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Feb. 14, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 14, 2013, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.
I'm just putting things in order here.
I know I should have done it before the show started, but I, I don't know, still kind of trying to come to grips here, folks, with the fact that Marco Rubio drank water on live TV.
I'm still trying to get my arms around that.
It's going to take a few days to get over that for me.
I'm just dealing with it one day at a time now.
I don't know how you're dealing with it.
I just, I had no idea that Marco Rubio, on occasion, drank water, especially between sentences.
And I am so shocked.
I watched, you know, CNN has played video of this.
I don't know how many times they have played this over and over and over again.
They're actually asking if this is the new Watergate, if this is the end of Rubio's career.
And I have to admit, folks, I didn't know he drank water.
You ever seen a politician do that in public?
You don't see him eat in public.
You don't see him drink water, particularly between sentences.
Now, I've seen football players drink Gatorade and whatever the hell else is down there on the sideline between plays, but drinking water during a speech, dry mount during a speech, if I wasn't so strong, I'd take the day off to deal with the emotional wreck that this has made me.
But I'm hanging tough.
It's great to have you here, folks.
I'll rushboat 800-282-2882.
Email address, lrushbo at eibnet.com.
Listen, now, CNN got caught on this and they tried to say, come on, lighten up.
We were just doing satire.
The last time CNN did satire was they've never done satire.
CNN doesn't know satire when they see it.
CNN doesn't recognize satire.
They are incapable of performing or executing satire.
And particularly, Wolf Blitzer, who if it weren't for his varicose veins, would be totally colorless.
The guy is a dryball.
He doesn't have a sense of humor.
He doesn't know sarcasm.
Here's Wolf Blitzer on the situation.
Remember, this is the guy when Bush's poll numbers hit the 30s, Wolf was orgasming for four hours, reporting it two times every 15 minutes.
And it's almost the same mindset now, reporting on Marco Rubio.
Listen to this.
This happened, Situation Room last night, CNN.
So can a drink of water make or break a political career?
A U.S. Senator, possible presidential candidate.
Going to find out whether he likes it or not.
We're going to find out whether he likes it or not.
We are going to...
This is why I've been shaken up all day, folks, all night last night.
This is why I've been doing my best to come to grips with this.
Because I could be looking here at the absolute ruination of a career.
Wolf Blitzer just said so.
Can a drink of water make or break a political career?
A U.S. Senator, possible presidential candidate, we're going to find out whether he likes it or not.
It used to be that on this program, we illustrated absurdity by being absurd.
I can't outdo these people very much anymore.
I can't get any more absurd than that.
And again, they try to say, well, we're just joking.
We're just doing satire.
No, you're trying to destroy the guy.
That's the bottom line.
This is what the Democrat Party's become.
This is what their slavish cooperative media have become.
This is how they do it.
Take out the opposition.
Do whatever you can to eliminate any opposition.
And this is not, you know, Rubio scares them, just like Sarah Palin scared them.
Now, I have to tell you, let's do a little A-B side-by-side comparison.
In fact, let me find the soundbite.
The soundbites are all over the place here, and I've got to find, I know I've got it here.
What I'm looking for is the treatment of Christopher Dorner.
And I don't have it here in the soundbites.
The CNN, nevertheless, let's do an A-B side-by-side comparison.
On the one hand, Marco Rubio may not be qualified, not only not to be president, be a U.S. Senator.
He took a sip of water from an average-looking bottle while delivering the answer to the State of the Union address on Tuesday night.
Meantime, elsewhere on that network, you've had panel discussions celebrating the relevance and the great contributions to fighting police brutality of a mass murderer, Christopher Dorner, on the very same network.
CNN had a panel all excited.
I'm going through this very quickly.
Let's see.
Here we go.
It's right.
And I've even got some additional tweets.
This is Mark Lamont Hill.
This guy's a producer at Columbia, a professor at Columbia University.
He was on CNN's newsroom yesterday afternoon with the anchorette info babe, Brooke Baldwin.
And the InfoBabe said, do these Dorner sympathizers have a point?
Now, keep in mind, later on on CNN, Wolf Blitzer was going to ask whether or not a drink of water could ruin somebody's career, whether they liked it or not, whether Rubio liked it or not.
But prior to that, this happened on CNN.
This has been an important public conversation that we've had about police brutality, about police corruption, about state violence.
As far as Dorner himself goes, he's been like a real-life superhero to many people.
Now, don't get me wrong, what he did was awful.
Killing innocent people is bad.
But when you read his manifesto, when you read the message that he left, he wasn't entirely crazy.
He had a plan and a mission here.
And many people aren't rooting for him to kill innocent people.
They're rooting for somebody who was wronged to get a kind of revenge against the system.
It's almost like watching Django Unchained in real life.
It's kind of exciting.
Almost likewise, that's exactly that.
Play soundbite number two.
I just want to show you how listening to this program keeps you on the cutting edge.
Last Friday on this program.
There are thousands of people urging this guy on, praising him as a real-life Django.
I kid you not.
They're praising this guy, tweet after tweet after tweet, praising this guy as a real-life Django who is going to kick they ass, quote unquote.
First day, talking about warned you to compare this guy to Django, and here is a heralded, highly acclaimed professor.
I don't know what he teaches.
Doesn't matter.
He could be teaching a course on ballroom dance, and I guarantee you it's politics.
Revenge, revenge, vengeance, grievance politics, whatever.
It's almost like watching Django Unchained in real life.
It's kind of exciting.
So it's not just the kooks on Twitter and Facebook.
It's now the liberals on CNN who are attaching legitimacy and value to Christopher Dorner.
Have you noticed something hit me this morning as I'm watching, do we still not know whether he was in a cabin?
Oh, that's another thing.
You know, yesterday, this is the days run together.
It might have been two days ago, we had the story that local news in Southern California had intercepted the actual audio of the San Bernardino Police Department, Sheriff's Department, authorizing the cabin to be torched.
Burn it up.
Torch it up.
Burn it up.
Light it up.
And activists were angry as they could be that the Sheriff's Department would actually set the cabin on fire on purpose, knowing full well that a national hero was inside.
This is the way they were treating it.
So the sheriff's department has a, not really apologized, although I think it's close to it.
Grab audio soundbite number six.
Here, John McMahon, who is the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, I guess he's a spokesman.
And he had a press conference or during a Q ⁇ A.
A reporter said, Sheriff, a lot of questions about how the fire started at that cabin and whether it was on purpose, why the sheriff's department did set it ablaze.
That was something that happened as a result of the tear gas that was fired in there.
Can you explain how that transpired?
What the hell happened, Sheriff?
It was not on purpose.
We did not intentionally burn down that cabin to get Mr. Dorner out.
The tear gas canisters that we used, first off, we used a presence when we showed up.
Secondly, we used a cold tear gas.
Then we used the next tear gas was that that was pyrotechnic.
Does generate a lot of heat.
We introduced those canisters into the residence and a fire erupted.
Yeah, yeah, we didn't do it on purpose.
Don't jump down our chili here.
There was a national hero in there.
We didn't try to burn him out.
We fired tear gas in there.
Yeah, but we didn't set that thing on fire on purpose.
So all the focus is on the sheriff's department, how mean they might have been.
Because a national hero was in there.
A real-life Django Unchained was there.
A real-life Jamie Fox was in there.
What I was going to say, I'm watching all this morning.
Something hit me.
Every picture of this guy, he looks like he's smiling, he's happy, he's joyous.
No mugshot, no glaring, angry one.
They're portraying this guy as Mr. Happy, Mr. Joyous.
But I don't remember a trial regarding Christopher Dorner's grievances.
But this professor, Mark Lamont Hill, and all these kooks and nutcases on Twitter and Facebook, they just accept this guy's manifesto as gospel.
This do they do they know any accusation that he made is true?
They just accept every allegation he's made about the LAPD as true.
There hasn't been a trial, hasn't been an investigation.
So we have so many things going on.
We have going on at the same time.
We have a narrative and a template.
LAPD, racist, bigots, sexist, homophobes, and now arsonists.
Well, take it back.
That's the San Bernardino sheriff that the arsonists, the LAPD.
I don't know what I'm calling again.
So we have a deranged killer on the Lewis with an 11-page manifesto accusing the LAP, and it's just accepted.
And not only is it accepted, the killer is made essentially a national hero, and his claims are unquestioned.
They are totally accepted by this professor who's supposed to be teaching, you know, this high-minded stuff, inquiry, inspection, curiosity, all this stuff supposedly happens on campus, which really all it is is indoctrination anymore.
An important public.
Meanwhile, Marco Rubio may not be qualified for the Senate because he took a sip of water.
And meanwhile, Herman Kane and Clarence Thomas and any number of black conservatives qualified for anything, and they've got to be drummed out of public life because, well, we just disagreed.
We don't like them.
But this guy, look at who these left people come up with as their heroes.
There's a website out there called the Alternate, and I'm familiar with this.
When I first started this program, before the internet really became mainstream, a bunch of agitated left-wingers hung out at the alternate, and that's where a lot of the original slanderous, libelous criticism of me began.
And it was among ostensible professors, so-called educators, and so forth.
Alternate now is an online leftist magazine, and they ran a story by somebody named Chauncey De Vega, arguing that Dorner could be transformed through popular culture and storytelling into a figure talked about for decades, for centuries to come, with multiple versions of his stories and exploits.
Christopher Dorner dared to tell his version of the truth regarding the LAPD's history of corruption and racism, writes Chauncey de Vega.
They don't like tattletales and snitches at the LAPD.
Dorner was a particularly noxious threat to the status quo, both because of his violent actions as well as the symbolic power of his words and deeds.
We're talking about a mass murderer here who is being exalted, glorified, held up, and turned into a national hero for a left-wing cause.
Salon.com, Natasha Leonard has written a couple of stories sympathetic to Dorner.
Ex-cops sympathize with Dorner's anger is one.
Another, were Dorner's complaints legitimate?
He's a smart guy.
He wrote an 11-page manifesto.
This guy's got a high intellect.
We've got to listen to this guy.
Vice, in a story about whether or not Anonymous will retaliate after Dorner's death, that's a hacking group.
Implicitly compared Dorner to anti-establishment heroes like Bradley Manning and Aaron Swartz while acknowledging that a murderous ex-cop's a lot harder to defend than these nonviolent liberators of information.
Mark Lamont Hill, in addition to what we aired for you, says, Look, I don't support murder.
These are tweets.
I don't support murder.
And I empathize all the victims, but that doesn't mean we can't understand Dorner and his perspective.
We're capable of having two thoughts at the same time.
To leverage this crisis in the service of justice is not to disrespect the victims.
So we can make Dorner the biggest hero in the world.
We can legitimize his cause and we can take seriously his complaints while at the same time condemning his actions of murder.
Mark Lamont Hill.
I 100% get why Dorner is not hated by everybody or merely marked as a villain, not because I condone it, but because there's a bigger picture here.
Let me take a brief time out.
Remember now, all of this was aired on CNN as well as can a drink of water make or break a political career.
A U.S. Senator, we're going to find out whether he likes it or not.
Wolf Blitzer, CNN.
You know, whenever there's a crime spree, a single act of crime or a mass murder, whenever any kind of murder, mass or singular, attracts this kind of media attention, President Obama usually makes some big statement.
If I had a son, he'd look like Trevor, as one example.
He takes the occasion of the murderous event to blame existing culture, comma, conservatism and Republicans, and then propose some kind of federal action to fix it.
This would be made the order for Obama to use for the gun control push that he's on, except that this guy, I don't know, Obama has not said anything about he wishes Dorner were his son, right?
I don't think he can do that.
Do you?
I don't think that that'd be a little tough.
And Dorner's an ex-cop and he was armed and stuff, but he's a national hero.
Obama can't come out and condemn what this guy's doing.
Obama's base loves this guy.
Obama's base has made this guy a national hero.
Obama's academic support group, led by Mark Lamont Hill, and I'm sure he's not the only one, think this guy's manifesto puts him on a par with the Unabomber.
Need to celebrate and make a movie.
So Obama can't come out and condemn this guy, and he can't come out and say if he had a son, he'd look and act like Christopher Dorner.
So Obama may be shut out of this one.
That's an unfortunate thing.
Can you imagine if Christopher Dorner had drones, if drones were available to Christopher Dorner?
Would that remind you of anything?
Anybody?
And does anybody know whether Chris Dorner drank water or not?
It seems to be a gateway substance.
You drink water, and all of a sudden your qualifications To be United States Senator are called into question on CNN.
But, I mean, what was Dorner doing?
He took the law into his own hands, or he wanted to.
He wanted to be the judge and jury for those LAPD cops who he thinks wronged him.
He didn't believe in due process, even for American citizens.
Imagine if he'd had drones.
Scary.
And here we have CNN.
How, in all candor enough, in all seriousness, how low can this network go?
And maybe is it going to hurt him at all?
I mean, given the cultural proclivities of so many low-information voters today, 25, 30 years ago, behavior like this would have sunk this network.
They would have been humiliated and embarrassed out of existence.
They already have no viewers, and they still stay in business because they are subsidized by other divisions of Time Warner.
But from the Rubio stuff, I mean, this segment yesterday, they did lionizing this guy, turning him into a national hero with all of these questionable characters.
I mean, Mark Lamont Hill, yeah, he's a Columbia University professor, but a genuine radical.
He's a member of some group called Brothers for Barack.
It's a website group.
He's a longtime social activist and organizer.
And he somehow angled his way into a professorship at Columbia University.
And he's on Fox all the time, by the way.
So he has legitimacy extended to him by virtue of that.
And can you imagine, folks, just again to try to put this in perspective, Chris Dorner and not just CNN, by the way, MSNBC has had their turn at this, and all over Twitter and Facebook, Chris Dorner, a mass murdering malcontent, is made a hero by the U.S. media.
And Ambassador Stevens, Benghazi, and three other Americans are essential nobodies.
We're not turning over every rock to find out what happened to Ambassador Stevens and the other three Americans.
We're not endeavoring to elevate them to hero status.
We're not being told of any manifestos or term papers or doctoral theses that any of those four Americans wrote.
We're not being told of their thoughts on patriotism and their beliefs about America.
They're just dead.
And the circumstances surrounding their death are the subject of a major cover-up and a half-baked attempt to supposedly get to the truth.
In that instance, we have no idea where the president of the United States was while the attack that took their lives was taking place.
He just turned everything over to Leon Panetta and Hillary.
We don't know what anybody knew or did.
And that's as far as it goes.
We lay it off on a video.
We send Susan Rice out to say, yeah, it's a video caused all kinds of unrest.
And don't ask us anymore.
We've answered everything there is to answer about Benghazi.
Chris Stevens, yeah, went to his funeral.
Great guy, great family, but that's it.
Maybe One-tenth of one percent the time spent explaining to us who Ambassador Stevens was and what he believed and so forth compared to what we're being told and how we are being told to think of Christopher Dorner.
Dorner is a mass murderer who wanted to kill more innocent people, to make his point, and he's a hero.
He's somebody we should listen to.
Ambassador Stevens, that's a little uncomfortable.
We need to get that story out of the way and then move on.
Jack Moore, yesterday afternoon, CNN's newsroom, Brooke Baldwin's to the Info Babe anchorette talking to BuzzFeed radio co-host Jack Moore about people becoming fans of Dorner.
And Brooke Baldwin said, Jack, the LAPD angle, we now know Chief Beck said, yeah, we're going to re-look at the firing.
We'll investigate.
Yeah, I don't know where that stands given the status of the case now, Jack.
But do you think this should serve as a catalyst for a conversation talking about racism in the LAPD?
Do you think that maybe this Dorner guy might have a real point here we should discuss?
I think this is really even beyond just talking about the LAPD.
There's also something to it in that the narrative of Christopher Dorner doesn't, in some ways, it resembles a Denzel Washington movie where someone is wronged and he stands up for himself and it goes down in a blaze of glory.
Yeah, exactly.
She said, you know, that's right.
Why, this is not just like Django Unchained.
Why, this is also like that Denzel movie.
Holy cow, this Dorner guy, we've seen it all before.
It's just like those two movies.
Right.
Exactly.
And that's why we should be talking about it even more.
Yeah, just like a couple of movies.
Remember, Marco Rubio later on on the same network, qualifications to be a United States Senator called into serious question because he took a sip from a bottle of what looked to be Poland Spring water.
By the way, we have sent him a case of 2 of PIT for the next episode.
If people are going to ask him if he's qualified to be a senator because he took a sip of water, can you imagine the questions when he takes a sip of a beverage with the icon of Rush Revere on the label?
Up next, same show, the Infobabe anchorette Brooke Baldwin, now with rapper M.C. Light, who was brought in to comment on the Christopher Dorner situation about people becoming fans of the fugitive murder suspect.
So Baldwin finally said to the rapper M.C. Light, Mr. Light, I want to hear from you.
You're listening to all of these voices.
What do you think, Mr. Light?
What I read about the case is that he wanted to make good in terms of reporting, I guess, a fellow officer who had kicked a homeless person.
So if it all has catapulted into this, but truthfully, so people are, it's an uproar because people are being brutalized within LA and all over this nation.
We're seeing kids die at the hands of police brutality.
Yep.
So you see, there's a much larger agenda going on here.
This is not about even Christopher Dorner, as you've known from the get-go.
It's not about the LAPD specifically.
It's about the entire social construct that Obama and the Democrats are behind is that this is still a slave state.
This is still a slave nation.
We haven't made amends.
We haven't even come close.
There still is slavery.
And that movie Django showed us.
And Denzel showed us, every movie he makes.
There's still slavery out there.
Everybody knows it.
But we don't talk about it.
It's all over the LAPD.
It's all over the San Bernardino PD, Sheriff's Department.
It's everywhere.
And Dorner has come along and allowed us to discuss it and then prove it and make the point as we continue to transform this nation away from the horrible nation it was founded as.
Pretty soon they're going to say on this next CNN segment, I'll expect a graphic.
Mark Lamont Hill, Colin Dorner died for our sins.
Well, I mean, they're elevating this guy.
It's incredible.
This is going to be turned into a big budget Hollywood movie.
By the way, do you know there is a freed slave serving?
Grab audio soundbite number seven.
Yep.
There is a freed slave serving in the U.S. House right now.
A freed F-R-E-E-D slave serving right now in the House of Representatives.
Just to show you that slavery is still alive and kicking.
We have a freed slave.
Well, you say it's impossible.
Listen, here is a portion of remarks made by the freed slave currently serving in the House of Representatives.
It happened this morning on the House floor.
We're at the bone almost.
And sequester that is across-the-board cuts will literally destroy us and put us in a recession.
I don't want to hear the fact that the president is divisive.
The president is leading and he has led well.
The American people are listening.
When are our friends on the other side of the aisle going to listen?
I want to challenge this body to be the kind of Lincolnist attitude as yesterday was the official birthday of President Lincoln, February 12th.
And although it was a tragic time in our history, I can assure you that it showed the greatest promise of America when people could come together and do something great.
I stand here as a freed slave because this Congress came together.
And the words there are Sheila Jackson Lee from Houston, who stood there as a freed slave because this Congress came together.
And if we could free Sheila Jackson Lee from slavery, then why can't we free every African American?
Why can't we let Chris Dorner go?
Why did we have to keep him a slave in the LAPD?
We've made this guy into what he turned out to be.
We've forced him to do this.
And now he has shined the light of truth on the fact that this ongoing sin, this original sin, continues unabated every day.
Sheila Jackson Lee has been freed.
Isn't it time to free the rest?
We're not having much luck here, folks.
We've been doing exhaustive research in the last four minutes.
We're trying to find out who owned and who sold Sheila Jackson Lee and what they got for her.
She just said on the floor of the House of Representatives mere moments ago this morning, she was standing there as a freed slave because this Congress came together.
I didn't think they were coming together at all, but I mean, she talked about the Congress during Lincoln.
But anyway, she's a freed slave.
Somebody had the owner, and we don't know who.
Obviously, you know, with the makeup of culture today, it didn't have to be Houston.
The owner did not have to be where she lived.
She'd be owned by anybody.
What if a drug company owned her?
You know, what if big oil owned her and she didn't know about it?
Somebody freed her, though.
We will keep looking and try to find out who owned her, who sold her, and what they got.
I have to tell you, though, in all candor, I think she looks pretty good for her age.
She's got to be over 110.
You'd never know it.
Okay, Grand Junction, Colorado.
We are heading to the phones now.
This is Lindsay.
Great to have you with us.
Hello.
It's a pleasure to talk to you, Rush.
Thank you so much.
You bet, sir.
So many things I wanted to talk to you about.
This wasn't the first call I wanted to get through with, but I want to purpose this first off by saying I certainly do not condone anything that Mr. Dorner or Chris Dorner did to any of the victims.
Certainly everything he did was, you know, it was wrong, no doubt.
But to me, it's a whole lot deeper than it's certainly not a race deal.
It's not a black thing.
To me, it's more of a story about police brutality, police cover-up, and the subsequent destruction of this man's personal and professional life and career.
Certainly not everyone has all the marbles to go through all that and still come out strong.
I think this was a real personal issue.
And my point is this right here.
And I was in the L.A. area as this story was sort of unfolding.
So these aren't facts that I'm presenting to you.
They're just reports that I heard.
And that was that this man went after the daughter or killed the daughter, obviously, of someone that was either very high on the police panel and or represented him during the police hearings.
He took this case through all the police forum and then also thereafter went and took it to the civilian courts.
Well, you know, this is true.
Two things about this.
A, his victims were not white.
It's going to come as a shock to his victims were not white.
And secondly, this is the public sector where everything's supposed to be honey, cool, and roses and just neat as it can be.
This is the government sector where this happens.
And I wonder if there's going to be a move now to disarm people in the public sector because there's certainly not too risky to let them have guns.
Well, this is just a guy that obviously qualified to get into the military, qualified to get into the police academy, certainly went through all the qualified to murder three people, too.
Well, certainly.
Four now, qualified to murder four and be a national hero for doing.
Do you drink water, by the way, Lindsay?
Do you sip water?
I'm sorry?
Do you sip water?
Don't let anybody see, don't let CNN camera spot you do.
Whatever you do.
No doubt, yeah.
I sip water, no doubt.
Thanks for taking my call, Russian.
Thanks for hearing me out.
All right.
I know what you're saying, Lindsay.
This seems to be the look at.
We do have, a lot of people believe this, ongoing police brutality, LAPD, Southern California.
The OJ verdict was jury nullification.
Well, you say what you want, but that's, you know, I'm sure that if Mark Lamont Hill think he'd relate it to this, say it's more of the same.
The jury was a bunch of dorners that were not armed.
It's the only way to fight back that they knew how.
They didn't have guns, Dorner did.
But there's institutional racism, and of course, that can never stop, folks.
That'll never end.
It takes too many opportunities to stoke chaos throughout our culture.
Got to take a break.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
So we are making a national hero out of a mass murderer while some poor schlub sits in solitary confinement because he made a video about Muhammad.
And how come, you know, Timothy McVeigh, I mean, he blew something.
How come nobody cared what he thought?
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