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April 11, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 11, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #3
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There is breaking news out there, ladies and gentlemen.
Florida Special Prosecutor Angela Corey does plan to announce as early as this afternoon that she is charging Neighborhood Watch volunteer George Zimmerman in the shooting of Trayvon Martin.
This is according to law enforcement offices, officials close to the investigation.
It was not clear what charge Zimmerman will face, but he will be charged by the special prosecutor, Angela Corey, who was appointed by the governor.
Mark Scott is appointed by the governor.
She is a state attorney here in the state of Florida.
She announced yesterday she wasn't going to take the case to the grand jury, which everybody then raced to assume it meant she was going to charge him.
Why, if you're not going to charge him, why put the bullseye on your back, Lena?
Let that go to the grand jury.
But nobody knows where Williams is to hang him, Sturdley.
Sturdley thinks that Zimmerman will be hung this way.
Nobody knows where he is.
Greetings.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and the, by the way, this is a scoop from the Washington Post.
The Washington Post is who has this.
It's their reports.
Up on Drudge now.
And just repeating, George Zimmerman to be charged in Trayvon Martin's shooting, law enforcement official says.
And the blurb is that Florida Special Prosecutor Angela Corey plans to announce as early as this afternoon that she's charging George Zimmerman in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, according to a law enforcement official close to the investigation, but it wasn't clear what Zimmerman, what charge he will face.
It isn't known.
Great to have you back, folks.
On the same day that Eric Holder goes to the National Action Network and praises Al Sharpton for his great work promoting peace and understanding in the community.
And the Attorney General referred to the peacekeepers at the Department of Justice who are also investigating this travesty of justice in Sanford, Florida.
By the way, from a story here from our local NBC Eyeball News affiliate, community activist Michelle Williams has been going non-stop talking or just texting on the phone.
The hectic day follows the release of audio where Michelle Williams is heard talking about the Trayvon Martin case.
She can be heard saying, quote, let me tell you something.
The things that is about to happen to these honkies, these crackers, these pigs, these pink people, these bleep people, it has been long overdue, close quote.
Michelle Williams is the chief of staff with a local chapter, the New Black Panther Party, and as a community organizer, she has also worked very closely with both the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office as well as the Tampa Police Department.
Whoever did this report for the local NBC affiliate Channel 5 said, I have interviewed Michelle in the past on community issues, and truth be told, was shocked to hear such harsh words coming from her.
So I asked to sit down with her, give her the opportunity to respond.
She would not deny that it was her on the recording, and she did say what I had heard, what is now all over the radio and internet, is just a short part of a much longer dialogue where her anger was building over the issue.
She explained further with tears in her eyes, I'm angry right now.
I'm angry that we don't have a Justice Department that says we need to change laws.
I'm angry we have a Florida governor.
It's not made any real statements about this judicial system.
I'm tired.
I'm tired.
It's not me.
It's not my demeanor.
It's not who I really am for something so heart-wrenching that I'm watching unfold.
I have a 17-year-old son.
That could have been my son.
So again, I repeat, let me tell you something.
These things that is about to happen to these honkies, these crackers, these pigs, these pink people, these bleep people, it's been long overdue.
She's the chief of staff with a local chapter, the New Black Panther Party, and the local NBC reporters, oh, she's been sweet as pie every time I've ever talked to her.
She says, sweetness and light.
I don't know this side of Michelle.
Really, you're shocked that somebody with a new Black Panther Party would speak this way.
Anyway, so that's that.
And as information pours in, we will then pour it back out for you.
By the way, the parents of Trayvon Martin were just on MSNBC after speaking at Sharpton's National Action Network conference, and they called for everybody to respond peacefully to the special prosecutor's announcement.
Let's everybody just be peaceful about this.
So if you're just joining, if you are a welfare recipient, the kind of person Governor Christie was talking about yesterday, you're just now getting up and turning on the radio.
The Washington Post says that the special prosecutor, Angela Corey, in Florida, will charge George Zimmerman in the death of Trayvon Martin.
But we don't know what the charge will be.
Don't know the nature of the charge.
Grab audio soundbite.
Where is it?
15.
We played the two soundbites of the lawyer for George Zimmerman, who's now withdrawn, who has pulled out Craig Saunders.
So we can't find Zimmerman to know where he is.
We're no longer his lawyers until he calls us.
Dershowitz from Harvard Law was on Piers Morgan tonight last night on CNN.
And Piers Morgan said, what was your view as a lawyer?
What went down today?
These lawyers for Zimmerman basically pulling out.
I was very upset and very disturbed as a criminal defense lawyer and as somebody who teaches professional responsibility to students.
The lawyers can't say that we can't reach him.
We don't know where he is.
He may or may not be available.
He can't say that he called the prosecution.
All of these things are covered either by lawyer client privilege or by the secrets that lawyers are supposed to keep of their clients.
And there's just no reason why these lawyers should have appeared on television, held press conferences, and disclosed all of this information.
All they had to do was quietly say, we're no longer representing the defendant.
Our role in the case is over.
All right.
Doesn't mean much, but still, that's the view from Harvard Law on the attorneys for George Zimmerman.
But again, nobody knows who Zimmerman is.
The lawyers don't know where they say they don't know where he is.
They probably don't.
The Trayvon Martin family and the new Black Panthers are worried that Zimmerman has fled the country.
They are worried he will never be found.
They are worried that he will never be found and therefore he will never face justice.
It won't happen.
That's what their big fear is.
Somebody has helped George Zimmerman to flee the country.
Now, if he fled the country, where would he go, Snerdley?
Where do you think he would go?
Okay, somewhere where white Hispanics could blend in.
Well, that would be Brazil.
And Brazil also does not have an extradition treaty with the United States.
Plus a lot of hot supermodels come from Brazil.
Not that that would matter in this instance, but they do.
And so it could well be that that's where Zimmerman would go.
If he's left, nobody knows where he is.
did you ask me why would he leave that's right That's right.
Why would he leave?
Just has a new Black Panther Party bounty on his head, a wanted dead or alive poster out there that the peacekeepers, the Department of Justice have not seen fit to condemn.
A lot of people, a lot of people calling for riots if he's not arrested.
Michelle Williams from the new Black Panther Party, basically talking of what's going to happen to the pink people.
That's right.
Obama said, yeah, yeah.
If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon, simply saying, my son would have been killed.
Yeah, I guess Zimmerman might, it might have occurred to him that he's not safe.
You never know.
But hey, folks, you don't know this because this is radio and you're going to have to trust me.
But we've got something that never happens here going on here today.
Well, not never, but it's never happened to this degree.
Long time ago, last year, we had a giant promotion for 2IFBT.com.
And we had as a grand prize the opportunity to come visit the EIB network for a day and a half and to watch the program take place, stay in a wonderful hotel, have dinner and so forth, have lunch here at the studio, meet the staff, be entertained by everybody.
And they are here.
Today is the day they are all here.
And you ought to see them.
They are standing back there in rapt attention.
They look like the Stefford wives.
Their mouths have been open for three hours.
They can't believe where they are.
They can't believe how much fun they're having.
They can't believe how awesome all this is.
Actually, the truth is that I met them all right before about 10 to noon before the program started.
They got in here this morning around, what time did you guys get?
Was it 10.30 or 11 o'clock, somewhere around there, for the tour and a number of other things.
And I ran into them right before they were scheduled to eat lunch.
And you know what they want to talk about?
They wanted to talk about the golf channel.
They wanted to talk about Hank Haney and whether or not I retained it.
Here are these one chance to ask any political question whatsoever.
And I got peppered with questions about Hank Haney, which is fine.
Anyway, it's great to have you all here.
Everybody's there.
When you look at these are the people that make the country work.
That is what's so heartwarming for it.
It always has been for me about the audience, all of you who listen to this program.
Backbone of the country, the people who literally make it work.
Without all of you, this program wouldn't exist and it wouldn't survive.
And I don't know how to thank you all ever.
It's not possible to express the level of gratitude that I have.
So we've got further giant, big, two if-by-t promotions coming up, other sweepstakes opportunities.
Some winners went to Hawaii.
These eight people are here watching the program and they all have their own director's chairs.
And they're listening to Snerdley's screen calls and argue with callers.
Is he being nice to just nod your head?
Oh, no.
You haven't seen the real Snerdley.
He's being nice to callers today?
Oh, you've got to give them the real...
For the last half hour, you've got to be who you really are on the phones.
Bo, you can't just sit there and that's not the point.
We don't fake it and be nice here when we're not.
Take the gloves off.
Tell these callers what you really think of them.
Anyway, they're all here, and we're taking them to dinner tonight.
And then we'll be very sad when tomorrow comes and they have to depart for home.
But it is great to have you all here.
And it's different having a live audience here watching all this.
They can hear everything that goes on, and they get to see.
And I've always said that radio is radio for a reason.
It's not to be seen, it's to be heard to fully appreciate it.
But this one is different.
This show, it is the interaction that takes place and all that happens watching it is a big bonus.
But we're ecstatic to have you all here.
We thank you for entering the big sweepstakes.
Congratulate you for winning.
And who knows?
You may end up coming back someday.
We've got to take a brief time out now.
We'll be back and continue in your moments after this.
Don't go away.
You want to hear that?
Time magazine just tweeted the following.
Time magazine, here's the tweet.
George Zimmerman had more leeway to shoot Trayvon Martin than a U.S. soldier has to shoot insurgents.
Now, what does that mean?
George Zimmerman had more leeway to shoot Trayvon Martin than a U.S. soldier has to shoot him.
The only thing I can...
Now, this is not what Time's saying.
Time is being purely political and snarky here.
But what it probably means is that the rules of engagement, and we've going to give medals for courageous restraint in Afghanistan, where our soldiers purposely didn't pull the trigger against the enemy.
If there was the slightest possibility a civilian casualty would occur.
And they were thinking of medals for this.
Courageous restraint.
And so Time magazine says, Zimmerman, so what?
America is more lawless than war?
Shooters in America have more leeway than soldiers in a war.
And what is the implication?
What a rotten country we are.
I mean, that's the natural inference for me, given the tweet.
Rich in White Plains, New York.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Ruth, thanks for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
I just watched Martha McCallum interviewing Mitt Romney on the Fox News channel, and she was hammering him on his bad poll numbers with women.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, just a second.
Wait, just Martha was doing Martha's on from 9 to 11 in the morning.
Are you just watching her?
Well, I saw her.
It didn't just.
How long ago?
Are you sure it was Martha that did that?
I'm almost positive.
Maybe she was filling in.
I know that is unusual, isn't it?
Well, because Megan Kelly is on right now.
Martha is on from 9 to 11.
Unless they made Martha work for her lunch today and they kept her on after 11.
I don't know.
Maybe I was watching a clip from earlier today.
Well, that's entirely possible.
Okay.
So Martha was haranguing Romney on the war on women?
Oh, yeah, like it was the end of the world.
She was like, oh, my God, what are you going to do?
What do you have to say?
And he couldn't bring himself to say that this is a fabricated issue that started with him, you know, back in the ABC debate four months ago.
All he did in response was to quote women's jobless numbers under the Obama administration.
Well, that's not a bad thing to do.
Well, I mean, but you've got to do it in a credible way when you try to pull that off.
It's exactly that.
That should be the focus.
That's what I, whenever this phony war on women comes up, that has to be the focus.
The war on women is Obama's.
You know what?
Wait a minute.
I might have this.
Wait just a second.
Let me.
Yep.
We have it.
Grab audio soundbite number and say, hang on there, Rich.
Number 17.
It was this morning.
So you saw a clip.
This Martha McCallum interviewing Romney.
She said, we've already heard where they're going to head with you, that you're out of touch, a rich guy.
Folks like Warren Buffett want to do the right thing, and you should also want to do the right thing, pay a little bit more, pay your fair share.
He's really trying to divert from the failure of his record, which is that he has not created jobs.
He's lost 800,000 jobs during his presidency.
And by the way, do you know what percentage of those jobs lost were lost by women?
Over 92% of the jobs lost under this president were lost by women.
His policies have been really a war on women.
And so he wants to divert from that and see if we can't find someone to attack, some scapegoat.
There's nothing wrong with that, Rich.
All she was doing, her question, basically, we've already heard what they're going to head with you, that you're out of touch.
She was basically asking, are you prepared for what they're going to say?
She was not attacking him.
She was saying, here's what's coming.
Are you ready for it?
Well, you know, Rush, I think the point I'm trying to make is that is what Republican candidate is going to have the guts to point out that the drive-by medias comprise 90% liberal and that none of them.
Wait a second.
It isn't going to happen because the one thing you don't do when you run for office is complain about anything, especially the media.
He's not going to do it.
He's not going to point out how does this unfair.
He could say that this is a media creation.
This is a Democrat creation.
This phony war, but he can't complain about the media.
He did actually pretty well there.
Rich, what did you not hear that you wanted to hear?
That was a legitimate response.
Yeah, but what did you not hear that you wanted to hear?
He can't hear because of our rotten.
No.
Rich, what did you not hear that you wanted to hear?
What you said earlier in the program and what I just said.
And it's a problem.
Everybody wants me to run for office.
I can't.
You know, Rich, I understand your frustration.
And it's true of everybody in this audience.
It's true of our guests today.
They all wish that Romney was me.
Everybody wishes that Romney could be me or that Santorum could have been.
And I wish I could transfer myself to him.
But I share your frustration.
I really do.
But he did okay there.
Don't doubt me.
Maybe that's it.
Maybe what Time Magazine is saying with that idiotic tweet of theirs is that if a U.S. soldier in Iraq had shot a terrorist in the way Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin, they'd have been immediately investigated.
That's probably right.
Time magazine, probably among the legions, ticked off that there weren't immediate charges against Zimmerman and an immediate conviction and an immediate carrying out of the death sentence.
But if a soldier had done this in Iraq, why he'd been investigated and court-martialed and strung up already.
No doubt that's what Time magazine meant.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh here at the EIB Network and the distinguished and prestigious Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I go back to our last caller.
I know what he meant.
When he said to me that he wishes, like when Martha McAllamett Fox basically throws Romney a softball, okay, here's what they're going to say about the war on women and your role.
How are you going to deal with it?
You want, because it's effective.
That's why I do it, because it's effective.
What you want Romney to say, or any Republican to say, is that it's fake, that it's phony, that it is driven by the white.
You don't want them to accept the premise.
And Romney appeared to accept the premise that there is a war on women and then got defensive and pointed out the real war on women is Obama's jobs record for women that lost jobs.
All of that's true.
He did okay on that aspect of it.
And I understand that a lot of people are frustrated, but not just with Romney, I think with Republican candidates across the board, is that there seems to be a reluctance to actually criticize Obama in a truthful way.
I mean, this war on women, you all know it's contrived.
It's totally made up.
And I'm going to tell you, I'm just like you are.
Don't think I'm not.
I sit out here and I watch this crap and my blood boils.
There is so much phoniness.
There's so much, I don't even know how to describe it, lies.
It seems like the news media narrative every day is one lie, one false premise after another.
And then we see the Attorney General praising Al Sharp and holding him up as some paragon of virtue.
And you're living by the rules and you're trying to do everything the best you can.
You're trying to get your kids educated and keep them on the straight and narrow and they're away from all of the really, really problematic temptations they face every day.
And you watch perversion be rewarded.
You watch lying win.
You like, you see a literal false concept created like this war on women, which is on its surface absurd.
Republicans hate women.
It's patently absurd.
It is worthy of derision and laughter.
It doesn't deserve to be taken seriously.
It's that beneath the dignity of everybody.
Republicans are women.
Republicans have children.
Republicans have women who want jobs.
It's ridiculous to say that there's a war on women, and you want Romney to say this because you hear me so effectively say it.
And you want the issue done away with.
You want the issue tossed.
You want it effectively buried and you want it hung around Obama's neck and the whole Democrat Party's neck as an albatross.
You want them to sink with.
I hear you.
I know exactly how you feel because I feel the same way.
I'm just as frustrated by all this as you are, every bit of it.
Do you think I don't get frustrated?
I mean, you know what I'm faced with here today?
I'm not complaining.
I'm just illustrating here.
So I'm doing show prep all late last night, a show prep this morning.
I get in here and I find out that once again they're invoking Reagan and tax rates and tax cuts.
And I'm asking myself, after being on the air for 23 years, do I really have to tell everybody again that Reagan reduced tax rates from 70 to 28 percent?
That Reagan did not support tax increases for the rich.
Do I have to do?
And the answer is yes, because those people keep spreading the lie and they have the media and they're doing it in schools at all levels.
And yeah, I have to keep countering the lies because that's all they have and that's all they use and that's all they employ.
And they do have to be countered.
The frustrating thing is, why does the lie work?
Where are the American people?
At some point, when are the American people going to not need to be told that Reagan cut tax rates from 70 to 28%?
When are they going to finally figure it out?
And the point is, there are new Americans born every day.
And there are new Americans assuming adulthood.
There are new Americans going to school every day.
And therefore, there are new Americans being subjected to all this BS each and every day in school at all grades at all levels.
So I understand your frustration.
I understand feeling at your wit's end.
Now, one thing I have that most of you don't, I've got an outlet here.
I've got this microphone.
I can get it off my chest and I can try to set straight millions of people every day and then show ends and get ready for the next day.
You don't have the microphone.
You're shouting at the radio.
You're shouting in the air.
And therefore, what you want is political candidates who'll do it.
And when you don't hear them doing it, rather than accepting the premise, then you get frustrated and you call me and you ask me why.
And I have to tell you, because they're not me.
And most of them, truth be told, probably wish they were me.
But they aren't.
There's only one me, just like there's only one you.
I'm still totally on the same page with you about all this.
Not just the war on women, but virtually every aspect of the Obama campaign.
You know what I wonder about?
I sit here, I play the sound bites of Eric Holder at the National Action Network Convention, which, by the way, the last I heard, I stand to be corrected on this if I'm wrong.
The last I heard was they owed $1.9 million in back unpaid employment taxes and so forth.
And yet there's the Attorney General, the number one law enforcement official, honoring Reverend Sharpton.
I see that, listen to that, hear that, and I say, what has happened to the country?
And I ask myself, how many people watching or hearing about this don't understand what an absolute perversion it is?
That's what scares me.
I know it scares you too.
We're sitting here, we're wondering, where's the country on all this?
Because left to the devices of the mainstream media, pictures we get, stories we get, image we get every day on TV is that you and I are about 10% of the country and we are weird, extreme wackos.
And all this other stuff that is a daily perversion of the traditions and institutions that define this country, that's what's normal now.
And it's scary.
It's very scary and worrisome and troublesome.
Then the midterm elections in 2010 come along, and we find out that the vast majority of people who decided to vote don't accept any of this stuff that's passed off as the way things are each and every day.
Given a chance in 2010, it was a landslide defeat for Obama and the Democrat Party.
So then the next fear that creeps in, well, was that just a one-time thing, or is it hopefully going to happen again this election in November?
Which begets other questions.
Well, what happened to the Tea Party is it's still out there.
Don't hear about it much anymore.
The Tea Party didn't have a candidate.
We've still got what people think is a rhino, the establishment candidate.
There's all kinds of disappointment that the 2010 midterms did not produce a nominee that carry forth the message there.
And if all this aptly describes you, well, I'll just share with you my humble opinion about this.
I still think that the vast majority of people in this country are just as repulsed as you are over the same things you're repulsed about.
The vast majority is.
And I think when November comes around, I frankly, for six months, have not thought it was going to matter who the Republican nominee is.
And we go back to the archives of this program and find my saying that.
This is not something I'm constructing today, just for the sake of it.
I've always thought this election is going to be about Obama.
I have always thought we have not become a subservient, slavish, surf-born S-E-R-F socialist democracy.
We have not become that.
It is made to look as though we have, each and every day, but we haven't.
And I think all this, Obama meeting with millionaires who think they're not paying their fair share, trust me, the vast majority of American people are laughing at that just as you are.
Or they are as appalled by it as you are.
The message from this microphone has been the same for 23 years.
You aren't alone.
You are not by yourself.
I know.
How do you explain 2008?
That's not hard.
It took them eight years to gin up genuine hatred for George W. Bush and Republicans.
Took them eight years, day in and day out.
It was relentless.
It finally worked.
And then there was a confluence of events, not the least of which was named McCain.
Something as silly as the American people are tired of a president who sounds like a dumb cowboy versus this erudite, how did Schumer describe him or Biden describe him?
Clean, clean, articulate guy.
Hadn't done diddly squat, but boy, sounds smart.
They had convinced the population that the whole world hated us, that we were at risk and it was because the world hated us and so forth.
So they can still pull it off.
That's why you get worried.
I do too.
They're still very powerful, the media and so forth.
But back then, Obama was a blank slate.
He was messianic.
You could paint whatever canvas you wanted him to be and he fit the bill.
You wanted some smart, experienced, messianic guy, that outsider, never been polluted by politics, you could have him.
You want the first black president, historical reach, you have that, whatever, but now can't do that.
Now there is a record.
Now there is a record of destruction.
Now there is a record of abject poverty.
And we've got a guy, Barack Obama, and a party who believe the problem is in America, there just isn't enough to go around.
Economically, just isn't enough to go around.
Kind of like death of a salesman.
Just isn't enough to go around.
And so we have to collect it all ourselves and then distribute it ourselves and be fair about it.
Because if we just leave it to the you're on your own crowd, the smart rich people will get it by stealing from it.
It's not fair.
So, and of course, we look at this as an ever-expanding pie.
Not enough to go around.
There's plenty for everybody and more can be created with the right policies and the right motivation, the right inspiration.
And the proof is this country, we started small, look what we became.
No reason we have to stop growing.
No reason we have to stop expanding opportunity, the economic pie, GDP, whatever you want to call it.
But they look at not enough to go around.
They look at a country sefinite, inept, unjust, immoral.
And I totally understand how frustrating that is.
Just want you to know, quick timeout back after this.
Thanks to everybody being with us today.
This is already Wednesday, which I cannot believe, fastest week in media.
And special thanks to all of our special guests, contest winners and 2F by T, for watching and witnessing the program for the past three hours.
They're all applauding themselves.
I love that.
And we will see you back here tomorrow in 21 hours, folks.
Short little break.
Don't go anywhere.
We will be seeing you then.
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