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April 16, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 16, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
Time for broadcast excellence.
Hosted by me, Rush Limboard from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, the telephone number, if you want to be on the program, 800 28282, the email address, L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
I want to thank Doug Urbansky for sitting in yesterday, did a fabulous job and read that script exactly as I wrote it in the third hour when he when he talked about how important I am to him.
I mean he read that verbatim.
He made it sound like he did it himself.
Now he died that was totally totally on his own.
I really appreciate that, Doug.
I very, very much appreciate what you said.
Also uh wanted to extend yet another heartfelt thank you from all of us here at the EIB Network and the Leukemia Lymphoma Society for America, another awesome Curathon on Friday, even in these depressed economic times.
And if I may make a brief departure, I actually think uh as everybody's trying to figure out what happened in Boston, who did it and why.
Let me just throw another thing on it.
By the by let me just say something here at the at the top on this.
I have stated countless times, there's nothing new today.
I have stated countless times.
The left politicizes everything.
You recall me saying this.
You recall me offering evidence of this.
And they already are, I mean, yesterday, within moments of this happening, the left began to politicize it and began drooling in some cases, and I've got the examples, drooling over the possibility that a right wing extremist in the same vein as Timothy McVay did this.
You see, it'd be very bad, bad, bad for the regime if it turned out that that Saudi national was responsibly very, very bad for Obama and the regime.
Folks, uh some of this might seem unsettling, but I don't know any other way to do this.
I mean, I I can't come in here and fake it.
And I react to what I hear, and when I hear the people, the institutions, the principles I believe in under assault, I'm gonna stand up and defend them.
And I can't I can't come in here and fake it even for a day, and I'm telling you that the effort is on to politicize this.
You may have heard many of the efforts that some in the drive-by media with what is called a mainstream media have already begun speculating.
Already, they began immediately.
Speculating and hoping.
I kid you not.
And I'll give you examples of this as the program on full side.
What I was gonna say is I I uh throw out a possibility here, somebody else is.
We're in an economic disaster in this country.
There are people who are at their wit's end over what to do economically.
Can't find a work, can't find a job, can't find work, none.
No apparent hope of it.
This leads to all kinds of anger and chaos.
So I I wouldn't rule out the fact that there's just you know the the the sociology of a depressed and in ruins economy is leading to all kinds of frustration in all kinds of people all over this country.
Now nobody knows what happened.
But let me finish on the leukemia radio thon.
Even in this depressed economy, even with all of the unrest and the and the unease that's out there.
We came in at the same amount as last year.
And I, folks, I I I don't know how to tell you.
That is astounding.
It it literally is mind-blowing, and I just wanted to take a brief moment here at the top to thank everybody again for all of their donations and their assistance.
All of your help in making this a reality.
All of us here at the EIB Network and the Leukemia Lymphoma Society of America have profound appreciation for everything that you did.
I I don't know if the donation number is still active or phone number still.
Oh I may as well give it out again.
It's 877 3798.
Now, no one knows at this time who's responsible for the bombs in Boston.
Yesterday the president made a point of not calling it terror.
Today he did.
His former campaign aide, now commentator at MSNBC says probably related to Tax Day.
Another bunch of people, a whole bunch of people from the left to say, well, you know, it was Patriots Day.
It's Patriot.
One guy actually said it's Patriot.
Somebody at Slate or Salon or some such place.
Let me spy.
Might have been somebody at CNN.
Let me separate the papers here.
Some guy named Paul Fisher, today's Patriots Day, important day to militia movements in our country.
The same day Tim McVay chose to bomb Oklahoma City.
These tweets and these items of speculation are all over Twitter and Facebook and the mainstream media.
And nobody knows at this time who's responsible.
At least if they do know, they haven't said so.
And in a vacuum like this, you're going to have all kinds of people try to fill it.
So if they say they don't know who it is, you're going to have people go, oh, Oh, yes, they do.
They know exactly who it is.
And because of the political nature of these people, they're gonna hold the information until they can make it as useful to them as possible.
Now, whether that's right or wrong, the fact that a large enough number of people think that is an is a testament to how politicized virtually everything in this country has become.
Nobody knows at this time who's responsible for the bombs in Boston.
Mm-hmm.
Who planned, who executed the act of terror?
Where did the terrorists come from?
Are they Americans?
Did they come from somewhere else?
How'd they get here?
Student visa is an avenue being discussed.
What are we gonna do if we find out that one or more terrorists crossed our border undetected?
What are we gonna do?
What are we gonna do if we find out that it is Al Qaeda?
What are we gonna do if we find out it's it's it's a homegrown domestic terror?
I had a bunch of people send me emails.
You know, rush.
By the way, the Oklahoma City bombing was April 19th, not the 15th.
So this whole Patriots Day comparison, Timothy McVeigh is all wet anyway.
But I've I've got a whole list, I've got sound bites here of people speculating on the fact that it's a right wing Tea Party group that did this.
Just like every other act of terror, the mainstream media doesn't wait.
They start launching, I just I'm I'm making a point of this because I don't want anybody accusing me of politicizing this.
What do I do here?
I simply get up every day, I look at and I absorb, I see the people, the traditions, the institutions I believe in under assault, and I stand up and defend them.
How do you do that, Mr. Limbaugh?
Well, I gave an example.
Has anybody blamed a video for this?
What is that is that too impolitic to say?
The president didn't blame a video for this?
Really?
Like he did in Benghazi.
There's not a video that worked somebody up into a frenzy that caused this.
Well, why are you thinking?
Hey, I'm just joining the circus here.
I didn't lead off with this stuff.
How about this?
Do you know this is how Bill Ayers got his start?
Bill Ayers is now responsible for educating American kids.
He got his start blowing up the Pentagon.
Ditto his wife, Kathy or Bernardine Dorn.
We just learned that Kathy Bowden or Bowden, who murdered what a cop.
She's now a professor at Columbia.
So could we say that whoever did this has just helped their effort to get hired by a major university?
Could we?
I mean, it's how Bill Ayers got his start.
So how Kathy Bowden got her start.
There are a bunch of celebrated Americans today, former terrorist Bill Ayers.
Kathy Bowden, any number of them, who began this just this way, and they are now heralded.
They are exalted.
The left politicizes everything.
But is it untrue to say that this is how Bill Ayers got his start?
No.
Is it untrue to point out that a professor at Columbia did something similar to this?
It was a resume enhancement, apparently, for the American university system.
So don't be surprised.
So if the left politicizes everything, which they do, and which we've documented, and which I have further documentation for in this incident now, is it reasonable to ask?
How might the left be calculating this incident to be of the greatest use to them?
Because everything to them is politics.
And the evidence of that is how quickly they launched into trying to blame people like us, folks, who I'm simply showing up here and defending.
A bunch of people are being maligned, impugned, character assassinated or assaulted today.
It had nothing to do with this.
We don't know who did it.
Just like remember back in the Sandy Hook first days.
Remember all of the news that was wrong?
I mean, it was legendary how wrong it was.
I mean inaccurate wrong, and it was all rooted in speculation, and it was rooted in the speculation of hope that there would be a way to advance the left's political agenda.
So why would this be any different?
As far as they are concerned.
So all I, Il Rushbow am saying is that my antenna are raised, and I'm keeping a sharp eye for this.
Let's see.
Peter Bergen, CNN, in a tweet said right wing groups might have something to do with this.
A blogger at the Huffing and Puffington Post.
We don't know anything yet, of course, but it is tax day, and my first thought was all these anti-government groups, but who knows?
Well, yeah, it's Monday, too, when this happened.
What happens on Monday that we can blame on right wingers?
Paul Fisher, worth noting, today's Patriots Day, an important day to militia movements in our country, same day Tim McVay chose to bomb Oklahoma City, except the Oklahoma City bombing was on April 19th.
Nicholas Christoph.
Nicholas Christoph at the New York Times.
Explosion is a reminder that the ATF needs a director.
Shame on Senate Republicans for blocking his appointment.
So what happened in Boston is the Republicans' fault.
Barney Frank Is out saying no tax cut would have prevented this from happening.
I kid you not, folks.
I haven't said a word.
No tax cut would prevent this from happening.
So is it appropriate to say, is it true?
This is how Bill Ayers got his start.
This is how Bernadine Dorn got her start.
This is how Kathy Bowden got her start.
This is how Kathy Bowden got hired as an adjunct professor at Columbia.
I also am holding here my formerly nicotine stained fingers.
A piece in a national journal by Ron Fournier.
He might pronounce it Fournier, I'm not certain, and I don't mispronounce it on purpose.
Headline, why Boston Bombings Might Be Scarier than 9-11.
Now you want to hear Ron Fournier, the former White House AP reporter.
Might have been the DC Bureau Chief for AP, I'm not sure, but ranking AP.
His theory is in this two-page piece, it's scarier to kill people pursuing happiness, such as running a marathon than killing Wall Street employees.
It's all evil.
Don't misunderstand, folks.
It's all evil.
But one group is Wall Street or the Pentagon, and the other was people, the Marathon.
The Boston attack is notable not for the number of deaths, but for its social significance.
It's one thing, a dastardly evil thing to strike symbols of economic and military power.
Wall Street, the Pentagon.
It's another thing to hit the heart of America.
Death at the finish line in Boston makes every place and everybody less secure.
These people targeted life, they targeted liberty.
Now somebody has attacked the pursuit of happiness.
They weren't, I guess the 9-11 attackers were not attacking the pursuit of happiness.
And the people that blew up the Pentagon, they were not attacking the pursuit of happiness.
He actually says this.
It's one thing, dastardly evil thing.
It's one thing to strike symbols of economic and military power.
That's 9-11, and the symbols are Wall Street and the Pentagon.
Well, no, no.
No, they're not people.
See, corporations are not people.
The left tells us this.
Corporations are not people.
Wall Street's not people.
The Pentagon's not people.
They are symbols.
But the Boston Marathon, the finish line at the Boston Marathon, is the heart of America.
It's scarier to kill people pursuing happiness in Boston than killing Wall Street employees.
Or Pentagon employees.
I'm just giving you examples, folks, of how this is already being politicized, and it all started yesterday.
Okay, Nicholas Christoph of the New York Times.
The explosion in Boston is a reminder that the ATF needs a director.
Shame on Senate Republicans for blocking the appointment.
Well, how many of George W. Bush's cabinet appointees were held up because of the Florida aftermath.
How many of Bush's cabinet appointees were held up?
How many vacancies were there unfilled at the time 9-11 happened?
At which point we could today blame the Democrats for 9-11.
Simply learning from the way Christoph is looking at what happened in Boston.
It's got to be Republicans' fault because the ATF is vacant.
Doesn't have a director.
I'll tell you it's sickly, sickly absurd.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
CNN the lead.
Yesterday afternoon, Jake Tapper spoke with the National Security Analyst Peter Bergen About the Boston Marathon bombings, Tamper said, Peter, obviously we don't want to speculate, but we will.
No, he didn't say that, I just added that because that's what they're doing.
Obviously, we don't want to speculate.
We don't know what this was, but is there reason for people who deal in counterterrorism to think that this is an act of terrorism?
Or at least suspect of course it's terrorism.
You have two bombs in pressure cookers with shrapnel in there.
They were in pressure cookers in black bags.
Of course this is terrorist, regardless who did it.
So Peter, obviously, we don't want to speculate.
We don't know what this was.
But is there reason for people who deal in counterterrorism to think that this is an act of terrorism or suspect it strongly at least?
If it was hydrogen peroxide, this is sort of a signature of Al-Qaeda.
If it was more conventional explosives, which are much harder to get hold of now.
That might be some other kind of uh right wing extremists.
We've also seen other extremist groups, right wing groups attacking, for instance, trying to attack the Mont Luther King parade in Oregon in 2010.
Do you know who the most militant extremist groups in America are today, folks?
Do you know it is?
Environmental wacko groups are the numbers and they are leftist, and they the environmentalist wackos are the number one, or close to it anyway, terror group.
Now you just heard Mr. Bergen here.
On CNN, it's either Al Qaeda, but we really don't think so, and we really hope not.
Or right wing extremists, just like their groups that tried to attack the Martin Luther King parade in Oregon in 20.
Martin Luther King parade in 20.
It is just not possible that any left wing Occupy Wall Street radicals or environmental radicals or people unhappy with the economy did this.
Not even possible, you see.
The views expressed by the host of this program documented to be almost always right 99.7% of the time.
A couple of helpful emails I checked during the bottom of the hour break.
A couple of who is Bill Ayers?
It's a good question.
People may not know who Bill Ayers is.
Bill Ayers is a resident of Chicago.
Bill Ayers is widely thought to have introduced Barack Obama to the powers that be in Chicago that enabled his political career to begin.
Such introductions, parties took place at Bill Ayers' house, which is in uh Obama's neighborhood.
I think Ayers and his wife babysat the Obama crumb crunchers.
Bill Ayers' girlfriend, uh, one-time girlfriend, Diana Otton, and another member in a Greenwich Village townhouse died from an explosion while constructing anti-personnel bombs intended for a non-commissioned officer dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey.
In 1969, Bill Ayers participated in planting a bomb at a statue, dedicated to police casualties in the 1886 Haymarket Affair, dedicated to police casualties.
Bill Ayers in 1969 was part of the 60s generation, hated the cops, call them pigs.
Bill Ayers celebrated memorialized efforts to kill cops, and participated, actually planted a bomb at a statue dedicated to police casualties.
The uh blast broke almost a hundred windows and blew pieces of the statue onto the nearby Kennedy Expressway.
Bill Ayers participated in the bombings of New York City Police Department headquarters in 1970, the U.S. Capitol building in 1971, the Pentagon 1972.
And some media reports and political critics suggested that Ayers, Bernadine Dorn is now wife, or other weathermen were connected to a fatal 1970 San Francisco Police Department park station bombing.
So that's why I say Bill Ayers got his start this way.
Bill Ayers now is a leading figure in American education.
Textbook design creation, authorship.
Bill Ayers.
In fact, Ayers, I've find it.
I'm never going to find it here in time.
Bill Bill Ayers has a story in the stack today about Ayers saying America's days are over.
That this is, and that's good.
So my my only point is that yesterday's terrorists, who are today's heroes to the left, got their start exactly this way.
Exactly this way, as happened in Boston on Monday.
And I was not making it up.
Other emails.
Come on, Rush, you're just you're exaggerating here to make it a point on this Ron Fournier, but I'm not.
Ron Fournier actually said it's scarier to kill people pursuing happiness than killing the Pentagon or Wall Street.
He says it's all evil.
But Wall Street and the Pentagon are just buildings, they're just symbols.
The marathon was people pursuing happiness.
That's worse.
That's scarier.
Bombing the Boston Marathon scarier than bombing Wall Street, scarier than bombing the Pentagon.
The Politico just tweeted something.
Did you catch our most red story this afternoon?
Gun control bill in peril.
Oh no, because it is the gun control bill is in peril.
Why would that be?
I'll get into that in mere moments.
I'll tell you what else might be in peril right now is the emigration bill.
Or it could be the opposite, and both could be being set up to be ram rotted through.
Back to the audio sound bites.
Peter King, Peter King Congressman from New York was on CNN's starting point this morning.
The host John Berman interviewed him, and this is what Peter King said.
If one thing positive can come out for this horrible event, it should be to alert people, especially people in the Congress, that the war against terrorism is far from over.
Whether it's Islamic jihadists or whether it's uh right wing extremists, no matter who it is, people today use terror.
That's their weapon of choice.
So a Republican Congressman even holds out the possibility that it was quote right wing extremists.
Nowhere is anybody talking about the possibility of left-wing extremists.
Let me ask you a question.
Again, based on my observation in recent years.
If you, listening to this program, if you are a Muslim, and it turns out that a Muslim did bomb the Boston Marathon, how do you feel?
I dare say that if you are a Muslim, you can you can be pretty certain, you can rest assured that everybody in the media will circle the wagons and say this is not because of Islam.
This is a lone bad actor, lone wolf, but this in no way says anything about Islam.
It's no way says anything about Muslims, it's just a lone nut.
And they will remind us that the vast majority of people denounce this kind of terrorism, the vast majority of Muslims.
So if you're a Muslim and it turns out to be a Muslim bomber, you will be in no way associated with it.
Which fair.
However, folks, if you are a conservative out there today, and it turns out that whoever did this is either real or has an imagined connection to conservatives, everybody in the media will unite to denounce your whole group.
There will not be the same treatment if this turns out to be some crazy extremist domestic.
Everybody thought to be in that guy's group is gonna be tart and feathered as well.
And believe me, that's what they're all hoping for on the left.
They're the ones saying so.
They're the ones indicating that, not me.
Back to the audio sound bites.
We have here a montage of media people going out of their way to clear the Saudi student.
Exactly what I was just saying.
Hey, hey, no, no, no.
Can't be.
Let's let's not rush to conclusions here.
It just is weird.
It sounds like it could be profiling.
See, a Saudi guy.
It's not clear his connection on this.
He's not a suspect.
Authorities stressed he is not considered a suspect.
There's really nothing yet leading them to believe that there are any serious concerns about him.
He might turn out to be an innocent bystander.
I was told that the Saudi was completely cooperative.
The guy from Saudi Arabia, he doesn't necessarily look like the other guys there.
We've been trained to sort of do some racial profiling.
Meghan Kelly there at the end, she was on Fox this morning.
So you see the point originally there was uh a Saudi man, he was caught bystanders in Boston.
He was taken and he was questioned, and the authorities say he's clear that nothing here.
He was very cooperative.
The moment that happened, there was a race in the media to make sure that nobody jumped to the gun and racially profiled nobody thought, make sure nobody thinks this has anything to do with Al-Qaeda.
Nothing to do with Saudi Arabia, nothing to do with Muslims.
Let's just make sure get that out there right now, front and center.
While at the same time speculating that this has to be some right wing group.
I'm just folks, reminding you what I do.
I get up, I look, I listen, I read, I see the things, the people, the institutions I believe in under assault again.
I come here and defend them.
I am purely in a defensive posture today, as is the case every day, not attacking anybody.
I'm simply defending what is being said irresponsibly by loads of others.
Barney Frank, also on CNN today, the co-host John Berman said the response yesterday was so remarkable, Congressman.
They they stopped the marathon midpoint, they calmly moved some 5,000 people from the race course.
There were moments of chaos right there, but they were able to clear the scene fairly well.
What are your impressions of the response here in Boston so far?
Let's be very grateful that we had a well-funded functioning government.
It is very fashionable in America, and has been for some time, to criticize government, to belittle public employees, to talk about their pensions, to talk about...
Um what people think is their system health care.
Here we saw government in two ways perform very well.
I never was as a member of Congress, one of the Q leaders for Rice government, lower taxes, no tax cut would have helped us deal with this or will help us recover.
This is very expensive.
You believe that?
Do you believe what you just heard?
No tax cut would have helped us deal with this or will help us recover.
This is very expensive.
What?
A tax increase is what we need in response to the Boston Marathon attack?
But besides that, forget that.
Congressman, what are your impressions of the response so far?
The response was amazing.
Everybody in Boston forgot everything and simply did what was called for.
It was great to see.
It was amazing to watch.
And so they go to Barney Frank and they ask him about that.
And it's a great opportunity to praise everybody in Boston who was involved for keeping level heads, cool heads getting to the injured as quickly as possible, getting to hospital.
There was a lot that went right yesterday in the aftermath.
What does he first say?
Let's be very grateful we had a well-funded functioning government.
This is obscene.
It's very fashionable in America, has been for some time to criticize government, to be little public employees and their their pensions and their excessive health care.
This is the first thing that comes to his mind, Barney Frank, when asked for his impressions of the response in Boston.
Don't ever tell me that these people don't politicize everything.
From the get-go, they politicize it.
It's important to me because we we all folks, long as we've been around, we've been trying to persuade people to our side of things.
And I've often thought if we could just somehow convince people that all of this on the left is not big-hearted compassion, but it is pure raw politics.
It is pure raw ideology, and that if we could make more people understand what liberalism is, what socialism is, how it functions, what its purpose is, then all of this would be, or much of this would be much more easily understood.
Let's be very grateful we had a well-funded functioning government.
You mean the doctors?
Mean the first responders?
You mean the average citizens on the street who did everything they could.
I must take a break.
We've got one more sound bite for Mr. Frank, so sit tight, we'll get to it when we get back.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair, Rush Limboy emitting vocal vibrations and dulcet tones, coast to coast, left to right, north and south, border to border, no matter who's crossing it, illegally or not.
Back to the audio sound bites, Barney Frank after, after saying that we should all be grateful for a well-funded government.
That was his first take.
Asked for his impressions on the response in Boston.
Barney Frank told everybody that we need to be grateful for a well-funded government, and we need to stop criticizing government people and their pensions and their health care.
He said this.
We're not asking people uh well, do you have private health insurance or not?
You afford this or not?
Maybe the government's gonna have to pay for it.
And this is an example of why we need, if we want to be a civilized people, to put some of our resources into a common pool.
So we are able to deal with this.
So on the whole, I would say this is a terrible day for our society.
Uh but a day when I hope people will understand the centrality of having a government in place with the resources.
At a time like this, no one thinks about saving pennies.
I sit here and I marvel.
This guy is living in a real panic over the thought that his precious government might be reduced.
And so over a hundred and fifty people are injured.
Some people died, the Boston Marathon.
And Barney Frank asked for his impressions, starts worrying about tax cuts and making sure that people realize we're gonna have to put our resources into a common pool.
So we were able to deal with this, and that people understand the centrality of having a government in place with resources.
Say, I you know anybody want to talk about maybe stopping this kind of stuff from happening?
As we used to be able to do, Times Square Bomber didn't succeed, the Shoe Bomber didn't succeed.
There are a number of attempts that failed.
This one, this one didn't.
Barney Frank also said, by the way, get this.
He said, I'm saying that if the sequester had gone through and we had not had enough money, we couldn't be able to do this.
I'm making an argument about reality.
And that's the only responsible response.
Well, but the sequester did go through.
And we still had a response.
We still had minuscule budget cuts.
That's what he's worried about.
If the sequester had gone through and we had not had enough money, we couldn't be able to do this.
No amount of money or lack of it was going to stop this response from taking place yesterday.
So Barney Frank takes the occasion of this bombing to once again make his pitch for more government spending, more government growth.
as they do indeed politicize everything on the left.
You know, folks, about Barney Frank and his unbelievable comments...
Big federal government redistributing wealth to class warfare has nothing to do with protecting people from terrorists and criminals.
Zip.
Zero, nada.
But I would think most sane people would view this terror attack as a failure of the federal government, not a success.
Barney Frank looks at this as a success.
A successful example of the federal government.
Really?
That's his takeaway, folks.
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