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July 24, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 24, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #3
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I am going nuts here.
I know I've got this story.
It's the problem when a radio show is 300 pieces of paper every day.
I know I've got it's a this this shooter in Aurora, Colorado, $26,000 federal grant.
The guy was given, it's like $2,000 a month from the federal government.
The gun club wouldn't let him in.
A bunch of other private sector institutions thought the guy was a nutcase, wouldn't let him in, but he somehow qualified as a scientist.
He got a federal grant totaling $26,000.
He used the money to buy all the stuff that he used in the shooting.
Mr. President, somehow qualified for some grant, $26,000 in total.
I've got the breakdown of it, and I can't find it, but I think I've remembered the bulk of it here.
I'll tell you, every time the, I need to hire somebody, government, to tell me how to organize my 300 piece of, doesn't matter.
They're all organized when the show starts.
And about 10 minutes later, it's a wing and a prayer.
Anyway, folks, happy to have you back.
Rush Limbaugh serving humanity simply by being here.
Telephone number.
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The email address, El Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
All right, let's go to the audio soundbites.
Let's go to number seven.
This is George Stephanopoulos.
I mentioned this at the top of the program.
This is last Friday morning on Good Morning America.
Her reporter has spoken with James Holmes' mother.
She spoke briefly with ABC News this morning.
I want to read this off my screen right here.
He reports that she had awoken unaware of the news of the shooting, had not been contacted by authorities.
She immediately expressed concern that her son may have been involved.
This is a quote.
You have the right person, she said, speaking on gut instinct.
Quote, I need to call the police.
I need to fly out to Colorado.
She had awoken unaware of news of the shooting.
They woke her up.
They called her at 5 o'clock in the morning at ABC News.
They woke her up.
And then she convicted him on ABC.
So anyway, that's how they report it.
Of course, this mother is beside herself in every which way imaginable.
So she went out and had an attorney representing the family, Lisa Damiani, read a statement from Arlene Holmes, the mother of the shooter.
I was awakened by a call from a reporter from ABC on July 20th, about 5.45 in the morning.
I did not know anything about a shooting in Aurora at that time.
He asked if I was Arlene Holmes and if my son was James Holmes, who lives in Aurora, Colorado.
I answered, yes, you have the right person.
I was referring to myself.
I asked him to tell me why he was calling, and he told me about a shooting in Aurora.
He asked for a comment.
I told him I could not comment because I did not know if the person he was talking about was my son, and I would need to find out.
So that's how the family says the call happened, according to the shooter's mother, read by a lawyer.
And when she said, you have the right person, she says she was talking about herself.
She's telling a reporter, yeah, you've got the right person, me, and so forth.
So you couple this with Brian Ross.
Well, tea party, found a leakage, Holmes, tea party.
Yep, there you go.
I've heard a lot of people talking about this, by the way, folks.
I've been somewhat amused and amazed as I've listened to people attempt to excuse it, explain it.
I've heard people say, well, you know, Brian Ross, he's a great reporter.
He's a great investigative reporter.
He just, you know why he jumped a gun in there?
That's what it is being an investigative reporter.
You want to be first.
You wanted to get in.
That's not an excuse.
If you're an investigative reporter, if that's going to be your moniker or title, you've got, I would think, a standard that would apply to you as an investigative journalist.
And that would be to investigate.
So what did he do?
Did he go to Tea Party websites in Colorado and try to find this guy's name?
If he did that, why?
What made Brian Ross think Tea Party?
As I said yesterday, can any of you cite for me an example where there has been violence, shooting, murder, rape, mayhem at a Tea Party gathering?
Oh, wait, there is one.
Yes, it was in St. Louis at one of the children of the widow Carnahan where the black conservative got beat up by the SEIU guys.
That's right.
So the violence at that Tea Party group happened when Obama's union thugs came in and beat up a black conservative.
Right.
Okay.
It's Occupy Wall Street where you hear about rape and violence and pestilence and filth and pigsties.
So why would Brian Ross think Tea Party?
He's a great reporter.
He just made a mistake.
Great reporter.
It's a hack for crying out.
If you're thinking Tea Party, you are hoping, you are wanting there to be a linkage here.
There's no question these people in the media have a bias against the Tea Party.
They want to do anything they can to discredit the Tea Party because they don't understand you and they're afraid of you.
And they know they don't control you.
They know they can't mind control you.
They can't bend and shape you to do what they want you to do.
You represent a threat to them, so you have to be discredited.
Your character has to be impugned, and that's all that was.
And now a similar example with Stephanopoulos calling this mother.
He's not a journalist either.
He's a political consultant.
He's a war room provocateur with James Carville.
George Stephanopoulos is a political attack dog working as a journalist, as an anchor man at ABC News.
But he's not a journalist.
They just call him one.
I put him in a journalist chair.
And somehow, George Stephanopoulos, who did everything he could to get Bill Clinton elected, everything he could to besmirch the reputation of George H.W. Bush, all of a sudden sits down in that chair and immediately forgets every one of his political passions.
The minute he sits in the ABC anchor chair, gone is the fact that he's a Democrat.
Gone is the fact that he's a liberal.
Gone is the fact that he doesn't want Republicans to ever win an election.
Because that's who he is.
And just sitting in that chair is going to erase all that?
I think not.
So these people insult our intelligence by trying to tell us that that's what happens.
They go out and they can hire a political hack to be an anchor and then tell us magically there is this transformation.
And the political hack essentially forgets every passion that he has and becomes an objective reporter out of a bunch of bohunk.
The same thing over in NBC News with doctoring the Trayvon Martin, the 9-11 call from George Zimmerman.
Folks, there is a backlash brewing in this country against these guys, against Obama, against the Democrat Party.
It's effervescing out there.
And if there were a media that was actually interested in finding out what's happening in this country, you'd be reading about it every night and you'd be seeing about it because it's not hidden.
Those people are everywhere.
They call us every day.
We talk to them every day.
They're all over the place.
And they're joining Tea Party groups and they're working at the grassroots.
And the media cared to accurately report then the people of this country would find out.
But in a way, it's kind of good because the Obama people now sit and live in a false reality where he's still the Messiah.
He's still loved and adored, still considered the smartest guy in the world.
And they think that everybody looks at Republicans and Romney as a bunch of idiots and hicks and mean rich people.
That's the lie they tell themselves.
It's the lie they live.
Obama believes it.
That's his news sources.
So it may possibly redound to our benefit.
Here's Tom Teeves.
It's T-E-V-E-S.
It may be Tevis.
I don't know how he pronounces it.
He was on Anderson Cooper 360 last night on CNN.
And this is, I think it's Teves, Tom Teeves.
He's the father of the late Alex Teves, lost his life in the Aurora Theater.
And this is what Tom Teeves, father of a young man that died, said talking about the gunman on TV.
I would like to see CNN come out with a policy that said, moving forward, we're not going to talk about the government.
We always say, why, why?
And we never know why.
But we got enough data.
Let's start figuring out why.
And I'll guarantee one of them is because they want to be on television.
They want to be infamous.
Exactly.
We can stop it.
We can't stop it.
We can only get shot.
CNN, Fox News, the major networks, why don't you guys all come out with a policy that says, we're not going to show this again.
We realize we made a mistake.
But just so this never happens again, here's what we're going to do.
That would be my challenge to you and to every network.
He's exactly right.
I remember on Sunday, people, why, Rush?
I think I told you yesterday, people asking me, Rush, why would the guy do this?
Knowing he's going to get caught, knowing that he's either going to get put to death or spend the rest of his life in jail.
And my first answer was fame.
He wants to be famous.
Our whole culture, young people in this country are vomiting everything about themselves trying to be famous.
They think it's cool and cool rules.
They think it's cool.
They think it's unique.
They think it's glamorous.
They think it leads to lifestyles of the rich and famous lifestyles.
It leads to being on television, great fashion, all the whatever these people associate with the Kardashians.
And other people are famous just for being famous.
They want it.
They want a taste of it.
They'll make fools of themselves going on television to become famous.
And I remember I gave this answer to a couple people.
Oh, come on.
Yes, I mean, I'm dead serious.
I think that one of the reasons, and I doubt that we'll ever really know, but one of the reasons this guy did it, because even now he's sitting there in his jail cell, and I will bet you that he is reveling in the fact that everybody's talking about him and that everybody's commenting on his red hair.
And he's probably sitting there just getting his jollies, being talked about.
I'm telling you, folks, I am a student of culture.
As I've told you, I have lived life by observing it in many cases.
And I have a little bit of experience with fame.
And I, well, I can't divulge too much.
I see it every day.
I see people who want to be famous every day.
It's easy to spot, just like that.
I see people who live get their picture in the paper.
I'm not kidding.
Picture in the paper, talk about it for three days.
Clip it out, put it on a refrigerator, show people.
I'm not kidding you.
And it's amplified and much worse.
Young people, you don't paint your hair orange unless you want to get noticed.
You don't do this kind of stuff unless you want to get noticed.
And what this man, Tom Teeves, would say here's the media is feeding this by providing what everybody wants, fame.
I remember, I'll give you an example.
Back to my days with the Kansas City Royals.
Every once in a while, somebody'd get drunk in the stands and run out on the field, either between innings or during a game.
And for a while, when that happened, a game happened to be televised, the cameras would show it.
And they'd show security chasing the guy down and catching the guy.
And this created copycats.
It started happening more frequently.
The pinnacle in Kansas City, you remember Morgana, the kissing bandit?
This was a woman who needed a couple of midgets to walk in front of her to keep her breasts popped up.
Morgana, the kissing bandit, stormed out of the stands one day at Royal Stadium and tried to give George Brett a smacker kiss at third base.
So these and televising this thing begat copycat.
So you know what happened?
You don't see it next time it happens.
Now, if somebody runs on the field at a football game or at a baseball game, the networks do not show it to you.
They'll tell you why there's a delay.
They'll tell you somebody ran on the field and they'll speak disparagingly of the idiot who does it.
They'll be very critical, but they will not show it.
So they know a network, television people, they're very much aware that they can contribute to copycat behavior.
So they've stopped televising much of that stuff.
Not all the time.
I mean, there's still examples of it when it gets televised.
But for the most part, they stopped it so they know.
This guy has a point.
If the networks would stop making these people famous instead of trying to figure out, like, we're already getting stories.
We had one yesterday, but this guy could be a fallen brilliant whatever because he got a scientific grant.
That's not who the guy is.
The guy is a mass murdering shred of human debris.
And if you characterize these people accurately, there wasn't going to be a whole lot of people who want to be like them.
So the old guy here, Mr. Teves, has a point.
He's singing my song.
I got another brief time out here, folks.
I can't believe how time is zipping by.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Here we go.
This is what I was looking for.
It's a soundbite.
Lisa Sylvester, correspondent at CNN last night on the Situation Room.
Listen to this.
Until last Friday, Holmes was known as an outstanding student enrolled in a PhD program at the University of Colorado.
He received a $26,000 research grant by the National Institutes of Health, funded by taxpayer money.
That worked out to a monthly check of about $2,166.
While receiving that grant funding, over the last several months, Holmes also received a high volume of expensive deliveries to his home and work.
This receipt dated July 2nd shows he purchased a tactical assault vest, a pistol magazine, M16 magazine pouch, and knife for $306.
So the guy couldn't get into a gun club.
But the federal government and all the brightest minds in academia didn't see any red flags with this guy.
I mean, look at here.
Until Friday, he was known as an outstanding student enrolled in a PhD program.
Federal government grant.
Hey, maybe Obama's right.
Even the Aurora shooter got a government grant.
He didn't buy all those weapons without government help.
He didn't do that.
He didn't do that by himself.
He didn't make that happen.
Government made that purchase possible.
Government bought you those guns.
Well, folks, I mean, what are we to conclude here?
Guy didn't have any money.
He gets a $26,000 grant, starts receiving all this stuff in the mail.
All these academics think he's a brilliant guy.
But the gun club guy didn't want any part of it.
And who is being portrayed as the idiot in this story as the gun club guy?
Well, I have.
I've seen stories of the gun club guy as sort of a, you know, he's backwards, a little bit of a hick.
And the only reason they think that's because the guy runs a gun club.
And these people, who would want a gun club?
Why would these liberals, I'm telling you, they can't imagine a gun club?
Target practice?
Who does this, they ask?
Let's see, here's James Carvel, same show.
Situation room.
Wolf Blitzer says to Carville, should the president and Mitt Romney heed the advice of the New York City mayor Michael Doomberg and start talking about serious gun control, James?
The reality of American politics is the NRA has a very dominating presence in Washington and somewhat around the country.
And I don't think that between now and election day, there's going to be a lot of discussion about gun control.
Places like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, you know, some extent, even Colorado, this issue is not a decided issue.
The people that advocate gun control have not been as effective as the people who fight these laws, and it tends to play out in elections.
That's the reality of American politics.
That's just what it is.
Yeah.
And you know, it's been that way now for 12 years.
I'll never forget one of the debates between Al Gore and Bush, George W. Bush.
In that debate, Al Gore came out against gun control, started talking about how he believed in the right to own weapons.
I was watching this and I was stunned, and I said, what have I missed?
His supporters were probably shocked and stunned as well.
What is he talking about?
Well, he knew.
And then we had in 2004 John Kerry dressed up like a hunter in camo gear walking into some bait shop, I think in Ohio.
Is this where I get me a hunting license?
So Carville's right.
He's warning the Democrats and nobody, don't go to gun control.
Doesn't matter what happened here.
It's not a winning issue for you.
The American people don't blame the Constitution for what happened.
Mayor Doomberg in New York, by the way, is now saying he doesn't understand why cops just don't go on strike and walk off the job until government forces everybody to turn in their guns.
Mayor Doomberg, you govern a city with the tightest gun laws in the country, maybe second only to Washington.
The Sullivan Act, the tightest gun laws in the country are in New York.
Here's a mayor telling his own police force to go on strike until everybody turns in their guns.
Yeah, do you think this guy in Colorado would have turned in his guns or the explosives in his apartment?
I think we're surrounded by fools.
We are surrounded by and we are governed by fools.
Literal idiots.
Anything over 16 ounces can't be sold because of the sugar content.
I've got a great story in the stack about that.
Some guy has written a piece in the Wall Street Journal about how it is impossible to run a business with these kinds of regulations.
Look, I want to play a soundbite from Ice T, the well-known actor.
And that's one of the funniest things I ever saw.
Ice-T, back in his radical days, when it was this during the Rodney King era, Ted Coppel was hosting Nightline, and Ice-T was a guest, and it was, I don't know what, they were talking about some racial strife.
And Coppel didn't know what to call him.
They just kept calling him Mr. T. Ice-T is a rapper, right?
It was a rapper.
Coppel's calling him Mr. T.
And of course, Ice-T is in character on this show, and he's in his rapper character, and he's doing the down low.
And Coppel here, you know, Mr. Sophisticated, tell me, Mr. T.
And Ice T had that angry, ticked off look on his face, angry at the world, angry, and I'm telling you, and I'm down with it, bro.
Well, Mr. T, would you explain?
Well, it was like, so William F. Buckley interviewed Jesse Jackson one time.
Reverend Dackson, could you explain to me in salient terms what exactly it is you're talking about?
Well, when you say that one of the biggest problems the American people face is ongoing racial discrimination in society, as indicated by, and Jackson, looking at this, what the hell is he talking about?
What does he say?
So he comes out with his Jesse Jackson in character answered.
The iced tea in character with Ted Coppel on Nightline.
It was just, it was hilarious.
Anyway, Iced T was on the UK Channel 4 News last Friday.
And the host, Krishnan Guru Murphy.
Krishnan, Guru Murphy, interviewing the rapper Ice Tea.
He now one of the stars of Law and Order SVU.
So do you carry guns routinely?
You have a gun at home, Mr. Ice?
Yeah, it's legal in the United States.
It's part of our Constitution.
You know, the right to bear arms is because that's the last form of defense against tyranny.
Not to hunt.
It's to protect yourself from the police.
The United States is based on guns, you know.
So here you have this sophisticate from the UK's Eyeball News Channel 4.
And there's Ice T saying the only reason we got guns in America is to protect yourself from the police.
Well, I mean, we're told, hey, it's cultural.
We've got to understand it from the cultural standpoint.
That's where Mr. T's coming from.
Now, he did.
He knew the word tyranny.
He knew the word tyranny.
And he knows that tyranny comes from government representatives.
Double impressive.
He is that tyranny doesn't come from media figures or actors.
Okay, Stafford, Virginia.
Shannon, thank you so much for waiting.
Great to have you on the program.
Oh, thanks, Rush.
Actually, Colin is a small business owner here, partner of Brat Diet Dream, holding on to the kite strings of the American Dream.
And probably going back to what you were talking about in the beginning of your hour with, you know, this war on small business and the demonizing of the 1% and their lack or their willingness now to invest in the American Dream and help others realize it because of the hostile environment of this administration towards the American Dream and towards small business.
That's a good point.
I'm living it.
I know it.
You know, I called three years ago and it is.
It's a hostility to the American Dream.
Obama is shredding the American dream.
He's campaigning against it.
He's campaigning against capitalism.
He's trying to persuade as many people to abandon the American Dream and give it all up to the government.
You know, I talked to you three years ago.
What is your product?
You see in a small business.
What is your business?
It's a brat diet drink based on the age-old prescription of the brat diet, bananas, rice, apples, and toast.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Brat, like bratwurst diet drink?
Like brat diet, bananas, rice, apples, and toast when you've got an upset tummy and you need to rehydrate.
Oh.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, so it's a healthy alternative to a sugary drink to hydrate you and settle your stomach.
And, you know, from inception and launching it three years ago, which we did entirely with Angel Investors, we're now nationally carried in every major retail market pretty much.
And we're ready to hit that next point, you know, and we're talking to some big investors who are excited about the product, excited what we've done, you know, on a kite string.
But they're all telling us, hey, you know, let's just wait till after the election.
Well, you know, I have.
And we're going, but we're ready now.
We believe in it.
And they're like, oh, absolutely.
Your product's proven itself in the market.
Well, yeah, but for how long?
Yeah, well, you know, and two, never in America has small business and the entrepreneur not been the best return on your investment or the most promise.
You know, Shannon, I myself am in the beverage business.
Two, if by T.
I am also Mr. T. I'm in the beverage, and my objective is to wipe people like you out.
No, we need to team up.
I've got a business plan for you, Rush.
Like, you know, I mean, I'm a wife of a retired Marine Corps officer.
I launched this with my family.
You know, we believe in the American dream.
And I'm telling you, Rush, until I know there's no chance for it, we're going to keep fighting for it.
And you, and people like you are going to be the reason that we triumph because this is what happens.
The genuine entrepreneurs and the people that make the country work find ways around people like Barack Obama.
Oh, and we are.
Everybody tries.
Not everybody is able to succeed, but people try to find their way around Barack Obama and people like him, other liberal Democrats.
Well, this is when being a scrappy American is really coming into play.
And I really do.
I hope and pray, you know, Mitt Romney gets his message out there for small business because it's the American dream that's under attack, you know, and it's sad, it's scary, but in the long run, I have to believe in Americans and that they're going to want less government.
I do too.
I do too.
I also want a chance to realize the American dream.
It's what keeps me going here.
I mentioned the other day, a friend of mine sent me a note.
He's retired.
He said, when you get tired of peeing into the wind, let's get together and talk about how we can protect our families from what's unavoidably going to happen to the country.
He thinks it's a question of math.
It's simple math.
The debt, deficits, unfunded entitlements.
And I wrote back and I told him, well, I'm not, I don't look at it as peeing into the wind yet.
And if I ever do, then maybe I'll call you.
We'll talk about it.
But I don't look at it that way.
I got too much faith in the American people.
I can't imagine.
I can't imagine a bunch of people who didn't have any idea what he was going to do is who elected him.
Doesn't matter.
They know now.
They know now a bunch of people voted for him because of race.
A bunch of people voted for him because of history.
A bunch of people voted for him because they thought it'd be the end of racial strife.
A bunch of people voted for him because they've been told Bush and the Republicans were horrible and rotten.
A bunch of people voted for this guy for reasons that they made up, that they wanted to believe that he was.
And everybody that voted for this guy for reasons other than policy is now seeing the truth and not going back.
They're not going back.
And I just refuse to believe that this country's finished in my lifetime.
And I refuse to believe that this country is finished with me doing this show.
I cannot accept that.
I have to look at it exact opposite way.
I have too much faith in people like Shannon here.
I think there are so many more people like that that we don't hear about and know about.
We know they're there because the country keeps chugging along.
And the country keeps chugging along because of people like her.
It's not because people like Obama and his czars and his bureaucrats and his health care and his stimulus.
That has nothing to do.
Those are the retardants.
Those are the things that are holding everybody back that have to be removed.
Obstacles that have to be kicked out of the road.
Jerry, Austin, Texas, you're next in the EIB network.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Rush.
It's Joey, and thank you for taking my call.
Sorry, Joey.
Great to have you here.
All right.
Well, your speech has given me some inspiration.
I did some research, and it's about the first coast-to-coast and the first north-to-south road in America.
It was the single idea of an individual, an entrepreneur named Carl G. Fisher, who started it in 1912, ran from Times Square to Lincoln Park, San Francisco.
It was built entirely by private investment capital of the people along the route, small businesses who grouped together or investment capital people.
It was finished in 1922, named the Lincoln Highway.
Lincoln Highway, and it was private sector construction, eh?
Yeah, well, it was private individuals, private businesses, and a single entrepreneur who did that, the Dixie Highway, the Miami Beach Resort Community, and participated in the Collins Bridge.
But a Dixie Highway!
I drive on a Dixie Highway, and you know what?
There are businesses on that road.
That's right.
Businesses who actually came together to build that road.
It was entirely funded privately.
Some of them are red light and have businesses, but they're there.
Oh, wow.
Well, until 1956, when the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act was passed, actually was directly inspired by the Lincoln Highway, at which point the feds took over the private industry of building roads.
Well, they didn't.
No, they, well, look, the interstate highway system, I lived in a little town where I-55 was built right through it, and a local businessman got the contract to pour the concrete.
His name was R.B. Potashnik.
Now, where did R.B. get the, well, R.B. bid for it, and it was, of course, government money, but where's that come from?
It's tax money.
The American people built the interstate highway system, not the federal government.
The federal government appropriated the money, but they got the money from the people via taxes to do it.
This notion that the government has a pile of money that nobody else has ever had and they use it for all this benevolent stuff is a crock.
But anyway, I didn't know that, your story about the Lincoln Highway.
I love it.
I'm glad you called.
I'm glad you got squeezed in here.
We'll be back in a second.
Sadly, that's it, folks.
And we're on a roll.
It's unfortunate we have to screeching halt it, but we do.
But only for 21 hours.
And you can rest assured that we'll be back in 21 hours with whatever's important at the top of the list, picking up right where we left off.
Thanks so much for being with us today.
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