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April 5, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 5, 2012, Thursday, Hour #2
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Hi folks and welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence at Broadcasting Network.
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And the Justice Department got their homework assignment in on time to Judge Smith at the Fifth Circuit Court in Houston.
He demanded a three-page single-paged letter.
And that really ticked off the left that this judge would essentially issue a homework assignment to the Department of Justice.
What really ticked off the left was that the government lawyer acknowledged, oh yeah, Judge, there's judicial review, and we accept that.
And the judge, the left says, should have accepted that.
Instead, he issued this order that the department itself issue him a three-page single-spaced letter memo explaining their understanding of judicial review.
And it is three pages long.
And it is single-spaced.
And it was signed by Eric the Red himself.
Eric Holder.
And in a nutshell, the Attorney General, Eric the Red claims that the Department of Justice supports judicial review, and that Obama's call comment shows that uh he did too.
That's what it says.
That's when you boil it down.
Which of course is untrue.
Obama did the exact opposite.
Holder says that laws passed by Congress are presump are uh I've never heard of this word, presumatively constitutional.
Laws passed by Congress are presumatively constitutional, even though Holder's own DOJ is fighting the constitutionality of the of the Defense of Marriage Act as we speak.
This is one of the ironies of this.
While Obama's out there saying that courts never overturn their heart, they're asking the court to overturn DOMA.
Even though DOMA was passed by Congress, a duly elected uh Congress, duly uh constituted bill, whatever.
But both uh Obama and Holder have pronounced it to be unconstitutional.
There's a story uh here today, Reuters White House in damage control over Obama's Supreme Court remarks.
Not in any damage control.
He said exactly what he intended to say.
There's no damage control going on.
That's the illusion.
They want you to think that there's damage control going.
That's exactly what Obama meant to say.
And we touched on this yesterday, but it it is so truly hilarious, might be worth going into a little bit more detail because at the very least it shows.
Obama's ignorance and arrogance.
Yesterday, the White House spokes kid, Jay Kearney, said that Obama merely made an unremarkable observation about 80 years of Supreme Court history.
Which is remarkably clueless even for the Kearney kid.
Obama's so-called observation was inaccurate in every aspect.
If it was so unremarkable, why are so many people remarking on it?
Including Obama.
Why do we have this story about damage control?
Obama was campaigning when he made this statement, and he was campaigning to the stupid.
But we may have people listening today that weren't yesterday.
This whole thing, Obama has decided that he's going to get re-elected on the stupid.
What he basically was saying was, these guys on the court are going to take away your health care.
And they're not allowed to do that, but they're gonna do it.
They want to take away your health care.
And they better not.
They better understand.
I'm warning them.
It no mystery what Obama was doing, and this idea that he's in damage control is just is laughable.
Well, I don't assume the stupid are listening here, snurdly uh snurly Wants to know if the stupid enough stupid are smart enough to know I'm talking about them.
I don't assume the stupid are listening.
That I'm well, I don't know.
Well, maybe the stupid will hear about it, but then the question is, will they be smart enough to know that I'm talking about them?
It's sort of like when you ban the ugly and you say make it voluntary.
Then the question becomes, do the ugly know they're ugly.
There's no scientific data on that.
Do the stupid know that they're stupid?
Probably not, by definition.
The stupid think everybody else is stupid, but they're smart enough to know that Obama's looking out for him, not Bill O'Reilly.
They think Obama's looking out for him.
And so here's Obama telling them essentially that the court doesn't have the right to take away their health care, but they're thinking of doing it.
That's what he's telling them.
No damage control here.
What they're trying to do is structure this so that Obama doesn't have to take it back.
It's a campaign statement.
That's all that's going on here is an attempt to massage this.
Now let's move on to no, I haven't forgotten CNN stuff, but this just happened.
We'll get to that here in just a second.
There was a story in a politico today, uh Jeffrey Tubin, CNN, judges deranged by hatred.
After accusing a federal appellate court panel of having a hissy fit about Obama, outspoken CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Tubin said today that the order requiring the president to explain his beliefs about judicial review was a disgrace, and he called some Republican judges deranged by their hatred for the president.
I think these judges have done as a disgrace, Tubin said on CNN.
What President Obama said was entirely appropriate.
There's nothing wrong and nothing controversial.
He said, I signed a law that was passed by a democratically elected Congress, and I think it's constitutional.
Then these judges gave the if he had if that's all he's who are we kidding here.
So Tubin has decided that he too wants his audience to be comprised of the stupid.
Which may well be the case in CNN.
But I Snert, this none of the he's still asking me, are you sure there are no stupid if the stupid come to this show, they don't stay stupid long.
They either leave or they become smart.
By definition, the stupid don't listen here.
One of two things happens.
The stupid tune in, don't understand it, and leave and go back to uh e-entertainment TV, or try to find Snooky reruns, or they get smart.
Pure and simple.
Now this.
Mr. Tubin, let me see if I can help you understand something.
Because you people on the left, by virtue of your reaction to some of the questioning and questioning and the oral arguments, you really, Mr. Tubin, you don't understand constitutionalists.
You don't understand people who love the Constitution.
You don't understand conservatism.
You don't understand conservatives.
You don't understand the concept of limited government at all.
Let me try to explain to you what might be going on here.
Mr. Tubin, you have, in the case of Judge Smith, I don't know him.
I'm assuming that Judge Smith loves the Constitution.
I think Judge Smith loves the Constitution far more than he hates anybody.
Why is it that every time that there is a political dispute, you people on the left have to assign hate to it?
And automatically you exempt yourselves.
You are the haters.
You are the people that have this barely controllable rage coursing through your veins.
Not us.
Mr. Tubin, what's happening here?
There is a battle for this country going on.
This is not insignificant stuff, and it's not a laughing matter.
When the president of the United States makes it plain that he doesn't think the court has the right to find his bill unconstitutional.
That matters to a Sitting judge.
You think the judge did this for political reasons?
The judge did this to embarrass Obama.
The judge did this because of what the President of the United States said.
And it's about time somebody asked this guy, who are you and what do you really believe?
And that's what the judge was doing.
Mr. Tubin, there are some of us who are really worried about losing our country.
There are some of us to whom none of this is a game.
There are some of us who look at life through a prism other than will it help Obama get re-elected.
There's some of us who look at these events as being life changing changing, nation-changing, and in some cases unrecoverable.
This judge is not deranged by hatred.
If anything, the judge has a love of the Constitution and wants to see that it's upheld and he doesn't want it trampled on the highest executive officer in the land.
But if the president wants to sound as though he's ignorant, which he did, if he wants to sound like he doesn't know what he's talking about, it's perfectly within this judge's purview to find out.
If we have a president who knows what he's talking about.
when it comes to the actions of the courts.
And whatever Obama's motivation was, when he came out and warned the court, and when he told them that it's unprecedented to overturn laws that have been duly constituted or passed by a duly constituted by...
That sounds like he doesn't know what he's talking about, Mr. Tubin.
And that's frightfully dangerous.
So anyway, the letter has been uh turned over to the judge by Eric the Red.
And once again, said, hey, um the DOJ supports judicial review.
Obama's comments show that he did too.
Um we believe that laws passed by Congress are presumably constitutional.
That's it.
We're fine, everything's cool.
But they're deranged out there.
Judges deranged by hatred.
What these judges have done is a disgrace.
To give these the judges give the Justice Department of homework as I'm a three-page letter, single space explaining what the president said.
There are people that want to know, Mr. Tubin, who this man really is.
There are people who want to know exactly what his intentions are.
There are those people.
Mr. Tubin, a love the country.
They are not consumed with hatred.
Okay, we'll take a brief time out.
We'll come back on the CNN audio and then your telephone calls.
All coming right after this.
We're back.
800-282-2882, Rush Lin bought talent on lawn from God Mitch McConnell.
The Republican leader in the Senate today has blasted Obama, telling him to back off the Supreme Court.
Back off these comments.
The President crossed a dangerous line this week, McConnell said to the Lexington, Kentucky Rotary Club.
And anybody who cares about liberty needs to call him out on it.
The independence of the court must be defended.
So McConnell was at the Lexington Rotary Club and launched on Obama.
Now, one thing about this um.
Well, I can't see it anymore.
Never mind.
Let's let's go to the CNN piece.
The uh audio.
I want to get into the the I'm not I'm not through with the racial component here, this Trayvon Martin.
That the whole aspect of this being racial is repulsive.
It need not have ever been.
It was instituted, introduced by the media.
It's all fallen apart now.
And I want to I want to expand on that, but I've been talking about the CNN stuff long enough.
Let me let me let me get to this here.
We're gonna start with uh Wolf Blitzer.
This was last night on Anderson Cooper 10.
Wolf Blitzer filling in for Anderson Cooper, who was at the nail salon.
And during a discussion about the newly enhanced audio for the 9-11 call, Blitzer and Jeffrey Tubin had this exchange.
It's a major issue as far as the Justice Department is concerned, that word, whether it was a a bad word or simply saying it was cold, uh effing cold, because the Justice Department presumably wouldn't get involved in a civil rights case if the word is cold.
The only way the federal government has jurisdiction over this homicide is if they can prove there was some sort of racial hostility at the core of it.
This is obviously very important.
It's not the only piece of evidence in the case.
The Justice Department presumably will investigate every aspect of this, but certainly if the word is cold, not C-O-O-N, that is highly relevant.
Really?
Really?
So the original reporter here, the original hearing of the tape, it's not like he's an effing uh the raccoon.
But now if the words cold, why why there's no racial component?
Oh no.
Oh no, that means the feds can't get involved.
Oh no!
It also means a whole premise under which this was reported was wrong.
So then on Anderson Cooper 10, they played a portion of correspondent Gary Tuckman's report where he played an isolated part of the 9-11 call from Zimmerman to the cops.
The night Trayvon Martin was shot, believing it showed Zimmerman saying a racial slur.
Here's Gary Tuckman.
Rick, can we play just that second word what we think the second word is and hear if that sounds any different?
Okay.
I mean, it certainly sounds like that word to me, although you just can't be sure.
That sounds even more like the word than using it when it was within a word before that.
Right, right.
Well, uh last night CNN enhance the audio.
Like NBC revisited their purposely doctrine tape, and like ABC, enhance their video.
CNN enhanced the audio, and they now conclude that Zimmerman was merely saying the word cold.
Let's play it a few times.
Now it does sound less like that racial slur last time.
I acknowledge possibility it could have been that slur from listening in this room, and this is state-of-the-art room.
It doesn't sound like that slur anymore.
It sounds like, and we wanted to leave it up to the viewer, but it sounds like we're hearing the swear word at first, and the word cold.
And the reason some say that would be relevant is because it was unseasonably cold in Florida that night and raining.
Oh, give.
And some say this would be relevant.
The reason some people are saying it'd be relevant because you might have gotten it wrong.
It's a big difference if the words cold instead of the other one, because then the Justice Department has no reason to get involved.
This is I I remember, and I wasn't the only one, folks.
There were a lot of people when this when the story broke.
Don't forget the Duke Lacrosse case.
Don't forget it.
We know who the media are, we know who the race hustlers are, and we know that they salivate over stories like this.
But the racial angle is repulsive no matter how you look at this.
Now look, even if Zimmerman were a clansman, he wouldn't be guilty for shooting somebody who was beating him savagely.
If Trayvon Martin were a black panther, it would still be wrong for Zimmerman to shoot him if he was not defending himself.
We are supposed to have blind justice.
It is not supposed to matter.
The racial component here is not supposed to matter.
We have a dead teenager.
We have a dead American.
We have somebody who shot him.
We still don't know the details.
All we have are a bunch of networks and race hustlers trying to create a stereotype out of this.
Going so far, the New York Times referring to Zimmerman is a Democrat, by the way, as a white Hispanic, just to create the template or the narrative or the whole stereotype, if you will.
Race is being injected into this case to enrich the race baiters, to whip up the Democrat base, to sell newspapers, to try to enhance television network audiences and to lay the groundwork for double jeopardy in case Zimmerman escapes state prosecution.
Because with race, you can claim civil rights violation, you get the feds involved here, Eric the Red and the DOJ to go in there for a second time on the same crime.
If you lose the first time you get DOJ in there on a civil rights violation.
I am still willingly naive.
In all the years that I have been on the radio, it has never occurred to me to do what NBC did.
With a piece of audio.
Just to make a point or just to further my agenda.
What good is it if it's a lie?
And had I, can you imagine?
But it never even occurs to me.
These people, not only does it occur to them, it's one of the first things they think about.
They see a story with a black teenager, and that's all it then they're off to the races.
Let's, in their mind, let's manufacture this.
Do we have an element here where we can manufacture a race hate crime out of this?
Because that's what they think this country is.
This is the real bottom line.
NBC, CNN, AB, that's what they think of America.
That's what this country is still like.
Well, the Masters started today.
I'm not going to tell you anything about the Masters.
No spoiler alerts on the Masters.
But yesterday, the annual pre-tournament press conference by the chairman of the club, Billy Pain, and he predictably got two or three questions on membership policy.
And here's the rub.
IBM is a corporate sponsor of the tournament, has been for a number of years, and the last four CEOs of IBM have been invited to join as members Augusta National.
Well, IBM just named a female CEO.
Now the news media is assuming that the IBM CEO automatically is a member of Augusta National.
Billy Pain will not confirm or deny that because they don't discuss membership policy.
So it's it's the key to understanding the story, folks, is that the media is assuming that the CEO of IBM automatically becomes a member.
I don't think there is such a thing as an automatic member at Augusta National.
But nobody knows for sure.
They don't discuss it.
But the media thinks it's automatic.
And they probably think it because IBM is a annual sponsor of the tournament.
That is not, I don't believe, and I don't, I shouldn't say I don't know, but I don't, I've never believed that memberships get parceled out that way.
That means they could be bought.
All you'd have to do is a CEO, say I'll sponsor your tournament if I can get them.
I don't never thought it worked that maybe it does.
I don't know.
I really I ought not have said that, because I really don't know.
But I do know what the media thinks.
They think it's automatic, and now there's a female CEO.
So it's Martha Burke time all over again.
When are you gonna let a woman in here?
You have the woman CEO, you're gonna deny her her rightful membership, and there are no rightful memberships.
So anyway, guess who weighed in on it today?
That's right.
Barack Obama, president of the United States has weighed in on it at the White House press briefing today.
Jay Carney, the spokes kid, was asked about this.
And uh and Carney said, well, it's obviously up to the club to decide, but Obama's personal opinion is that women should be admitted to Augusta National.
Obama believes Augusta should admit women.
We're kind of long past the time when women should be excluded from anything, said the spokes kid Jay Carney.
So back during the Martha Burke days, when Hootie Johnson was the chairman, the president didn't get involved.
Stayed out of it.
But now here's Obama, the first black president who says I think they ought to allow female members.
Be interesting to track this.
Warren.
Now Warren Buffett's a member of Augusta National, but I don't think his secretary is.
And what a slight that is.
I mean, here's Warren Buffett's secretary pays a higher tax rate than he does, and she's not a member of Augusta National, but Warren is, and furthermore, Bill Gates is a member, and he violated policy by lobbying to become a member.
You're not supposed to do that.
But he begged and they let him in.
So goes the story.
I don't really know any of this.
I ought not be talking about it.
I'm gonna take it all back.
I don't even know.
I do know that Buffett's secretary isn't a member.
That Buffett is.
So now Obama says they think they ought to have women in there.
What do you think is going to now happen?
You don't you don't.
Okay, Snerdley says he doesn't think Augusta National will fold just because Obama has uh weighed in.
Well maybe not, I don't know.
I really don't know what they're gonna do either.
But I do know that this is gonna.
You have just ignited this like a rocket with the media.
I mean every day now Billy Payne can be asked, not from a media guy, but well a president says that you should, and they can force Billy Payne into responding to Obama now.
That's what changes this.
The media, by the way, just so you know, in some places, I've read this, the media, and Billy Payne can't, I don't think he would like this.
Snurkly saying, you better shut up, or you're never gonna get I'm never not a chance.
So I'm gonna say if he's gonna make the Catholic Church pay for abortions, and if he's gonna make the Catholic Church give away birth control pills, he can certainly get women into Augusta.
There's no qu that that's he can just order it.
The Catholic Church a private organization, it was separation, church and state, isn't it?
We have religious freedom in this country, do we not?
Don't we, folks?
Well, theoretically we do, we used to, but Obama, he's gonna make the Catholic Church pay for abortions and abortifacients and birth control pills.
Certainly, after he tells the court what to do, he can tell Billy Payne what to do.
Now the story is gonna say there's a couple stories out there.
This this speculating that Paine personally is a modern guy and would love to have women in there, but the traditions of Augusta National have him shackled.
Personally, Billy Payne would like to have women in, but the traditions of this place won't permit it.
That's that's the angle that this they are mounting all kinds of pressure now on Billy.
What?
Have I ever I still don't know what where you're asking?
Have I been to where?
Spell it.
Never heard of it.
A woman only have I ever been to Oh curves, a women-only gym?
I've never gotten to Jim's period.
So I've never been to Curves.
Anyway, how far can we be from the Augusta mandate?
We have the health care mandate, we've got the birth control mandate, and pretty much we're gonna have the Augusta mandate.
And then you've got this poor, well, not poor, but you've got the the new CEO of IBM who's a woman is now being kicked around here.
And if she ends up getting in, because I do you know that she golfs but it's not a passion or passion of scuba diving the new CEO of IBM.
Well Augusta has members that don't play golf.
It's not just a golf club.
But anyway, no justice, no tease.
Okay, Charles in Franklin, Massachusetts, welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Thank you for taking my call.
Um you know law enforcement ditto is out to you sir of what you do with the tease giving the money to uh the disabled law enforcement and Marines.
Um I'm calling because my nephews go to that Starbucks school and it it is you know in Bellingham?
Yes they do.
And um it's the next town over and the old are your how old are your nephews?
Um one is thirteen and one is eight.
Okay, a thirteen and an eight year old well okay so they but do both of them go to the school?
Yes.
Okay.
Yep.
And uh my daughters don't thank God but thank oh um the reaction that they had when the parents brought this to their attention and complained was like a five year old having a tantrum.
Wait a minute I'm I'm confused.
I thought I was on the impression that the school just took it upon themselves to do this that there weren't any complaints.
Am I wrong about that?
Yeah it it came out to the parents and the parents complained and then the school in a need your typical liberal reaction um decided that there's going to be no songs at this event.
You know they they had to what happened was here's the reason year old having a tantrum.
The report from Fox Eyeball News in Boston is that however what happened that when somebody complained about God bless the USA to school we'll just say we love the USA and then that caused people to complain and then the school said the hell with it we'll just not do the song at all anymore.
Exactly and that's just Massachusetts you know we're in the meaning we're surrounded by these people and it's it's kind of like what the president did with the Supreme Court.
You know he's having a tantrum in public so that uh people will see that he's like you know trying to get his message a message across and that's what this principal did.
She said okay well you know what your eight and seven year olds aren't going to sing any songs.
It's ridiculous.
Well yeah but let me tell you something I don't believe this story that you've got some administrator or principal whoever that's uh quaking in his or her boots worried about a pending P I think you've got a secular activist in there and they're a bunch of they're like sleeper cells.
It's like it's like almost like Karl Marx they froze his sperm and they injected a bunch of women over these hundreds of years and these people have been born over these hundreds and a bunch of little Marxists in the past fifty years have been born and grown up and now infiltrated all these institutions and are doing their dirty work.
I just don't believe that they're a bunch of Nambi Pamby uh new castrati fearful for everything people trying to be politically correct.
I think we got secular activists here who are on a mission to get God out of as much of uh of this n country day-to-day activity uh traditions you name it as they can rush Limbaugh with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair it's the case all the time every day here we love fairness the EIB network here is Tyler in Los Angeles.
Tyler great to have you welcome hey Rush I've been listening to you since I was in diapers so it's nice to finally get to talk to you.
Thank you, sir very very much I appreciate that it's a great vision to say is it seems to me and I know I can't be the other one and the only one that notices this is that President Obama has waged war on every branch of the government.
So at first it was Congress because you know they're not passing the things he wants to be passed, and so he had to go through and and you know use executive order, and now it's the judiciary, and it's always been the rich, you know, Americans, which are still Americans.
So he seems to be in his election year.
I can't understand why he's waging war on all these Americans.
Let me see if I can explain this.
I th I think I have a uh a theory.
Oh, the school in Massachusetts has buckled and now the song is back in the program.
The uh it didn't take long, did it?
So secular activists at this school in Massachusetts is uh has relented for a while.
Anyway, why is Obama lashing out during an election year?
I'm gonna tell you, Tyler, my honest opinion, I think he's panicking.
I think though to kind of make all these enemies, no, no, it's who he is.
The man has, and I've I've made this point since 2007.
Obama to me is somebody who his whole life has been sheltered, shielded, never told no.
In school, his C's were turned into A's.
He's always been special.
He it is is is just he's led a charmed life in in this regard.
He is also an Alinskyite totalitarian.
He's he's the point is he gets his way.
He has always gotten his way his whole life.
He ran a campaign as a messiah.
People were simply going to kneel down.
He believes this.
He is a genuine narcissist.
The opposition is probably of this nature is the first he's encountered, and he looks at it as insolence.
He looks at it as disrespect personal.
He looks at it as how dare they.
And in that regard, he's lashing back in the hell with you.
You can't treat me this way.
You can't do this to my bill.
You can't what do you who do you think you are?
And I think you come in.
There's panic because the mysticism of 2008's gone, and it's been replaced with a record here that's embarrassing.
It's a record of utter failure, and he can't run on it.
And so he's got to have enemies.
Liberals have to have demons, Tyler.
They have to have enemies.
And his enemy will float.
One one month it's me.
The next month it's uh Supreme Court, the next month it's uh George Zimmerman.
Uh the now it's gonna be Augusta Nashad for a while.
They're gonna every day there's a new enemy or two to take the focus off his failures.
Now, I think their polling data is bad.
I I I think it is horrible.
I they I think they're in huge trouble and they know it.
And they've got people in the White House, Tyler, who've never lived in the real world a day in their lives.
They're academicians, they're theoreticians, they're professors.
I I I think that this is uh circumstance situation Obama's never found himself in before.
Not being idolized, not being uh treated almost with with idolatry by everybody.
Uh listen to Carl Rowe.
Carl Rove was on uh Greta Van Sustran last night, and she had a question.
Does the president seem concerned about the election, or does he seem confident, Carl?
What is your now remember who Rove is.
Rove is, well, you may not know Rove is a presidential expert historian.
He could dazzle you for hours with stories of presidents, details about men you would never heard before, and he wouldn't stutter or pause once.
It's amazing.
He's also a brilliant election tech tactician.
He's among the best people that do what he does.
And if anybody can accurately portray what's going on in the White House with Obama, it would be Carl Rove.
Here's let's listen to what he said.
He's nervous and he has every reason to be nervous, from his fundraising, which is underperforming dramatically, to the polls.
Look, he's the incumbent president of the United States, and look at these polls.
He's at 47, 48, 49, 46.
This generic ballot is 45 Obama, 44 generic Republican.
That is not a good place for the president to be, and he knows that that's why he's spending so much time on the campaign trail, despite the fact that's the wrong answer for the problem he changes.
If you want to be strong as president, be a strong president.
He can't.
He doesn't have a foundation of strength to stand on.
His record he can't stand on.
Plus, it's not who he is.
He's a liberal.
He needs enemies.
He'll manufacture them if they don't exist.
And he'll lash out at the court, and he'll lash out at Congress.
And he'll lash out at George Bush.
He'll lash out at predecessors left and right.
This is just uh this just who he is.
But Rove's right.
They've these numbers are not good.
And don't forget the New York Times most recent approval poll had him at 41.
That's not good.
Another exciting busy broadcast hour has come to an unfortunate finish.
Well, no, the finish wasn't unfortunate.
The fact that it's finished is unfortunate, but it really isn't because there's more.
There's always more.
We never really are finished here.
We never really stop.
We just take a breather now and then, as we now must.
But we will be back in mere moments before you know it, revved up and ready to go much more straight ahead here on the EIB network, folks.
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