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June 21, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 21, 2012, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
This is really amazing.
I've I've found an external iPhone case battery combo.
It gives me 18 hours of battery time before the iPhone battery even kicks in.
That means easily two and a half, three days without having to charge anything.
That kind of stuff excites me.
It's gonna be, folks, I can't make any promises today.
Got back from an overnight trip very, very late and into bed about 4:30.
And when that happens, I get kind of giddy and a little um well, you just never know.
So I just wanted to give you this a warning up front.
Uh and no, I'm I'm not gonna do any pre-apologies.
But just a warning up front.
We're here.
That's all that matters.
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Um we have now the official, it took a while to about 24 hours, the official Democrat Party response to the contempt citation voted by the committee yesterday against Eric Holder.
It comes from Nancy Pelosi.
This morning in Washington, this is what the former speaker said this is all about.
It's really important to note how this is connected with some of their other decisions.
It is no accident, it is no coincidence that the Attorney General of the United States is the person responsible for making sure that voter suppression does not happen in our country.
That issues that relate to the civil liberties of the American people are upheld.
That's right.
These very same people are holding in the contempt are part of a nationwide scheme to suppress the vote.
We need a new planet.
We need a new planet called stupider.
And I need to put Nancy Pelosi on it as as the as the as the mayor of the whole planet, as the governor as the evil emperor or whatever.
I've never.
You know, I I knew yesterday that they would it would take a while for these people to come up with with explanation.
Well, it's common.
Well, every president doesn't.
Well, this is just a witch hunt.
But I never dreamed, because I can't think this stupidly.
I never dreamed that the official Democrat Party response would be that the Republicans intend to cheat in the election, and Holder was gonna stop them, and so Holder has to be stopped because he was gonna stop the cheating.
That's what the mayor of the new planet stupider, Nancy Pelosi said this morning in Washington, D.C. The very same people holding Koulder in contempt are part of a nationwide scheme to suppress the vote.
I don't.
Oh Welcome to Excellence in Broadcasting.
Uh, folks, Rush Limbaugh here.
We um lot on the on the plate today.
The Supreme Court had a couple decisions today.
One of them big whoop.
Uh the FCC didn't warn Fox and CBS early enough, so the F-word was fine as it happened on TV.
The F bomb uh was inadvertent, uh the FCC didn't tell them soon enough not to do it, or what have you.
Then there was a 7-2 decision where the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals got slapped down along with the Service Employees International Union.
Now, in and of itself, it's it's not monumental.
Well, I could be wrong about that.
I some of these Supreme Court decisions, it takes a while me to digest them.
What fascinates me, let me tell you what the decision is first.
Supreme Court today ruled that unions must give non-members an immediate chance to object to unexpected fee increases or special assessments that all workers are required to pay in closed shop unions.
The SEIU argued that their once-a-year warning was sufficient.
The court said no, it's not.
The court said that unions have to give non-members an immediate chance to object to unexpected fee increase.
So if you're a non-member of a union, but you're working in a union shop, and the union decides to raise dues or whatever, they have to tell you immediately so that you can decide whether you're going to accept the new fee and pay it or not.
That's what the court just decided.
Now there's a in the story, you know, I don't want to make too big of a deal out of this, but I want to read to you from the majority opinion.
Something very, very brief.
The majority thus decides for the very first time that the First Amendment does require an opt-in system in some circumstances for union dues, the levying of a special assessment or dues increase or what have you.
Now, it's not that big a leap to think that if the court says that the first for the first time, the majority for the first time, that the First Amendment does require an opt-in system, meaning you have to be told before they can make you do this.
It's not that big a leap to think that the court is of the same opinion when it comes to health care and striking down the mandate.
So I don't know.
I'm just off the top of my fertile mind, which I'm sure in subsequent emails that I will receive in mere moments to be shot down by legal scholars.
In my fertile mind, I'm thinking this could be a tip, a tip-off, an indication.
And I'm not saying that justices intended that with the release of this opinion today.
But it's interesting, it's a 7-2 decision.
However, uh two justices wrote their own opinion because they wanted to dissent from that aspect of the uh of the decision.
Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan dissented from the opinion, but sotomyor and Ginsburg said they did not join the majority opinion that the First Amendment requires an opt-in system.
So the majority, if you if you you could say that it was 5-4 on that provision, not 7-2, because Sotomayor, the wise Latina and uh Ginsburg uh dissented from that aspect in the majority opinion.
So on the notion of an opt-in, it was 5'4, not 7-2.
Doesn't turn out that way, but I'm just telling it away if they could have voted provision by provision.
In and of itself, the decision is interesting because it slaps down the Ninth Circus and it slaps down the SEIU, who were able to simply levy increases whenever they wanted, with nobody being able to opt out of it.
And what happened was a non a non-member by the name of Diane Knox and other non-members of the SEIU wanted to object and opt out of a $12 million special assessment that the union required from its California public sector members for political campaigning.
Knox said, I don't want my money going to the way you're gonna spend it.
Now she's not a member.
She's a non-member working in a union shop.
And she didn't want to pay this special assessment.
And they said, well, you didn't opt out in time.
She said, I didn't know that I hadn't.
Well, we warned you every year that you have the opportunity.
Well, I didn't see it, I forgot about it, and it went to court, and the Supreme Court said the SCIU, you've got to tell them when you're gonna do this, and you've got to give them notice, and you gotta give them a chance to opt out of it.
That it's a it's I don't know, some might say Pelosi's office, they might call it a bitch slap.
I don't know.
But it's on the planet of stupider.
But it is pretty big in the in the sense that now the union has to tell people, non non-members, uh at least according to this decision, that if they're gonna raise dues for campaign or whatever, these non-members have it.
Have a chance.
Well, I don't know if it applies out all over the country or just in California.
I don't know what the jurisdiction is.
That's what I say.
There's always more to learn about these things.
The stuff comes out this morning in the uh with all the other show prep.
There's not enough time to delve fully into this.
That's why I want to leave it open-ended.
I and basically what happened here is that the court struck down the money laundering scheme.
Is what happened here, at least in California, the SEIU there.
The vote was 7-2.
We see that even Elena Kagan is further to the left than Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
But it's it's another, it's another blow to the DNC's fundraising mechanism.
They just can't raise money arbitrarily, special assessment, raise dues, however you want to characterize it.
For political purposes, they have to give these non-members a chance to opt out.
And that's big.
So the money laundering scheme suffers a uh a bit of a hit.
I have to laugh, folks.
I laugh at the conventional wisdom and I laugh at the smart people in the way they think inside the belt wave.
Have you heard on this on this uh contempt citation against Holder and the executive privilege thing of Obama?
Have you heard the advice Romney's gate?
You don't talk about that.
Don't go to you better stay focused on the economy, bud.
The economy's where it's don't get sidetracked.
Don't let Obama Obama and Holder pull off a brilliant scheme here.
They're going to distract everybody.
No decision on this before the election.
Don't worry about it.
They're trying to distract everybody.
I I don't doubt that Holder and Obama were praying for a major Supreme Court decision today.
I have no doubt they were praying from, I don't know how often they pray, but I and to whom, but I bet you they were praying for a giant decision today to distract everybody from this EP business.
Uh and I'll tell you something else Obama's going to need to be distracted from, or people are gonna, he's gonna want people distracted from, is it is becoming apparent as we go through his book and read David Moranis' book about his book, this guy's a fraud.
Then he's literally made up his life story.
All the important things in that book, this biography of Obama's is all about these epiphanies on the road to racial understanding and self-realization and all that gobbledygook, left-wing garbage.
And at every one of these moments where Obama, as a young child, who's a young man, as a growing adult, realizes something.
A reality strikes him, and his life is filled with greater understanding.
And he moves forward and matures.
Every one of those events is fraudulent.
made up?
There's even a headline I think it's investors' business daily.
Is the president of the United States a pathological liar?
So he's gonna want people distracted from that.
He's gonna want people distracted from the executive privilege, and but they're warning Romney, don't talk about this executive privilege, but you better stick with the economy.
He can do everything.
We got plenty of time here.
It's starting to fall apart for Obama.
You're getting getting closer and closer and closer to Jimmy Carter, too.
Almost verbatim.
But the economic news today, we aren't distracted, as you know.
We cover everything as I am America's real anchor.
Oh, did you hear about nightly news last night, all three networks, what they with ABC led with the heat wave.
Here you've got the Attorney General Hilden contempt by Congressional Committee.
You've got the regime invoking executive privilege.
For only one of two reasons.
None of them good.
ABC leads with a heat wave.
Brian Williams talked about Fast and Furious for the first time in a long time with a smirk on his face, is very disappointed.
And he just said, you know, this is just a sign of our broken politics.
That's all it was.
CBS did a little bit more than the others because they've got Cheryl Atkison who's been on the case on this, but they treated this as a ho hummer.
The networks, I told you yesterday, they're circling the wagons to defend Obama on this.
They're not interested whatsoever.
I told yesterday they were stocked, shocked and stunned.
Oh my God, executive privilege, that's death.
That's Nixon to them.
But give them time to um uh reconnoiter.
Uh put themselves back together after the big shock, and they'll start circling the wagons to uh uh construct this impenetrable wall where nobody will get inside and learn any more about this at the uh at the regime level.
Utterly, utterly predictable.
But the economic news today is not good.
You've got Bernanke saying, I'm sorry, I can't, I can't do any more for Obama's economy.
He didn't use those words, but that's what it means.
We have job openings drop 8%.
Private sector shouldering nearly all of the unemployment pain.
This is CNBC.
No, private sector's fine, I know.
Private sector's fine, hunky-dory and cool, everything's fine.
And then we've got the unemployment news, and it's revised upward again last week, the number of claims for unemployment, and we are creeping dangerously close back to the threshold of 400,000 a week.
And we've got the Fed with their revisions and their economic forecasts, and they have revised downward their prediction for economic growth.
They have revised downward, not sorry, upward their their prediction on unemployment.
It's ugly out there.
It is really, really ugly.
And Romney has outraged Obama somewhere in some state, and get I saw this story.
The drive by's reporting this story were shocked.
They couldn't believe it.
The story is Obama spending money faster than he's raising it.
No, kidding.
What would make that seem like a surprise?
This guy who has raised the national debt more than all the other previous presidents combined, trillion-dollar deficits every year, the most irresponsible chief executive in terms of spending and everything else we've ever had, and they're shocked that Obama is spending more than he's raising.
I don't know, folks.
Surrounded by idiocy.
Everywhere we go, we're surrounded by stupid people that are supposed to be smart.
And again, just to repeat, let's go back, grab Soundbite 21.
Here we have the official Democrat Party explanation for the Attorney General Eric Holder being found in contempt of Congress, well, of the committee, not the whole House yet, yesterday.
It's really important to note how this is connected with some of their other decisions.
It is no accident, it is no coincidence that the Attorney General of the United States is the person responsible for making sure that voter suppression does not happen in our country, that issues that relate to the civil liberties of the American people are upheld.
These very same people are holding in the contempt are part of a nationwide scheme to suppress the vote.
Here you have it.
That's what it's all about, folks.
Planet of stupider.
This is the same Nancy Pelosi who says she could have arrested Carl Rove any time she wanted.
But she didn't because she was responsible.
And we will be back.
U.S. manufacturing jobs.
It's not pretty.
U.S. manufacturing grew in June at its slowest pace in 11 months.
Hiring in the manufacturing sector slowed as overseas demand for U.S. products waned, a number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits a little changed.
The numbers there.
In fact, the headline from uh this uh Reuters, weekly claims lower.
All right.
But four-week average hits 2012 five.
You're not supposed to read the second half of the headline.
The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits was little changed last week, according to government data on Thursday that suggested that the labor market was struggling to regain momentum.
Really?
Initial claims for unemployment benefits slipped 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 387,000.
The prior week's figure was revised up to 389,000 from the previously reported 386,000.
It's exactly we told you last week it was going to go up by 3,000.
And I'm going to tell you something that we have we have made happen here.
This is fairly new.
I'd have to go back to the archives and check when this started.
But the news media reporting the revision from the previous week is a new thing.
They used to ignore that.
So we started harping on the fact that the announced figure every week is never right.
It's always low.
It's been low 65 of the past 66 weeks or something like that.
It's an incredible long period of time.
Now they're reporting these revisions.
And as the Fed said, they see no improvement whatsoever through next year on unemployment.
We'll be back.
I don't know how many of you are following...
The bounty situation, the New Orleans Saints and the National Football League.
But it is really getting...
It's not complicated, but it's convoluted, I guess, is the...
The league has released what they say is evidence.
Media people looking at it don't think it's that slam dunk, proving that there was a bounty program payment for serious injury being inflicted.
The league, however, is insistent, and they're not backing down from any of the penalties and player suspensions.
And then there's this.
There are fundamental changes happening in the National Football League.
And I have told you, I've been very open about the fact that I think it is not going to be long before...
Well, in fact, already happening.
There are people proposing bans on high school football now and college football.
Now they're not big and they're not from mainstream types yet, but it's gaining steam at a much faster clip than I thought.
And you've got ex-players Terry Bradshaw, the Pittsburgh Steelers, Hall of Fame Four Times Super Bowl winning quarterback, and others coming out saying they never let their kids play the game now.
It's folks, if you love football, you better enjoy it while you can because there are fundamental changes coming to this game.
and they're going to forever alter it.
If they get half of what they're trying to get here, it's not going to be the game that people have known.
And I'm, it's the most profitable sports league in the history of the country.
People are just sitting around watching this happen in a purely defensive way that has me really surprised.
I saw this story early today.
Now, keep we're talking about the National Football League.
We are talking about a sport that is regimented in ways that are similar to the military in terms of lifestyle coaching technique, practice, execution, mental preparedness.
It's not a lackadaisical sport like baseball or soccer.
It is it is very regimented for the uh for the players.
And it's being, I don't know, chickafied is not quite accurate as as to what's happening, but it's close.
In order to prevent the imposition of bounties on players who complain about bounties, the National Football League is going to create an anonymous bounty tip line.
They are looking for whistleblowers among the players who want to let the league know that their team is engaging in the practice of bounties.
They're setting up an anonymous bounty tip line.
This is the National Football League.
This is not some government agency.
This is not some.
Well, it is a private sector corporate entity, but I'm just we're football players.
The essence of alpha males, turn them into snitches now.
Whistleblowers, anonymous snitches.
In order to prevent the imposition of bounties on players who complain about bounties, the National Football League will create a vehicle for the anonymous reporting of the existence of bounties.
After Wednesday's meeting with the Commissioner Roger Goodell and Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, you know for nothing good can come of this now.
When Democrat members of the Senate are getting involved here.
After Wednesday's meeting between Goodell and Senator Dick Durbin, the commissioner announced a tip line will be created for anybody who wishes to let the league know about the existence of bounties.
Yeah, we've taken a very strong action to make sure that they're not part of sports going forward, Goodell said, and that the integrity of our game, the safety of our players is paramount, and we're going to take uh very aggressive steps to uh protect that.
Meanwhile, the players, the Saints and they're still not satisfied with the evidence that's been presented by the league that that concludes that there was a bounty program.
Now, there was.
But the evidence that's being used to suspend these guys, the players suspected, it's not all that slam dunk.
And then the second story is given the confusion regarding the NFL's evidence in the Saints bounty case, it's fitting that there's now confusion regarding the intentions of Senator Dick Durbin to investigate and combat bounties in prospoint.
Now you know that's going to fix it.
We get Senator Turbin and the Democrats getting involved to solve the bounty problem.
You know what happens when the government gets involved in things, it changes forever.
It becomes regulated and for the personal aggrandizement of the politicians.
After a short Wednesday meeting with the NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, Senator Durbin declared that the league has done enough to clean up its mess regarding bounties, prompting Durbin to abandon his plan to fire a shot across the NFL's bow via full-blown hearing on bounties.
So Goodell shut that down.
But Durbin was going to have a hearing on this stuff.
Now you see, they've had how many years they've been pursuing Roger Clemens?
Roger Clemens can't lie to Congress.
You lie to Congress about taking human growth hormone to where we're going to come after four years on a process crime perjury.
You can't lie to Eric Holder has admitted lying to Congress twice, but he doesn't call it lying.
One of the big lies was that Mu Casey, the attorney general for George W. Bush, essentially put in play Fast and Furious.
The predecessor of that program is called wide receiver.
Wide receiver, not much in common with Fast and Furious at all.
So Holder, in a moment of testimony some months ago, so I didn't even know about Fast and Furious.
The Bush administration did that.
McCasey did that.
I did learn about it for months after I was sworn in as attorney general.
So Darrell Issa in the committee said, Well, could you show us some proof?
And there was no proof, and there was no proof, and finally, we heard yesterday that Holder Rickanted changed his he lied.
And there are two instances of this.
Eric Holder lied to this committee.
There was a blatant lie in their February 4th, 2011 letter to Congress that there was no fast and furious program.
The lies that the Department of Justice has told to this congressional committee.
And by the way, my buddy Andy McCarthy made a great point.
He had a post on this yesterday.
I was flying out of town and I was reading it on the airplane.
It was National Review Online, I think is where he posted it.
Might have been at PJ Media, he posts both places.
And it was about the whole executive privilege thing.
And a lot of people are saying that the administration invoking executive privilege to protect holder.
That's Fine and look, it's executive branch, but McCarthy's point was look, do you know there was not a Department of Justice when this nation was founded?
There was no attorney general when the nation was founded.
Do you know how many years it was, Snurdly, let me ask you, how many years was it after the nation was founded, after the Constitution was ratified, before we had a Department of Justice?
One hundred years.
One hundred years until we had a Department of Justice, we had an attorney general before that, but is he was an advisor.
He was simply a legal advisor to the president.
Now, McCarthy's point is that the Congress created the Department of Justice.
And the Congress, if they wanted to tomorrow, could eliminate it.
It's not part of the Constitution.
The founders did not create it.
Congress did.
Congress has total purview of the courts.
They determine the circuits, how many courts uh they do this.
They are the elected representatives of the people.
So Andy's point, among many others was that's perfectly within Darrell Ice's purview.
Since Congress funds the Department of Justice since Congress created it.
Now they put it in the executive branch, but they created it.
There is oversight there.
Got to be very careful on all of this, though, because uh executive privilege is oftentimes invoked for perfectly good reasons.
Congress, the same token, does not have the right to ride roughshod over the administration.
There are many times that presidents have invoked executive privilege for entirely qualified reasons.
So it's not something to be universally attacked, universally assaulted.
You have to examine it case by case each time it's asserted.
Uh in this case, it's so suspicious.
And it's so obvious.
There's no national security here.
It's clear basically two things that are that are happening.
Either Holder's got to be protected or Obama does.
And if it's Obama, he's in trouble because he has said he never heard about it.
He didn't know anything about it.
Um yet he's trying to protect his involvement in it with the invoking of executive privilege.
Now, Congress doesn't have the right to run to run roughshod over the uh executive branch, but they did create the Department of Justice.
So there is some latitude here.
But I just I I find this whistleblowers in the NFL now are going to have a tip line to find if there are bounties.
We've got Senator Durbin who wanted to have hearings on bounties until he was talked out of it by the commissioner.
And we're gonna get to the, we're gonna do everything we can to get to the bottom of Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds and all these other guys, supposedly lying to Congress.
Here's the attorney general blatantly lying to Congress twice.
And allowed to recant and retract testimony.
You ever heard of anybody being able to allow to retract testimony in court, for example?
Does it ever happen when it's discovered to be perjury?
Is somebody ever allowed well, okay?
I like I'll retract that.
I I will withdraw that, or I will recant that uh that testimony.
So priorities are a little out of whack here.
We don't need Dick Durbin messing around in the NFL.
We don't need tip lines in this kind of tattletales, snitches and this kind of stuff.
Anyway, I take a quick break.
We'll come back.
Let you hear some of the media spinning on the executive privilege and holder.
When we get back, don't go away.
Jay Carney, the spokeskid for President Obama at the White House.
Just got some questions on the executive privilege and fast and furious.
And uh give who do you think he blamed for Fast and Furious?
You think Bush?
You'd have to stop to think about that very long, Sturdley.
Well, you're right.
Is uh here's Jay Carney blaming all of this on George W. Bush.
The problem of gun walking was a field-driven tactic that dated back To the previous administration, and it was this administration's attorney general who ended it.
In fact, the Justice Department has spent the past 14 months accommodating congressional investigators, including producing 7,600 pages of documents and testifying at 11 congressional hearings.
Yet, Republicans insist on moving forward with an effort that Republicans and objective legal experts have noted is purely political.
Given the economic challenges facing the country, we believe House Republicans should instead be engaged in efforts to create jobs and grow the economy rather than political theater.
They're falling apart up there.
Every line of that is bogus.
Every line of that is bogus.
Not every line, but elements of every line are bogus.
That if you want to stand by what you said, why is there executive privilege?
Why not just release these documents that show it's Bush's fault?
If your guy stopped it, if you stopped Fast and Furious, you might want to call Brian Terry's family and tell them that you stopped it.
The dead border patrol.
You call them up.
Holder called him after he'd been shamed into doing it.
But you call them, Jay.
You call them and you tell them that Fast and Furious was brought to a screeching halt by this administration.
You tell them that Bush did it.
And then release the documents.
Sounds like you got a win-win here, Jay.
You release the documents.
We see that Bush did it all, and everybody in your team's off the hook.
So why is there executive privilege, Jay?
What are you hiding?
Why is it necessary to hide the president's involvement in this if there isn't any?
The only question here is what is Obama hiding?
It's the question that needs to be asked again and again.
What's Obama hiding?
And there is something.
This is this is pathetic.
The problem of gun walking was a field-driven.
Your own attorney general walked that back.
He recanted that claim this week, Jay.
They don't care.
They literally don't care.
They're just going to go out there and say it, and they know the media is going to circle the wagons around.
This business about Republicans insist on moving forward with an effort that Republicans and objective legal experts have noted is purely political.
Given the economic challenges facing the country, we believe House Republicans instead should be engaged in efforts to create jobs.
That's Mitt Romney's job, and he's doing it.
And he's talking about it.
And they don't want that talked about.
One of the reasons for this executive privilege, I am convinced, is to distract everybody's attention from the economy.
This, however, is brought to this notion about 7600 pages of documents.
I wish I could remember where I read this yesterday.
Some former Justice Department member was talking about this.
That's peanuts.
7600 pages of documents compared to the number of documents that there are on this whole program is peanuts.
And the administration's throwing that number around like Carney just did, because it sounds big.
7600 documents.
Why?
That's not pages.
That's documents.
How many pages of a document changes document to document?
But I'm telling you, I read yesterday from some noted expert here that this is that that's peanuts.
Testifying at 11 congressional.
How many did they lie at, Jay?
How many congressional hearings did your attorney general tell a lie?
He go up there, he could testify every day as far as we're concerned, but if he lies, what's it worth?
So you've got Holder recanting his testimony that McCasey, the A.G. during Bush second term, was in charge of this.
And Kearney goes out the next day and contradicts what Holder said.
It really, it really is breathtaking.
How do you assert executive privilege for a field-driven operation?
These talking everything Jay Carney said, everything he said here was all over MSNBC yesterday.
This is just talking points that somebody's put together.
We've got to go.
Time moving rapidly, as always, fast as three hours in media.
We will be right back.
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