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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 247 podcast.
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Great to have you here as we kick off another excursion into broadcast excellence.
My name Rush Limboy, your guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, tumult, chaos.
Uh times which literally make no sense whatsoever.
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As you know, ladies and gentlemen, Jay Z, the famous rapper.
Tell me, Snerdly, you know his real name.
Sean Carter.
And that's why his wife Beyonce is calling herself Mrs. Carter on the uh on the Mrs. Carter World tour.
Anyway, Sean Carter.
Apparently uh Jay Z. Well, we all he went to Cuba with uh with with Beyonce went to Cuba, strolled the streets.
He was uh smoking what looked like a very good Cuban cigar, was being followed by lots of Cuban uh prisoners, uh citizens fans.
And basically just having a grand old time uh in essentially what what it what is a dungeon, a prison.
And there has been some uh disagreement at lodge various sectors of this country over Mr. Z trip to Cuba.
People curious how it is that Mr. Z got in there so easily when nobody else can go.
Uh 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 uh a couple of sound bites, excerpts, if you will, of Mr. Z's latest rap offering.
And uh in in one of these bites, Mr. Z refers to the president saying that uh Obama told told him to chill.
You gonna get me impeached, dude.
And Mr. Z not happy that the president told him to chill.
And Mr. Z makes a comment he never had any use for politicians, they never did anything for him.
Now I've not heard this, uh, 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 transcript, so we will experience this a vocal interpretation together.
Why bever shirts and bandans, boy from the hood, but got white house clamors.
Say ya, I don't agree with Shop Hams.
Politician never did s for me.
No to me distort history.
Want to give me tail time in the fun.
Fine.
Let me commit a real crime.
I might buy kilo for cheap key.
Out of spite, I just might flood the streets.
Obama said, chill, you gonna give me your peach.
You don't need this s anyway.
Cheer with me on the beach.
So you caught all that, right?
So Mr. Z, not happy.
It is.
It sounds like it's uh little retaliation here.
Mr. Z not happy with a reaction is trip to Cuba.
And uh he said just a boy from the hood, got his White House clearance.
Sorry, y'all, I don't agree with y'all appearance.
Politician never did excrement for me, except 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 Keefe.
Chief Keefe ain't another well known rapper.
Correct.
You don't know.
I know more about this than you do.
I think Chief Keefe is a uh is is a is is a rapper.
He says some official in uh in this world.
And then next in the next sound by in the latest rap tune here from Mr. Z. He talks about uh communism.
No went up threaten a star shoot.
BAR!
Catch body head to Houston.
I'm in Cuba, I love Cuba.
Communist talk is so confusing when it's China to very mic that amuse that idiot win the Bob Dylan the rap music.
You're an idiot, you baby.
You should become a student.
Oh, you gonna learn today.
I'm gonna learn today.
When a few bit.
The world's under new management.
So he said whenever he's threatened, he starts shooting.
Which dovetails very nicely the gun control news that uh we've got speaking of which grab audio soundbite number two.
I don't have you heard this.
This is a yesterday in Chicago, the joint luncheon meeting working together to address youth violence in Chicago is hosted by the uh the mayor Ram Emanuel, First Lady Much Hell, my Belle Obama spoke about youth empowerment.
Heidea 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 Hidea, oh, we 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 with these people?
If I had had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.
Now here's Michelle Obama.
Hadiah Pendleton was me.
And I was her.
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 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 the 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 Muchell ever was in black gang or black gang neighborhoods.
I maybe I don't know, but we 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 the little girl gunned down in Chicago.
The president's saying it, Trayvon Martin, if I had a sudden to look just like him.
This 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 gotta get back to the next party at the White House.
You be safe now.
Well, I 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 I just is all about them.
This is this is all about Michelle going in 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 to, I'm supposed to be attacking Mitch McCondell today, and they are.
But you get this.
Let me find it really quick.
Uh this is foreign policy magazine.
Folks, this is highbrow.
This this foreign policy magazine is is not quite foreign affairs to the trilateral commission, but but but it's not you know the the walla walla Sunday Times.
I mean, foreign policy magazines, they they fashion it into this serious bunch of people there.
Think tankers and that.
The editor of foreign policy, David Rothkop, 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 it uh is a rapper.
I knew that.
You're telling me things I already knew.
And you didn't know that.
And it is a Mr. Z going out to say he's gonna buy this guy a kilo or whatever.
By the way, could could we interpret the lyrics here, Mr. Z's latest rap offering as um is he dissing Obama?
So I didn't I didn't want to make that leap, but yeah, it's it it does sound like he's sort of dissing Obama.
Uh telling him to chill, are you gonna get me impeached?
You're giving me grief about going to Cuba.
Hell, I had permission from you to go.
Call it 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 I'm saying 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 Mr. Carter were not at the Soul Train sequester.
Well That's right, they didn't perform, but we don't know if they were in the guest list because that's a state secret.
But how do you no if Mr. Z, Mrs. Carter were there, they would have performed.
You don't invite those people sit in the audience and watch the Toadies from Memphis with a 1960s version of soul.
No, no, no, you don't do it.
You'd send Mr. Z out there.
Well, I don't know.
Maybe it is maybe it is a um a tipping point.
By the way, uh Lil Chief, Chief Keefe is uh known as Keith Kozart, born in 1995, American rapper from Chicago.
So anyway, back back back back to Michelle.
What's she gonna do to stop gang violence?
Hadia Pendleton was me, and I was her who wrote it?
Who who wrote that for Michelle to say?
What do you mean that line of So how about we're gonna make it harder to gun down our kids?
Am I still the only one who thinks that is so beneath the pail?
But but who who uh Hadiah Pendleton was me, and I was her, except in my case, the bullet missed.
Is this it?
See, I'm too literal.
I was the mayor of Realville, I take this stuff literally, and all the symbolism, eh, I'm not for all that.
I'm not really crazy about people getting accolades for symbolism.
Well, by the way, we'll uh will will Michelle Obama find it worthwhile to be critical of Jay Z for his uh for his lyrics.
It's interesting that people could think that that this is Jay-Z dissing Obama.
Well, I know I know he says he says that that politicians are are our excrement.
Uh politicians never did excrement for me except lie to me, distort history, want to give me jail time and a fine f is he talk uh that none of 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.
Yeah, maybe as if it I just find it hard to believe it.
This is aimed at Obama, could well be.
Anyway, uh, my friends, I not often do I sit here behind a golden EIB microphone and not know why I just played some sound bites to you, but I find myself in that position.
I I had these JV Jay-Z sound bites, and uh 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, uh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rush Limbaugh and the EIB networking.
And a reminder tomorrow is the uh I thought it's gonna be 23rd or 20, yeah, probably 23rd annual, maybe 24th annual curaton.
It's a 23rd annual curaton tomorrow for leukemia and lymphoma.
And it's you know, it's fascinating the way this started.
Uh in New York, uh 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 uh radiothon fundraising for leukemia and lymphoma, and they came to me, it was not two shows, they were they were assigned, they were carrying this program live.
So they came to me, the WABC people came to me and said, would would you just we can't ask you to 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?
Uh and I said, happy to glad to.
And after two or three years of that, the leukemia thon, the radio thon migrated totally to the EIB network.
And I for I forget the actual process that that occurred there, but it it started with just a casual request.
This is the point is that it started with just a casual request for us on this program to devote a couple of minutes of 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 curaton.
That's all they did on all the ABC stations, 11 or 12 of them.
And they came to me, so 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 uh to the EIB network.
It's not uh I don't rem 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, would you mind?
Would you please happily we'll do so.
Absolutely.
Whatever we can to help.
And now we uh 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 uh 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 it's simply I'm just not a style person.
I'm a substance guy.
Mayor of Realville.
I I actually have a resentment for people who get where they get on the basis of style.
To me, it's phoniness.
It's it's it's insincerity.
Uh something about style over substance.
I I call it um something else.
I'm having a metal block, another word I use for style, but symbolism.
Symbolism over substance has always been my so Michelle Obama goes out there, Hadaya Pendleton was me, and I was her.
No.
No, you weren't Hadaya Pendleton, and Hodiah Pendleton is not you.
And you and you two never were the same.
And what what really I think irritates me about it is that I, 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, with 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 uh failure, misery, what 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 and Lul 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, they 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 corn that did 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 fawning over his latest revelation about a prominent Republican.
Korn 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 there 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 that Corn.
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 and leaked video recording of Romney, saying in a small fundraiser last May that 47% of voters were dependent on the government.
Korn will receive the prestigious Polk Award for political reporting for the Romney story on Thursday today.
Now, Korn didn't do anything.
Korn 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.
Not gonna and so can you imagine the plumbers, the guys that broke into Watergate and bugged a 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 is an illegal wiretap.
And I'm really concerned whether or not the FBI's even gonna seriously care about this.
I know they're looking into it.
I know the story is the FBI's trying to track it now, but how serious are they gonna 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 fire storm it ignited.
Yeah, man, that was some real journalism there.
That that uh, you know, if if you illegally bugged McConnell's office, you're taking a gander here at the at the media landscape saying who you want to give the tape to.
You know what?
I think I'm gonna I'm gonna 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 I don't like it all.
He's he's not 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 gonna get to the folks 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 Rose Leighton, and Mario Diaz Bellard.
All members of Congress, Senate from Florida, all Republicans.
The uh 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 Rosalinkon, and Mario Diaz Balart.
That's who uh Mr. Z was upset with for being critical of him going to Cuba.
Here's uh Torsa in Mobile, Alabama.
Hi, Torsi, you are first today.
Great to have you with us.
Hi.
Megadinos, nice to finally talk to you.
Thank you very much.
Um, I'll get right to the point.
Um, I I'm a black woman.
Um, my views are more conservative.
I am not an Obama supporter.
And I I 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 um Michelle Obama trying to show empathy for the young woman who was gunned down in a sense of this crime in Chicago.
Interesting.
Well, you you kind of mocked it.
And you you tried to belittle what Michelle was saying.
Michelle was similar to this young lady.
This young lady was not a a gang member.
She was an honor student who was gunned down in a sense of this 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 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.
I even if I were able to articulate what my real discomfort with this is.
And I 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 gonna understand it.
It's it's it's it's gonna 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.
Um it's great that the first lady cares and and just be done with it.
Because there's well, Russ, I'm sorry, I and I um 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 gonna be on by how interesting you are.
My point to you is that, you know, by me being I I started listening to you um a couple years ago, right before the first um inauguration of Obama.
Um and I started, you know, I I got hooked on to you um by my dad, you know.
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 uh my my dad we we always talk politics, and um and he he got me to listen to you.
However, when I first started listening to you, I 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.
Well that was a big thing.
See, here's here's the thing.
This this is what I let me try again.
My problem with this is not you know, we w w there are there are laws.
There are there are gun laws that are not being prosecuted in Chicago.
Chicago's run with the Democrats.
Obama's from there.
There's no reason for this to be happening in that city.
Th this this th they could be making far more concerted efforts to stop this and punish the perps than they're doing.
So uh would would Mrs. Obama go to her husband and get him to start prosecuting federal gun laws and violations.
I mean, they we don't need any new gun laws.
We 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 try 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 the the point that you were making earlier, they would turn it off and and they would hear no more.
What mockery point what what what what mocker I I took it as you were mocking her as not being um um I felt that that's Well see that's what I mean.
No that that's my point.
No matter how I was no matter how I said what I really think about this, that's gonna 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 that's not no you I'm just saying we don't need any more gun laws.
We've got plenty of gun laws.
The effort you know th th Mrs. Obama can make all the speeches in the world, but that's not gonna solve the problem.
And and having everybody realize how much they care isn't gonna 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 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 uh 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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