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Jan. 23, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 23, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24 7 Podcast.
My friends, it was a puke fest.
It was unlike anything ever seen.
It was right out of Banana Republic.
And I've seen it all.
I mean, and in my 62 short years, I've seen a lot.
I've never seen groveling, uh butt kissing, sucking up.
I I've never seen anything like Hillary Clinton's appearance for a joint congressional committee on that Benghazi guy who went nuts over there in uh in Libya.
And I guess everybody's favorite part, she lost her cool at one point.
By the way, she opened up crying, which is uh uh part of the script.
But uh favored part, she she was asked by by Senator Johnson why they stuck with the story of the video to explain why the Benghazi guy went nuts.
And Hillary said, what difference it make?
What difference at this point does it make?
Exactly right, but what difference does any of it make?
What difference does it make that 50 million Americans are on food stamps?
What difference does it make that the president's acceptance speech's inaugural address was perhaps one of the most partisan and divisive speeches in American presidential history?
What difference does it make?
Exactly right.
After all this time, what difference it makes?
Great to have you here, the telephone number if you want to be on the program, 800 282-2882, the email address, L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
I Fog I don't know how many of you saw it.
Apparently a lot of you did.
My email overflowing today with people in visceral reactions.
We got audio sound bites of all of it.
We had every one of the you know what this was?
This this was perhaps, folks.
One of the best uh uh illustrations of the whole concept that we've spoken here about on numerous occasions of the ruling class, the political class, the ruling class, doesn't matter what party, they are all part of the ruling class, the political class in DC, and they all um when when uh when the rubber hits a road, they all circle the wagons around each other.
Well, the Republicans join in circling the wagons.
Uh the Democrats never do when it's a Republican involved, but for the most part, they do.
They close ranks and they protect one another because what they're protecting is themselves.
They're protecting the ruling class, the political elites, and they're maintaining the status quo.
Uh it's it's akin, you remember when uh when uh Dan rather uh ran that phony story on George W. Bush and the National Guard and how he pulled all kind of strings to get in the guard instead of going to Vietnam and never went to the guard, never did anything.
The story was a total hoax.
It had forged documents and everything.
And once it was discovered by the right-wing blogosphere that rather had basically, and then CBS News had perpetrated a hoax.
Tom Brokaw Peter Jennings circled the wagons, and they had a bunch of awards dinners for Dan Rather.
You know, what they were doing, not so much they're protecting rather, but what they really were doing was protecting themselves and protecting the so-called integrity of the news business.
Uh they were protecting their institution and protecting the media, which is uh a lot of liberals at the same time.
There are no failures.
If you've noticed uh in the Democrat Party liberalism, failures often rise to the top in the Democrat Party, either in office or out of office.
Failures are rewarded because they are not going to let anything destroy the ideology.
The ideology will survive and thrive and triumph.
And that's exactly what was going on here with both parties participating in it.
I mean, here we have by reputation the smartest woman in the world.
This is how Hillary was presented to us during the 90s.
After she had, you know, eaten the excrement sandwich of marrying Clinton and putting up with everything Clinton put up with or put her through.
Uh it was it was time for her to be rewarded.
Uh Presidential run in 2008.
Then the black guy came along and it screwed everything up, and everybody went for the black guy and they threw Hillary overboard, and she did not get what she was promised.
The presidency, she did not get what she was owed.
So they have been they've been doing everything they can to make all of it up to her ever since 2008, but including beginning in the 90s.
So she was the smartest woman in the world, the only woman capable of putting together a national health care program and running it and administering it.
The only person possibly equipped to do it, the smartest woman in the world.
So what we had today, didn't matter what party these senators were from.
We've got a montage here to illustrate this coming up in due course.
We had all of these senators praising her intelligence, praising her stamina.
She traveled all those million miles, and a lot of these senators said, you know, people have never done that.
They don't know what it takes.
Well, we do.
We've made those trips, Mrs. Clinton, and we understand just how tough you are.
And we understand how much stamina you've got.
It was really impressive, and you've done it all for the country.
You've given up everything.
You've sacrificed so much.
We are so happy to have you here.
We are blessed to have you in our presence.
Why, this is the greatest day in our republic, short of Obama's second inaugural.
This is the most wonderful day to have you here with your stamina, your intelligence, all of those miles traveled, your devotion.
They praised her competence, her brilliance, her beauty, her compassion, her caring, her concern, her glasses, her wardrobe, her qualifications, her love of country, her devotion to ambassadors.
And they made a point to say that her devotion to the ambassadors is personal.
It's not just professional.
She loves every one of them, and she's cried over every one of them.
And what difference does it make whether there was a video or not?
Who the hell's bringing it up now?
They went for a full hour and a half, by the way, before anybody asked about the video.
And the video for weeks was the sole reason given why Ben Gazi went up in flames.
The video was the reason why there were four Americans killed.
The video, the producer of the video, is still in jail in California on some phony trumped up charge, bank fraud or whatever.
And yet an hour and a half, maybe hour twenty minutes, but certainly the first hour went by.
There wasn't one question about it.
And then Senator Johnson finally got to the question.
What difference does it make?
What are we talking about here?
What difference does it make?
It's old news.
And that's been the Clinton MO for decades.
So what was happening here was the cleansing of Mrs. Clinton's record in advance of her presidential run in 2016, setting her up.
I mean, this was this folks, this was banana republic kind of stuff.
It was it was the kind of you're talking about two different worlds in isolation, the ruling class, the political class existing uh within its own borders, uh, and it its own world and its own set of rules and taking care of each other and making sure that everything's fine and the no matter what it was just this is a perfunctory hearing.
We had to get it out of the way, but it's been waiting for Miss Clinton to testify, but she's been so devoted to the Secretary of State job.
She got sick.
She's she'd given so much to her country.
She got sick.
She got really bad sick.
She had stomach ache, she had flu, she was sniffling, she's blowing her nose, she had a sore throat really bad.
She's given up so much for this country.
She's given up everything.
She gave up everything to marry Clinton.
She gave up everything to prop up Bill Clinton.
She gave up everything.
She withstood all that humiliation during the Clinton years.
Clinton running around with Jennifer Flowers and Kathleen William Roderick, Monica Lewinsky, and Hillary hung in there.
And Hillary made it possible for Clinton to hang in there.
And Hillary did a bimbo eruptions.
I mean, she's given everything to this country.
She has sacrificed, she has subordinated herself to everybody else's pleasures and preferences.
And finally it's time for her to be rewarded.
And the party knows that they gave her the shaft in a 2008 presidential campaign.
That was hers.
That was the plum.
That was the prize.
That was the payoff for hanging in with Clinton.
That was the payoff for Marion Clinton.
You go back to the days of her youth with Clinton.
They're both at Yale and Harvard and Columbia and Wellesley or wherever else these people go.
And uh, you know, she's an in a library to bookworm, and and Clinton could have his pick of women, picks Hillary.
And what does he do?
Takes her to Arkansas.
Oh my god, I'm going to Mississippi.
Arkansas, that's part of the South, you know, where Lincoln didn't finish the job.
That's all the pro-lifers are, all the gun nuts, the bigger clingers, and Hillary moved there.
So beneath her.
She went to Arkansas because at that point it was all about Bill Clinton.
Everything was about Clinton, him becoming president.
She gave up what could have been her own life.
She could have written the ticket.
She's the most brilliant student to come out of Yale, the most brilliant student to come out of Wellesley.
She wrote the best doctoral thesis.
She loves Solalinsky.
She had it all down.
She had everything.
She could have written her ticket, any law firm, any political job, any political office, and she punted.
She gave it all away.
She violated every tenet of feminism.
She blew it all off and married Clinton.
And she went down there to the Rose Law firm and Clinton making 25 grand as governor.
She had to be the breadwinner in addition to everything else that she had to do.
And he had to do all this in Arkansas.
And while she's there, Clinton's running around, get involved in Whitewater with Jim McDougall, Susan McDougall, and then Jennifer Flowers and whatever other TV anchors Clinton can glom on to, and has wanted to Broderick put some ice on that at Lip.
It's a little swollen.
You might want to put some ice on it, Clinton said.
Kathleen Willie, the campaigns of the health care, the Hillary bus tour blew up in her face.
I mean, it was health care didn't happen.
They gave her all kinds of things as a payoff for making sure Clinton survived, and it was her turn in 2008.
That was the payoff.
That's what it was all about.
And then out of the blue, Barack Hussein, Obama, mm-mm-mm.
LA Times writes the column The Magic Negro, and they're off to the races.
And meanwhile, Mrs. Clinton doesn't know what happened.
She's sitting there, she's stunned.
It was hers.
I mean, I remember telling you on this program two years out, 2006, this is a 75% chance that Hillary Clinton's going to be the next president of the United States.
Everybody thought that she was a shoe-in for the nomination, and everybody on our side had this glum fear of the Clintons, and if they run, they win, and so she's going to be the next president, and then at the Democrat convention, Michelle My Bell, uh, without the new hairdo and without all the bling, introduces Obama, comes out, makes his great blue state, purple state, red state, bipartisan.
We all em this together, love speech, and so I never said, Oh, I love this guy.
We got a chance here to really go to town.
And so the Democrats said, Well, we're at her have a woman candidate or a black young guy.
And I said, We're gonna make hay if we nominate the black young guy.
And so all the promises made to Hillary, they pulled a rug out from under.
And she went into debt.
She racked up campaign debt like nobody's ever racked up campaign debt.
25, 30 million dollars of campaign debt.
Do you realize just this week?
Her campaign debt was paid off.
Do you think there's any coincidence in the fact that her campaign debt was paid off and her appearance before the joint committee today to talk about the guy in Benghazi?
I don't.
I don't think there's any coincidence at all.
Got the campaign debt paid off.
She's free and clear, ready to go for 2016.
Uh and and uh they they're just trying to make amends because they gave her the shaft.
It was hers in 2008, folks.
There came Obama, and we all know what happened.
Press got behind Obama.
Nobody would tell the truth about Obama.
Hillary said, What if I have to do?
I propped up Clinton, I moved to Arkansas, I did health care.
I mean, I put up with Jennifer Flowers and Monica Lewinsky to the bimbo eruptions.
I lived in Arkansas.
I worked at a Rose Law firm.
I had to learn about pot bellies and so forth in order to make some money in the stock market because my husband couldn't earn any money because he's a creep.
What am I gonna do?
What am I gonna do?
And then they got a Obama guy, and she was devastated.
So Obama makes her Secretary of State, keeping her viable, keeping her close, keeping the Clintons close.
She does Secretary of State, travels millions of miles, uses all of her intelligence, all of her stamina, all of her devotion, her competence, her brilliance, her beauty or compassion, her caring, her concern, her qualifications, her wardrobe, her earrings, her love of country, the hairdoers, the various dresses, devotion to ambassadors.
And today was when everybody circled the wagons for her.
And she got a clean slate.
Everything's fine.
It wasn't anything wrong.
What is difference does it make?
How these four Americans died.
I don't know about Susan Rice.
I couldn't care less about Susan threw Susan Rice under the bus, because that's part of the deal, too.
So now it's all over.
Her record's cleansed, the campaign debts retired.
Mrs. Clinton's uh path is set, soon to be leaving a Secretary of State gig, a little recharge of the batteries, head home, keep a little eye on Bill now and there, just make it look good.
But basically, she got to get out of jail free card.
And now it's take a look down the road at the future, make sure that everything uh ducks in a row.
You know, Biden is no Obama.
Taking Biden out, they're gonna be easy.
Biden's run for president numerous times, never gotten close, getting all full of himself right now.
He's this is a sitting duck.
So 2016 waiting to happen.
That is that is if Obama decides to abdicate.
Her son Prince Charles has been hanging around waiting for almost 85 years here to become king.
It doesn't look like it's gonna happen.
The Queen's mother lived to be a hundred years old, the Queen's family lives a long time.
Prince Charles is every night's a charity dinner with Camilla.
They go off here, they go off there, he's waiting, never gonna be king.
Hillary is waiting to be president, but it all depends on whether Obama will abdicate the throne.
Will he leave the oval orifice in uh in 2016?
And we can't know until 2016 arrives.
So what we had here, folks was the ruling class circling the wagons, protecting each other, party affiliation did not matter.
We're always hoping at hearings like this, that somebody on our side is gonna stand up and give the Democrats what for?
Somebody gonna stand up, nail them to the cross or whatever, ask the tough questions, get to the bottom of it just as the Democrats do with our judicial nominees or anybody on our party falls in a crosshairs.
We keep waiting for it, and it never happens.
They never do it.
Republicans never do it, half because they um they don't think what the Democrats did was so bad in the first place, and the other people they don't want to call any attention to themselves for being like the Democrats on spending and that kind of stuff.
So that sets a table.
We've got sound bites and uh we're loaded day.
All kinds of fun stuff, so sit tight, we'll be back and continue with all the rest of it after this.
Found that the American people.
American optimism is at its lowest point since a Carter regime.
Now, what difference is that make anymore?
You remember how some people in the news media laughed when we said that Obama was the second coming of Jimmy Carter and every we're embarking on Jimmy Carter's third term now.
And American optimism is at its lowest point since the mid-1970s.
Gallup says that 39% of Americans rate the United States in A positive manner, which is the most negative outlook since 1979, that's 34 years ago.
It also happens to be before the Reagan Revolution, which Obama's doing his best to roll back.
But what difference does that make anymore?
So Americans uh does it you know it kind of it kind of fits, doesn't it?
Americans' optimism is in the tank, so they re-elect Obama.
It kind of it to me it it fits.
Now, Gallup does say that Americans are more upbeat in their predictions about where the country will be in five years.
Now, where in five years, if Obama abdicates, then Obama won't be around.
So Gallup says the American people are expecting everything to turn around in five years.
Five years from now, things are gonna be looking pretty good.
And that just happens to coincide with Obama's abdication, if that happens.
Who knows?
Only time will um will tell.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
Well, no, let's not go to the audio.
I want to get a couple things here first before we go to the audio sound bites, because we got I mean, I want to illustrate with audio sound bites what I just in my stream of consciousness monologue here about the ruling class and their treatment of Mrs. Clinton today at what was supposed to be congressional hearings into the disaster at Benghazi.
It was anything but that.
This was not a hearing into what happened to Benghazi.
This was a ruling class public meeting, if you will, to protect one of its ranking members, to wipe her slate clean and set her up for whatever her future might be, at least in terms of what she wants.
That's uh best thinking is she wants to run for president 2016.
So debt's been paid off.
The Benghazi thing's been taken care of, the ruling class circle the wagons, held a big meeting, and everything's cool.
Hunky dory.
That's uh it's over.
Been there, done that, Benghazi's in the past, now been explained.
The guy did the video still in jail.
What could be better?
In the meantime, out of New York, opponents of Mayor Bloomberg's limit on the size of sugary drinks are raising questions of racial fairness, alongside other complaints as the restriction faces a court test.
Did you did you hear about this?
The NAALCP, the National Association for the Advancement of Liberal Colored People, the New York State Branch, and the Hispanic Federation have joined beverage makers and sellers in trying to stop the rule from taking effect March 12th.
There's a hearing set.
This is Wednesday, right?
There's a hearing set for today.
And critics, they always get confused when you have a Monday off.
It seems like uh seems like Tuesday to me.
Anyway, the critics are attacking what they call an inconsistent and undemocratic regulation, while city officials and health experts defend it as a pioneering and proper move to fight obesity.
Man, this is incredible.
You have the NAALCP and the Hispanic Federation joining forces to fight against a regulation on the basis of democracy and freedom.
And guess, did you know, did it ever occur to you when Mayor Doomberg announced that no more 32 ounce Cokes and 7 ups and ought to be sold, did it ever occur to you that there was racial discrimination in his decision?
Did it ever occur to you that minorities would be hardest hit?
Well, the NAALCP and the Hispanic Federation are arguing that this is an issue of vast complexity for minorities.
And they say that Doomberg is attacking minorities in a stealth way.
You know why?
Because if you go out there and just use your eyeballs and look around, you're gonna notice that it's minorities who happen to be the fattest.
It's minorities that happen to be the biggest and the most obese.
That's what they say.
It's not me saying it.
NAALCP in the Hispanic Federation.
Given the obesity rates that are higher than average among blacks and Hispanics.
And that's according to the Centers for Disease Control, not me.
The group say in court papers that they're concerned about the discrepancy, but the soda rule will unduly harm minority businesses and freedom of choice in low income communities.
So the 32 ounce soda regulation being fought in New York on the basis that it is racist.
Which is something that had never occurred to me, but they're pointing out that the obesity rates among blacks and Hispanics dwarf that among whites.
And so with Doomberg doing this because of obesity, he's targeting blacks, Hispanics, and other minorities, and as such, it's discrimination.
Opponents portray the regulation as government nagging that turns sugary drinks into a scapegoat when many factors are at play in the nation's growing girth.
The TV ratings, this kind of goes with the Gallup poll about how much pessimism there is out there.
The lowest amount of optimism among the American people since 1979.
Lowest amount of optimism.
I think it makes perfect sense.
Second term of Obama, low optimism, low expectations, very little hope.
Yep, let's stick with Obama.
We're not expecting much.
We don't have dreams.
We're not looking at great futures.
Our expectations are nil.
Let's stick with Obama.
It makes perfect sense to me.
And then when you see that the TV ratings for the inaugural ceremony were really down from 2009.
Really down.
17 million people watched Obama's address in 2009.
17 million people, which actually seems kind of low to me given you in 2008, that campaign Obama wins in 2009.
He's the uh he's the Messiah, he's the one.
I mean, everybody's answered to whatever problem exists, only 17 million people.
I'm surprised at that.
But you know how many watched this year?
Seven million.
Not folks, less than half.
The number that watched in 2009, watched the inaugural.
I think you couple the optimism being so low, the TV ratings for the inaugural.
And I don't think anybody cares.
He's like everybody's saying, what difference does it make anyway?
It doesn't matter.
Just stick with the new guy.
We'll have to hassle but learning the new guy, this Romney guy doesn't like his dog anyway, and he let that guy's wife die, so to hell with it.
We'll just keep Obama in there.
We might end up getting a new cell phone, maybe one of those new Big Macs with French fries on it.
Stick that way.
U.S. Post Office.
U.S. Post Office are going to cut jobs.
I have a Reuters story here out of Chicago.
Get this.
U.S. post office cuts threaten the source of black jobs.
Oh, first we've got discrimination against the obese minorities in New York, with Doomberg and now.
It has been revealed that cutting back significantly on jobs at the post office is going to threaten an inordinate number of black people's jobs.
While delivering Mail in Chicago's North Side, Lakeisha Dorch Hardy spoke about how much she loves her job at the U.S. Postal Service.
Those are the solid days when we were endorsing and sponsoring Lance Armstrong.
30 million we were really proud back in those days of postal service all over Armstrong's uniforms and jerseys and his teammates.
Really happy.
And now Lakeisha Dorch Hardy is speaking about how much it would hurt if jobs like hers were to disappear.
These jobs are the middle class, said Lakeisha Dorch Hardy says here she's a tall, energetic 38-year-old who took long strides as she wheeled her cart along a row of two and three-story brick apartment houses.
Without this job, I don't know where I'd be right now, she said.
The uh cash-drapped uh postal service eliminated 168,000 jobs since 2006, and more job cuts could result as the post office struggles to avoid its own fiscal cliff.
As the United States honors Martin Luther King's civil rights legacy on Monday, many African American workers at the post office may be facing new obstacles to achieving and maintaining a middle class lifestyle.
Why why what why would that be, Reuters?
Somebody help me out.
What could possibly be happening in the country today that would uh threaten or uh uh uh uh provide obstacles to achieving and maintaining a middle class lifestyle for many African American workers?
What in the world could be happening to cause that to happen?
Says here that African Americans represent 13 percent of the U.S. population, eleven percent of the labor force, nearly one in five African American workers hold government jobs like male clerks, firefighters and teachers.
It's a long tradition of the public sector being more friendly or less hostile to African American workers, says Robert Ziger, emeritus professor of history at the University of Florida, Gainesville.
He said the post office is the best example.
If post office, that's where all of the comfort for African American job holders is.
That's no hostility there.
That's that's I mean, you get twenty percent of all postal workers being black, that should tell us something.
Long tradition of the public sector being more friendly or less hostile.
Well, why would that be?
Why what what's what's so difficult about finding a job in the private sector?
Well, this is another one of those, if I answer it with the if I tell you the truth, if I'm right, I get in big trouble.
So I'll leave the question open-ended.
But you can figure it out.
African Americans make up about twenty percent of U.S. Postal Service workers and are the majority in some urban centers.
But the public sector government has cut nearly six hundred thousand jobs since 2009.
That would be when Obama was immaculated.
This is due to shrinking government budgets and a range of other what shrinking budgets?
What range of other issues?
The only thing that's happening since 2009 is the Obama regime.
The slower recovery for African Americans in the labor market has in part been the result of government layoffs after the end of the recession was declared.
In December, the black unemployment rate 14%, roughly double that of whites.
Um this story is saying, the story is saying that African Americans don't have a prayer in the private sector.
Their only hope of having a job is in the public sector, and Obama's cutting jobs there.
U.S. post office cuts threaten the source of black jobs.
Who would have thought?
The excellence in broadcasting network, Rush Limbaugh, and now we go to the phones.
We're gonna start in Portland, Maine.
Paul, I'm glad you called.
Great to have you here with us.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, how are you?
Very well, sir.
Thank you very much.
Well, I uh thanks for taking my call.
I called in because I heard a moment of brilliance when you you zeroed in on the ruling elite of both parties.
Well, I appreciate that, sir.
Really uh since the topic of the day is Mrs. Clinton's brilliance.
Um I'm happy to be so recognized uh by you.
Thank you.
Well, I I really and I want to make a connection, and I know you take some time to you're an intellectual guy, and I'll I'll try to make this brief.
But the the the theory I have is simply that the ruling elite politically is just a Natural extension of what's happened since the industrial revolution and the concentration of wealth in this country.
And in that as a people, what we have to do to safeguard our country is to try to spread power without just disregarding the benefits of having a ruling elite.
You know, all we need to do is get back to the Constitution.
I it it really it's not complicated.
It's going to be very hard to do, but really all we need to do is get back to the Constitution.
The Constitution was written expressly so that a ruling elite, be it because a class or wealth uh uh or birthright would not occur.
Uh this was this was a uh a government that was formed that was severely limited.
The Constitution has filled with limits uh on the government, not on people, not on citizens.
And of course, we've uh we're now lived through a 180 on that, where the limits on freedom are on citizens and the expansion of power.
Uh and the ruling elite, the people who are in it, uh, is uh in government in Washington, D.C. And it's it's uh a lot of people when you say the uh the concentration of wealth, well what well, members of Congress aren't wealthy and they're part of the ruling elite, and uh I know what you mean.
It's the the concentration of power, really, but there is a ruling class.
There is a ruling class made up of the political class and the and the and the political elite, and they circle the wagons for each other.
And and party affiliation doesn't matter when the ruling class is under assault.
And when it comes to hearings on what happened in our consulate in Benghazi, the ruling class, their ability to do their jobs, the ruling class's ability to govern, their ability to do their jobs.
That's come into question here, personified by Mrs. Clinton's rampant incompetence.
So what happens?
The ruling class gets together, they do their hearing, and the express purpose here is to try to tell every citizen, you know, insult every citizen's intelligence by saying, you're the ones that don't get it.
You don't understand what's the Mrs. Clinton's the smartest Secretary of State we've ever had.
Her qualifications are unparalleled, and none of you who could do her job.
This is all about protecting the reputation of everybody in the ruling class.
They have to do it.
They have to come out and defend Hillary, protect her in order to protect themselves.
But if you just get back to the Constitution, then this can be dealt with and reversed.
As I say, it's a simple solution, but it is very difficult to pull off because the ruling class is the power elite, and they're just not gonna give it up on their own.
The family of Junior Sayao has announced they're gonna sue the NFL.
This is no doubt due to concussions, brain injury leading to his suicide.
Uh members of the Washington Redskins say, hey, hey, you know, we we we uh had relationships with women that uh didn't exist last last season.
I just saw it.
Don't have any details, but that's what they say.
Do you know what the single best way to concentrate power in the hands of the ruling elite is a progressive income tax is the best way to concentrate wealth and power among the ruling elite.
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