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Aug. 11, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 11, 2011, Thursday, Hour #2
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You are listening to the most listened-to radio talk show in the country and probably the world.
A program hosted by me, Rush Limbaugh, now documented to be almost always right 99.6% of the time.
The only guy, the only guy in American media so effective they had to create an entire television network to report what I say on the radio every day.
How many other media people can say that?
That a TV network exists to report what they say or misreport what they say on the radio every day.
Happy to have you along, my friends.
We are here at 800-282-2882 and the email address lrushbo at eibnet.com.
By the way, just little closing of the loop here.
In May of 1948, Richard B. Russell, a Democrat senator from Georgia, attached an amendment to the Selective Services Bill that was then being debated in Congress.
The Russell Amendment would have granted draftees and new inductees an opportunity to choose whether or not they wanted to serve in segregated military units.
Now, Richard B. Russell was a Democrat, and he wanted to give new inductees the opportunity to decide whether or not they wanted to serve in segregated.
In other words, do you want to have to not spend any time with any blacks?
A Democrat attached an amendment to the Selective Services Bill, giving new inductees the opportunity to say, I don't want to serve with blacks.
Democrat.
And by the way, a Democrat revered to this day.
Even after President Truman's executive order, and remember, Truman executive order desegregated the Army rather than through legislation because everybody knew congressional representatives of the Solid South, the old Democrats, all white, would have stonewalled any such legislation.
And even after Truman's executive order, the Democrats still tried to make desegregation in the Army voluntary.
And this Russell, so revered, is the Russell the Senate office building is named in honor of.
And you want to know one of the first acts of the newly formed NAACP?
Sternly, as a CP, what do you think was the first, one of the first acts of the newly formed NAACP?
It was to oppose Woodrow Wilson's segregation of the U.S. government.
The NAALCP practically came into existence to oppose Democrat Woodrow Wilson's segregation of the U.S. government.
That started in 1913.
And by the way, in 1913, most of the NAALCP's leadership was Republican.
The NAACP was only incorporated in 1911.
So they're relatively a young group by national standards.
There is so much racial history in this country that is 180 degrees wrong in the way it's told, the way it's reported, and obviously the way that it is understood.
But the larger question, Chris Matthews asks, what does Rushville want to do?
Do you want to roll back all, Chris?
Let me make it very simple for you.
I want to get rid of every liberal Democrat policy which has led to or contributing to the decline of the United States of America as an economic powerhouse, as the lone, greatest. place on earth for economic opportunity.
To the extent that the liberal agenda is destroying that and has destroyed it, damn right we want to get rid of it.
What do you think Tea Party is all about?
Tea Party is about reducing the size of government, getting it out of people's lives, rejecting the notion that only government can make the right decisions for people.
We do not believe in economic justice as defined by government being in charge of economic outcomes.
We don't believe in social justice as being defined as government deciding who gets what and when and where and how and who doesn't get what.
We don't believe in that.
Self-reliance, rugged individualism, self-interest, raising, lifting all boats.
So yeah, short answer to your question is get rid of it.
And we opposed you guys every chance we got.
And if it hadn't been for Republicans, there would not have been a Civil Rights Act in 1964.
A greater percentage of Republicans supported it in the U.S. Senate than did Democrats.
Not a greater number.
Listen carefully.
Greater percentage.
Because, of course, the Democrats vastly outnumbered Republicans in the U.S. Senate back during that era.
But we don't want London to break out in this country.
Sadly, it already is.
We don't want lawlessness.
We don't want the failure, the guaranteed failure of minority populations in this country.
We want them to have every opportunity for success as anybody else does.
I mentioned J. Christian Adams has a piece, The Mob Tears.
I'd say tears.
The mob tears at the foundations of civilization in London and America.
And normally what I do, when I go through a piece, I'll highlight it.
I figure I'm not going to read the whole thing.
I mean, not everything is worth being read.
I went through this every paragraph and said, yeah, I got to read that.
Okay.
Yeah, I got to read that.
Yeah, I got to read that.
Jay Christian Adams was in the Civil Rights Division of Justice Department.
He quit when Eric Holder and the DOJ decided not to prosecute the new Black Panther Party in Philadelphia for voter intimidation.
When the Justice Department under Obama and Holder said, there is no such thing as black on white crime.
We're not going to prosecute that.
He said, well, I'm out of here.
Watching London burn, one cannot help but sense something has gone awry in the West.
London, the cradle of our law, spins toward lawlessness.
The law, the steady framework of our civilization, seems incapable of response.
And by the way, that is ever so true here as well.
Americans don't have the luxury anymore of watching the anarchy on television, assuming distance insulates us from the mob-prowling neighborhoods like Camberwell and Tottenham.
The howling rage has even come to our old West.
Hopefully time and wisdom will reveal what has fractured, but for now we are certain of some things.
We know that the house of Reeves in Croydon, South London, is a pile of ash and rubble.
This furniture business had been in the Reeves family for 141 years, surviving even Hitler's blitz.
But the mob burned it down.
I am the fifth generation to run this place, said the owner, Graham Reeves.
I have two daughters.
They would have been the sixth generation.
Reeves was a fixture in Croydon, which may have been its doom.
The mob loves to devour the fixtures of civilization.
The mob also delights in the destruction of a father's dream for his daughter.
We'll return shortly to why this may be.
We know that the mob is forcing victims to undress, to turn over family heirlooms like wedding rings.
We know the weapon of choice for the British mob, this British mob, is fire.
We now sense that the British government is hopeless.
A government that as recently as 1970 made arson in a royal dockyard a hanging offense dithers now over whether to employ water cannons against the mob.
Americans who for generations endearingly considered England a model of civility and decorum know something must have failed catastrophically, but what?
We also know now that the mob has visited America in recent days and years.
Consider the Wisconsin State Fair last week.
The 9-11 tapes reveal a nightmare.
We're outside the Wisconsin State Fair.
There's a white guy being beaten up by almost 100 black people, panicked caller cries.
They're jumping on our cars.
My mom just got attacked by a black mob.
Multiple eyewitnesses describe white fairgoers being pulled from cars and beaten by the mob.
The evidence establishes a strong presumption that race was a motivating factor in the attacks.
This is America.
Like in England, the law is also failing the victims in Wisconsin.
My wife comes home with a freaking black eye.
You guys ain't doing expletive about it, another 911 caller complains.
You need to get the expletive riot squad over there and haul them off to jail, quote unquote.
Now, we know that something similar happened in the town of California, Pennsylvania this year.
We know that Darnell Harding, a linebacker for the local college football team, and Tony White Leather, a defensive back, were charged with attacking Michael Chambers.
Chambers was an innocent bystander who had the misfortune of running into these two athletes just before Harding, the linebacker, said he was going to, quote, hit first white person he saw, unquote.
As in London, the law has failed Chambers.
Prosecutors dropped the state hate crime charges in June after they failed to subpoena the victim to give evidence for a preliminary hearing.
The Obama regime has also failed Chambers, as we shall see.
The law has failed Marty Marshall and his Akron, Ohio family on the 4th of July, 2009.
He was watching fireworks in his front yard with his wife and kids.
A mob of 30 to 50 black teenagers went onto his property and beat up Marshall, his wife, his children, and two adult male friends.
This is our world.
This is a black world.
They taunted the injured victims.
Marshall spent five nights hospitalized in critical care.
Law enforcement nowhere to be seen, to be found.
Of course, there are federal hate crime laws designed for these violent, racially motivated attacks, right?
But a law is only as good as the people enforcing it.
The Justice Department under Eric Holder has little interest in bringing hate crimes charges to protect white victims.
The corrupt dismissal of the new Black Panther voter intimidation case, which I brought, made that plain.
The criminal section of the Civil Rights Division has the responsibility to prosecute racially motivated violence.
But Mark Kapelhoff, chief of the criminal section, civil rights division, is unlikely to act if the victims are white.
He was angry that the Department of Justice enforced the law on behalf of white victims in the voting rights case of United States versus Ike Brown.
According to the sworn testimony of former voting section chief Christopher Coates, Kapelhoff complained that equal enforcement of the law to protect whites was causing problems with, quote, its relations with civil rights groups, unquote.
So he placed greater importance on political relations with civil rights groups than ending discrimination against white voters.
Though Kapelhoff, or through Kapelhoff's attitude, we gain insight into a worldview that excuses wrongdoers because of whom they victimize.
We glimpse the opening passages of a rotted storyline with tragic final chapters.
The mob thrives off of such moral equivocation.
The mob is decisive when the law is not.
To some, the mob is a symptom of disenfranchisement, urbane malaise, or institutional hurt feelings.
The mob, after all, only awoke after a questionable police shooting in London.
Excuse is all, of course.
Nothing justifies this behavior in nations built on the rule of law.
Excuses are paralyzing those with the responsibility of enforcing a law, both in England and here in the United States.
Let's return to the question of why.
Many have absolute confidence about what we are witnessing.
They can surely imagine the whispers of wormwood to a thousand patients, delighted that the mob has bypassed the gradual path toward evil.
They can imagine him basking in the heat of burning double-deckers in Peckham.
They know who delights in a father's dream for his daughter destroyed.
Others perhaps imagine Legion who admits in the Gospel of Mark, we are many before being cast into the maniacal herd of pigs by Christ, but no longer simply pigs, the maniacal herd for our times, now roams London and stalks family in Milwaukee and Akron.
Whatever has fractured, whatever has failed, we need to discover and right it.
Law, informed by a reverence for human dignity, has lifted our nation, our civilization, out of the darkness of history.
The mayhem and violence we are witnessing provides a glimpse into an uncivilized age beyond our memory before law ruled.
Sir Winston Churchill understood all of this.
He said at the University of Bristol in 1938, civilization will not last.
Freedom will not survive.
Peace will not be kept unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe.
Nobody fears law enforcement today.
That we have a president who contemptuously expelled this great man's bust from the Oval Office only increases our task.
That's Jay Christian Adams.
That's his theory on what's going on in London and here in the United States, that it's essentially lawlessness with law enforcement doing nothing about it.
I think it's far more than a lot of people are just scared to death of getting anywhere near a political analysis of this.
But of course, we're not here.
And back to the phones we go.
San Antonio, Texas.
Hi, Keith.
Thank you very much for waiting.
I appreciate your patience.
Great show today, Rush.
Well, thank you very much.
Thank you.
I, you know, just real quick about the violence in Britain and around the world, all these riots and demonstrations.
You know, people are very fed up with debts and illegitimacies, but you have to go to peaceful demonstration.
You have to spread information, use the internet, talk to your friends, but be peaceful.
You mean the way we do it here at the EIB network?
Yeah, exactly.
Well, I mean, there's great peaceful organizations.
One I know of is We Are Change.
You look up We Are Change on Google.
There's probably one in your city.
Actually, they're around the world, and they just bring up relevant topics, information out to people, and they do do some demonstrations, but it's all peaceful.
When you let it get violent, that's when you lose the message.
And I'm pretty sure that a lot of these demonstrations, there's people in there, provocateurs who are causing the actual violence when there's a relevant message.
Let me tell you something.
I'm not going to get myself in trouble here, but I'm just going to report the news.
Militant Islamists in the Middle East are sending emails to Muslims in London saying, hey, perfect opportunity, get in there and join the action.
Once this kind of stuff starts, people that believe in this kind of stuff say, hey, we can get in on the action too, and we can stay hidden because we'll never be blamed for it because it all started before we got involved.
So this stuff, a lot of people do this stuff because it works.
You think it doesn't work.
Where is law enforcement?
They won't even bring out the water cannons.
There is a proscription even against rubber bullets against people who are destroying, burning private property.
These people are being allowed essentially to do this, or they were for three nights, all because of political correctness.
And don't doubt me on this.
We can't afford to offend these minorities.
We've got to understand their rage.
There's been generations of this stuff building.
You've got this socioeconomic justification for this kind of behavior.
Well, for crying out loud, folks, our own government, our own president at one time tried to tell us that there was a justification for terrorism, poverty.
And if maybe not a justification, that we at least had to understand that there are reasons for it.
And it was up to us to do something about it.
And then we were told, well, what do you expect them to do when our number one ally in that region over there is Israel?
And they don't like Jewish people.
What do you expect them to do?
As though lawlessness, hooliganism, whatever you want to call it, in a sense, has a justification to prevail, is justified in prevailing because somehow those people are owed that.
I mean, this is this permissiveness and this unwillingness to enforce the law.
I'll never forget, I don't have enough time to develop this here, but one of the many times that I spent some social time with Lady Thatcher, I remember two consecutive nights, over, not two nights in a row, but two consecutive, she was obsessed talking about the importance of the rule of law and how fundamental it was in the establishment of the United States of America.
She, of course, loved our founding fathers because they were all Brits.
Here's the story.
It's from buddies over at the Associated Press.
Militant online forums are abuzz with calls to Muslims in Britain to launch internet campaigns in support of British rioters and to urge them to topple the British government.
Dozens of contributors on Wednesday suggested that Muslims in Britain should flood social media websites like Facebook and Twitter with slogans and writings inciting the British Utes to continue rioting.
One contributor says the rioters should adopt slogans similar to those used by Arab protesters during the uprisings in the Middle East this year, the famed Arab Spring.
The people want the killer of Mark Duggan punished is suggested, a reference to the British man whose death sparked the riots.
Another contributor says an internet media attack, very important, and that chaos is useful to militants in London.
So militant Islamists throughout the Middle East are calling for more chaos.
They say it's useful to militants, which must be why we're getting so much chaos from the regime, because it's useful.
Also, note the possibly related article here at the bottom.
It's from buddy Jacob Tapper.
ABC's Nightline, Smiley and West, poverty income inequalities in the U.S. could lead to UK-like riots.
On Nightline last night, just Jake Tapper writing, we sat down with PBS and radio talk show host Tavis Smiley and Princeton University professor Dr. Cornell West about their poverty tour.
Now, here you have two paragons of reasonableness.
Tavis Smiley and Cornell West.
And they've got, they're on their poverty tour.
And yeah, we want to roll back the war on poverty too because it's an utter failure.
I mean, look at how many trillions have been transferred since the mid-60s, a war on poverty.
And to this day, Tavis Smiley and Cornell West still have to do a poverty tour.
60, 50 years, 50 years of the war on poverty, and still two great Americans, Tavis Smiley and Cornell West, have to stop everything they're doing, go on a poverty tour, because the government's war on poverty hasn't worked.
Well, I'll read further and maybe we'll find out what you do on a poverty tour.
I don't really know either.
Since we're speaking of this, let me go further here.
I'm looking at the soundbites.
We've got to find it because we got Tavis Smiley all upset that the admin invited the White House.
Yeah, start at Soundbite 21 when we're ready.
Let's see.
Cornell West and Tavis Smiley have been very critical of President Obama, decrying what they charge is his lack of attention to the plight of the poor.
Smiley said, I know what the president's up against, but I think too often he compromises.
Too often he capitulates.
I think the Republicans know that, and I think they laugh when he's not around.
Cornell West, noting that the president has a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. in the Oval Orifice, said that Martin Luther King weeps when he sees poor and working people suffering and no fundamental focus.
Asked if the riots, I guess he means the bust weeps.
What he says here King weeps when he sees poor workers as a bust.
The bust.
I mean, you might want to investigate a miracle there.
Cornell, if that's happening, asked if the riots that we've seen in the UK could happen here because of these problems.
Tavis Smiley and Cornell West on Nightline last night.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
1% of the people owning and controlling more wealth than 90% of Americans.
That's unsustainable.
That math won't hold up long term.
There's a bubbling.
There's a restlessness.
Does this not go to exactly what I was saying yesterday?
Everybody thinks if they're under 30 and if they've been educated at all in the public schools of this country or if they've been anywhere near left-wing political activism, they have been propagandized.
They have been led to believe that everybody gets a portion of a nation's wealth, whether they do anything or not.
That's called economic justice.
Whether you work or not, you get your stuff.
I mean, that's what entitlement means.
That's what being an American means.
And especially what being a minority means because it's payback time.
And then when you don't get your stuff, when you don't do anything, you run around, you scratch your head for, well, how come I know my stuff?
And then you look around, you see everybody else has their stuff.
And then you see some people even more than their stuff, they have a business.
Now, how did they get a business?
That's not right.
That's not fair.
Where's my business?
They think a business is simply a license to print money.
Where's my corporate jet?
Where's my limousine?
How come this isn't working out the way I was promised?
They got all upset because they think they're supposed to get their stuff whether they work or not.
That's economic justice, the way they have been taught, indoctrinated, if you will.
So when you hear somebody like Cornell West or Tavis Smiley start throwing around 1% of the people owning and controlling more wealth than 90% of Americans, well, you know, the foundation of that is, wait a minute, that's not right.
Whoever is in charge of handing out the stuff and not being fair about it, they think the stuff is handed out.
And Obama's got the stash, and Obama ought to be making this somewhat more equal.
And he's not doing it.
And furthermore, there aren't any jobs out there.
Not that we really want to work, but still, is it right?
Yeah, Cornell, that's right.
Cornell didn't get tickets to the inauguration.
Tavis hadn't been invited to the White House.
And so they're on their poverty tour.
If you don't treat, this is Cornell West, if you don't treat poor and working people with dignity now, chickens are going to come home to roost later.
And it won't be about love and justice.
It'll be about revenge, hatred, and then we all go under.
Well, I simply point back to yesterday's program to explain what this means.
If you don't treat poor and working people with dignity now, meaning if you don't give them their stuff, then the chickens are going to come home to roost later.
That's London.
That's right.
America's chicken!
Exactly right.
Reverend Wright.
And Americans' chickens coming home to roost isn't going to be about love and justice.
It'll be about revenge, hatred, and then we all go under.
It is a threat.
It is a threat.
Jeremiah Ray was a threat.
Of course, it's all a threat.
If you don't come up with our stuff and get us out of poverty here, if you don't give us our economic justice, then the chickens are going to come home to roost.
The irony is that what we're seeing in Britain is the chickens of socialism, Obamanomics, Obamageddon, Barackalyps now.
That's what's coming home to roost.
Brought to us by a debt man walking.
Here's Tavis Smiley.
This is, let's see.
Nightline last night, the correspondent Jacob Jake Tapper talking to Smiley.
I guess they've got a radio show together, Smiley and West together.
And they taped this in the D.C. Central Kitchen.
And during a discussion about why they're embarking on a poverty tour of America, Tapper said there are riots in the UK that have a lot to do with disaffected youth.
Is this something that you could see ever happening here?
In a word, yes.
1% of the people owning and controlling more wealth than 90% of Americans.
That's unsustainable.
That math won't hold up long term.
There is a bubbling.
There is a restlessness.
If you don't treat poor and working people with dignity now, chickens are going to come home to roost later.
And it won't be about love and justice.
It'll be about revenge, hatred, and then we all go under.
All right, so how do you treat poor and working people with dignity now?
You give them their stuff.
I'm just asking, what does he mean by this?
He means they better get their stuff.
They better get their stuff.
If they don't get their stuff, it ain't going to be about revenge, hatred, and love.
It's not going to be.
We're all going to go under.
The poor people and the working people aren't given their dignity now.
So yesterday morning on C-SPAN, Washington Journal host Greta Brauner interviewed these two guys, Tavis Smiley, Cornell West, during a discussion about their poverty tour.
We still haven't learned what they're doing on it.
So far, the best we can figure, they're running around making threats.
They're going to wherever they were, the D.C. Central Kitchen, and they went C-SPAN.
That's some poverty tour.
Oh, my poverty tour.
I stopped by C-SPAN.
Really, is there poverty at C-SPAN?
There's a poverty honesty.
Yep, damn right.
That's why we had to go there.
All right, so they're there.
And the InfoBabe, Greta Brauner, said, have you talked to President Obama about this poverty tour?
Do you plan to go see him today while you're in Washington?
Once he got elected, and my critique of him about holding him accountable to various things didn't sit so well with him or the people around him.
He has not at this point come on my TV or radio programs one time since he's been in the White House.
It's the first president in my professional career that hasn't invited me to the White House.
Aha!
Well, now, now it's starting to come into focus here.
Cornell didn't get any tickets to the inauguration.
Tavis hadn't been invited to the White House, and voila, they're on a poverty tour.
That's not even hip-hop night.
They weren't invited on hip-hop night.
They haven't been invited on Marion McCortland night.
They haven't been invited on Stevie Wonder Night.
They haven't been invited on Michelle Obama, you know, watercress and vinaigrette night.
They haven't been invited, period.
They want their stuff, and Obama is, I mean, really dissing them.
Yeah, at least the Dalai Lama got in and out the back door.
Tavis Smiley can't get in any door.
It's bad out there.
Worse than we imagined.
So the poverty tour continued.
Where do you think they went next on their poverty tour?
MSNBC.
And we'll have that for you when we come back.
Don't go away.
Okay, Tavis Smiley and Cornell West on the first annual poverty tour, which took them to the DC food kitchen and an interview with ABC's Nightline.
Then they went to the studios of C-SPAN on their poverty tour and next ended up at the studios of MSNBC.
The only network, and that's the wrong way to put it.
Correct way to put it, I am the only media figure so effective that an entire TV network was created to report what I say on the radio every day.
What other media figure can say that?
No other media figure can say and will ever be able to say that an entire TV network exists to report what he says or she every day on the radio.
Tavis Smiley, Cornell West on their poverty tour on Morning Joe this morning.
Co-host Willie Geisa.
Tavis, you made a bit of news yesterday over on C-SPAN when you talked about some of your frustrations with the president saying this is the first regime in your career that hadn't invited you to the White House.
What would you like to see him do that he has not done in the first two and a half years?
On C-SPAN yesterday, I was specifically asked about my relationship with the president.
I've known him, been a friend, I've known for years, been a friend for years with him.
What I said was that before he became a president, he would come on my TV show and radio show regularly.
When my critique of him about not being progressive enough, trying to hold him accountable, when that critique got a little hot for him or the people around him more expressly, they won't come on the show.
It does say something.
If a right-wing brother like Bill O'Reilly can get interviews and Brother Tavis can't or Roland Martin can't, that raises questions to me.
Oh my gosh.
Oh fuck.
Oh my God.
Right-wing brother Bill O'Reilly.
Right-wing brother like Bill O'Reilly, but Brother Tavis can't or Roland Martin can't.
That raises questions for me.
The question is, what does it matter?
You're on a poverty tour.
Obama is not starving.
Neither is Michelle.
What does it matter?
Well, Cornell looks like he's starving half the time.
Tavis, no.
But anyway, speaking, speaking of Obama, this is the next soundbite in the rotation.
You got to hear this.
You know, last night, It was the Iftar dinner, the end of Ramadan, in the White House.
President Obama hosted the Iftar dinner celebrating the end of Ramadan, and this is a portion of what he said.
To you and your families, Ramadan Karim.
Like so many faiths, Islam has always been part of our American family.
In one month, we will mark the 10th anniversary of those awful attacks that brought so much pain to our hearts.
Muslim Americans were innocent passengers on those planes.
They were workers in the Twin Towers, Americans by birth and Americans by choice.
They were cooks and waiters, but also analysts and executives.
There, in the towers where they worked, they came together for daily prayers and meals at Iftar.
Muslim Americans were first responders.
On this 10th anniversary, we honor these men and women for what they are: American heroes.
Now, I know, I know, it's an Iftar dinner.
Who?
And I'm getting there.
If you just chill in there, this has been a classic day where I use people on the other side of the glass to not have microphones.
I understand it's Iftar and all that, but if you didn't, if you just landed from Mars, you would have thought, you would have thought that it was Muslims who were attacked on 9-11.
And no mention of who the hijackers were at the Iftar dinner, was there?
At least in this bite, we didn't hear it.
And also, during the Ramadan speech, Obama said we might have it.
I'll check it next.
He said there should be no them or us anymore.
Yeah, tell that to the tea party.
Another exciting, busy broadcast hour in the can and on the way over to the Limbaugh Broadcast Museum, which is up and running on a virtual basis at rushlimbaugh.com.
In the meantime, a brief time out here at the top of the hour, and we will resume where we left off, which is wherever I decide we want to pick up.
And we'll do that when we get back.
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