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April 1, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 1, 2013, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And here we are, ladies and gentlemen.
We are back.
Great to have you here after a long Easter weekend.
We are back in the saddle again here, Rush Limbaugh at the distinguished and prestigious and becoming a lone outpost.
The Limbaugh, the Limbaugh Institute.
I forgot the name of it there for a minute.
For advanced conservative studies.
Great to have you, folks.
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I forgot the name of my own institute.
Well, no, I didn't forget the name.
The name is the Limbaugh, so I forgot that it was an institute, the Limbaugh thing.
At any rate, great to be back and great to be with you, ladies and gentlemen.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program today, 800-282-2882, the email address LRushbo at eibnet.com.
The Washington Examiner is reporting today that Lady Gaga turned down $1 million to perform at the Republican National Convention.
Obviously, the RNC in a low-information voter outreach there, trying to get Lady Gaga, mentioned this to some people today, and the reaction I'm getting from people is outrage.
Who in the world invited her?
There's no outrage that she would have turned them down.
There's outrage that she was invited.
I said, why?
Well, she hates Republicans.
And most of the people I asked about this were dumbfounded that anybody at the RNC would invite Lady Gaga to perform at the convention.
In an effort to get her, they even offered to give $150,000 to a domestic violence shelter if she would appear.
But Lady Gaga said no.
So the Republicans then asked Dolly Parton.
And Dolly Parton said no.
And then they went and asked the rapper Pit Bull.
And they wanted him to show up at an event for the Hispanic Leadership Network.
The Republicans actually invited a rapper by the name of Pit Bull to perform for the Hispanic Leadership Network.
Pit Bull said no.
So they ended up, let's see, with Journey at Leonard Skynard.
But apparently the most money was offered to Lady Gaga.
And she, of course, as we've mentioned, turned them down.
It's kind of fun to imagine what would have happened had she accepted.
Well, if she had accepted and if she performed up to expectations, she'd have spent the whole concert blasting the Republicans, wouldn't she?
But, you know, it's an interesting, I think it's no different.
You shouldn't be surprised.
I mean, the party is reaching out to Hispanics by promising a quasi-form of amnesty.
We're trying to reach out to women with a reaction to the war on women as though we're guilty in conducting it.
So it kind of makes sense that they think they could maybe get some votes by having Lady Gaga perform at the convention.
I just don't see Lady Gaga and Mitt Romney on the same stage or in the same program, but that's just me.
But it's quite instructive.
Not a big deal, but it is quite instructive.
Did you see where the Obamas went to church yesterday?
Easter Sunday, and they got the daughters off a spring break, come back from the Bahamas and the Rocky Mountains for this photo op at church.
Beginning to wonder if maybe the president isn't a little worried about his approval numbers, CBS News, Washington, pessimism on the rise as Obama's approval rating drops to 47%.
There are a number of polls now that have Obama significantly below 50%.
I think Rasmussen, interestingly, still has him at 50 or a little higher.
But there are at least three now where the president has plummeted below 50%.
So it was time to get the daughters back.
And it was time to go to church.
They're doing the Easter egg roll today.
Here, grab audio somebody.
Well, that, okay, I was going to get to that, but let's stick here with a good point.
Let's stick with the president and the family going to church.
They went to an Episcopal church, took the long walk across Lafayette Square, and they listened to a preacher on Easter Sunday, blast Republicans.
President of the United States chose a preacher whose sermon was devoted to claiming that Republicans want to force blacks to ride at the back of the bus again.
A preacher who in his sermon said Republicans want to make women go back to the kitchen.
And the Obamas were probably flashing back to the old Reverend Wright days and thinking, man, it's good to be home.
Jesus' resurrection in Easter.
Now, that's for the Bible TV show on Sunday night.
When you go to an Obama church service, all you're going to get is Republicans being blasted.
By the way, you know, with Obama there, to talk about the resurrection is a bit disrespectful.
I mean, you've got the modern-day Messiah sitting there in the front row, and then to talk about the resurrection of Jesus Christ is kind of insulting.
So I don't think the preacher talked about that.
But remember now, this is a president who we were told inspires everybody to come together.
You go back to the campaign of 2008, we're going to come together in love and in tolerance.
And so on Easter Sunday, the Obamas found a radical leftist minister who preaches hatred for Republicans.
His name was the Reverend Luis Leon.
And I wonder if Reverend Leon could actually name a Republican who has called for blacks to go to the back of the bus.
Why did the president sit there and listen to this?
Why did the president not stand up and excuse himself?
This is not the kind of sermon the president of the United States ought to have to listen to, particularly given in his honor in the honor of his presence at Easter Sunday services.
Of course, I'll tell you, folks, even with some churches, I think we were talking about this last week.
Easter's not a big deal.
I mean, the whole Christian thing as a fundamental part of the nation's founding is long gone anyway.
And so Easter has come to mean whatever the modern-day interpretation, political interpretation of religion happens to be.
And for this preacher, it was the opportunity to regale the president of the United States with what a bunch of evil doers the Republicans are.
Women in the kitchen, blacks at the back of the bus, but no doubt he cannot name one Republican who has called for blacks to go to the back of the bus.
And as for Republicans pushing women to go back in the kitchen, which party is it that's out there attacking women left and right?
Women like Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman, Nikki Haley, Mia Love, practically every other female Republican candidate gets told what?
Shut up, whether they're in the kitchen or not.
Bowed down.
They are lied about.
They are impugned.
Their character is ripped to shreds.
But no, on Easter Sunday, the President of the United States sits there and listens to an Easter Sunday sermon from preacher Louis Leon, accusing the Republicans of all of these horrible things.
And I'm sure this preacher preaches this kind of stuff every sermon.
He probably just got a little jazz that Obama was there and probably goosed it a little bit.
Now, the Easter egg roll is today.
And I want you to listen to Michelle Obama this morning at the White House.
This is the 135th annual Easter egg roll.
And before the festivity started, this is how she characterized it.
This is what it's all about.
Today we're going to have more than 30,000 people who will pass through this yard in celebration of nutrition and health and activity.
So today we want you to have a great time.
We want you to run around.
We want you to go over and see the White House garden.
We want you to learn about making tasty, healthy food.
We're going to come down and do some Easter egg roll.
We're going to read some stories.
But overall, we want you guys to have a good time and keep moving and be healthy.
And kids, eat your vegetables, okay?
Just keep moving to the exit gate.
The faster you're in and out of here, the better for everybody.
So the Easter egg roll, ladies and gentlemen, it is a celebration.
The young kids and their parents are showing up to celebrate nutrition and health and activity.
Is that really, really, and probably mooch on their friends there?
You don't think that would be taught, do you?
How to mooch from your friends at a White House Easter egg roll.
It's not confined any longer to Port St. Lucie, Florida, folks, from Hookset, New Hampshire.
A woman was arrested for calling 911 because she wanted help ordering Chinese food.
The police say 57-year-old Elizabeth Neme called 911 to get medical help on March the 15th.
When the fire department showed up, they learned she just wanted help ordering food.
The police department investigated.
They got a warrant.
They arrested her almost two weeks later, charged with misuse of emergency 911.
She was released on $5,000 bail, be back in court in April.
And I'm sure she can't figure out what she did wrong.
So we've had people called 911 because McDonald's is out of chicken McNuggets.
I forget the other examples.
Now this one, called 911 for help in ordering Chinese food.
As I mentioned, a gun control thing took center stage the last couple of days of last week in the ongoing moving target that is the news of the day, the agenda item of the day.
And where we are on this now, Schumer, Senator Chuck Yu Schumer was on Meet the Press yesterday, and he talked about the stuff that the Gang of Eight has agreed to.
And what they, according to Chuck Yu, Schumer, have agreed to is that probationary legal status for all illegals happens first.
Probationary legal status.
Now, you can read that amnesty, partial amnesty, whatever, but probationary legal status.
And that has always been, I mean, once you cross that line, once you open that door, there's no closing it.
Probationary legal status becomes legal status.
It's the first thing.
And Schumer says that this is what the Gang of Eight has agreed to.
After the probationary legal status, obviously comes the path to citizenship.
Now, he didn't say, at least on Meet the Press, he didn't talk about border security happening first, which, of course, is Marco Rubio's requirement.
Before anything can happen, Rubio said, before we get his vote anyway, there has to be border security first.
Now, Schumer, he did not say per se that the citizenship process wouldn't start until after this other stuff had happened.
He didn't say it explicitly, but to many people listening, the implication was clear.
But it's also obvious that he's not, as a member of the Gang of Eight, Schumer is not trying to convey the whole ball of wax, all nine yards, amnesty unquestioned.
There's still, he is putting the border security requirement in the mix.
But by first saying that probationary legal status will be granted to the existing population of illegals.
I mean, once you have that, once you have probationary legal status, the next thing is citizenship.
So crossing that, you know, opening that door, going inside that door of probationary legal status, that's always been the first thing.
So we'll see.
This was just Schumer on Meet the Depress yesterday.
And the LA Times, and Elliot has an interesting question because they're pointing out that Republicans are doing everything they can to send the signal to Latinos that, you know, we're not going to be nearly as hardcore on amnesty as we've been.
We're going to reach out to you guys.
We're going to reach out to you.
We want your votes.
We want you to know that we believe in you.
You know, this whole outreach thing.
The L.A. Times said, hey, look, Republicans, if you're going to do that, why not just cave on Obamacare, too?
And if you're going to cave on gay marriage, why not just cave on Obamacare?
Because Hispanics want Obamacare.
Now, the majority of the people in the country do not.
It still polls, majority oppose.
But in the Hispanic community, there's a vast majority of people in that community do think by 70 to 30 percent, by the way, that government is the primary source of prosperity or money.
Government's the source of that.
70% believe 70%.
I don't know what the exact number is on healthcare, but a sizable percentage, a majority of Hispanics believe in Obamacare.
So if you're reaching out to Hispanics, and this is just more pressure.
This is just, they're not asking the question.
The LA Times are not asking it rhetorically.
This is a pressure-packed question.
Well, hey, look, you guys, if you're going to be consistent, if you're reaching out to Hispanics on amnesty and stuff, why not reach out to them on Obamacare?
Because they want that too.
Interesting question.
I got to take a break, folks, but we'll be back much more straight ahead, as always.
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I misstated something Schumer did on Meet the Press after describing the way probationary legal status would be the first thing to happen.
And again, folks, probationary legal status is something, even though it's probationary, it isn't going to be taken away.
So that certainly means permanent.
Probationary legal status means citizenship.
But Schumer did say, I want to be accurate, that after the granting of probationary legal status, border security is part of what the Gang of Eight senators is putting together, and they've been working on ways to measure border security's improvement.
And he just trust us on this.
We're working on that.
We're going to have many ways to measure the improvement we make in border security after we grant the probationary legal status.
And the Politico has a couple of stories up today about this whole immigration thing, the Republican version and the Gang of Eight bill.
So we'll be back.
Don't go away, folks.
I don't know.
I...
I really don't know.
I don't know how they can continue to permit young boys in college to play basketball.
Did you see that gruesome injury yesterday?
The player for Lul and broke his leg.
Folks, this discussion involves the maneuvering of body parts in places they're not supposed to be.
If that sickens you, I'm going to count down from five, and you should stop listening for a while and just make sure you come back.
Five, four, three, two, one.
A young man was jumping to block a three-point shot from the perimeter right in front of the bench, came down wrong, and the tibi had just snapped and broke right through the skin.
And everybody was crying.
Coach Petino was crying, a team was crying, the cheerleaders were crying, the audience, the crowd was crying.
The network telecasters were warning people as they replayed the video not to look at it because it was so gruesome as they continued to play it.
I was not watching.
I'm not an NCT to a, it's not a college athlete guy.
I just never, I don't have an alma mater.
I'm just, it's, it's, it's, it's, I don't know, I've just never been excited about it.
Uniforms look cheaper, everything.
But anyway, I said, well, I'll see this on YouTube and I'll find out what it's all about.
I was, I was reading something at the time, so I eventually found it on YouTube and I read up on it and it apparently was just a gruesome site complete with the stretcher.
They actually needed a stretcher at a college basketball game.
That's unheard of.
And I don't know.
There was no contact here.
There's no rule that would have prevented this from happening.
It was just the cruelty of the game.
Here we have young student so-called athletes.
We don't even know if they're really going to class.
They're not paid anything.
In fact, if they do happen to get some money under the table, it's frowned upon.
They can hold up liquor stores and stuff, or they can engage in petty crime and they get their wrists slapped.
But they have no legal source of income.
They're not paid for anything that they do.
And yet, look, I don't know if this man will ever be able to play basketball again.
All for the barbaric entertainment purposes of a bunch of fans.
And it is a great illustration of the crassness, the barbarism that is on the rise in our country and in our culture.
And it's not enough that people cried.
It's not enough that people felt bad.
That's not going to mend the broken leg.
That's not going to take us back before the leg was broken and make sure that it doesn't happen.
That's not going to figure.
You can cry all day long and it isn't going to change anything.
I don't know how they can continue to play this game as, you know, making the court bigger without limiting the.
One thing they could do is maybe limit the speed with which the guys are permitted to run.
Lower the baskets.
Eliminate the 25-foot three-point line.
You realize the problems that's caused, the injuries that have been created with the three-point line, just eliminate it.
And now you would get people closer to the basket where it theoretically is safer.
But I mean, there's this wanton, brutal injuries taking place in a supposedly innocent childhood game.
I don't know.
Now, back to the immigration story.
Marco Rubio is saying that despite what Schumer said yesterday, I meet the press, reports of an immigration deal are premature.
Senator Rubio, who is a member of the Gang of Eight, said we're going to need a healthy public debate that includes committee hearings and the opportunity for other senators to improve our legislation with their own amendments in order to succeed.
Senator Rubio said this process cannot be rushed or done in secret.
Well, he's right about that's the way, you know, did not happen with Obamacare and should have, and it should have with this.
But we already know that other members of the gang of eight, including Republican members, are trying to ramrod this thing through so that none of what Rumio says is going to happen will happen.
Rubio may be the only one of the gang of eight who wants to slow down and be deliberate about this.
Rubio is this is citizenship 101.
I mean, a great way to characterize his attitude on this.
Civics 101.
This is the way a bill gets put together.
We're going to do hearings and we're going to have testimony and we're going to have amendments and we're going to have everybody playing in this and we're going to vote on this and we're not going to have anything done in secret.
That's the old-fashioned way of getting a piece of legislation done.
That's not how it happens anymore.
Certainly didn't have an Obamacare.
It doesn't happen with any budget bill or not very many.
So we now have competing statements.
Get Schumer on Meet the Press yesterday.
And let me tell you what he was saying.
In a nutshell, what Schumer was saying with all that rigmarole was that even though the Democrats have made sure we have never enforced our immigration laws for 60 years, if we get another amnesty, we will begin to enforce them.
That's what he, that's the basic thrust of his message.
That's how he tried to massage border security.
But his first requirement is this, what he's calling probationary legal status.
It means you're immediately made legal.
That's the amnesty.
But you're on probation.
You have to behave.
You have to follow certain rules.
Otherwise, we're going to catch you and send you back.
Well, we know that isn't going to happen.
But he wants people to think that it's possible.
In exchange for probationary legal status, there actually, he wants us to believe will be systems where we're going to be monitoring these people.
And if they violate probation, per se, they're gone.
That's not going to happen.
But he wants everybody to think it is.
Then the second promise of border security.
And he's basically saying, look, look, look, I know.
I know.
We've had 60 years of this, and we've never enforced our immigration laws, but we're going to start now.
As soon as we get this probationary status, you can trust us.
Right.
And Rubio is saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Hold on.
There's no agreement on this yet.
Hold on.
And this is just a day after sending a letter to Patrick Leahy warning against this rush to legislate.
Rubio released an Easter morning statement calling reports of a Gang of Eight reform agreement premature.
Well, the Gang of Eight reform agreement was essentially announced by Chuck Yu Schumer on Meet the Press.
The day before, that's when Rubio sent a letter to Leahy because the Gang of Eight was moving at warp speed to get this.
Folks, if they could get this done this week, they could.
Rubio is thinking At the earliest this fall, Rubio is thinking, I happen to know this, Rubio thinks it's going to take that much time, if not more, to have all the testimony before all the committees and subcommittees to make sure that every senator has his questions or her questions answered.
I asked him, I asked him specifically, what was his timeframe on this?
He said this fall at the soonest.
Well, I'm going to tell you, there's nobody on the gang of eight who's thinking this fall.
The gang of eight and a lot of other Democrats are thinking the longer this goes, the greater the chance we're not going to get it.
And they're right.
The longer this goes, the more it becomes obvious to low-information people what's going on here.
The longer it goes, the greater opportunity for people to find out what the end game really is.
And that's when opposition starts to really mount again.
You can't.
One of the things that's frustrating to me, that 2007, this was beat back big.
If you'll recall, in 2007, the House Republicans finally, and for the first time, stood up in opposition to the Bush White House on anything.
But we had a mad dash for amnesty back in 2007, and you in this audience and all over the country let them in Washington know you didn't want any part of it and you shut it down.
You stopped it.
Now, many people would assume that that same emotion and the same degree of opposition exists from 2007 to 2013.
It might, but it doesn't mean you don't have to go through the process again.
Just like conservatism was on display for what it is, conservatism and a conservative president and how great it is for the country for eight years in the 1980s and then five or six more years after that into the 90s.
The benefits, the triumph of conservatism was there for everybody to see.
But while that was happening in real life, the media and the Democrats were rewriting history and telling people how rotten and unfair and all that it was, the Reagan years.
And so even though people lived through it, they were convinced it wasn't what they thought.
The good times, the good economy, the end of the Cold War, Berlin Wall coming down, Soviet Union defeated, none of that was real.
That was the illusion.
What people lived and actually remembered was rewritten.
And so people were told that the reason the economy is bad today, because conservatism was triumphant for eight years in the 80s.
So even though in 2007, a vast majority of Americans shut down amnesty, you would think that, okay, two, three years later, try it again, same reaction.
Nope, you got to do it all over again.
So because the people of this country are being governed against, the will of the people of this country is being overwhelmed, subverted, whatever word you want to use.
The will of the people is not being heard.
Well, the will of the people is hurt.
It's not acted upon.
And so they're back.
Same players, a couple of new ones, are back all over pushing amnesty once again.
Democrat Party leading the way with the media.
And so the opposition process starts anew, all over again, as though it didn't happen in 2007 and as though it didn't happen in 2009.
This is how they wear people out.
Brief timeout, folks.
Sut tight.
And let's see.
We'll go to the phones when we get back.
So don't go away.
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Grab something about 18 real quick.
This is what Schumer said.
And by the way, there is no probationary legal status for people waiting in line.
For people legally waiting in line for citizenship, in the Gang of Eight plan, there is no probationary legal status for the only probationary legal status that there is is planned for people who are here illegally.
Now, here is Schumer, this on Meet the Press.
Yesterday, F. Chuck Todd said, Senator Chuck Yu, you spent last week on the border.
Some of your fellow members of the Gang of Eight, Jeff Flake was with you, issue border security and the metrics involved before launching the pathway to citizenship.
That's been resolved.
You guys have resolved the border security problem?
We've come to a basic agreement, which is that first people will be legalized.
In other words, not citizens, but they'll be allowed to work, come out of the shadows, travel.
Then we will make sure the border is secure.
And we have specific metrics that are in the bill.
I'm not going to get into what they are to make sure that that happens.
And after that happens, there's a path to citizenship.
And I think there's agreement among the eight on all of us.
And I think most of the American people agree with that, that we should certainly do.
We've made a great deal of progress in securing the border.
And here comes Senator Rubio saying, nope, we can't hurry this.
We need a healthy public debate that includes committee hearings, the opportunity for other senators to improve the legislation with their own amendments.
We can't do this in secret.
You heard Chuck Yu.
Well, we're going to legalize people.
Not citizenship, but we're going to legalize.
They can work, they can travel.
Then we're going to secure the border.
And we've got the metrics.
I'm not going to tell you what they are, but we've got them.
It's a done deal.
And then we're going to move on to legalizing them.
And everybody agrees.
That's what he said.
Everybody agrees.
That's, by the way, that is a hook that Democrats use.
Oh, everybody, the American people, everybody, everybody agrees.
Economists from all walks of life agree.
Citizenship experts, all walk of life agree.
Here's Vinny in Queens.
Vinny, talk to me.
Hey, Rush, how are you?
I don't know, Vinny.
You tell me.
Happy Easter to you, by the way.
Thank you.
I tell you, it's Monday and you got me fired up already.
You had to open up with that Episcopalian story.
Everybody knows that the word Republican is code for white.
That's exactly what it is.
And for you to tell me that the President of the United States sat there while an Episcopalian person, I'm not going to dignify him by calling him a pastor or a priest, would promote racism like that just confirms the fact that, and I hope someone from the White House is listening, and I know they are, I know they listen to your show, that the President of the United States is indeed a racist.
And he promotes racist behavior whenever he can.
Because not getting up and leaving that church, like you stated, was one of the most heinous acts of racism that I've seen in a long time because everybody knows the word Republican is code for white.
That's an interesting take that the president inspires it.
Inspires racism.
It may well be the case.
I mean, I'm sure that the person there, the Episcopalian person, Luis Leon, I'm sure he knew that Obama was coming in advance.
You know, he had the security to all that.
So he probably says, all right, I'm going to really rev it up now.
So Obama's presence inspires this guy to go all divisive, all racist, and start jamming on the Republicans for wanting blacks at the back of the bus and women back in the kitchen when he can't name a single person who does.
But the president of the United States, you may be right, may have inspired that in this preacher and then sat there and listened to it and by definition approvingly so by not getting up and leaving it and by not criticizing it when he walks out.
Which does not surprise me.
I know that this president's not interested in unifying people, but a lot of people think he is.
Got to go.
Vinny, thanks.
back after this.
Senator Schumer in that soundbite meet the press said that we have specific metrics to make the border secure, but he wouldn't say what they are.
Well, what are they?
Why didn't we do these sooner?
Why haven't we done this yet?
If he's got these metrics, these magic bullets to make the border secure, where's it been?
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