Thread: Rush Limbaugh: Amnesty: End of the Line for GOP

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I'm not kidding you, folks, if they get amnesty, amnesty is Democrat Party control for a generation.



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Amnesty: End of the Line for GOP

August 19, 2014


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RUSH: I'm not kidding you, folks, if they get amnesty, amnesty is Democrat Party control for a generation. I mean, barring some unforeseen, unpredictable event, you have to conclude, educated guess, that newly arrived poor, uneducated, unskilled people equal Democrat voters, and -- (interruption) Well, I was just asked a question, "What about all the Democrat Senators who fear that kind of move?"
It's an excellent question. Democrat Senators gotta get reelected. If Obama does this amnesty thing before the election, that's gonna really tick many people off and the Democrats are not gonna be reelected. He doesn't care. I honestly believe that. I honestly believe and, look, I know how this sounds. I mean, I can imagine you, folks, hearing what I say here, and I say it matter-of-factly with great confidence and conviction because I do believe it, and I can imagine you hearing it and trying to tell somebody who doesn't listen to this show, that you think it, too, and they're gonna think you're nuts and so forth.
I understand, in a sense, that it really sounds strange to say. I firmly believe, and I've got evidence. I mean, I don't make this stuff up out of whole cloth. Barack Obama has much more on his mind than just making sure Democrats get reelected, especially now that he's not on the ballot. He doesn't have to get any new votes. If amnesty, if somehow he could get five, six million people in here, he would love to have the Republicans do it. He would love the Republicans to actually-make it happen. I mean, that would be Christmas morning for him. It is so crucial to his objective of transforming America.
Remember, he's not here to transform the Democrat Party. He's here to transform the country. If there is a blanket amnesty for five, six million, or if he does 'em all, then essentially you have a one party country. No matter what the Republicans do, they're not going to be able to compete with those numbers. Now, that of course assumes that the vast majority of these new arrivals dutifully vote Democrat. That is a major assumption that's part of this.



But the fact that some Democrats, "No, no, don't do it without Republican help. My gosh, if you do it with executive order, we're cooked." Now, I know he doesn't want that to happen, but if it comes down to his transforming the country in a major way before he leaves or Democrats reelected and holding -- see, I actually think, H.R., that he'd be perfectly happy with the Republicans owning Congress. I think he'd be perfectly happy with the Republicans gaining control of the Senate, along with the House. It would be made to order for him. They'd oppose everything he's trying to do. It would give him excuses do his executive actions, executive orders.
He could continue to portray the Republicans uncooperative, as partisan, as playing politics with everything, and the low-information crowd thinks only Republicans play politics. The Democrats, they don't do politics. They do compassion and they do big-hearted stuff. They care about people. But the Republicans, they just oppose everything. They just hate. That's the template. So if the Republicans are blocking him at every move, he's got -- in fact, I can hear him saying that he would do this to make sure to save this country from the Republican Party. I can hear him offering that as justification for his executive orders.
He's already got, what, 47% of the country who would agree with him on that, that the Republican Party poses the biggest threat to the country 'cause they don't care about people except the rich. And all they want is tax cuts for the rich. And they don't care about racism, 'cause they are racists. And they don't care about poverty, 'cause they're rich. And they don't care about people because they're mean. So if the Republicans are standing in his way everywhere he looks, why, it's made to order. So he may actually be thinking that, for his selfish purposes, Democrats losing might make it easier.
Because what if the Democrats hold the Senate and he can't get enough of them to go along with amnesty -- I'm just guessing here -- to make it look like he's got some assistance or some help here. Amnesty, as we have discussed for years on this program, is the fastest, easiest -- well, not easy, it's the path of least resistance because the Republicans are signing on to it, don't you know. I mean, they're saying so, and the Chamber of Commerce is out there demanding the Republicans go along with it. Amnesty would be, alone, enough for a political, not military, but political coup d'etat that would give the Democrats control with no serious opposition.
Modern Democrat politics is the fight between left-wing Alinskyites and even more radical left-wing Alinskyites. There is no moderate center in the Democrat Party anymore. And they don't like and they don't want any opposition. Why do you think they're trying to criminalize opposition as often as they can, such as what happened with Rick Perry, such as what they tried with Bridgegate, Chris Christie, such as the numerous recall efforts against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. And every damn one of them was rooted in supposed criminal corruption. And the list goes on and on, of examples of this.
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RUSH: Here's Elizabeth, Silver Springs, Maryland. Thank you for calling. It's great to have you here. Hi.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thank you so much for taking my call.
RUSH: You bet.
CALLER: I was just calling because I know there's one in every family, but we have a couple crazy... Actually, most of my family are crazy liberals, and even they are getting outraged by the whole illegal immigration, kids coming across the border. We just found out here. My brother and sister-in-law live in Virginia, and I live in Maryland, and something like 3,000 kids will be enrolled in the public school system.
RUSH: And you want to know what you can do?
CALLER: Well, we've called, you know, our representatives. I mean, I don't know what to do. We've done everything that I think we're supposed to do, but it's not gonna make a difference.
RUSH: You can't do anything about it because the problem is not designed to be solved at your level. This is something that shouldn't happen in the first place.
CALLER: Well --
RUSH: This has to be solved where it started, and that's at the White House. That's where. What can you do? Do you have the means to send 3,000 kids back home to wherever they're from? You don't even know where they're from. How are you gonna get 'em back? Who's got the money to do that?
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RUSH: For Elizabeth in Silver Springs, Maryland. I think we did this story one day last week about 3,000 kids that were being enrolled in Virginia, not Maryland, where she was, but it was 3,000 kids being enrolled in Virginia. The Department of Education has already issued a statement saying these kids have to be allowed to go to school. I know we did that story. I remember it like it was yesterday. They have to be permitted to go to school. There is nothing you can do about it. The federal government has told you, Elizabeth, there isn't anything you can do.
She called here. They're at their wits' end. If you missed her call, she said, like every conservative family there's always a couple crazy liberals, and she's got a couple, and even they are upset at what's happening here with this immigration business. It stands to reason that there are some liberal Democrats. See, there's a bunch of different kinds of Democrats, and the rank-and-file voting liberal Democrats are not often as strident, committed, as left-wing leadership in this country is.
I mean, most people don't even think of themselves as liberals. They're just Democrats. The other guys are Republicans, and the conservatives are the wacko Republicans. These Democrats I'm talking about, they don't think of themselves as wild, radical leftists. And, as such, they don't recognize it in people like Obama or Biden or Holder or any of the others. Which is why they react the way they do when you tell 'em they are radicals, 'cause they just see Obama as a reasonable guy. He's a Democrat, got elected, first black president. Why don't you like him, what's wrong, what's he done? Nothing wrong, he's a Democrat.
But now this is causing some of those Democrats say, "Wait a minute," cause even this makes no sense. This is a direct assault on the working man, quote, unquote, working man being the union guy. Here you have people being brought into the country specifically because they'll work dirt cheap. Who does that hurt? The Democrat working man. So she said, "What can we do about it?" Nothing, because the problem did not happen at your level. That's the problem with statism. That's why so many of us have been trying to sound the alarm for so long. This stuff's gotta be stopped at the border. Once they get here -- they have de facto amnesty now. They don't even have to be granted amnesty.
These kids coming up from Central America, they cross the border, they get sent into some rehab center there at the border where they're given a cursory exam and then they're sent out all over the country, family members, don't you know, or volunteers taking them in their homes. And then the communities are told, "You have got to enroll them." Well, they're not going back. Once all this starts ramping up, folks -- this is Jeff Sessions' point, there isn't any deportation. And that's where this is -- (interruption) oh, Elizabeth has said her brother lived in Virginia? Okay, well, all right, it makes sense then.
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Anyone with common sense ought to realize amnesty for 12+ who knows how many million illegals would be the end of the Republican Party for decades, if not forever.

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In print, probably on radio locally and no doubt on cable news, it's all the same... Everywhere you look it's identical! Same pictures of the same people. Interviews of the same people.



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RUSH: Every network -- no matter which one -- all look the same. The story is the same no matter where you go.
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You're Watching Politics, Not News

August 20, 2014


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RUSH: Here's Bill in Detroit as we head back to the phones. Welcome, sir. Great to have you here. Hello.
CALLER: Thank you. With all of the news media coverage that I've watched and read about, you know, every interview is exactly the same. The people are the same, the comments are the same. I can't believe they can't find one black person in that town that has a different opinion. It's pretty clear that they're trying to portray that there's a certain image going on here, and I think that the image is being directed. There are black people that keep them in line politically. I don't think they care what the rest of the world thinks. And even today, in looking at some of the still photographs that they've taken, and some of the reporting of it, it reminds me a lot of when they report on the Palestinians. You have the young people hiding their face and they're throwing rocks. It almost seems too scripted, and I know you talked about that quite a bit, that there's something else here --



RUSH: You are exactly right. Let me tell you what you've zoned in on, Bill, very, very adroitly. That means skillfully, for those of you in Rio Linda. There is no news. You're exactly right. You're not watching news out of Ferguson. You're watching politics in action, and you've caught it. They don't find anybody who disagrees with the myth, not one person in that town, huh?
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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, our last caller from Detroit, Bill, reminded me of something that is, once again, crucially important in analyzing, dissecting, and understanding all of this stuff that's going on. He made the point that every network -- no matter which one -- all look the same. The story is the same no matter where you go. In print, probably on radio locally and no doubt on cable news, it's all the same.
Is there not one black store owner, for example, in Ferguson that (chuckles) is not down for all this? Are there not people in Ferguson, Missouri, fed up with this and wish every would pack up and get out of town? Everywhere you look it's identical! Same pictures of the same people. Interviews of the same people. The guests migrate from network to network. The state senators, the Democrat Party officials, are all everywhere.



Everybody commenting on this is everywhere the same thing from network to network to network. It's all the same. Here's why that matters, in addition to the obvious. The obvious says, "Well, then maybe this is manufactured, scripted. Maybe there's an agenda behind this. Maybe they're not really just standing out there watching what goes on and telling us." See, that's the bottom line.
The reporters on this story are not in Ferguson watching dispassionately and then telling you and me what they see. Unh-uh. There is a myth at play here, and therefore there is an agenda, and there is an objective to be reached in this story. There is a good ending and a bad ending. There's the "right" ending and the "wrong" ending, and the right ending is where they're all slanted and headed.
In fact, that ending has already been reached! Right now it's in the stage of, "This is what should happen." No matter where you look the proper outcome has already been determined, based on the politics of the people in charge of this. The purpose of this is to advance a liberal agenda, the Democrat Party agenda, to turn out black votes for the November midterms.
Let's go to back. I want to remind you of point that I made in this discussion about the Washington Redskins name change. It's a tactic that the media and the left use. It is an attitudinal tactic. I have told you -- I've regaled you -- with stories of media people who have gone to Redskins games and Redskins practices, and how angry they've been when they encounter Redskins fans happily wearing Redskins gear; happily singing, "Hail to the Redskins."
This does not set well with the media people that have gone.
The media, in presenting the story of the name change, does so with an attitude that everybody agrees that it needs to be changed, that there's not a soul out there who supports it anymore. (translated) "Well, there might be a few, but they're kooks, don't you see? They're old-fashioned, they're racists, they're not hip. They haven't gotten with the times. They're holding on to a long-ago past that can never, ever be again!
"The real hipsters, the people in the know, the vast majority of people realize that 'Redskins' is it horribly racist, demeaning and insulting. The vast majority of Americans realize it's got to go." That's how it's covered. That's how the story's presented. Each and every liberal story is that way. Everything the media covers, the assumption is everybody agrees with them. There is no longer any debate. There is no disagreement.



There is no contrary point of view, other than those Tea Party extremists who are marginalized and put over there as racists and bigots and what have you. It's a fundamentally important technique in establishing the proper psychiatry in any movement. The objective that they seek is to make everybody who doesn't agree with them think they're in the smallest of minorities.
They have no chance of stopping whatever is on the agenda to change, and furthermore they're kooks and oddballs and weirdoes for opposing it. "The smart people," goes the thinking... The assumption has been, "All the smart people -- all of the really sophisticated, erudite, reasonable people -- know that the Redskins name has to be changed." Likewise here: "All the sophisticated, erudite, sophisticated and elite people know that this cop shot an innocent black kid.
"It happens all the time and we've had enough of it and it's gotta stop -- and if it doesn't stop, it just proves what a horrible place the United States of America remains and it's why we must engage in fundamentally transformational change." If you oppose that, you become marginalized, and the way the story is covered is to make you think that you're alone in opposing it, that everybody -- everybody, don't you know -- agrees with the leftist agenda.
Everybody supports it!
That's the tone in reporting every story. So here we have Bill in Detroit and his observation that no matter where he looks, it's all the same. The coverage is the same, the desired outcome is the same, the only outcome is the same, the only decent outcome is the same. The guests are the same; what the guests say is the same. The reporters, network to network, all say the same things. They all end up talking to the same people.
They all end up showing the same pictures, 'cause they're all like-minded. In doing so an image is created that everybody thinks this way. Everybody agrees with all this, and if you don't, you are really odd, backwards, old-fashioned, unhip, uncool, out of it, wrong, take your pick. This is exactly how it's done. This is political correctness on the march in one sense. The news has ceased being news.
The reporters on the ground in Ferguson are not standing there with notebooks and cameras and microphones and recording what happens and then trying to be the first to tell everybody. They are all trying to find things that will fit their version of the story that already exists. They are going to find people who will give evidence of proof that the myth in all this is exactly what happened.
I have... I hope I printed this out. I've got a couple of stacks here. I know I did. There's a story in all this about how the journalists have become the story, that the line of demarcation between what is news and... Here it is. Here it is. And, lo and behold, my friends, it's a Politico story!

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RUSH: You know, criminal prosecutors often say -- well, it's not often. Criminal prosecutors do say that if several people report an event exactly the same way, it proves that they have gotten together and scripted their stories. You know the old saw that the more times you tell a story, the more it changes. Like, I would tell Mr. Snerdley something. Mr. Snerdley will tell Brian. By the time Brian hears it, it's not quite the way I told it to Snerdley. Snerdley's not purposeful distorting it; it's just that he heard certain things that I say that sounded interesting, more interesting than others, or whatever, and those are the ones he emphasized. Brian does the same.



By the time Brian tells it to somebody, and that somebody tells it to somebody, it's probably gonna be much different than the story I told Mr. Snerdley. But if people in a progression of people tell the same story, detail down to detail, and it doesn't change, prosecutors tell you that it's scripted. They will tell you that people have gotten together and arranged the story and don't deviate from it. Now, if that happens to be true about, say, witnesses in a court case, why couldn't it be true of the Drive-By Media?
I used to say back in the early days of this program, if you miss this program, you miss this program. There's nowhere else you can go to hear what happened on this program. But if you missed CBS, no big deal, watch ABC. And if you missed ABC, no big deal. Watch NBC. If you missed all three of those, no sweat, turn on CNN. If you miss all four plus CNN, turn on MSNBC. If you miss all five of those, go to the newspapers. Try the New York Times. If you miss the five networks and the New York Times, go to the Washington Post, and so on. Whatever you do in the mainstream media, you'll see or hear or read the same thing. You can get it all in one outlet.
You can bet that of the three nightly newscasts every night, essentially you're gonna see the same stories, maybe in different order, but you're gonna see the same stories, and more importantly you're going to see the same treatment. And you're going to see the same stories not covered, which has become as important an item in media analysis as covering what they do cover, pointing out what they ignore.
But if you miss this program, where else are you gonna go? You gotta go to RushLimbaugh.com, the only place you can go to pick up what happened here if you miss it. So if witnesses can get together and make sure their stories don't change, why can't the Drive-Bys do it? I've always maintained, the Drive-Bys don't have to have a meeting every day, just like Obama doesn't have to send a memo to Lois Lerner to tell her to get the Tea Party. She already knows to do that because she's working for Obama. She knows what he wants.
Well, by the same token, the Drive-Bys are the Drive-Bys. They are hired because they already think a certain way. So it's trusted that they are gonna report things the way it is desired. So I appreciate the call. Bill, that's a great observation, Bill in Detroit. He hasn't seen a thing different, no matter where he goes. Now, I want to get to this story, also from The Politico, about the media becoming the story.
But let me get back to the phones first, because I need to keep a good balance here.
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Does Hillary know how bad things are going to be get? I wonder if she knew how bad this ISIS business was. I wonder if she knew that we had mounted a failed rescue effort, and I wonder what else she knows that we don't that dictates her separation.



How Far Will Democrats Separate from Obama?
RUSH: If the media have to appear to be jettisoning support for Obama, it will only be to make sure he doesn't take the agenda down with him, or to protect Hillary.
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How Far Will Democrats Separate from Obama?

August 21, 2014


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RUSH: Sean in Plymouth, Minnesota, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hey, sir. How you doing? It's a pleasure talking to you.
RUSH: Thank you very much. I'm glad you got through.
CALLER: Thank you. My point that I wanted to make was that I think that this is the beginning of the mainstream media distancing themselves from the president. I believe that their criticalness of his personal flaws are things that are gonna start happening more and more, because it's the only thing that they can really attack and not hurt the Democratic platform. In other words, they won't touch his foreign policy, they won't touch the economy, but they will touch personal flaws to try and distance themselves to get ready for 2016.
RUSH: I, myself, am inclined to agree with you. Because I, myself, a couple of weeks ago actually postulated that this might be necessary in order for them to legitimatize Hillary and to insulate her from Obama. Look, in their minds, the media, she's the next Democrat president, but before that she's gotta get the Democrat nomination. Well, she was really close to Obama. She was secretary of state.



CALLER: Right.
RUSH: I mean, she was right in there, and all of these foreign policy scandals do touch her. So the Drive-Bys have an objective and a challenge. They have got to separate Hillary from Obama. They have to. They cannot allow Hillary to be tied to this incompetence, indecision, whatever. This aimless foreign policy. One of the ways they're gonna do that is to start dissing Obama a little bit. But don't be fooled by it, Sean.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: I don't think they're ever gonna, in what you would think of throwing Obama overboard, I don't think they're ever gonna abandon the guy.
CALLER: They may abandon him, but they will not abandon his principles and they're gonna hold fast to those forever.
RUSH: Well, exactly. They'll cast him aside as: "he's not the right guy to represent us anymore. He's six years in. He's not running again. We've done our best to prop him up, but if he's not gonna help us, if he's gonna go out and do stupid things like play golf 10 minutes after an aimless speech on an American citizen being beheaded, well, there's only so much we can do." And they'll have some pretense of their own credibility that they're concerned about as well. So you may have a point.
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RUSH: I'll just go back to what our last caller said, Sean, and he's exactly right. What has to be protected above all else is the agenda, the liberal agenda. Obama will not ever be permitted to destroy that as far as the media's concerned. So if they have to appear to be jettisoning support for Obama, it will only be to make sure he doesn't take the agenda down with him, or to protect Hillary.
It's much like the media in New York after Dan Rather's career ending, fraudulent story, totally made up on the Bush National Guard business. Tom Brokaw and Jennings immediately arranged a massive, huge dinner with every journalist in the city was invited, where Rather got an award. The purpose was to make sure Rather didn't destroy the news. The media. That Rather's fall from grace did not taint all the others who practice the art of media propaganda. They had to protect that at all times, and they decided that, in order to do that, they had to circle the wagons and prop up Dan Rather.
The Democrat Party and Jimmy Carter, same thing. The worst acknowledged president ever, and the Democrats elevate him to emeritus status in order to save the party. They just can't allow their abject failures to do damage to the movement. And so don't ever think that the media's gonna throw Obama overboard. Don't ever think that throwing Obama overboard means that they're changing their names on liberalism, not at all. In fact, I think this is a good time to once again remind you of something that happened on this program, what is today? One week ago today.



I asked a question on this program just a week ago. One of the items up for discussion was Mrs. Clinton and her public criticism of Obama. She was very public in criticizing Obama's foreign policy, which led people to go ask Obama about it. And he answered by saying it was horse manure. That then led to the big party on Martha's Vineyard late last week or early this, whenever it was, at Vernon Jordan's palatial mansion, where there was gonna be a hug-in. Yes, Hillary and Bill were gonna show up, and Barack and Michelle, and they were gonna hug, and they were gonna make up, and it was all gonna be so beautiful, and it didn't happen.
Well, all of that was because Hillary started publicly criticizing Obama. And now in the interim, since then, we've had this horrible beheading of an American journalist by ISIS, and a week ago today I asked, "Is the reason Hillary is separating now, because she knows how bad it is?" She was up close, she knows much more than you and I about foreign policy and whatever errors and mistakes have been made, that she doesn't want to be anywhere near when they blow up. I do not doubt that for a minute.
So I think now, in the aftermath of the death of James Foley, the question, does Hillary know how bad things are going to be get? I wonder if she knew how bad this ISIS business was. I wonder if she knew that we had mounted a failed rescue effort, and I wonder what else she knows that we don't that dictates her separation. 'Cause I guarantee you, there's more.
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