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April 10, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 10, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Okay, sternly are you ready to admit?
Are you ready to admit now that I knew exactly what I was talking about yesterday?
In fact, we knew about it before the end of the program, but you've now seen even more evidence of it.
Mitch McConnell is the evildoer.
Mitch McConnell's the creep.
Mitch McConnell and his staff, they're the mean guys.
And thanks to his office being bugged and the results of a bug being published by Mother Jones, we now know what a rotten piece of scum McConnell and his staff are.
Right?
Never that's the way it's playing out.
It's the way it's playing out in the low information media.
It's the way it's playing out in the uh in the drive-by media.
Hi, folks.
How are you?
Uh Ill Rushbaugh here behind the golden EIB microphone already Wednesday, fastest week in media.
Don't forget Friday is our annual Curathon as we tackle the blood cancers, leukemia, and lymphoma.
I forget.
HR, what what year is this gonna be?
You know off the top of your head, it's like twenty or something, HR.
Twenty-three years.
Yeah, I see HR not even in the studio yet.
He probably on the phone with WLS.
Anyway.
Um, uh it's a big big uh b anniversary for the Big 89 in Chicago.
And uh we're gonna do a greeting.
By the way, can't believe I'm actually on WLS, a childhood dream.
And anyway, we've got we've got the Leukemia Curaton coming up on Friday, 23 years, and the amount of money that you all have generated for this cause in less than three hours a year is just overwhelming.
It's stunning.
So we're looking uh we're looking forward to that.
Try this.
New York police.
What?
Yeah, yeah, sequester Soul Train.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm gonna get to that.
Here we are again.
You know, everybody has their favorite thing they want me to talk about.
And and I I I can't, you know, I I can't mention everything in the first five minutes.
Well, I can mention it, but that's all I can do.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The sequester Soul Train.
I mean, here we are in the middle of the sequester.
With all do you realize, folks, the blue angels have been grounded all year.
I mean, what the this is the greatest PR for the Navy that there is that blue ain't grounded for the whole year.
The same thing with the Air Force Thunderbirds.
Grounded because of the sequester.
You mean we couldn't find one of a hundred and twenty-six.
Well, it's a defense budget cut, I know, and they're taking non-essential stuff.
But make no mistake, they're cutting things like that that people will notice to talk and to try to illustrate how mean and insensitive and cruel uh the budget cuts are.
Anyway, well, all that's going on.
You've got you got the uh the Soul Brothers Express in the White House, some Memphis Soul stew going on there last night.
Jessica Beale, who is the uh the bride of of Justin Timberlake, is tweeting.
Hi, hi, I hug PODUS, I hug PODUS, I hug POTUS.
She didn't even send out a tweet, I hugged my husband, I hugged my husband after they got married.
But she says tweeting, she she hugged, she hugged POTUS.
Anyway, I think it's embarrassing, folks.
I I I think this this you talk about conspicuous consumption and and a display of it.
I mean that it's all part of the performances at the White House series, and it's supposed to be cultural enrichment.
But what it is is Obama jamming it down everybody's throats.
We got a country in decay, we have a dying country, and there's the president partying down uh the same day or the day after.
I still, ladies and gentlemen, I I still can't believe that the president of the United States actually said we've got to make it harder to gun down our kids.
That that That is one of the most undignified, unpresidential utterances.
And I've heard from anyone, including Clinton.
I didn't have sex with that woman.
Not a single time.
And I never asked anybody to lie.
Never.
And it all gets lumped in the same category.
It's just beneath the dignity of the office.
We gotta make it harder to gun down our kids.
Gun down our why it just I don't know.
Especially with the with the some of the parents, kids at Sandy Hook Elementary School standing there flying around on Air Force One, the economy in the tank.
I don't know.
I just I think the the sequester soul train.
You see what Drudge tweeted?
POTUS chomping Nicarette, standing ovation for Cindy Lauper, who already looks deep into Obamacare.
Now back to urgent gun control push and crying families.
And I think that sums it up.
That sums up the Obama charade very nicely.
Drudge tweeted that out.
POTUS chomping Nicarette, standing O for Cindy Lauper, who already looks deep into Obamacare, and now back to urgent gun control push and crying families.
And speaking of Biden out there making fun of the black helicopter crowd, rather than answer a serious question about Obama administration policy on guns.
They asked him, well, wait a minute, if you're going to require a background check and registration for every purpose, every purchase of a gun, how is this not national gun registration?
And oh by and Biden comes out with some insulting answer about, well, we're gonna swoop down in the black helicopters and we're gonna find out where you are and who you are.
They got that audio sound bite coming up.
The New York State police are suspending the handgun permits of people in the state who are prescribed anti-anxiety medication.
This, according to Jim Tresmond of the Tresmond Law Firm in Hamburg, New York.
We are representing a client right now, impacted on this or by this onerous activity.
We're flummoxed by the whole thing, the lawyer said.
The HIPAA Act is supposed to prevent this kind of thing from happening.
It's a gross invasion of privacy.
And what he's talking about is the New York cops are going to confiscate guns from everybody taking anti or anti-anxiety medicine.
Now the question is, how do they know who's taking anti-anxiety medicine?
How do they know that?
Well, they've obviously they're getting pharmacy records.
And that's what the lawyer means by HIPAA.
The HIPAA Act is supposed to prevent this.
I remember the first time I'd ever heard of HIPAA.
I went to the doctor for something, and before they would do anything, and they said, You gotta sign this.
I said, What is it?
It's HIPAA.
I said, What's that?
Well, this just it it's uh uh you you're agreeing that we can't give your medical records to anybody except in some sort of emergency, whatever it was.
They led me to believe that it was a privacy thing, limiting what they could do with my medical records, but at the same time granting them permission to share them in certain circumstances.
The whole thing was pushed as a as a privacy thing.
Now I have a little personal experience with medical records being procured by the authorities, and obviously that's what's happened here.
So if you happen to be in New York City and you are taking anti-anxiety medic, I don't what what would be what is a brand name of a drug for anti-anxiety?
Was it Prozac?
Prozac, Xanic, Adavan, Adderall, no, Adderall is uh NFL performance drug.
You didn't hear that?
Richard Sherman, cornerback, Seattle Seahawks, Said that, you know, he he got suspended for four games for taking Adderall.
It's it's it's an amphetamine.
It's for ADHD and narcolepsy.
And it's it's uh it's an amphetamine.
It's speed, it it bumps up the adrenaline level, it it makes you more alert and so forth and so forth.
And he said half the league is on it.
Whoa!
Richard Sherman, the Seahawks and half the league, half the NFL's taking Adderall.
And he said the league may as well go ahead and legalize it because everybody's taking it.
I don't know if that's uh I don't know if that's why they have to send in the signals to a boy, by the way, did you hear speaking of professional sports?
Bud Sealing, the commissioner of Major League Baseball, did you hear this?
I'm gonna launch an investigation to find out why blacks are not playing baseball.
They want to find out apparently major league rosters, they've done research out there, and they have found only 7.7% of Major League players are African American.
There are a lot of Dominicans and uh uh Latin American players, but African Americans, 17 uh 7.7%, and there are some teams that don't even have one.
And of course, this is the anniversary year of Jackie Robinson breaking down the race barrier, and so they're all wringing their hands over this launching an investigation to try to figure out why young African Americans don't want to go play baseball.
Why instead are they playing football or basketball?
In a related study, the commissioner of the National Basketball Association has decided to study why a dwindling number of white guys play basketball.
Only kidding about that.
That is not happening.
And the National Football League, Major League Baseball, the NBA, are none of them commissioning a survey to find out why so few Asians participate in their sports.
Only Major League Baseball digging deep to find out why African Americans are choosing not to play baseball.
And in the story on this, on the second page of the story, whoever writes the story, there is a theory espoused.
And the theory is that with all the concussions happening in football, African Americans might all of a sudden decide to quit playing football and start playing baseball again.
Now there are probably a whole host of reasons why African Americans aren't aren't playing baseball.
One would be Michael Jordan.
Another would be Tiger Woods.
They're all doing something else.
Uh Charles Barkley.
I mean, the the role models for young African Americans are not playing baseball.
In addition to that, you can't just go out and play baseball.
You've got to get a big field, and you've got to go out, and you have to find somebody that's got a ball, and then you're gonna lose that ball when somebody fouls it off into the gutter, or it's gonna get dirty.
And you gotta find somebody, everybody's gotta have a glove.
Everybody's gotta have baseball shoes, but they have a mitt, you gotta find a diamond and all this.
And it's and then you've got to find a reasonable number of guys that also have a bat and also have access to gloves that want to play with you.
Basketball, you didn't you don't need anything.
You know, ball, a hoop, and you can go out there by yourself to start shooting around.
Football, you also need some other people, but you can just two guys out there toss a football around and and uh and pretend baseball is a little bit more involved.
I I never forget when I kid was a kid playing baseball, we couldn't find diamonds.
I mean, it w every every kid in the world played, didn't matter.
Uh and we'd play with one ball until it was so dirty you couldn't see it anymore.
And then we'd go to our parents and beg for a new baseball, and they always held out.
We we didn't get a new ball until the One we were playing with was either falling apart at the seams or just knocked lopsided.
And then finding a diamond was tough.
That's a small town, too.
But finding a place to play was tough.
But still, we did.
But boy, getting a new baseball.
You take it out of the box, you smell the raw hide.
I was just the smell of a new baseball when you're a kid, and it's brand new and it's white and doesn't last long.
And you go to your first major league game, and you want, how does every ball stay white?
Why don't their balls get dirty in the big leagues?
Then you learn there's 60 of them for every game.
None of that seems to have any magic for kids.
And I remember flying back to New York after a rush to excellence tour in the late 80s, early 90s, and we're in our rival route over New Jersey, and I'm looking, it's a Sunday afternoon in the spring or something, looking out the window, and there's countless baseball diamonds with nobody on them.
And I was thinking how as a kid I would have killed for diamonds that look like that to play, and not just some grass field where we had to mark off bases and so forth.
We even played during the rain and we did the rain out business, and we had a guy whose dad gave us a fake tarp to put on our little field when it rained.
We had our ground crew to the whole thing.
I'll never forget it.
And uh my one of my first big real crushes was not making the high school baseball team, because I thought I was a lock.
That was one of the greatest learning experiences.
I thought I was a lock.
And I didn't make the first cut.
And I went home and told my dad, I said, is a coach not like you or something?
He says, hey, son, don't lay this off on me.
You're the one that got cut.
You're the one that may not be good enough.
Did you try as hard as you should have?
I said, Thought I did.
Anyway, who cares?
7.7 are choosing to play, others aren't.
So what?
They're finding other things to do.
I wonder.
Now I better not offer that as a partial explanation.
Never mind.
It may not just be baseball that young people are choosing not to engage in because there are other opportunities, including doing nothing.
Well, tell me, what's the deal?
What do you mean everybody knows the deal?
I don't know what it is.
Well, okay, okay.
Is that what it is?
Is that what it is?
Are you are you giving me are you giving me the thought in in young black neighborhoods?
Is this what's okay?
Here's what's snerdily.
Snerdly says uh baseball, that's that's that's uh what'd you say, Latin American guys?
Spanish guys play baseball.
Football, black guys, football or basketball, that's black guys.
Right?
Hockey, hockey's hockey's white guys.
Boxing is mostly Spanish guys now.
So it's just still some brothers in boxing.
But so it's just the way it's evolved, and it ain't cool to play baseball because uh the Spanish guys have played okay, quick, I gotta take a break.
I just know this.
Back here in just a ladies and gentlemen, I may as well go ahead and I say this.
My my getting cut first day of tryouts, I don't even know if you call it getting cut, and you get cut after you make the team.
Well, no, not really.
I got cut.
But it was the first day of tryouts, and I got I didn't make it.
And the coach told me, just to show you how things have changed.
The coach told me that my style of baseball was uh was white, white-style baseball, and it's not what he wanted.
You know, President Obama had much the same thing.
He he claimed that uh he didn't get to play much when he was in school in Hawaii, because he played uh black style basketball and never got in the game because of that.
Uh coach is racist or something.
In my case, I I I played white style baseball.
And uh Coach said it's just it wasn't what he was looking for.
Uh grab audio summite number seven.
We have time.
This is this is gonna lead in to the next segment, ladies and gentlemen.
By the time you turn on TMZ, what we're gonna hear is how mean these guys in McConnell's office were in talking about Ashley Judd, who everybody loves.
She's a great actress, she's very cute.
She married the race car driver, and these mean white Republicans, look at what they were planning for her.
That's what's gonna end up here.
And it has.
In fact, before the program even ended yesterday, the LA Times took that tack, and there has been more piled on since the program ended.
That's coming up when we get back.
Hi, how are you?
Welcome back.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, Rush Lynn Baugh, the EIB network.
So yesterday afternoon during the program, we learned that the Senate office of Mitch McConnell.
I think it was the um Kentucky office.
Not sure.
One of the offices, Senator Mitch McConnell had been bugged.
Somebody criminally entered and installed listening devices and recording equipment.
That is obviously a violation of law.
Watergate anyone.
Mother Jones published details of what was overheard being discussed in Mitch McConnell's office by his staff as they were strategizing over a potential Senate run by the actress Ashley Judd, who by the way is in Tennessee.
She was considering running as recently as two weeks ago.
And so the office staff of McConnell was strategizing, and they were talking about her and planning various aspects of a campaign against her.
And Snerdley's screaming at me, this is against the law.
This is what you're getting.
This is I mean, this is these guys whoever did this are gonna go to jail.
You can't do I said, No, no, no, no, you're misreading this totally.
I said, What's gonna happen here?
Is that the media is going to jump all over McConnell for the things that were said about Ashley Judd.
As you have to understand, Ashley Judd, good liberal.
I mean, this folks, I know that she's had her problems with depression.
I I know this, and I know that she's admitted that she sought therapy because she has control issues.
I mean really domineering maniacal control issues.
I think it led to her marriage not working out.
She's admitted this.
She has said some of the strangest things about God.
I wish I had printed them out.
I was reading about this a couple of days ago and in a story about her deciding not to run, and one of the reasons why is because people had uncovered all this stuff that she had said.
And I'm telling you, it's so uh I don't know how to characterize it politely.
But it I that's why I'd really like to have it here in front of me.
Maybe I can find it and just quote her.
I mean, one moment God's a tree, the next moment it's the highway.
The next moment it's her fingernail.
It it God floats.
It's it's it's uh anyway, so they they're strategizing about this.
And I I told Snerdon, I told all of you that the media is gonna jump all over McConnell.
Here's this evil white guy and his evil white staff, a bunch of conservatives, and look at the mean stuff they're saying about Ashley Judd, who is just a great liberal.
She's a beautiful actress, uh, and she wants to run for the Senate, and uh uh I I just I warned everybody that don't care where you go, TMZ, E entertainment, doesn't matter, entertainment tonight, extra ABC C B S N B C and lo and behold,
even before the program ended, we got a a piece in the LA Times secret tape of McConnell bashing Ashley Judd anatomy of a smear.
Now keep in mind we wouldn't know what McConnell and his staff were talking about if they hadn't been bugged.
And if Mother Jones hadn't printed it.
So who smeared who here?
McConnell's staff didn't use any of this stuff.
They were just talking about it.
But you know what it's called?
It's called campaigning.
It's called running for office.
If you do it, what'll happen is that you'll get a staff.
And then you'll get an office.
And you and your staff will get in the office and you'll start talking.
And the things that you will talk about will be oriented toward you winning an election.
That is called a campaign.
That's what was going on in McConnell's office.
So they bugged it.
They heard McConnell and his staff campaigning.
And they committed the crime.
McConnell and his staff are the egregious ones.
They are the reprobates.
Because they were going to smear Ashley Judd.
There is no indication how they were going to use whatever they were discussing about Ashley Judd.
There was no indication at all.
They were discussing how to.
It's called opposition research, and every candidate from every party does it.
Let me give you a sample.
Ashley Judd quote on God.
Look at me.
Look at listen to this.
Quote, I still choose the God of my understanding as the God of my childhood.
I have to expand my God concept from time to time.
And you know, particularly I enjoy native faith practices.
I have a very nature-based God concept.
I'd like to think I'm like St. Francis in that way.
Brother Donkey, Sister Bird.
That's Ashley Judd on God.
Right?
So the McConnell people sitting around and talking about that.
And one of McConnell's staffers on the bugged tape can be heard laughing and saying, Brother Donkey, Sister Bird.
And that's mean.
That's vicious.
That's extremism.
That's bigotry, and that's war on women.
And that's what was going on in McConnell's office, war on women.
And so Mother Jones and whoever bugged McConnell's office are heroes, folks, not criminals.
They're heroes for exposing the misogynism.
The extremism, the sexism, the bigotry, the homophobia, the mean spirited extremism of the McConnell staff.
That's what I'm saying.
It's called campaigning.
Now during the during the session that the bug picked up, the McConnell team also discussed uh Ashley Judd's mental health history.
One staffer told Mitch she's clearly he said, I know Mitch this sounds extreme, but but she's emotionally unbalanced.
And I mean it's been documented, the aide says.
The campaign can go into chapter and verse from her autobiography about uh she suffered some suicidal tendencies, she was hospitalized for 42 days when she had a mental breakdown in the uh in the 1990s.
This is all in the TMZ article, by the way, in which the McConnell staff and McConnell are portrayed as the reprobates.
I just I I'm I'm mentioning this here at the near the top of the program because I predicted it.
This was easy.
This was an easy call.
This didn't take any particular expertise on my part.
I didn't even have to think about this.
It's just natural.
You've got an illegal electronic bug.
You've got David Korn, who is Mother Jones.
David Korn is loved and adored in the left wing media.
Used to be at the nation.
He's fully accredited as a wacko leftist extremist, and Mitch McConnell everybody hates because he's boring and he's a conservative.
By the way, uh these are the same people who were talking all kinds of ugly racial Stuff about his wife, who is Asian American, Lane Chao.
But see, that's permitted.
The left can talk that way about people.
The left can make fun of conservatives, and they can they can use all the unapproved language because they're the left.
And they're incapable of doing anything wrong, and they are the ones who are tolerant, and they're the ones who are all about diversity.
But nothing that was said, at least on the tape, the bugged recordings.
Nothing said by McConnell's staff seems to be wrong or inaccurate.
So what's the complaint?
The complaint is that they were thinking it.
The complaint is they were thinking about saying it.
The complaint is they were thinking about using this to defeat Ashley Judd, and that's not fair.
It's mean spirited, it's racism, it's sexism, and it's the war on women.
And it's typical.
What these rich white guys do.
And so the fact that McConnell's office was bugged, which led theoretically to the resignation of a president in the past, is celebrated and applauded by the media.
The end of the TMZ article.
On the tape, the McConnell people also point out she's critical of traditional Christianity.
She sort of views it as a vestige of patriarchy.
She says that Christianity gives a god like a man, presented and discussed exclusively with male imagery, which legitimizes and seals male power.
The intention to dominate, even if that intention's nowhere visible.
So that's why she doesn't like Christianity, because Christianity is nothing more than hidden male domination.
Mediaite weighed in on this.
Ashley Judd is not yet spoken publicly about the content of the secret tapes that Mother Jones obtained from a private Mitch McConnell strategy meeting, but she did deliver a strongly worded statement to PMSNBC.
In the tapes, McConnell and his team can be heard discussing how they plan to turn Judd's emotionally unbalanced history of depression into a larger campaign issue if she had chosen to run against him in 2014.
And they can be heard laughing throughout the meeting about the various ways that they would use her past statements, things that she has said against her.
It's called campaigning.
This is a perfect example, folks, of the media's it's subtle, but it's a duplicity.
Mediaite tries to make it sound like McConnell's heartless staffers were laughing about Ashley Judd's history of depression when they were not.
They did laugh about the brother donkey sister bird reference to St. Francis.
But Ashley Judd, in response, wrote, This is yet another example of the politics of personal destruction that embody Mitch McConnell and are pervasive in Washington, D.C. We expected nothing less from Mitch McConnell and his camp than to take a personal struggle such as depression, which many Americans cope with on a daily basis and turn it into a laughing matter.
Well, we expected nothing less than Ashley Judd and her minions in the news media would try to turn the victim here, McConnell, into the bad guy.
Because if anybody's been victimized, it's McConnell.
The McConnell people didn't put any of this out.
The anatomy of a smear is the LA Times headline.
The LA did the McConnell people didn't sneer at sneer anybody.
The McConnell people didn't go public with any of this.
They were strategizing.
It's whoever bugged his orifice and Mother Jones, who are essentially smearing Ashley Judd until such time as McConnell used any of this, and depending on how in a campaign, he can't be held to be guilty of anything.
That's not true, Mr. Lomboy, he is thoroughly guilty because he was talking about it because he wanted to, and you know it what did I do.
He couldn't await.
He was hoping an athlete gentleman wants to make fun of her.
We don't know that, Mr. New Castradi.
You're just assuming all this.
So once again, here's the victim, Mitch McConnell, office illegally bugged, and he's the cyanide Baronhart.
He's the evildoer.
I gotta take a quick time out, my friends.
Don't go and by the way, the low information voter.
Don't doubt me.
Low information voter today who has run across this story.
Mitch McConnell is the embodiment of evil today.
Don't doubt me for a moment.
Okay, here's the rap.
Entertainment tonight, or I'm sorry, e-entertainment.
Ashley Judd political intrigue, actress ripped as emotionally unbalanced by Republican opponents in leaked audio tape.
That is not what happened.
That is that is so classically not what happened.
Ashley Judd political intrigue actress ripped as emotionally unbalanced by Republican opponents in leaked audio tape.
Ashley Judd has yet to run for public office, but she's already getting a bitter taste of political intrigue.
In the audio, the Republican leader in his aides could be heard criticizing the actress as they questioned her mental and emotional health.
They alluded to her past suicidal tendencies as chronicled in her autobiography.
They referred to them.
They alluded to them, and they tore into her stance on family and parenthood, sneering that she thinks it's unconscionable to breed.
They sneered.
The news is not that the Democrats were thinking about nominating somebody like this.
The news is not that the Democrats were thinking of nominating somebody who actually believes it's unconscionable to breed.
You know, a Republican campaign office was bugged by Democrat hacks.
Doesn't that mean the current Democrat president has to resign?
Isn't that what Watergate?
The Watergate rule is.
I know Obama didn't order the uh the break in.
He didn't order the the bug, he probably didn't even know about it but till after Richard Nixon.
Then he grab a quick call.
Kathy in Weymouth, Massachusetts.
Hi, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Uh well tell you about what gets me with this is that the Republicans are always so cowardly.
Uh when they're on TV, when they're doing anything right now, every one of them should the Senate Republicans should be saying this is a disgrace what happened to Mitch McConnell.
You know, none of us want this happening to us.
I hope this is being investigated, and just go on and on about it.
Well, they are afraid.
They're afraid okay, levels are like, you know, unfortunately.
Um they no, no, it's not your fault.
They they are afraid that if they do that, that uh they'll be uh called cowards uh or whiners or complainers.
I wonder what would have happened if back when the office of Watergate that was broken into, and everybody, you know, hunt did it, Nixon didn't know about it, but they all went after Nixon.
Everybody turned on him, not the Republicans backed him and stood behind him.
Yet we know that, you know, Kennedy, the first election, Nixon probably won.
And the next here he is, he's got Ted Kennedy and McGovern, and his people want to know what what dirty trick are they gonna pull on Nixon this time.
I mean, I don't know, when Nixon ran for the Senate the first time, the woman that he ran against, they everybody says he's a big deal.
Well, wait a minute.
Well, we're getting off the beaten pen.
This is this is not about Nixon.
Now, I understand people want to make the Watergate connection.
I did myself, even as a joke.
But but this has a different lesson to be learned from it.
I've got to take a break, though, folks.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Okay, I just have a couple of more brief things to say about this.
I just to square it up and make sure people understand here.
And then one audio summit montage of media people talking about this tape from McConnell's office without even referencing it's illegal.
It's a great illustration of where we are.
And I must take a type of the hour time out here, my friends, but you sit tight.
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