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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 one it's the problem when a radio show is 300 pieces of paper every day.
I know I've got it's a s this this uh the shooter in Aurora, Colorado.
Twenty-six thousand dollar federal grant.
The guy was given it's like two thousand dollars 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 twenty-six thousand dollars.
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 just I'll tell you every every time the uh 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 ten minutes later, it's it's a it's a wing and a prayer.
Anyway, folks, happy to have you back, Rush Limbaugh, serving humanity simply by being here.
Telephone number.
You want to be on the program 800-282-2882, the email address L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
All right, let's go to the audio sound bites.
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.
A 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 five o'clock in the morning at ABC News.
They woke her up.
And then she convicted him.
On uh on on ABC.
It was it was uh so anyway, that that's that's how that that's how they report.
Of course, this mother is is beside herself in every which way imaginable.
So she went out and uh uh 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 20, about 545 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 the shooter's mother, uh read by her lawyer.
And when 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 uh with Brian Ross.
Uh well, tea party, final leakage, homes, tea party, yep, there you go.
I've heard a lot of people talking about this, by the way, folks.
I have I I've I've been somewhat amused and amazed as I've listened to people attempt to excuse it, uh, 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, one he jumped a gun in there as what it is being investigative reporter.
You want to be first.
You wanted to get in.
That's that's not an excuse.
If you're an investigative reporter, if that's gonna 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.
Uh what was uh was uh where the black conservative got beat up by the SEIU guys.
That's right.
So the violence at that Tea Party group happened when the 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 pig styes.
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 your 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 uh a similar example with Stephanopoulos calling this mother.
He's not a he's not a journalist either.
He's a political consultant.
He's a war room provocateur with James Carvel.
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 night, 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.
The same thing over in NBC News with doctoring the Trayvon Martin and the 9-11 call from George Zimmerman.
I'm telling folks, there is a backlash brewing in this country against these guys, uh, 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's 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 and uh mean rich people that say that's the 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 uh our benefit.
Here's here's Tom Teeves.
Uh it's T-E-V-E-S.
It may be Tevis, I don't I don't know how he pronounces it.
It was on Anderson Cooper 360 last night on CNN.
And this is uh Teeves, Tom Teeves, he's the father of the late Alex Teeves, lost his life in the Aurora Theater.
And this is what Tom Teeves, father of a young man that died, uh 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.
Well, 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.
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 gonna do.
That would be my challenge to you and to every network.
He's exactly right.
I I remember on Sunday, uh people, why why rush?
I think I told you yesterday.
People asking me, Rush, why would the guy do this?
Knowing he's gonna get caught, knowing that he's either gonna 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 um lifestyles of the rich and famous uh uh lifestyles.
It leads to being on television, uh great fashion, all the whatever 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 uh I gave this answer to a couple people.
Oh, come on, you really yes, I mean I'm dead serious.
I think that one of the reasons, and doubt that we'll ever really know, but uh 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 you don't do this kind of stuff unless you want to get noticed.
And what what this man, Tom Teeves was saying here is 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 that 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 uh 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 in instead of 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 gonna be a whole lot of people who want to be like them.
So the old guy here, uh Mr. Teeves has a point.
He says singing my song.
I got it 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 $36.
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 till 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.
You didn't do that.
He didn't do that by himself.
You 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 wouldn't want, didn't want any part of him.
And who is being portrayed as the idiot in this story is the gun club guy?
Well, I have.
I've seen stories of 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 it?
These liberals, I'm telling you, they can't imagine what 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 uh I don't think that uh between now and election day there's gonna 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.
To 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 uh twelve years.
I'll never forget one of the debates between Al Gore and uh 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?
I guess supporters were probably shocked and stunned as well.
What is he talking about?
Well, he knew.
And then we had in 2004 John Carey 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 he's warning the Democrats, 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 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 till 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 um 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 uh well-known actor.
And uh one of the funniest things I ever saw, Ice T back in his radical days, when it was uh this turned 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 uh Coppel didn't know what to call him.
Just kept calling it Mr. T. Iced T is a rapper, right?
He started uh it was it was a rapper that Coppel's calling him Mr. T Mr. Ms. Mr. T what do you and of course Ice T is in character on this show, and he's he's in his rapper character, and he's he's uh he's doing the down low, and and Coppel here, uh you know, Mr. Sophisticated.
Oh, tell me, Mr. T and uh I see 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 uh William F. Buckley interviewed Jesse Jackson one time?
Uh uh Reverend Daxon, uh could could could you explain to me in uh uh salient terms?
Um uh what what exactly it is you're talking about?
Well, when you uh say that one of the biggest problems the American people face is ongoing racial discrimination and uh in society uh uh as indicated by and and Jackson looking at this what the hell is he talking about?
What what does he say?
So he comes out with his Jesse Jackson in character answered on the Ice T in character with Ted Coppel on Nightline.
It was just it was hilarious.
Anyway, Ice T was on the UK Channel 4 News last Friday, and the host Krishna Guru Murphy.
Christian Krishnan, Guru Murphy, interviewing the rapper Ice T. He now one of the stars of uh Law and Order S V U. So do you carry guns routinely?
You 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 sophisticated from the UK's eyeball news channel four.
And here's IST is saying the only reason we got guns in America is to protect yourself from the police.
Well, I mean, hey, and we're told, hey, it's cultural, we gotta understand it from the cultural standpoint.
That's that's where Mr. T is 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 it is that tyranny doesn't come from uh from media figures or actors.
Okay, Stafford, Virginia.
Shannon, thank you so much for waiting.
Uh great to have you on the program.
Oh, thanks, Rush.
Uh actually Colin is a uh small business owner here, partner of Brett Diet Dream holding on to the kite strings of the American dream.
And um probably going back to what you were talking about in the beginning of your hour with um, you know, this war on small business and the demonizing of the uh one percent 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.
Well that's a good point.
I'm living it.
I know it.
You know, uh I called three years ago and uh It is it's a hostility to the American dream.
Obama is shredding the American dream.
He's campaigning against it, he's campaigning it's capitalism, he's trying to persuade as many people to abandon the American dream and give it 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 what are you what what is your business?
It's uh brat diet drink based on the age old uh prescription of the brat diet, bananas, rice, apples, and toast.
Wait, wait, wait a minute.
Brat brought br like Bratwurst diet drink?
No, like brat diet, bananas, rice, apples, and toast when you've got an upset tummy and you need to rehydrate.
Oh yeah.
Yeah, so it's a healthy alternative to a sugary drink um to hydrate you and settle your stomach.
And uh, you know, from inception and launching it three years ago, which we did entirely um with angel investors.
Um 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 um, you know, on a kite string.
And that they're all telling us, hey, you know, let's just wait till after the election.
Well, you know, I I have half of you, and we're going, but we're ready now, we believe in it, and they're like, oh, absolutely, you've your product's proven itself in the market.
Well gonna wait.
Yeah, but for how long?
Yeah, well, you know, and too, never in America has small business and the entrepreneur not been the best return on your investment.
Well, it's the most promise.
You know, Shannon, I myself am in the beverage business.
Two if by tea.
I am also Mr. T. Uh I I'm in the be and and my objective is to wipe people like you out.
No, we need to team up.
Well, I've got a business plan for you, Rush.
Like, you know, I mean, I I'm I'm a wife of a retired Marine Corps officer.
Um, I launched this with my family.
Um, you know, it's w we believe in the American dream, and I'm telling you, Rush, until I know there's no chance for it, we're gonna keep fighting for it.
And you at the end, and people like you are gonna be the reason that we triumph.
Because this is what happens.
The the genuine entrepreneurs and and uh the people that make the country work find ways around people like Barack Obama.
So and we are.
Everybody tries, not not everybody's able to succeed, but but but the people try to find their way around Barack Obama and and people like him, other uh liberal Democrats.
Well, this is when being a scrappy American is really coming into play.
And I, you know, and I I really do.
I I hope and pray, you know, Mitt Romney um gets his message out there for small business because it it's the American dream that's under attack, you know, and um it's it's sad, it's scary, but in the long run, I have to believe in uh in Americans and that they're gonna you know want less government and 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, uh unfunded entitlements.
And I wrote back and I told him, well, I'm I'm 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 I don't look at it that way.
I got too much faith in the American people.
I don't I just I can't imagine.
I can't imagine a bunch of people who didn't have any idea what he was gonna 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 they have been told Bush and the Republicans were horrible and rotten.
Bunch of people voted for this guy for reasons that they made up that they 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.
And I 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 just I cannot accept that.
I have to look at it exact opposite way.
I have too much faith in people like 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.
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 uh thank you for taking my call.
Uh, sorry, Joey, great to have you here.
All right.
Well, I your uh 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.
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, uh, 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 uh in 1922, named the Lincoln Highway.
Lincoln Highway, and it was private sector construction, eh?
Yeah, well, it's private individuals, private businesses, and a single entrepreneur who did that, the Dixie Highway, the Miami Beach Resort Community, and uh 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 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 uh Lincoln Highway, at which point um the feds took over the private industry of building roads.
Well, they didn't.
No, they well, look at the interstate highway system.
I was uh 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. Petashnik.
Now, where did RB get the well, RB bid for it?
Uh, and it was, of course, government money, but where's that come from?
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 as a crock.
But anyway, I didn't know that.
Your story about the uh 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 uh 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, 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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