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April 10, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 10, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Great to have you here.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program 800-282-2882 and the email address, lrushbow at eibnet.com.
No, I just want to close the loop on this.
This is one of these things.
It ought not to, but I am incredulous.
If anybody ought to, and I do understand it.
I'm not surprised by it.
I predicted it, but I guess it's one of those things if we could get people to understand what's going on in this instance, it would help open eyes about so much else.
So Mitch McConnell's office is bugged.
That's illegal.
We don't know who did it, but the beneficiary is Mother Jones magazine.
They got the tapes of conversations between Mitch McConnell and his staff in their office.
Now, you can't do this, folks.
And we've had a president resign, essentially, over this kind of event taking place.
A Democrat National Committee headquarters in a Watergate building were bugged in 1972.
And when it was first discovered, there wasn't much made of it.
But certainly, if there was any sympathy, it was for Sir Larry O'Donnell, Lawrence O'Donnell, or Lawrence Metal Block on the guy running the DNC at the time.
Doesn't matter.
There was sympathy for him and the Democrats, and there was curiosity as to who did it, but nothing was gleaned from it, and it was inept in its execution, which is why it was discovered.
They left tape on the lock so they could get back in a second time.
And it was discovered.
It took nine months for Watergate to gin up and become what it was.
Well, in this case, we have obviously a left-wing somebody bugging McConnell's office, tape recording conversations between him and his staff.
Among the conversations that took place were those discussing a potential candidacy for the Senate of Ashley Judd, 2014, opposing McConnell.
So McConnell's staff, McConnell, sitting around talking about that possibility, strategizing how they would run against her, all of it being recorded illegally.
And the tapes end up with Mother Jones magazine.
They're published.
And now we've got transcripts and the tapes of the staffers and McConnell talking about Ashley Judd.
And the guilty party here is McConnell.
The guilty people are McConnell and his staff.
The tapes are considered legal.
And the media is not questioning how they were obtained.
They're simply focusing on what's on the tapes and using it as an occasion to once again malign and impugn the character of Republicans.
All they were doing was discussing what Ashley Judd had said and written about herself and how to use it in a campaign.
Larry O'Brien, the DNC head, the Democrat National Committee guy.
It's his office that was broken into in the Watergate building.
So illegally obtained tapes, and the evil guy, the bad guy is McConnell.
McConnell's the criminal.
And again, all his staff was doing, they were just discussing things that this woman has said about herself and written about herself and laughing about some of the really absurd things that she said.
And so I want you to listen to media montage that we put together.
This is not extra.
This is not entertainment tonight.
This is not TMZ.
This is World News Tonight.
We do have Inside Edition here, the NBC Nightly News, F. Chuck Todd, all kinds of mainstream state-controlled media journalists talking about this.
They are shocking, just released audio tapes aimed at taking down actress Ashley Judd.
Now there is a new tape scandal brewing, and this time it involves almost candidate Ashley Judd and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
A secret tape of the Senate's top Republican.
It involves his campaign discussing a plan to target a possible opponent who just happens to be Hollywood star Ashley Judd.
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell can be heard plotting to crush the actress's potential campaign.
The Senate Republican leader discussing a famous potential opponent who happens to be the actress Ashley Judd.
McConnell and his political inner circle privately discuss their so-called OPPO research on how to attack Judd.
Privately, but overheard by an illegal wiretap.
Not one reporter referred to the tape as illegal.
They just referred, shocking, just released audio tapes aimed at taking down Ashley Judd.
Why, how dare anyone do that?
How dare anyone try to beat Ashley Judd?
How dare anybody discuss a campaign oriented toward defeating Ashley Judd?
How dare they?
How dare a Republican leader discuss a famous potential opponent, Ashley Judd?
How dare they?
Not how dare they illegally wiretap.
None of that.
No reference to it whatsoever.
This isn't biased.
This is long gone bias.
This is nothing to do with bias.
This is the Democrat Party adjunct office in the media.
This is the agenda.
There's no bias here.
We're so far past bias.
Here is McConnell yesterday on Capitol Hill during a press conference.
Last month they were attacking my wife's ethnicity.
And then apparently also, unbeknownst to us at the time, they were bugging our headquarters.
Quite a Nixonian move, much like Nixon and Watergate.
That's what the political left does these days.
Yeah, it's entirely justified, Mitch, because you're a mean, rotten SOB.
You were planning on beating Ashley Judd.
How dare you?
And in addition to beating her, you were going to use her own words.
You were going to really make fun of her by simply quoting her.
You're going to really make her look silly, Mitch.
That's what you're not going to be forgiven for.
You were going to make her look like a fool by quoting her.
How dare you?
Who do you think you are?
What gives you the right to think you have the right to beat Ashley Judd in a campaign?
Who do you think you are?
By the way, we have one excerpt of the tape.
This is from Mother Jones magazine released audio secretly, illegally recorded campaign meeting, Mitch McConnell and his campaign staff back on February 2nd.
I think too, she's clearly sort of anti-sort of traditional American family.
She described having children as selfish, and she thinks it's unconscionable to breed.
So you put that, we'll talk to you later about her sort of pro-choice stance, and it's sort of a pretty extreme posture tape.
She also is critical of fathers giving away their daughters in marriage ceremonies.
She says it's a common vestige of male dominion over women's reproductive status when her father gives her away at a wedding.
That's Mitch McConnell staff talking about Ashley Judd.
And it's a great commercial.
Run that as an ad.
All they're talking about is what she thinks.
And that's the real problem.
They dare to expose who liberals really are.
You see, Ashley Judd is not an extremist.
This is, if I could just get people to understand this, she's not an extremist.
This is what modern liberal feminists believe.
It is unconscionable to breed.
Having children is selfish.
She's critical of fathers giving away their daughters in marriage ceremonies.
It's a common vestige of male domination over a woman's reproductive status when her father gives her away at a wedding.
Do you think Ashley Judd just picked this stuff out of the air?
Where do you think she heard this stuff?
You think she just independently arrived at this kind of extreme oddball thinking?
Or has she heard it?
Has somebody persuaded her that this makes sense?
Am I what scared of the 24?
Oh, oh, Snerdley is asking me, because it's been conveyed to me that when I get revved up like this, that I scare 24, 25-year-old women.
They don't like this kind of ratcheted up talk.
Yeah, I probably do.
What Ashley Judd thinks mightn't bother them at all, but the way I'm talking about it is off-putting to them.
Probably so.
Anyway, this is what it's all about with the real problem here is that Ashley Judd made the mistake of actually explaining what these people think.
She's not a lone wolf.
She's not.
This is mainstream militant feminism.
This is Democrat Party feminism that she's explaining it.
This is not oddball, extreme thought held, opinions held by very few people.
And look, it's very important.
Where did she pick this up?
Do you think she just sat around and dreamed all this stuff up herself?
No, she picks this up talking to people.
She probably talked to feminist professors, filled her mind with this kind of stuff.
And so McConnell was going to expose this.
So what has to happen, McConnell, rather than debate the substance of what Ashley Judd believes there.
No, no, no.
No, no.
We're going to destroy McConnell.
We're going to impugn his character and his reputation so that whatever he says about Ashley Judd, nobody will believe.
That is the objective.
Jay Rockefeller, by the way, you know, it just keeps adding up.
I've got, I've got to take a break here, but there are liberals outraged over Obama's budget, folks.
People that voted for Obama cannot believe what's in his budget.
I'm stunned they know, but then again, I'm not because it's entitlements that they know, and that's what they're upset about.
Obama's budget has some Social Security Medicare cuts in there.
And these people are living, and Jay Rockefeller is out there saying, you know what?
Well, he's basically parroting me.
He said, this thing is so monstrous, we're never going to be able to make it work.
If we don't implement this thing soon, we're never going to be able to make this work.
It's just too big, too massive.
All that and more.
Plus, your phone calls.
Oh, how exciting.
Coming up when we get back.
Doing that which I was born to do.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
800-282-2882.
Here is, what is I just had a I got an email.
I just looked at it and print it.
Now I'm having a mental block what it said.
Anyway, let me, it'll come to me.
I've got too much going on here, and I'm trying to make it all happen at once.
So bear with me.
Let's head back to the phones.
So I'm just at the Penbroke Pines, Florida.
This is Chuck.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Hi.
Rush.
What an honor.
Thank you, sir.
Ty Ditto's.
Little Ty Dittos from Deep in the Bowels of Debbie Washington Schultz District.
My question is, has anybody seen Bob Woodworth on TV being asked about what's going on with the illegal fire tactics?
Not that I've heard.
Okay.
Well, it just seemed pretty obvious to me when all this hit the fan that somebody would want to look him and ask him what he thought about it.
Well, I don't.
That's my point here.
I don't think that there isn't any evidence anywhere that anybody in Washington thinks that anything wrong happened here other than what McConnell and his staff said.
And that's what they're going to get to the bottom of.
Who are these people?
Who are these McConnell staffers?
Look for that next profiles on who they are.
They'll find out who these guys are, who said what on the tape.
Maybe get some histories of where these guys have worked, what campaigns they've worked on in the past.
The mission here is to take out the McConnell staff and McConnell.
The mission here is to destroy those people.
So if anybody wants to call Bob Woodward, it'll be in that vein.
What's going on in Washington right now is very privately, everybody's high-fiving whoever it is that illegally wiretapped his office.
Those people are going to win an award somewhere.
Those people are going to be feted, probably privately, but there'll be a dinner where these people that did this are going to be celebrated, acknowledged, thanked for doing what was necessary to get to the bottom of what Mitch McConnell is really all about and who his staffers are.
Now, Mother Jones has issued a statement, and they're not worried about having been involved in a crime after the fact.
The Mother Jones statement begins this way.
We are still waiting for Senator McConnell to comment on the substance of our article.
So you see, it's up to McConnell to defend himself for talking about a possible political opponent and going through her own statements.
The onus is on McConnell.
They are still waiting for McConnell to explain himself.
And that's how this works.
John Mars Hills, North Carolina, welcome to the program, sir.
Great to have you here.
Hey, Rush.
Can you help me understand why the Democrats believe that she should be a senator from Kentucky when she perfectly fits the profile of the people they say should not be permitted to buy a gun of any kind anywhere in the United States?
Having mental issues, suicidal tendencies?
How could that be?
Well, it's an excellent question.
And once again, it helps me to illustrate what really is going on here.
This isn't about Ashley Judd now.
Ashley Judd is the victim.
Nobody's going to be defending Ashley Judd.
And nobody is going to be promoting her candidacy here.
This is nothing more than the latest opportunity to castigate, to destroy, to take out another Republican.
That's what this is.
The idea that the Democrats might want to seriously propose a candidate for the Senate who would automatically disqualify herself for owning a gun is probably a plus.
A candidate who has had mental health issues is a plus.
That candidate can relate to a majority of Americans and will understand the need for government involvement in those people's lives.
So that gives them representation, the mentally ill.
Yeah, she's a perfect candidate for them.
I hadn't thought of it that way.
That's why I had to call you.
She's a perfect candidate.
She's got the right experiences, the right sensitivity.
She's experienced depths of depression.
Remember, Democrats think most people are depressed.
The Democrats think most people are messed up.
And that's why you can't be allowed to run your own life.
You can't be trusted to spend your money the right way.
You can't be trusted to raise your kids the right way.
You can't be trusted with a gun.
And Ashley Judd is the personification of that.
Ashley Judd is a great illustration of the kind of representation the American people need.
Pure and simple.
I know this all sounds cockamamie, but don't doubt me.
I know who these people are.
I know how they think and what this is.
They're not going to defend Ashley Judd like I just did because she's not running.
She took herself out.
And especially she's not going to run.
Now, now that this stuff's out there, doesn't matter how it happened.
Now that it's out there, they're not going to let her run.
The Democrats aren't going to put her up.
They're going to use this to destroy McConnell.
They're going to keep saying, Mitch, where is your statement?
Where is your response to the allegation?
That's what Mother Jones' statement is.
We are still waiting for Senator McConnell to comment on the substance of our article.
That's all this is.
You're not supposed to look at this and see anything that would make you doubtful about voting for a Democrat.
You're not supposed to see anything here that will make you question who Democrats are.
That's how they turn these things 180 degrees out of phase, and it's exactly what they're doing here.
Actually, folks, I want to take something back.
I just, I said that there's no way that Ashley Judd will run now that this stuff's.
I'm going to take that back.
I think it's possible.
You know, it was Bill Clinton's idea, by the way.
Bill Clinton thought that Ashley Judd would make a great candidate.
He was one of the people pushing her the hardest to run.
But now, with all of this and the way they're characterizing it, she's a victim.
Made-to-order candidate.
Victim.
War on women.
Powerful, evil, rich white guy trying to destroy this poor, defenseless, weak, damaged, but really good person, Ashley Judd.
She only wants, he only wants to be happy, and he only wants everybody to be happy.
And she just, you know, she wants everybody to get along what they're doing to her now.
And it's just not fair.
And she'd be the perfect victim.
And if you think I'm overdoing this, let me give you some examples.
The media is upset that McConnell will not stop characterizing this as a bugging of his audience office.
Dave Weigel at slate.com.
Headline.
Mitch McConnell won't stop saying that the left was bugging his campaign office.
That is exactly what happened here.
Mitch McConnell's office illegally wiretapped.
And it's Slate.
They're mad at McConnell for continuing to characterize it that way.
The media wants to call this leaked audio.
The media wants to refer to this audio that was leaked to the press.
But McConnell keeps running around talking about his office was bugged, and the press is actually running stories how that makes them mad.
Slate is ticked off that McConnell keeps using the effective and accurate word bugged.
They're ticked off that he got the FBI involved here.
Now, I want to remind you of something here, folks.
And I don't expect many of you will remember this because I didn't make that big a deal of it here when it happened.
But do you remember about, seems like it's three weeks a month ago, Sidney Blumenthal, who is Mrs. Clinton's number one advisor after her husband, Sidney Blumenthal is in line before Huma Weiner.
By the way, Weiner is thinking of rising again.
That's what Drudge said.
This is clever.
Drudge has a picture of Biden with his fingers about a half inch apart, and then a picture of Weiner.
Now, what did it headline is, Can Weiner Rise Again?
There's Biden with his fingers about that far apart, half inch, and a picture of Weiner with the headline, Can Weiner Rise Again?
It's Anthony Weiner, the husband of Huba Wiener.
I'm just telling you, Sidney Blumenthal is Mrs. Clinton's right arm.
And it was discussed.
His email was hacked.
Sidney Blumenthal, there's a reason why you haven't heard about this.
Sidney Blumenthal's email was hacked.
His email had private conversations between him and Hillary on what appeared to be confidential information on Benghazi.
Blumenthal was advising Hillary on how to deal with Benghazi.
The media did not report it.
And do you know why?
Because the emails were obtained unlawfully via a hack.
So they had them.
They had the emails that were hacked from Sidney Blumenthal's computer, email exchanges back and forth between he and Hillary with him advising her on Benghazi.
The media had those emails.
They did not run with them because they were obtained unlawfully.
And they just didn't feel it was right to publish the details of Sidney Blumenthal and Hillary's emails.
Here you have Mitch McConnell's office illegally bugged and the media upset that people continue to characterize it that way.
They want to be able to say they just leaked audio tapes.
So this is a big one, I think.
In terms of the opportunity to illustrate for low-information people what we're up against, who we're up against, how they operate.
And it may be too complicated for the low-information crowd to figure out.
So let me move on.
Business Insider has a story.
Outraged liberals say Obama is about to screw over the very people who got him elected.
Let me give you a pull quote from this.
It's really a slap in the face to Democrats who knock on doors and volunteer for campaigns. DFA spokesman Neil Stroca told Business Insider.
It hits the very foundation of what it means to be a Democrat.
And you're going to see primary challenges emerge from this.
Any Democrat who votes to cut Social Security and Medicare is not a progressive Democrat, and they should be prepared to feel the ire of the progressive base.
Liberals descended on Pennsylvania Avenue yesterday to protest Obama's decision to include entitlement cuts in his upcoming budget.
They delivered 2 million petitions demanding that Obama back off his support for the chained CPI, Consumer Price Index.
And as Business Insider reported this weekend, liberals have been seething over the inclusion of the chained CPI, which they see as a huge betrayal by the Democrat president.
Linking things to inflation is how Obama's justifying his cuts.
And they don't like that chain, the link.
This week, progressive groups, including Move On, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Democracy for America, have mounted emergency online campaigns against the Obama budget, accusing Obama of turning on the very supporters who helped re-elect him.
Move On, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy for America are also threatening Democrat lawmakers against supporting any entitlement cuts.
The Politico is reporting today that the three groups have sent strongly worded letters to Democrats in Congress warning that they could face a primary challenge.
Now, I don't know if this qualifies, but remember I said to frustrated callers who wanted to know, Rush, we've tried everything.
We've tried every television show, every radio show.
We have knocked them out of the park logically.
We have won the debate in every issue, and yet low-information people still don't get it.
What can we do besides take over Hollywood and the music business and a book business and a TV business?
What can we do, Rush, to get the.
And I said, it's going to take an event that we don't cause that just happens.
And I joked and I said something like Timberlake dissing or Obama dissing Timberlake's latest CD or something really took him off.
Well, I don't know that this is it, but this is the first time in five years that activist liberal groups have been publicly livid with Obama and threatening him.
Publicly livid with Democrats and threatening them.
And you'll notice something else.
I must put this within the context of the Limbaugh theorem.
Remember what that is.
Obama is not seen as governing.
Obama is not seen as having any responsibility for what is happening to the economy, to the military, to the banking, the culture, whatever's happening in the country.
He's seen is still trying to fix it.
He's seen as still fighting what's going wrong.
He's seen as still campaigning against all this bad stuff and trying to stop it and reverse it.
Now he submits a budget with entitlement cuts.
They see his fingerprints on Social Security and Medicare cuts, and they are livid.
And it's real.
Now, he could put them to bed very quickly with a personal appearance.
I don't think this is a tipping point event, but it is the first time.
And as an isolated event, not going to matter.
But if it is part of an ongoing series of events, such as more and more Democrats admitting that Obamacare is impossible, Jay Rockefeller the latest.
It's coming up in a minute.
Business Insiders is not clear if liberals have the resources or the political will to back up these threats that they're making against Democrats who might vote for entitlement cuts or Obama.
But they are still livid and they are angry and they're being public about it.
And a Business Insider piece has three pictures of individuals upset with Obama.
And one of them here is just classic.
It's a woman practically in tears standing up against a red wall in her house with pictures that you can't identify.
And she's holding up a sign.
This woman literally looks, she's probably about 50, 55.
She could be 90.
Hell, I don't know.
Brunette, glasses, eyes are pained in a frown, lips are pursed.
She's really in pain here.
I mean, really, really suffering.
And her little sign says, President Obama, I supported you, and now you should support me.
No cuts to Medicare and Social Security.
It puts her name on it here.
I'm not going to mention her name.
Then there's another guy standing by his car in his affluent suburban neighborhood.
Picture taken recently because there aren't any leaves on the trees, wearing a white t-shirt and a blue lanyard around his neck, like it was a press pass to get into a convention.
I worked for your campaign because I support Social Security.
No cuts.
And he's got a Virginia for Obama sign and a windshield of his car.
And he's mad.
And a third picture, some smarmy-looking female in a hoodie, the hoodie's down, gray hair parted on the right, kind of a butch haircut, got a very sanctimonious look on her face.
I supported you because I support Social Security.
I flew to Nevada to knock on doors in Spanish for you, and you won.
No cuts.
She's in Berkeley, California.
So the outrage in Obamaville is real.
They're angry.
But the interesting thing to me is the reason why Obama's fingerprints are on this.
These are not Republican budget cuts.
These are not Republican cuts in Social Security.
And what these people don't understand is what Obama's doing.
Obama's trying to rope Republicans in with meager little, practically non-existent cuts to get them to totally cave on their principles.
That's what Obama's, but they don't see that.
These are people that are totally, totally dependent on government.
They've got nothing else.
And dime cut anywhere threatens their daily life.
So they don't care about the subtleties of what Obama may be trying to accomplish here politically.
All they see is he's offered cuts to these entitlements, and they are not happy.
Half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair.
It's, by the way, folks, not just the threatened Social Security cuts that has all these Obama die-hard groups upset.
They're seeing him, this charm offensive that was reported that Obama was engaging in.
Reaching out to the Republicans.
That ticked them off like you can't believe.
Totally out of character.
The limbo theorem.
Again, Obama is not attached to anything going wrong.
Obama is only attached to good things.
And the good things could be just the desire that things get better.
Obama has that.
He's trying to fix things.
Now Obama, as far as they are concerned, has attached himself to Medicare cuts and Social Security cuts.
And he's out making nice with the Republicans.
And do not doubt me when I tell you how literally ticked off they are in these little trolls that make up the extreme Obama voter base.
They're out there trolling all these websites and they're plastering comments all over Twitter and they're everywhere.
And they are in the tenements.
They're at Berkeley.
They're on campus.
Every place this country where nobody's working is where they are.
That's who they are.
Everywhere nobody's working is that's that's who these people are.
And they are livid.
Now, the thing about this is it's all theater.
There aren't any real cuts.
This linkage to the consumer price index, inflation, they're in any inflation.
There aren't any real cuts here.
These stories like the one Business Insider, they're really crying crocodile tears.
There aren't any real cuts to Social Security.
Cost of living adjustments under Obama have been nothing.
And this cut's going to be nothing comparatively.
This is Obama once again in a PR blitz.
He knows where the majority of the country is on this.
He knows that people like us want entitlement cuts.
He knows that Republicans want it.
So this is all part of a spin game.
Obama's not going to cut Social Security.
Now, he did cut Medicare in Obamacare.
He did do that, but that didn't stick.
At the time it happened, we couldn't make any Democrat voter believe it.
But it was in order to keep Obamacare's magical, mythical price tag under a trillion dollars, there was a $712 billion cut in Medicare, and it was real.
And then they pretended they were spending it someplace else, which they were.
They double-counted it in a budget move.
But back then, we couldn't make it stick because Obamacare was going to happen, and that was all I cared.
It was great.
But now it's sticking when there aren't any real cuts.
This is Obama just, they don't understand what he's doing.
They can't afford to.
These are, again, people whose entire existence depends on a check or a debit card or some form of assistance from Washington.
Pure and simple.
And now when they hear, if they haven't heard about Obamacare blowing up, that's going to be another one.
Got to get out of here quick, folks.
I went way along in the last segment, so just enough time to say, don't go anywhere.
Please don't.
We got much more straight ahead, barely scratched the surface here yet today.
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