running things for Trump.
He has uh uh a business with a guy named Charlie Black, who is a well-known Republican establishment figure.
I mean, well known, Charlie Black may be, I mean, if you wanted to put a picture of the Republican establishment of dictionary, his would be in it.
And Charlie Black is running the Casick campaign.
And Charlie Black and Trump's guy are business partners.
And this has led to some interesting speculation of why is Kasich still staying in this thing?
What in the world is going on?
It only helps Trump if he stays in.
And then there's this scuttle but the whispers and the that Kasich is hanging around to be VP, and we find out that Charlie Black running Kasich and Manafort running Trump are business partners, which means they're, well, I mean, you have to assume that they're they're they're friends.
So uh one of the big attractions to Trump has has been this the Y and Ted stuff, the uh the off-the-wall, off the cuff uh uh anti-political correctness stuff.
There's a there's another uh thing here, folks, uh Ed Morrissey has a post that uh at hot air.
Trump handing the campaign keys to lobbyists.
Politicos Ken Vogel reported last night the shift from Lewandowski to Manafort has changed more than just personnel.
It has brought the Trump campaign under control of lobbyists.
That's what Charlie Black is, by the way, and that's what Manafort is.
It has brought the Trump campaign under control of lobbyists and industry Trump explicitly derided earlier in the primary cycle.
And then there's one more.
You know, the the this quote-unquote controversy over the $20 bill.
Obama and his buddies want to take Andrew Jackson off of there and put Harriet Tubman on it.
And Trump has, in a reflexive, automatic way, come out and expressed his opposition to this.
Do you think he knows who Harriet Tubman is, Mr. Snerdley?
Let me just ask you point blank.
Don't mean to be putting you on the spot, but do you think he knows who Harriet Trump is.
Do you think that he knows Harriet Tubman, if she were alive today, would be one of the biggest advocates of the Second Amendment.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
No, she would be.
I'm asking, does she does he know?
Does he does he know that Harriet Tubman was a Republican?
Harriet Tubman, of course, uh ran an operation to help slaves escape the South.
She's a renowned figure in American history.
She was a Republican because back then the Republican Party was the party anti-slavery.
And nothing ever changed other than the Democrats co-op.
The Democrats have always been the party of slavery.
They were always the party of Jim Crumb.
The party of the Ku Klux Klan was the Democrat Party military branch.
The Democrats, Lester Maddox, George Wallace, all these guys in a South Degregationist, J. William Fulbright, uh, they were the segregationists, they were the racists.
Harriet Tubman was a Republican.
But Trump has said, yeah, I don't like getting rid of Andrew Jackson.
This is political correctness, but getting rid of Andrew Jackson, putting a woman on there, those are not his words, those are I'm I'm paraphrasing.
Uh Andrew Jackson, you know, a lot of people look at Trump as a modern-day incarnation of Andrew Jackson because he was a thought of to be an outsider.
But there's something that Andrew Jackson is known for that if if you did not benefit from the proper or not proper, that's if you haven't received a good American history instruction in your life, then there's something you may not know about Andrew Jackson.
Andrew Jackson wasn't just a figure and a Democrat, he was a hugely controversial figure in the United States.
He sponsored what was called the Indian Removal Act.
The Indian Removal Act by Andrew Jackson paved the way for the tragedy known as the Trail of Tears.
You know what Trail of Tears.
Have you Okay, you've heard of the Trail of Tears.
What it the Trail of Tears was a literally a march, Native Americans and Indians being forcibly removed from their ancestral lands and having to proceed by foot to their relocation area.
10,000 of them died on the way.
That's why it's called a Trail of Tears.
That's Andrew Jackson.
So it's Obama that wants to change all these.
He's a slaver on top of that.
True.
But it's Obama that wants to change the identity of people on the five dollar.
Hamilton got saved because of the musical.
They're going to get rid of Alexander Hamilton because they had a hip-hop musical.
You can't take him off the $10 bill now, so he's still there.
So the $20 bill, Andrew Jackson is going to go to Harriet Tubman.
But Trump just reflexively came out and opposed it.
And And that also raised some eyebrows.
Because then the question's obviously, did Trump do this because he needs to continue to appear to be anti-political correct, and that means opposing everything the establishment wants to do, even with pictures of people on the $20 bill, does he just not know any of his stuff?
And uh and time will tell.
It's gonna be real interesting to see the reaction, if any, to his remarks on no problem with LGBT bathrooms.
I mean, if you uh think you're a woman at two o'clock this afternoon and want to use the ladies' room, have at it.
If you're really a guy, it doesn't matter.
If you like a woman, go in, no problem.
We'll see if there's any blowback on that.
Trail of Tears.
You know, where I grew up, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, there is a state park.
Because where I grew up is not far from where the Trail of Tears actually was.
And the name of the park is Trail of Tear State Park.
It's where I went camping.
I got the Gold Brick Award.
It was my first uh Cub Scout Boy Scout camping trip.
Got the gold brick for not doing anything, but sitting around waiting for the campout to end.
But we we all called it Trail of Lumps.
Because usually that's where your girlfriend broke up with you when you when you went out there to park.
You got the bad news, trail of lumps is what we all called it growing up.
This question that Trump got from an audience member, the NBC town hall today on LGBT.
Trump's answer was the politically correct position.
You understand it, folks, this is worth a serious examination.
What's happening in our culture?
Some people think the culture wars are underway, others think that we've lost them.
And there's a fascinating piece today.
It's gonna require a tremendous amount of effort on my part to translate this and explain it because it's it's written for a very, very highbrow audience with all kinds of terms in it that nobody knows the definitions of, like transgressive free speechism and Nietzschean and waiting for Prometheus to show up.
But if you have but I'm gonna wade through this because it's it's got a fascinating premise.
And the premise is that the reason we are losing the culture war is that the left in fighting the culture war has been using the free market and capitalism to do it.
And the upshot of it is, if I've got this right, the upshot of it is that objective truth and fact and substance are irrelevant now in determining how people decide what behaviors they're going to engage in, what behaviors they're going to support and oppose.
And instead, for for lack of a better term, and it's more complicated than this, right?
It's a little bit more detailed than this.
But instead, it's it's been theoretically here boiled down to a question of what is considered modern and hip or cool.
Although that doesn't quite cover it.
It's uh it's it's a starter point to kind of get you locked in and intrigued on it.
But as I say, I'm going to spend some more time on it today, uh, translating this piece for you.
As I say, it's in the Federalist uh.com.
And the LGBT question fits right in with this theory.
I mean, there's no way under the sun that one-tenth of one percent of the population engaging in behavior that that nobody ten years ago, five years ago would ever ascribe as laudatory, is now all of a sudden not only is it accepted, you must love it, you must support it.
And it is politically correct to support it.
And that happens to be the position Trump has taken.
Here's this guy running anti-political correct.
Uh, this is his stance, and he's just following right along here.
How are you?
Great to have you back here, folks.
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There we go.
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Uh, just to get this Andrew Jackson Harriet Tubman thing out of the way.
So I want to move into this LGBT business.
This is a great teachable moment, a great learning opportunity.
And I'm not going to wait till later in the program to try to make something complex here understandable.
I'm gonna just I'm gonna jump right into it here in just a second.
But here I want to play for you what Trump said at the town hall event on this change of face on the $20 bill.
It was Matt Wauer who said, now, as you've seen, Mr. Trump, Mr. Trump, Harriet Tubman will replace Andrew Jackson on a $20 bill.
Now, you have so often during this campaign, you've railed against political correctness.
Do you see this as a move that is all about political correctness, or is this a move that is simply way overdue?
Well, Andrew Jackson had a great history, and I think it's very rough when you take somebody off the bill.
Andrew Jackson had a history of tremendous success for the country.
I think Harriet Tumpen is fantastic.
I would love to, I would love to leave Andrew Jackson and see if we can maybe come up with another denomination.
Maybe we do the two-dollar bill or we do another bill.
I don't like seeing it.
Yes, I think it's pure political correctness.
Well, see, that's that that would be uh, I don't want to call it knee-jerk, but but that would be an understandable reaction.
Here you have Barack Hussein, oh, and the Democrat Party making all these moves, and you just you can't look at it as an isolated move.
You have to look at everything Obama's doing is uh part of his agenda.
Now here's Obama attacking the currency.
I mean, one of one of the things that people who are paying attention realize is that the entire Obama presidency has been an assault on America as founded, and has been all about transforming America into something she would never found it to be.
Because Obama and people like him believe this country is illegitimate, immoral.
It was unjust as founded, and uh he and his Alinskyite brethren have come along and have decided that it's time for this country to get a little payback.
It's time for this country and its majority to find out just what kind of pain and suffering they have forced on people of color, for example, and other minorities, not just in this country, but around the world.
And that's why Obama constantly apologizes for America and why he's doing his best to uproot all of these great traditions, why he supports uprooting traditions, institutions that have defined the country.
So if you if you think that about Obama, and then you see one day that he wants to change faces on the bills, yeah, reflexive reaction would be gotta disagree with Obama.
I mean, you that's just a reflexive action you would take.
And you would assume that Obama, because he's a Democrat, that's the home of political correctness.
So you would just reflexively assume, if that's what you're doing, acting reflexively, uh, rather than taking each of these instances of the Obama agenda and actually thinking about them.
If you just react reflexively, of course you would assume I oppose this, I oppose what Obama's doing.
Obama's a bad guy, Obama's destroying the country, Obama's whatever, and Andrew Jackson, nothing wrong with Andrew Jackson, a great guy, is on the bill for a reason.
I that would be your reaction.
But the selection of Andrew Jackson to be on the $20 bill was always controversial.
Andrew Jackson, in addition to the story I just told you about the Trail of Tears, and uh and his it was his idea to have this massive march, Native Americans to relocate them, which 10,000 of them died, and that route they took was called the Trail of Tears because of the deaths.
In addition to that, Andrew Jackson is credited as the co-founder of the modern Democrat Party.
Would it surprise any of you to learn that Andrew Jackson hired, named as his attorney general, Roger Tanney.
Does the name ring a bell?
Roger Tanny Roger Tanney doesn't ring a bell for you?
Oh, good.
Okay.
So let me tell you about Roger Tanney.
After Andrew Jackson appointed Roger Tanney Attorney General, he then named him Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
And it was Roger Tanney, as Chief Justice, who wrote the Dred Scott decision, that essentially said that African Americans were slaves and could be owned.
The Dred Scott decision is one of the blackest marks, one of the darkest days of our history.
And there's Andrew Jackson right in the middle.
This is why his appointment has always been his picture on the bill's always been controversial.
Now he did great.
He did good things too.
Don't get the wrong idea.
I mean, even Newt cites Andrew Jackson as a as a great example of an outsider who came in and rocked the boat.
Don't get the wrong idea.
Not a total bad guy, but he's got elements of his past that are not laudatory, and that you would be hard-pressed to defend today.
Roger Tanny, it's spelled T-A-N-E-Y, Roger Tanney wrote the Dred Scott decision, which was an attempt to write slavery into the U.S. Constitution, is what it was.
And it was Justice Bork who was turned down for the Supreme Court who said the right to slavery is nowhere to be found in the Constitution.
Roger Tanney, Andrew Jackson's attorney general and chief justice of the Supreme Court thought that it should be.
Harriet Tubman was a Republican.
She was a big proponent of gun rights, and she ran the Underground Railroad.
She and was involved in the women's suffrage movement, which of course led to the right to vote.
And she is the name replaced or named to replace Andrew Jackson as a racial component here.
If you're just reflexively reacting to this, you've got political correctness and you've got a you got a racial component.
And so it if if all anybody's going to do is reflexively, as I say, just reaction to this rather than then it'd be easy to think it's politically correct, and then it really when you see Obama doing it, you want to take a white guy off the bill, put a black babe on the bill.
Oh.
And I I don't know where I don't know where Trump comes down on this.
But he well, I do know where he comes down on it.
He's he said that it's it's he doesn't like it.
Um he thinks it's pure political correctness to remove Andrew Jackson.
I'm sure he thinks that because who's doing it?
Obama and the Democrats.
So it's it's uh I don't know.
I think it's revelatory myself.
I think it's extremely revealing.
And I'm always what's the word, not fascinated.
But it's it's always interesting to me to discover what people know and what they don't know, what they've learned and haven't learned, because it it will help you a lot in uh making judgments on if they say they want to represent you as an elected official at uh at any level.
But but Andrew Jackson, one of the reasons that Newt cites him in a favorable way is that Andrew Jackson was the first populist president.
Now, I don't want to taint Andrew Jackson any more than they already have, but there are historians have studied Andrew Jackson who say that Elizabeth Warren sounds exactly like it.
Now remember, he's the founder of the modern day Democrat Party.
Andrew Jackson.
He was a war hero.
Um so you if it weren't for him, we'd all be speaking um Brit English.
But there's still these aspects to him that explain why something like this might be uh might be might be happening.
Now, other people have said leave Jackson alone and create a new bill, like a $25 bill.
I think that was Greta Van Sestran suggested $25 bill and uh put Harriet Tubman on that.
And uh Reverend Carr Dr. Carson, Ben Carson suggested putting around the $2 bill.
Well, nobody uses a $2 bill.
Do you even have you when's the last time you saw a $2 bill?
You have one?
Yeah.
That's my point.
It's in a drawer somewhere.
Quick timeout.
We'll come back.
Let's look at the phone roster here.
But grab a couple of phones and another I'm gonna delve into this LGBT thing.
Because this is another one today that that Trump uh I just wonder if if his supporters care, surprised, not surprised, shocked.
I uh that's what I'm curious about.
He said that he wants to raise taxes on the rich before.
And he's he's said that that he's gonna deport them, but they come back legally.
He's said that before.
But his support for LGBT, this is new.
Quick time out.
Don't go away.
Mark in Detroit, as we start on the phones, great to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Thank you, Ross.
Um I just have a question about the bathroom situation.
Mm-hmm.
Why, if we can let anybody in to any bathroom now, why do we have separate bathrooms for male and female?
Are we gonna go to just one common?
Where are we going with this?
You you being facetious, rhetorical, or do you actually expect an answer to this?
I'm being a little facetious because I think it's kind of ridiculous what they're doing.
You see, it is.
But you we have to ask ourselves, how did we get here?
See, this is what is fast.
We have, and I'm I'm gonna get into this in detail as the monologue segment of the next hour.
But you don't have to go back very many years.
One year, maybe two years, and the very idea of this would have been overwhelmingly rejected, laughed at, or angrily opposed by 95% of the population.
It wouldn't have stood a chance.
The The very idea that we have men's and women's restrooms for a reason.
And we've always just like we've always had marriage, and it's always been defined as a specific thing for reasons.
And they're time honored and time-tested reasons, and they were not the result of people who had power lauding that over other people.
These are processes and behavioral patterns that established over the millennia as proper, just, moral, correct, sensible, you name it.
Now all of a sudden, that gets thrown out, and it's all up to how somebody feels about themselves at a particular moment in time as to which bathroom they want to use and with who.
So if you want to use, I'm assume you're 35, 40, just doesn't matter, and you're on a playground somewhere, and you see a five-year-old girl and you want to take her to the bathroom, we're not supposed to say a word about that today.
Because that you're exercising your freedom of choice.
You're presenting and feeling like a woman that day, so that's none of our business.
And we're not supposed to say anything.
So states, this is outrageous.
This is ridiculous, and they have written legislation to stop it.
And lo and behold, major institutions in corporate America are now promising and threatening boycotts to pull out of these states.
And the people writing this legislation being called bigots and sexists and racists.
How in the hell did this happen?
We're not, when things like this happen, we're not in the middle of culture war.
This is the sign we have lost it.
We are losing it.
So your simple question, why did we have men's rooms and ladies' rooms?
Why haven't we always had unisex from the beginning?
Well, the answers to that have to be that we had a patriarchal society that discriminated against women, or whatever convoluted answer they would come up with.
But the key to understanding this, folks, in my humble estimation, is that it's not about right versus wrong anymore.
It can't be, or we wouldn't be losing these things.
Right versus wrong.
The left has been clever in eliminating that versus wrong as a determinant in behavior.
And what it's been replaced by is us versus them.
Us versus them.
And the us are the oppressed grievance-filled minorities who feel like they have been denied liberty, freedom, whatever they think they've been denied by these evil majorities.
We are the them.
And that's the battle now.
But we don't know that.
We still think it's right and wrong.
So we're sitting here incredulous that all this behavior, anybody in normal person would say it's wrong.
It's not being looked at that way by the leftist culture warriors.
This is us versus them, and they are winning.
And it's payback, it's a whole bunch of stuff.
More on this when we get back.
Don't go.
All I can tell you is is that agreeing with and supporting LGBT, use whatever bathroom you want, that is political correctness.
That's not opposing it.
That is supporting it.
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