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April 18, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 18, 2013, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 Podcast.
Hiya, folks, greetings to you, music lovers, drill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
It is time once again for broadcast excellence, hosted by me, L. Rushbow, your guiding light.
We are here, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, and the Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, telephone number 80082882 and the email address, L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
A brief programming note, right on schedule, President Obama just began speaking at the memorial, taking place today in Boston for the uh for the marathon.
I don't know how many of our stations uh have uh bumped out in order to carry the president.
For those of you who are listening to this program now, the station is not bumped out, um it could be a sizable number.
So whatever happens that I deem to be significant between now and whenever the president finishes, I will repeat it later in the program so that the people who are not being able to listen to this program now because the station is bumped out here, the president will be able to get that part of the uh program.
So you might hear a couple of things twice.
Of course, it'll not be identical.
I'm not gonna replay things, I'm just gonna do them again.
The um I think obvious place to pick up to oh, remind an hour from now we're going to have Marco Rubio on to talk about the uh the gang of eight immigration bill.
He's making the rounds later this afternoon.
Um I think the bill officially has presented some sort of uh bipartisan press conference or something, but he will be here in less than an hour, about an hour from now for a few minutes to talk about the upcoming immigration legislation.
That will not be moved.
If the president is still speaking an hour from now, we will still have Senator Rubio on, unless Senator Rubio changes his mind about it because of that, but I doubt that will be the uh the case.
I finished yesterday's program, and I t I can't tell you how embarrassed I was.
I realized that I didn't originate any of the news yesterday.
I simply repeated what I heard everywhere else in the drive-by media, and I know better.
Yesterday we heard dark skinned, we heard light skinned, we heard a male-looking female.
We had a gay-looking transgender.
I mean, we every possibility was thrown out in terms of the suspect.
We were told there are pictures.
We were told it's video.
We were told about a Saudi national who had been questioned and released.
There's more stuff being pumped out today about the Saudi National.
At any rate, I know better.
Every day I sit here and I chronicle for you.
This is not a matter of opinion.
Every day I chronicle for you the bias, the lack of professionalism, the agenda, the preferences of everybody in the mainstream media.
A day like yesterday comes along and they report something, and I just repeat it as though it's gospel.
I know better.
Whatever they say isn't gospel.
Whatever they say is agenda-oriented.
Whatever they report and whatever their objective is, it isn't news anymore.
And I got to thinking about this last night.
There really isn't any news, and I've I've I've said this before, but what what you know people call it the media, but it's not news gathering.
It's not really the media.
It's for example, yesterday I said that the two big things being pushed were immigration and gun control.
And they rotate and they alternate.
One day it's one, the next day it's the next.
You look at polling data on both of those issues.
Gun control, 4% of the American people support the president's idea of gun control.
96% don't.
And yet, if you were at television news every day, it is the most important issue going, you would think that that's all anybody cares about.
Now, to the extent that people care about it, stopping it, preventing it.
And pretty much the same thing on immigration.
Four percent of the American people support the whatever number of illegals here being granted citizenship.
4% support, 96% don't.
So you can say that while the media is out pushing both of those stories as though they're the only thing that matter to people, when it when in fact what matters to people is what they're not covering jobs, the economy, debt, what's happening to the country in a general sense.
That doesn't get covered.
And what does get covered is whatever the Democrats want to happen every day.
That's what gets covered.
And so I've everything has to be looked at through that prism.
And yesterday I've I know this each and every day, but yesterday I got caught up in it.
It's hard not to.
It's hard not to get because it's it smothers us.
The media is everywhere and smothers us.
And the point is, we don't know about the Boston bomber.
Or if they do, they're not telling us.
Okay.
And where we are now, there are so many different, there's a vacuum.
People want to know who, people want to know why.
There has been no official answer.
And so all kinds of things are out there now filling that vacuum.
Some of them wacko, some of them sound very sensible and believable, but we don't know.
And they didn't know yesterday.
And yet I repeated what they were saying as though I worked for them or worked there, and I of course don't.
I've heard all the things that you've heard.
I've heard about the Saudi National, I've heard about him being deported, I've heard about him being the prime suspect.
I've heard about the cover, I've heard all that.
I don't know whether that's true.
I've I've heard the New York Post is running a picture of two suspects.
It turns out that those two guys are on a high school track team.
Now they, well, I don't I don't have a picture in front of me.
I don't remember what they're wearing, but they're two young guys, they look like Middle Eastern guys, but they're on the high school track team guys.
One's a coach.
But they're in a picture of possible suspects.
Now, the president, by the way, move on to him for just a second.
While he's not listening because he's now speaking in Boston, when the gun control bill failed in the Senate yesterday afternoon, he was mad.
I it wouldn't it be great if you saw him get that kind of mad when Americans are killed.
He didn't get that mad after Benghazi.
He didn't get anywhere near that mad after what happened in Boston, but let his gun control bill go down in the Senate.
This guy blows a gasket.
He literally blew a gasket.
And I know why he blew a gasket.
Because this gun control bill was supposed to fail in the House, so he could blame it on Republicans.
This gun control bill was not supposed to pass, folks.
It was supposed to pass the Senate.
It was supposed to fail in the House.
Everything is about 2014 and winning the House and having a one-party control government so he can basically implement whatever he wants with no opposition.
Because remember, that's Obama's objective.
No opposition.
He doesn't want to debate people.
He doesn't want to persuade people.
He doesn't want to convince people.
He wants no people in his way.
So this bill was supposed to pass the Democrat controlled Senate.
And then die in the House of Representatives, where he could blame it on Republicans, like he does everything.
And then put that in the hopper of everything else he's blaming on Republicans.
And let that be part of the ongoing campaign effort by the Democrats to win the House in 2014.
He is mad because his party sandbagged him.
He is mad, still is mad.
He was livid because the Democrats pulled a rug out from under four of them in the Senate.
He's mad at Dingy Harry.
He's mad at whoever it is that failed to get this done.
I know I'm I'm being I'm being sent a note.
Rush, don't apologize.
You were you were simply passing on media reports yesterday to show their agenda was affecting their reports.
I know that.
I know that.
But I still passed it on.
I don't think I did a good enough.
No, no, no.
No, no, I'm not supposed to ignore it.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
I'm supposed to ignore it.
I don't know.
I think I could have done a better job.
I'm not saying it wasn't a good job, obviously I'd do a good job by breathing.
But I think I could have done a better job of explaining for example.
Poor old John King.
Let's look at John King for just a second at CNN.
John King's out there, and Fran Townsend.
And John King's out there, and he's very sensitive.
We're going to be very, very careful.
But it's a dark-skinned guy.
No.
Somebody told him that.
I know that John King and CNN are part of the pro-Obama pro-Democrat party agenda, but somebody told him that.
He didn't just make it up out of thin ears.
Somebody that he believes, somebody that he counts on as a source, told him that.
And then after telling him that, they pull it back.
And after telling Fran Townsend what they told her, they pull it back.
And then after all the media is out there reporting all these different things, and then when the feds start bleeding about irresponsibility.
It's the local authorities that were telling all these media people what they were working on, what they had found, what they're...
Suspicions were.
Then after everybody had reported all that, it's the feds who then tell everybody, hey, you know what, you guys, none of this is happening.
He hadn't been an arrest, I don't know what's going on here, but you guys had better pull it back.
And I was thinking last night.
This, I don't think it's going to be the case now.
Last night I was thinking this could be a tipping point if Obama's media is being used and manipulated and made to look like idiots by Obama and the feds.
At what point do people in the media say, you know, what the hell with this?
At what point do they say I think that they, you know, to heck with Obama.
What point did they all of a sudden turn into the media and start actually examining being curious about power instead of covering for it?
And then of course I got rushed.
Don't be ridiculous.
That's never going to happen.
But I was toying with the idea that what if they're being so manipulated and made to look like such idiots that they got so mad at being used because John King, I don't, I don't know him.
I've run into him in line, waiting to get into White House Christmas party, but that's it.
Um I know his former AP before he got into television.
And I know we probably disagree left and right, but he's he's part of state run media, but still somebody told him that.
And he went out with it, and not long after they pulled it back, after sending him out with and Fran Townsend and everybody else.
Fox was confirming it.
Everybody was.
And where are we today?
Where we are today is the The consensus opinion is whoever did this got away with it and is now on the way out of the country, and we're never gonna get them.
I don't know if it's consensus, but there are a lot of people who who who think that and are afraid of it.
I mean, stop it.
The skin angle yesterday, who who made that happen?
Who was it that steered everybody toward the skin color?
Well, it was CNN, but but but who told them?
Do you think you think they just made it up?
Somebody knows that they were susceptible to that.
These people.
Yeah, I I think events like this.
Human beings are human beings.
Events like this.
I've seen it, I watch it.
These people in the media, they lose it.
They go nuts.
It's a chance to be relevant, a chance to be first.
It's they go wall to wall with this stuff.
It isn't.
It isn't news.
It's it's it's media stars trying to become bigger stars.
And they're being played by somebody.
Somebody told them all that stuff.
That we ended up repeating here.
But I mean, you might say somebody had skin in the game yesterday, and who was it?
Anyway, I gotta take a break here, but but folks, I'm telling you, Obama, if you didn't see it, he was livid over this gun control debate.
He was fit.
I have not seen him angrier.
The bitter clingers prevailed yesterday.
He was so I he doesn't get this mad when Americans are killed.
He didn't get this mad after Benghazi.
He didn't get this mad after what happened in Boston.
Because this was the best laid plans blown to smithereens.
This was supposed to happen in the House.
And the Democrats in the Senate ended up killing it.
Yeah, I want some by number five, and uh let's see.
We'll just go with six, go in order here's John King.
Yesterday afternoon on CNN with a lead with Jake Tamper, they brought John King in to uh explain what happened here with the report of the dark-skinned person who was very sensitive.
Fran Townsend, our national security contributor who has excellent sources in the federal government, she had a federal source saying an arrest was made.
I had a Boston police source who would not waive me off that information.
The Associated Press said there was an arrest, others said an arrest was imminent.
Uh I'm not saying that to spread the blame.
It's very frustrating in a breaking news situation when that happens, but clearly, now we have on the record from the Justice Department, the FBI and the Boston police that no arrest has been made.
Clearly, there's a significant turn in the investigation, and clearly at this point it appears that people who have been reliable sources to us in the past 48 hours either were giving us inaccurate information or got out ahead of themselves on something, and that's what we're trying to piece together.
This is my point.
Somebody told him this stuff.
Somebody told him, Did you hear this?
They got all these sources from the from the low, the Boston police.
Uh Fran Townsend said she had a federal source, FBI, Boston police.
Uh after they had gone out and and repeated everything they'd been told, then it was all pulled back from them.
The the repeated news, an arrest has been made, was just a small part of the show yesterday, I know, but it was still.
I look at it, I don't want to spend a whole lot of time.
I've I've I could have done a better job.
It's not a big deal.
Uh but I'm just, I'm just telling you that that.
King's out there.
He's saying, okay, look, here's what happened.
They clearly felt embarrassed over what had happened.
And somebody did it to them.
My only point.
Now, if Chuck Todd and Savannah Guthrie on the Today Show today, and they're talking about Obama's remarks after the Senate.
He call people liars.
So I guess it's okay to use that word now.
The president's put it, it is okay to call people liars.
And Savannah Guthrie and F. Chuck Todd are talking about the president here.
What we see there appears to be very genuine anger, but was there genuine surprise at this result at the White House?
I can tell you, he was genuinely angry, and I think the anger has to do with the fact that it was just he didn't see, he didn't think that they would reject this.
They just didn't think they were going to lose.
Why?
Only 4% of the American people want gun control.
Only 4% of the Americans, it's a gallop numbers.
Only 4% folks want what Obama wants.
There's a another poll, ABC poll.
Do you approve or disapprove of the way Obama's handling gun control?
Not whether or not you want it or not.
And it is 40, fifty 50% disapprove of the way Obama's handling it.
What in the world is such a surprise when only 4% of the people want the Senate voted it down.
But I I tell you again, the reason the president is angry.
It could have been anything.
It was not supposed to go down in the House by a bunch of Democrats.
The plan was to have Republicans shoot this down in the House so that they could be blamed for it going into 2014.
And that's what Obama is mad about.
Hi, welcome back.
Great to have you.
Rush Limboy.
Here we are as the fastest week in media already at Thursday.
Let me let me try to address something here.
I I I want we're we're being blitzed on the phones with people who are begging me to say with ontological certitude what they believe.
And here's what it is.
And I first heard this, by the way, last night.
I had a number of people feverishly email me last night and tell me that they had heard this and they found it credible.
Here's here's here's what's going around.
You remember the first reports, one of the first reports out of the uh Boston Marathon investigation was that a Saudi national had been sought.
Then the Saudi National had been found and detained, held for questioning, and then released.
The basis that the Saudi National was a dead end.
Nothing there.
Now, what's happened is that there are some...
I don't know the origin of the story, don't know the source, and that's why I'm not signing up for it.
But I just want to tell you it's out there.
And it's one thing, by the way, the drive-byers won't touch.
This is a theory, and that's all they had yesterday were theories, but this is a theory the drive-byers are not going to touch.
The Saudi National is the prime suspect, so goes this theory.
The Saudi National is part of a Boston terror cell and has been known as such for a while.
And in fact, was scheduled to be deported next Tuesday, before the massacre at the Boston Marathon happened.
Yesterday, unscheduled, President Obama has a meeting with a Saudi government official.
Unscheduled.
Emergency.
Turns out it was about Syria, I think, but people started, Hmm, I wonder if the Saudi government got to Obama.
Because the rest of the story is that the Saudi National is 19 or 20 years old, is the prime suspect, and is part of a prominent family in Saudi Arabia and is going to be sent home with no action taken and the case closed and sealed.
File closed and sealed.
That's what's going on today.
That is, and it's no different than anything CNN said yesterday.
It's just as valid as anything that was out there yesterday, which has now been walked back.
Now, I have no idea, and this is really my point.
I was repeating what these people in the media were saying yesterday.
I don't know what happened.
And I spend my entire career telling you not to trust those people because they're agenda focused, and here I was repeating what they were saying.
Now I had my proper caveats, but I still repeated it.
And the bottom line is I don't know what happened, and I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I do, and nor and I'm I'm not gonna take the occasion of this event, try to launch myself to some new height based on something I know or believe.
I'm not angling for somebody to say two weeks from now, Limbaugh had it.
Limbaugh told me.
That's not what I'm so that's not what thrills me.
You know why I don't like doing interviews?
This is just a way of explaining.
You may think this is a brief great departure from what I'm talking about, but it's not.
I don't like doing interviews.
I've told you before I don't like them.
I despise them.
And there are a bunch of reasons.
One, why should I listen to somebody just going to repeat what I already know and think back at me?
But I also know this.
Anytime I do an interview, whereas as far as you people in this audience are concerned, and you are all that matter to me, my maintaining my credibility with you is all that matters to me.
I never play games with that, and I don't lie or make things up, say outrageous things just to get noticed, none of that.
I'm as you know, trying to find a lower profile.
Not working, but I'm trying.
In any interview, I know that where you are concerned, the most important part of any interview I do is the questions I ask, not the answers that I get.
And so every interview I do is pressure packed.
Most people look at interviews as a way to take a break.
You know, fire offs and questions, let the guest roll and settle back.
And to me, it's the exact opposite that it's extremely pressure because the questions are what you're doing.
If if I cave on questions, I lose credibility with you.
If I don't ask what I think you want to know, then that's not good.
And it's the same thing here.
I'm I'm I'm not going to pass along information that I don't know.
Just so that somebody will say three weeks from now, Limbaugh had it, Limbo was first, Limbar was at the top, near the first, whatever.
I not uncomfortable with saying I don't know.
And I'm totally comfortable with analyzing what is being reported and what's not being and what it all means.
For example, I'm totally comfortable telling you the following.
And it's this kind of thing that gets me in trouble with left-wing critics and so forth.
I'm totally comfortable telling you that I wouldn't be a bit surprised if we were to learn that however this investigation in Boston is going, the ultimate objective is to end up making Obama look good at the end of the day.
They're all Democrats doing this.
Mr. Limbaugh, that is the most outrageous thing I've ever heard you say, and you've said so many outrageous things.
Why would you possibly think the investigators would care that make Obama look?
Well, I'll tell you why.
The governor of Massachusetts, Deval Patrick, one of the first things he said when asked about the investigation was Obama called us, he cares, Obama's looking into this, Obama's taking care of us, Obama's prompt.
What's Obama got to do with this?
Why does what happened at Boston Marathon matter to Obama at all in terms of political fortune?
Why does it matter?
How does it possibly affect Obama?
Why does what happened there in Boston?
Why is what Obama says about it the most crucial?
What?
And everybody in the media, because every event, folks, I can go through the stack of stories today.
Every story from places like the political or CNN or MSNBC, every one of those stories is done to the prism.
What does this mean for Obama?
What does this mean to Obama?
So everything is covered through that prism.
Gun control bill, what does this mean for Obama?
Immigration, what does this mean for Obama?
Anybody care what does it mean for the country?
Hurricane Sandy.
What does this mean for President Obama?
The Sandy Hook element, what does this mean for Obama's gun control efforts?
Everything.
Everything.
It gets tiring.
Every news item is reported with an angle.
What does this mean to Obama?
What does this mean for Obama's agenda?
Gabby Gifford's gets shot.
Doesn't take long.
How can this help Obama?
How can this hurt Obama?
How can Obama use this to advance?
It gets really offensive.
And before Obama was Clinton.
How can this help Clinton?
All of this.
How can it help Democrats?
How might it hurt Democrats?
That's how news is covered.
That's how national news is reported.
So that's why I say, I guaranteed explosions at Waco last night.
What do you think people's first reactions were when they heard that the fertilizer plant blew up in Waco?
I'll tell you what they said.
And then the media.
In the media.
They said, didn't Timothy McVeigh, didn't that, isn't that what ticked him off?
What happened to Waco?
Waco, Waco, Waco Invasion.
Well, that was McVeigh got mad at that.
That's what he blew up Oklahoma City.
Wasn't it about this time of year?
That's what they were thinking.
Average ordinary people, fertilizer plant go, oh no, is there is is they're looking first Boston, now this.
My God, are we in the middle of another protracted 9-11?
Average Americans wonder, are we in the middle of another terror assault?
The media, of course, is wondering, oh my God, are the descendants of Tim McVay come back to life or something?
That's the way they look at it.
In the process, as yesterday was evidence.
We don't get what we think the media is for, i.e., news, information that they have learned that we don't know, passed on to us.
That's what we've always thought the media is, and it isn't anymore.
It's just a political action committee for the uh for the Democrat Party.
Kermit Gosnell, anybody?
Can't cover that.
That's not gonna that fact, covering Gaznell trial, that might hurt our war on women theme.
Because it's a Republicans have his war on women, meanwhile, it's a abortion doctor wreaking havoc on everybody.
And Philip goes, Oh, it can't cover things, no news there.
What do you mean there's no news?
You got an abortion doctor killing babies that survive abortions and butchering them.
It's sickening, really sickening, squalid stuff.
Can't report that because there's only one narrative when it comes to abortion, and that is a woman's reproductive rights are under assault by the Republicans.
That's it.
If the story doesn't contain that element, it's not gonna get reported.
That is not news.
That is the Democrat Party agenda.
They can deny it all day long.
But that is what it is.
I take a break, looking now at the official broadcast format clock, back with much more after this.
Don't go away.
Okay, audio sound by number seven last night in Washington.
White House Rose Garden, President Obama speaking about the defeat of the anti-gun bill in the Senate.
I've heard folks say that having the families of victims lobby for this legislation was somehow misplaced.
A prop, somebody called them.
Emotional blackmail.
Some outlets said.
Are they serious?
Yes.
Do we really think that thousands of families whose lives have been shattered by gun violence don't have a right to weigh in on this issue?
No.
Do we think their emotions, their loss is not relevant to this debate?
No.
So all in all, this was a pretty shameful day for Washington.
Yeah, because it was supposed to be the Republicans we blame for this.
Damn it!
This thing was supposed to pass the Senate.
I was supposed to get all kinds of credit for parading around the families.
I was supposed to get all kinds of credit, compassion, love, adoration, and my own party kills my bill.
Here's more from the president from the Rose Garden White House.
The gun lobby and its allies willfully lied about the bill.
They claimed that it would create some sort of big brother gun registry.
Even though the bill did the opposite.
This legislation, in fact, outlawed any registry.
Plain and simple, right there in the text.
But that didn't matter.
And unfortunately, this pattern of spreading untruths about this legislation served a purpose.
Because those lies upset an intense minority of gun owners.
And that in turn intimidated a lot of senators.
You live by the lie, you die by the lie.
You believe these guys worried about being lied about?
You ought to try being a Republican for one day, Mr. President, see how it feels.
You ought to try being a concern.
You want to be worried about being lied about?
You ever lie about Obamacare?
That's not the question.
How many lies were told about Obamacare?
Your own party, Max Baucus, is warning this thing is an absolute disaster.
Mr. President, your own party is walking back your health care bill.
Did you lie about the stimulus?
But I look at there were it lies in the gun control.
This was going to be a national registry.
Surreptitiously backdoor.
The bottom line is, Mr. President, it wasn't the NRA to lie to anybody.
The gun lobby and their allies didn't have to lie to anyone.
The American people on their own understand full blown every time the Democrats start talking about guns what they want.
The American people don't need to be told.
The American people understand who you are.
The American people, a vast majority of them, according to Gallup, understand without being told what you Democrats want to do to the second amendment and their guns.
They don't have to be told.
You've done that for them.
He got plenty of gun laws on the books.
Try enforcing those.
You talk about having the families of victims lobby and be props and so forth.
The Democrat Party does that on practically every issue.
There wasn't one part of this bill that would have stopped what happened at that school.
There wasn't one element of the bill that went down to defeat.
That would have prevented what happened at the Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Not one.
He's seen the murder rate in your town of Chicago.
Why aren't there any prosecutions there?
Why aren't existing gun laws being put to use?
You want the answer to that, folks?
Think about it.
We have plenty of laws on the books to be prosecuting gun culprits.
Why aren't they being used?
Why is it said we need more?
Why is it said we need new laws?
Why are the existing laws not being enforced?
Well, you want an answer?
Because we need the chaos.
We need to make it look like existing law isn't enough.
So that we can justify new laws, so we can justify new restrictions, so that we can justify new requirements.
If you use existing law to prosecute gun violence today, and you get some bad guys off the street, you might send the message you don't need any new laws.
Can't have that.
We want the new law.
Why?
Because of what's in the new law that isn't in current law, and that would make it tougher to own a gun.
And that's what this is all about, trying to get around the Second Amendment, and the American people fully understand it because they know who the Democrats are on this issue.
I wish the American people understood who Democrats are on every issue like they understand this one.
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