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April 11, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 11, 2013, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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Great to have you here as we kick off another excursion into broadcast excellence.
My name is Rush Limboy, your guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, tumult, chaos.
Times which literally make no sense whatsoever.
I am your guiding light, and even during the good times, too.
So here we are, all in it together.
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As you know, ladies and gentlemen, Jay-Z, the famous rapper, tell me, Snerdley, you know his real name, Sean Carter.
And that's why his wife Beyonce is calling herself Mrs. Carter on the Mrs. Carter World Tour.
Sean Carter.
Apparently, Jay-Z, well, we all went to Cuba with Beyonce.
Went to Cuba, strolled the streets.
He was smoking what looked like a very good Cuban cigar.
He was being followed by lots of Cuban prisoners, citizens, fans.
And basically just having a grand old time in essentially what is a dungeon, a prison.
And there has been some disagreement lodged in various sectors of this country over Mr. Z's trip to Cuba.
And people curious how it is that Mr. Z got in there so easily when nobody else can go.
People curious how Mr. Z got out of there so easily when nobody else can get out of there.
And people curious to know how it is that Mr. Z went down there and had a grand old time when nobody who lives there does.
And Mr. Z, not happy with all this attention.
And Mr. Z went right into the recording studio and laid down a rap track to deal with some of the controversy that has arisen.
And we, ladies and gentlemen, because we're on the cutting edge here for low-information voters and citizens, I have a couple of sound bites, excerpts, if you will, of Mr. Z's latest rap offering.
And in one of these bites, Mr. Z refers to the president saying that Obama told him to chill.
You're going to get me impeached, dude.
And Mr. Z, not happy that the president told him to chill.
And Mr. Z makes the comments he never had any use for politicians.
They never did anything for him.
Now, I've not heard this, ladies and gentlemen, and I probably won't be able to hear it much as you do, but I've got, I have here the lyrics and the transcripts, so we will experience this vocal interpretation together.
I done turned Havana to Atlanta.
Right.
Why I wear a shirt and bandana?
Boy from the hood forgot White House Clarence.
Sorry, y'all.
I don't agree with y'all parents.
Politicians never did s*** with me.
Except we need to start history.
Let me commit a real fight.
I just might flood these streets.
Hear the freedom in my speech.
Obama said, chill, you gon' give me your teacher.
You don't need this anyway.
Chill with me on the beach.
So you caught all that, right?
So, Mr. Z, not happy.
It is.
It sounds like it's a little retaliation here.
Mr. Z, not happy with the reaction, his trip to Cuba.
And he said, just a boy from the hood got his white house clearance.
Sorry, y'all.
I don't agree with y'all's appearance.
Politicians never did excrement for me.
He said, lie to me, distort history.
You want to give me jail time and a fine fine.
Let me commit a real crime.
I might buy a kilo for Chief Keith.
Chief Keefe, another well-known rapper, correct?
You don't know?
I know more about this than you do.
I think Chief Keefe is a rapper.
He says there's some official in this world.
And then next, in the next soundbite, in the latest rap tune here from Mr. Z, he talks about communism.
You know, whenever I'm threatened, I start shooting.
Catch somebody, head to Houston.
I'm in Cuba, I love Cuban.
This communist talk is so confusing.
When it's from China, the very might of the museum.
You're an idiot, baby.
You should become a student.
Oh, you're gonna learn today.
I'm gonna learn today.
When a finger Cuban, the world's under new management.
So he said, whenever he's threatened, he starts shooting, which dovetails very nicely to gun control news.
That we've got, speaking of which, grab audio soundbite number two.
I don't know if you heard this.
This is a yesterday in Chicago, the joint luncheon meeting working together to address youth violence in Chicago.
It's hosted by the mayor, Rahm Emanuel, First Lady Mooch Helm Obama, spoke about youth empowerment.
Heidia Pendleton was me, and I was her.
But I got to grow up and go to Princeton and Harvard Law School and have a career and a family and the most blessed life I could ever imagine.
And Haidea, oh, you know that story.
I started out with exactly the same aptitude, exactly the same intellectual, emotional capabilities as so many of my peers.
And the only thing that separated me from them was that I had a few more advantages than some of them did.
That was the difference between growing up and becoming a lawyer, a mother, and First Lady of the United States and being shot dead at the age of 15.
Are we truly meeting our obligations to our children?
It's a question we should also be asking in Chicago and in every corner of this country.
I thought we were making it harder to gun down our kids, number one.
But what is this?
What is it with these people?
If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.
Now here's Michelle Obama.
Hadia Pendleton was me, and I was her.
What is this?
I don't understand this.
The need to compare herself to this girl who was gunned down by illegal guns in the hands of gang members.
What's the point?
She's saying it could have been her, but for what?
It could have been her, but for what?
She had advantages.
What were her advantages?
I mean, the idea that we're all in this together and we're no different from one another, and it could have just as easily been me, except that it wasn't.
I don't know that Muchel ever was in black gang or black gang neighborhoods.
Maybe I don't know, but we've got that babe on MSNBC saying, Your kids are not yours.
Now, the first lady is saying she's no different than the little girl gun down in Chicago.
The president is saying, Trayvon Martin, if I had a son, he'll look just like him.
This sort of a distorted attempt at empathy.
These people coming off this massive sequester soul train party.
She goes to Chicago and says, I'm just like you, except a bullet missed.
And now I'm First Lady and you're getting gunned down.
And somehow my husband's working on it.
And I got to get back to the next party at the White House.
You be safe now.
I don't, I really, folks, I don't.
Yeah, she.
I know she's.
She's trying to show them she cares.
She's trying to show them that she's not that far removed from her roots or what they are, but that's not true.
And I just, this is all about them.
This is all about Michelle going there in a calculated way to exploit this circumstance.
Well, am I wrong about that?
Oh, too much truth.
I know.
You know, I'm not supposed, I'm supposed to be attacking Mitch McCondon today, and they are.
But you get this.
Let me find it really quick.
This is foreign policy magazine.
Folks, this is highbrow.
This foreign policy magazine is not quite foreign affairs to the trilateral commission, but it's not, you know, the walla walla Sunday Times.
I did foreign policy magazines, they fashioned into this serious bunch of people there, think tankers and that.
The editor of foreign policy, David Rothkopp, says that Mitch McConnell is a bigger threat to the United States than Kim Jong-un.
I'm telling you, I can't keep up.
I can't connect the dots.
Everything is so upside down.
Nothing makes common sense.
There is no rationality.
When I look out over this country and I look at what's in the news and how it's presented, nothing's rational.
We literally, I know I was right.
Chief Keefe, a big Chicago, is a rapper.
I knew that.
You're telling me things already new.
And you didn't know that.
And it isn't Mr. Z going out to say he's going to buy this guy a kilo or whatever.
By the way, could we interpret the lyrics here, Mr. Z's latest rap offering, as is he dissing Obama?
So I didn't want to make that leap, but it does sound like he's sort of dissing Obama.
Telling him to chill, are you going to get me impeached?
You're giving me grief about going to Cuba.
Hell, I had permission from you to go.
Calling what I did a crime and comparing Obama to communism?
Is that what he was doing?
He said, well, when communists start going after him, he starts shooting.
I don't know if it's a tipping point or not, but if you have Mr. Z, who is the husband of Mrs. Carter, dissing Obama.
Was Mr. Z at the Soul Train?
That's right.
Mr. Z and Mrs. Carter were not at the Soul Train sequester.
Well, that's right.
They didn't perform, but we don't know if they were on the guest list because that's a state secret.
But how do you know?
If Mr. Z, Mr. Carter were there, they would have performed.
You don't invite those people to sit in the audience and watch the toadies from Memphis with a 1960s version of Soul.
No, no, no.
You'd send Mr. Z out there.
Well, I don't know.
Maybe it is a tipping point.
By the way, Lil Chief, Chief Keith, is known as Keith Cozart, born in 1995, American rapper from Chicago.
So, anyway, back to Michelle.
What's she going to do to stop gang violence?
Hadiyah Pendleton was me, and I was her.
Who wrote it?
Who wrote it?
Who wrote that for Michelle LeSay?
What do you mean that line is so?
How about we're going to make it harder to gun down our kids?
Am I still the only one who thinks that is so beneath the pale?
But who?
Hadia Pendleton was me, and I was her.
Except in my case, the bullet missed.
Is this it?
See, I'm too literal.
As the mayor of Rioville, I take this stuff literally, and all the symbolism, I'm not for all that.
I'm not really crazy about people getting accolades for symbolism.
Well, by the way, will Michelle Obama find it worthwhile to be critical of Jay-Z for his lyrics?
It's interesting that people could think that this is Jay-Z dissing Obama.
Well, I know he says that politicians are excrement.
I get the exact politicians never did excrement for me except lie to me, distort history, want to give me jail time and a fine fight.
Obama's not talking about Mr. Z's trip to Cuba in a critical way.
Mr. Z probably talked about Mitch McConnell or some of the other politicians that are ripping him for going there.
Rubio?
I just find it hard to believe it.
This is aimed at Obama.
Could well be.
Anyway, my friends, not often do I sit here behind a golden EIB microphone and not know why I just played some soundbites to you, but I find myself in that position.
I had these Jay-Z soundbites, and I'm told it's big stuff, but even after having aired it for you, I do not know why I did.
Having more fun than a human, I think I am anyway, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rush Limbaugh and the EIB networking.
Reminder, tomorrow is the I thought it's gonna be 23rd or 20 yeah, probably 23rd annual, maybe 24th annual Cur-a-thon.
It's a 23rd annual cur-a-thon tomorrow for leukemia and lymphoma and it's you know, it's fascinating the way this started.
In New York radio show started, of course, our flagship WABC, And at the time, I was doing two programs.
I had to do a local show in New York and then this show back-to-back.
And one day I learned that WABC and all of the ABC-owned and operated stations were devoting the entire day to this radiothon fundraising for leukemia and lymphoma.
And they came to me.
It was not two shows.
They were carrying this program live.
So they came to me, the WABC people came to me and said, would you just, we can't ask you to, since you're going national, to give up your whole show and make it a WABC show, but would you give the phone number out for leukemia a couple of times during your show and talk about it?
And I said, happy, glad to.
And after two or three years of that, the leukemia thon, the radiothon, migrated totally to the EIB network.
And I forget the actual process that occurred there, but it started with just a casual request.
The point is it started with just a casual request for us on this program to devote a couple of minutes or three minutes an hour to what all the ABC stations were doing on that particular day.
Remember, they were going wall to wall from 6 a.m. to midnight on the day of the curathon.
That's all they did on all the ABC stations, 11 or 12 of them.
And they came to me and said, would you just mention what we're doing here two or three times in your program?
And I said, sure.
And it wasn't long after that that the whole thing migrated to the EIB network.
Now, it's not, it's not, I don't remember specifically what it was.
I don't think there was one particular thing, but it just started out so small.
And the people came to me were sort of reluctant.
Would you mind?
Would you please happily we'll do so.
Absolutely.
Whatever we can to help.
And now we do the whole thing on the EIB network.
And now it's on over 600 radio stations for three hours a year.
And actually, the total time devoted to it is not even three hours.
We combine it with the rest of the program contents.
It's an amazing thing what you all have done.
The amount of money that you've donated and helped raise to cure the blood cancers is phenomenal.
And we do it again tomorrow, just a reminder.
Be back here in just a second.
Don't go away.
No, no, no, folks.
It's simply, I'm just not a style person.
I'm a substance guy, mayor of Realville.
I actually have a resentment for people who get where they get on the basis of style.
To me, it's phoniness.
It's insincerity.
Some people go style over substance.
I call it something else.
I'm having a metal block, another word I use for style.
But symbolism.
Symbolism over substance has always been my.
Michelle Obama goes out there.
Hadiah Pendleton was me, and I was her.
No, no, you weren't, Hadiah Pendleton, and Hadiah Pendleton is not you.
And you two never were the same.
And what really I think irritates me about it is if I'm interpreting Mrs. Obama correctly, one of the things she's saying is this country is so bad.
This country is so messed up, so whatever, that it's just the luck of the draw that I got out.
It's just the luck of the draw that I wasn't a victim of this kind of violence.
No difference.
And see, with me, in analyzing people on the left, they have always got, there's a chip on their shoulder about this country, this country's flaws are what they focus on and exploit and see.
And it is not the country's fault that there are out-of-control gang murders in Chicago.
It's not the fault of the Second Amendment.
It isn't the fault of the founding fathers.
It's the fault of the people who are pulling the trigger.
In this case, it's young gang members in Chicago.
Now, if you want to find out why they exist, you go look for it, but don't tell me it's because of the Constitution.
And don't tell me it's because of capitalism and an unequal distribution of resources, which has led to poverty in the inner cities, which has led to young gang members shooting people for the fun of it.
But this is, I guess, what they believe.
Capitalism has led to poverty, which has led to desperation.
And anybody who escapes capitalism is just lucky.
Or anybody who escapes death, anybody who escapes failure, misery, in a capitalist system is just lucky.
And so when I hear the president say, if I had a son, he'd look just like Trayvon, I know what he's doing.
And when I hear the First Lady compare herself to a murdered teenager, I know what she's doing.
And it's a disservice.
It's a disservice to the country.
I love the country so much.
I hate, I literally, I'm literally depressed over what's happening to it.
I'm really mad at how easy it apparently is to turn rationality upside down to the point that it doesn't exist.
This Mitch McConnell thing is a classic illustration.
I predicted to you that David Korn, who was the editor of Mother Jones magazine, would be celebrated.
I predicted to you that he would be hoisted up as a hero.
And he is being so.
The editor of Mother Jones magazine, who got the illegal tape as a result of Mitch McConnell's Senate office being bugged, campaign office again being bugged.
And there wasn't anything even defamatory on the tape.
You know what?
They were laughing at Ashley Judd.
And that's not permitted.
You can laugh all day at Sarah Palin.
You can laugh all day and impugn and make fun of and destroy if you want.
You can't laugh at Ashley Judd.
And those people in McConnell's office, well, they laughed once.
They did laugh once when she explained what her floating vision of God was.
But mostly they just quoted what she had written.
And they only know this because of the illegally wiretapped Mitch McConnell office.
David Korn, also, Mother Jones published or got hold of the tape of Mitt Romney last May at a campaign event talking about the 47% who will never vote for him.
It was Korn that did that, Mother Jones.
So he being celebrated.
David Korn is being hoisted up on a huge pedestal.
Washington Post, David Korn, Mother Jones find themselves with another audio scoop.
David Korn says one good scoop may have led to another, and it might even lead to still others.
The Mother Jones magazine reporter and MSNBC pundit was busy Wednesday handling the fallout and some phoning over his latest revelation about a prominent Republican.
Corn unearthed the audio tape of a private meeting in which Mitch McConnell and his aides mocked a would-be political rival, the actress Ashley Judd, and plotted tactics to undermine her.
An unidentified source leaked the surreptitious recording of the meeting to Korn.
All of that is just flat out wrong.
Corn didn't unearth anything.
He was sitting here minding his own business, and whoever illegally wiretapped McConnell's office sent him the tape.
The equivalent of coming in over the transom.
They didn't plan to undermine Ashley Judd.
They were planning to defeat her in a campaign, in an election.
But you would think that that's a criminal act now for McConnell and his guys to be sitting around talking about a potential opponent and ways to beat her.
In the United States in 2013, for Republicans to engage in that kind of behavior is criminal.
And the Democrats have been wanting to politicize or criminalize Republican ideas, conservative ideas for as long as I have been alive.
An unidentified source leaked the recording of the February meeting to Korn.
No.
A criminal illegally bugged Mitch McConnell's office and eagerly handed over the recording to David Korn.
And just like that, Korn and Mother Jones had their second major bombshell in seven months.
The first, of course, the most consequential scoops of the presidential campaign, the leaked video recording of Romney saying at a small fundraiser last May that 47% of voters were dependent on the government.
Corn will receive the prestigious Polk Award for political reporting for the Romney story on Thursday, today.
Now, Korn didn't do anything.
Corn sitting around minding his own business.
As far as we know, I don't think Corn has taken credit for being at the fundraiser and videotaping it himself.
He just sat there minding his own business that was given to him.
But this is what the left does.
You know, Dan Rather in his fake George Bush National Guard story, in order to protect the reputation of the news business, Peter Jennings and Dan Rather, or Tom Brokaw, organized a bunch of different awards dinners for Dan Rather after that.
Had to protect the news business.
Have to protect liberalism.
And so, Can you imagine the plumbers, the guys that broke into Watergate and bugged the Democrat National Committee offices, being given awards?
Can you imagine Nixon being given an award?
Woodward and Bernstein got all the awards they got for exposing this.
Now, there's not even a reference to the fact that this was an illegal wiretap.
And I'm really concerned whether or not the FBI is even going to seriously care about this.
I know they're looking into it.
I know the story is.
The FBI is trying to track it now, but how serious are they going to be, really?
David Korn, 54, says the two career-making stories might have been linked.
He guesses that his source on the McConnell recording, whom he will not reveal, of course, came to him because of the way he handled the Romney recording and the firestorm it ignited.
Yeah, man, that was some real journalism there.
If you illegally bugged McConnell's office, you're taking a gander here at the media landscape, saying, who do you want to give the tape to?
You know what?
I think I'm going to give it to David Korn.
He did such a good job of receiving the Romney tape.
And Mother Jones did such a good job of reporting it, and everybody else picked it up.
What in the world is noteworthy about what Korn's done here?
Except be a sponge.
But he's not the point.
I don't like it.
He's not the point.
The point here is how all this is being treated and how legal and illegal doesn't matter.
Of course, we know that in immigration.
What it boils down to is there is no law.
And there are no limits when it comes to defeating and destroying Republicans.
None.
No limits.
No laws.
They do not apply.
And in fact, the more laws you break and the more outside the bounds of propriety you are, the greater the accolades you will receive.
Be back in just a second.
Don't go away.
I'm going to get to the phones here in just a second, but first, the Atlantic has done a line-by-line analysis of Mr. Z's latest rap tune.
And they have determined that Jay-Z is sending his message to the actual haters.
He's aiming that song at Marco Rubio, Ileana Roslaton, and Mario Diaz-Bellard.
All members of Congress, Senate, from Florida, all Republicans.
The Atlantic, very long and detailed analysis of Jay-Z's open-letter rap.
They analyze it line by line.
They try to plumb its deeper meanings.
And they say that it's addressed to these people.
Marco Rubio, Ileana Roslayton, and Mario Diaz-Bellart.
That's who Mr. Z was upset with for being critical of him going to Cuba.
Here's Torsa in Mobile, Alabama.
Hi, Torsa.
You are first today.
Great to have you with us.
Hi.
Mega Dido's Rush.
Nice to finally talk to you.
Thank you very much.
I'll get right to the point.
I'm a black woman.
My views are more conservative.
I am not an Obama supporter.
And I do agree with the majority of the things that you say and or you report.
However, I feel that you went too far about Michelle Obama trying to show empathy for the young woman who was gunned down in a senseless crime in Chicago.
Interesting.
How did I go too far?
Well, you kind of mocked it.
And you tried to belittle what Michelle was saying.
Michelle was similar to this young lady.
This young lady was not a gang member.
She was an honor student who was gunned down in a senseless crime.
She was mistaken for another gang member, which she was not.
So Michelle was right in a sense.
She was just like this young lady.
You know what?
You know what, Torsa?
You are, for the most part, exactly right.
And the reason you're exactly right is this is a no-win.
Even if I were able to articulate what my real discomfort with this is, and I'm not able to.
It's not that I don't know what it is.
I'm just not, I'm not able to put the words together.
Even if I were able to do that the way I want to, nobody's going to understand it.
It's going to be seen as a diss of Mrs. Obama.
And so I should probably just let it go and react to it like everybody else does, say, how wonderful.
It's great that the first lady cares and just be done with it.
Well, Rush, I'm sorry.
And I want to be quick because I know you have other people that you need to take.
Don't worry about that.
This is your time.
This is your time.
And you determine how long you're going to be on by how interesting you are.
My point to you is that, you know, by me being, I started listening to you a couple years ago right before the first inauguration of Obama.
And I started, you know, I got hooked onto you by my dad.
Thank you very much.
I hate to tell you, though, it's been more than two years.
Yeah, you're right.
More than a couple.
But my dad, we always talk politics.
And he got me to listen to you.
However, when I first started listening to you, I would continuously turn it off because some of the stuff that you said, some of the points that you made, even though they were correct, there was a problem.
Here's the thing.
Let me try again.
My problem with this is not – there are laws.
There are – There are gun laws that are not being prosecuted in Chicago.
Chicago is run by the Democrats.
Obama's from there.
There's no reason for this to be happening in that city.
They could be making far more concerted efforts to stop this and punish the perps than they're doing.
So would Mrs. Obama go to her husband and get him to start prosecuting federal gun laws and violations?
I mean, we don't need any new gun laws.
We've got plenty of laws already on the books that make what's happening in Chicago illegal.
Why isn't somebody going after these people that are pulling the trigger instead of exploiting these circumstances for the advancement of the Obamas?
That's all I'm trying to say here.
Right.
See, and that right there, I could take that point.
If I tried to get one of my friends to listen to your show to get a different point of view, if they heard the mockery, you know, the points that you were making earlier, they would turn it off and they would hear no more.
What mockery?
What mockery?
I took it as you were mocking her as not being sincere.
Oh.
I felt that that was.
Well, see, that's what I mean.
That's my point.
No matter how I was, no matter how I said what I really think about this, that's going to be the take.
And you're right.
I should just leave it alone.
There's nothing to be gained here anyway.
It's not, you know, I'm just saying, we don't need any more gun laws.
We've got plenty of gun laws.
The effort, you know, Mrs. Obama can make all the speeches in the world, but that's not going to solve the problem.
And having everybody realize how much they care isn't going to solve the problem.
There are ways to deal with this that they are not using in Chicago.
It's a shame these people are getting gun.
I can't believe that the death toll in Chicago every month is what it is.
And all we hear is we got new gun laws.
We need this.
No, we don't.
We've got plenty of laws in the books, and they're not being utilized.
Anyway, I appreciate the call out there.
Torso, I got to take a quick time out.
Don't go away.
Maybe Mrs. Obama could talk to Jay-Z and some of the rappers together to tone down some of the lyrics that glorify the use of guns.
Never, I'm sorry, folks.
I didn't really mean to say that.
Take it back.
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