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April 25, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 25, 2013, Thursday, Hour #3
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Yo, I'm I'm watching the mother of the Boston Marathon Bombers.
What a piece of work.
I better shut up.
Greetings and welcome back.
I didn't know they were allowed to talk that much.
Greeting and welcome back.
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Here is Ted Cruz, by the way.
This is yesterday on CBS this morning.
He was uh uh talking to the the mind-numbed hosts of that show about immigration reform, and this is what he said.
President Obama does not want an immigration bill to pass.
I think the president wants to campaign on immigration reform in 2014 and 2016.
And I think the reason that the White House is insisting on a path to citizenship for those who are here illegally is because the White House knows that insisting on that is very likely to scuttle the bill.
In the House, in the House, that's the key to this.
Immigration reform, gang of eight, Senate, supposed to sail through there without too much trouble.
But in the House, because it's amnesty, or for all intents and purposes, a path to citizenship.
It's supposed to die there on purpose.
What Ted Cruz is saying is Obama's made this thing so onerous.
Republicans have to oppose it.
And when they do, and when they voted down, he's got a campaign issue.
Republicans hate Hispanics, Republicans don't like uh free whatever it is, freedom.
And that's what he means.
I mentioned earlier that President Obama at the dedication today, the Bush Library, this would be the George W. Bush presidential library.
President Obama made remarks, and in his remarks, he decided to make a big push for immigration reform.
And people emailed me who were there, who said everybody there got a little uncomfortable because it just felt out of place given the purpose of the event today.
Seven years ago, President Bush restarted an important conversation by speaking with the American people about our history as a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.
And even though comprehensive immigration reform has taken a little longer than any of us expect, I am hopeful that this year, with the help of Speaker Boehner and some of the senators and members of Congress who are here today, that we bring it home for our families and our economy and our security and for this incredible country that we love.
And if we do that, it will be in large part thanks to the hard work of President George W. Bush.
Right on right.
Now that is the part of Obama's remarks today where he came alive.
He was said to be uh pretty deferential and respectful, unlike Obama normally is, but he gets to this, invokes Bush, and we got to do it for the Gipper.
And we got to do it for our families.
And we got to grant amnesty for our economy.
We got to grant amnesty for our security and for our incredible country that we love.
And the reason we really have to do it is because, as the politico said, if this bill is signed into law, it's the end of the Republican Party for a generation.
The politicals, not me, folks.
The politico told the truth about the gang of eight immigration deal, that it is essentially going to register so many brand new Democrats and Republicans can't keep up.
Now I know you're asking why Rush, the Republicans are doing this.
Do they not understand it?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I I just tell you that I think the Republicans believe what their consultants tell them.
And I think they believe what their pollsters tell them.
And I think what they're being told is you guys are hated.
And you guys aren't going to win anything until you extend outreach to the Hispanics.
You got to make the Hispanic people of this country love you, or you don't have a prayer.
And the only way you can make the Hispanic people love you is by changing your tune on immigration, because right now they think you hate them.
And but if you change your way on immigration, they'll know that you don't hate them, and then everything will be fine.
That's what I think that's what they're being told.
Along with the idea that they're just seen as obstructors.
And until that changes, they start agreeing with the Democrats more, they're never going to get anywhere.
I know it sounds cockamaby, but that's it's going around.
Now, uh Mayor Doomerg and the police commissioner in New York are saying that the two bombers intended to go to New York City Times Square and blow it up.
Now, yesterday, that wasn't the story.
Yesterday the two bombers were going to go to New York and party.
They told the guy whose car they hijacked that they were going to New York.
That news got out, and the conventional wisdom in the drive-by media, well, of course they were they weren't going to bomb New York.
These are just a couple of what did Obama call them knock uh Biden called them knockoff jihadis.
Did you hear that?
Biden called them knockoff jihadis.
That means they're not real jihadis.
They're just a couple of amateurs.
They're just the the scrubs on the bench, knockoff jihadis, like fake Rolex that you would buy on a street corner on Fifth Avenue.
They just knockoff jihadists.
So after they after they successfully blew up the marathon, yeah, they said they were going to New York, but we know they were just going To party.
Well, today, for some reason, Mayor Doomberg and the police commissioners say, no, they weren't coming here to party.
They were coming here to blow us up.
Here, I've got Biden saying that somewhere.
Where is it in the uh stick with me here, folks?
Number 10.
Biden yesterday, Cambridge, Massachusetts at MIT at the memorial service for the police officer there, Sean Collier.
This is the vice president of the United States.
They can never defeat us.
Whether it's Al-Qaeda Central out of the Fatah or too twisted, perverted, cowardly knockoff jihadis here in Boston.
Knockoff jihadis.
Does that mean the injured are knockoff injured?
Are the injured not really injured?
Because it was just, these are knockoff jihadis.
They're not that bad is the point.
They're not a couple pretender kids.
Nothing to worry about here.
Well, I know they were successful.
The fruit of the boom bomber was not.
So I've got a soundbite here from somebody.
So five successful bombers under during the Obama regime.
This is the mother who I just heard, but this is the mother yesterday.
Sorry, the mother today in Dagestan.
Her name is Zubatit.
Zubated Zanaev, mother of the knockoff jihadis.
She held a press conference.
And we have about 21 seconds of what she said.
Why did I even go there?
Why?
I thought America is gonna like protect us, our kids.
It's gonna be safe.
For like any reason, but it happened.
America took my kids away from me.
Only America.
Woman, folks, this woman.
Wait a minute now.
Wait a minute.
Everybody on the other side of the glass is having a connection fit.
This woman is very smart.
This woman's blaming America.
So the media love her.
The Democrats love her.
She's blaming America.
America took her kids.
We we sent other kids to America to be free, and look at what happened.
They turned into knockoff jihadis because they came here.
For like any reason, but it happened opposite.
America took my kids away from me.
Only America.
Well, isn't that what the view of America was under Bush?
Isn't that what they told us the world thought of us?
This woman is crafty smart.
She now has the sympathy of everybody in the media.
Do you think the media reacted the way you just did in there?
Snerdley's in there blowing a gasket, Dawn's blowing a gasket.
The media, no, no, the me.
Well, we must listen to this woman.
You must listen to more of what she has to say.
She's either naturally smart instinctively, or she's got good consultants and advisors.
Yesterday, yesterday, uh this mother, the what's the name?
Um Badit Sanaev said on CNN, if you're gonna kill him, I don't care.
She's talking about her son Jokar.
If you're gonna kill him, I don't care.
My oldest one is killed, so I don't care.
I don't care if my youngest one's gonna be killed today.
I want the world to hear this.
And I don't care if I'm gonna get killed too.
And I will say a lahu Akbar.
I will say Allah Akbar.
You know what I think?
You know what I think?
I think now that now they'll try to make my Joe Kar guilty because they took away his voice, his ability to talk to the world.
They didn't want the truth to come out.
So as far as mom knockoff jihadie is concerned, the country of America did this to her kids.
She sent her kids here.
Dagestan was too dangerous, Chechnya too dangerous.
She sent her kids here to be safe.
And look what this country did to them.
You all right.
Do me a favor.
Watch CNN later this afternoon tonight, MSNBC, and you see if there isn't great sympathy for this woman because she's got a point.
You do it.
See if I'm not right.
Now, back to Mayor Doomberg.
Mayor Doomberg on Monday.
We mentioned this, but I want you to hear him say it.
This was at a press conference talking about America after the Boston Marathon bombings.
We live in a complex world where you're gonna have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the uh olden days, if you will, and our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think have to change.
Yeah.
We're gonna need more security.
More than we needed back in the old days when the Constitution was written.
Those guys had no clue what was gonna be happening to this country.
Revolution, they don't know what happened.
They had no idea it was gonna be this bad.
So we're gonna have to we're gonna have to change the way we interpret the Constitution, Mayor Doomberg said.
This morning on Fox and Friends on the Fox News Channel, they had theirs their guest, their own judicial analyst, Andrew Napolitano, and they were talking about Doomberg's remarks about changing the way we interpret the Constitution.
And Judge Napolitano had a little conversation uh along with Brian Killmead.
The mayor is profoundly wrong.
The whole essence of humanity and the reason America is a great place is because the government respects human freedom.
Very famous radio voice agrees with me on this.
When you trade your freedom for temporary security, when you're not in charge of your security, when you have no control over your security, when you have no control over your economic circumstances, what kind of a thin thread are you hanging by?
You're depending on the performance of other people that don't even know you.
Politicians in a distant capital, who on a whim could cancel whatever program that you depend on.
That was Fox and Friends this morning.
I said that yesterday, replaying it.
About quoting Ben Franklin and the notion trading freedom for security.
I made I made the phone.
My God, why you trade your security or your economic circumstance for people you don't even know?
People don't even know you couldn't care less about you.
What kind of a thin thread are you hanging by?
And Napolitano loved it.
Soundbite number three.
That is so profound it could have been uttered at the time of the American Revolution.
The problem is when the government takes freedom away from decent people like us, these monsters don't care if they're on camera.
Cameras were there and they did it anyway.
Judge Napolitano characterizing what he heard on this program as profound.
So profound it could have been uttered at the time of the American Revolution.
We will be back.
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Back to the phones.
We go to El Segundo, California.
It's great to have you on the phone.
Laura, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
I I've been listening for more than 20 years.
First time caller.
Well, I appreciate you being there.
I really do.
Thank you.
Uh, my call is just a fun fact about the battle hymn of the Republic song that you played in your first hour.
Yes, ma'am.
And I wanted to tell you that back in the early 70s, I sang second soprano in Mr. Ditman's choir at Talmetto High School in Central Florida.
And we sang that very same version in one of our concerts.
Well, it's a very, very touching version, this arrangement.
There are many different arrangements of it, but it's it is but that particular what the way the army band and chorus performed this song at the birthday celebration for the Pope of the White House.
When they I it I'm just a stickler for the minutest of details.
The way they sang glory glory, hello in that in that uh chorus beginning the second half of the song, just sends chills up my spine on until when I saw that the song was being performed again at the Bush Library today.
I'm just I'm I'm wondering it if there's obviously it was chosen by somebody to be performed on both occasions for George W. Bush, Library Today, birthday celebration for the Pope and his uh state visit back in uh 2008.
That was just I don't know.
That song and its history just hit me deeply profoundly.
A beautiful version, and I knew every place that song was going before it happened, right down to the Amen, all men at the end.
Well, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I appreciate your calling and uh and telling me that.
Here's uh here's Josh in Hubert Heights, Ohio.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
How are you tonight?
I'm well, thank you.
It's really awesome to be on the phone with you.
Okay.
Quick question.
In this current age of large government, how do we change the hearts and I guess the minds also of the populace into treasuring freedom into choosing liberty over benefits?
Well, this is a question I have been dealing with for 25 years.
Well, 25 years in August.
And it's it's extremely frustrating.
The benefits are so great.
The benefits are so plentiful.
That I've got a story in this, I should find this.
It's a story about, and you've heard this before, a woman who is making out much better on all the forms of welfare she can collect than when she had a job.
And she's asked, why should I go get a job?
But it's the real question is why is freedom such a hard sell?
That's the question.
In this country, why has the idea of individual liberty and responsibility become such a hard sell?
That's something I never thought would happen here.
We're back.
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Here's Lois in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Hi, great to have you here.
Hi Josh.
Um I'm supposed to get straight to the point, but I wanted to first thank you for always bringing us the truth.
Um my reason for calling was the last election Obama ran on making the top percent one percent to pay their fair share.
Yeah.
And um I consider politicians part of that one percent, yet they passed a new tax called Obamacare on us, and now they're trying to exempt themselves from it.
Isn't that interesting?
Isn't that typical?
Isn't that amazing?
I mean, why isn't anybody talking about this?
The Democrats was all about the top one percent paying their fair share.
I don't know.
I uh uh to be quite honest with you, the political runs this story today.
And you know what's on the news is the Bush library, the terrorist mother, the fact that they were gonna go in and bomb New York, uh, a couple of updates on victims in Boston, the fact that Biden called them knockoff jihadis, uh, and and it's all Boston today.
So it's all all evidence on the Sanayevs and their mothers and so by by the way, folks, this this mother, Zudet, whatever name is, running around blaming America.
She's saying, I sent my kids to America to be safe, and America killed my kids.
America destroyed my kids.
Um Zudat, one of your sons killed your other son.
Your beloved Jokar ran over Tamerlin.
Am I not correct about that?
Mrs. Sanayev, one of your sons used the other one as a speed bump.
Now the theory is he did it on purpose to save his brother being captured because he was in the throes of being captured and so forth, but it was uh good Samaritan kind of thing.
But at any rate, that's the news.
I I tell you, this if this ends up Congress and their aides exempting themselves from Obamacare if that ends up staying under the radar that's all we're gonna need to know if that does not light people up that's why I said at the beginning of the program I almost hope they do it just to see what kind of reaction it gets that tell us right away what we're dealing with that would tell us right away if
If the American people think the Democrats are so special that they should be exempted, that government officials are so special they should be exempted, every Obama voter, every Republican voter, they think that there's no problem with that, then that will tell us where we are.
That will tell us that people think government is special, that it is essentially royalty, and they ought to be able to exempt themselves because, after all, they're doing all this for us.
But this story has not cracked the news.
Now, I haven't read any blogs today.
I haven't seen anything on the Internet.
Just looking at cable news, this story doesn't exist today.
Here's Pablo.
Pablo in Fort Lauderdale.
I'm glad you called.
Welcome to EIB Network.
Hi.
Thank you very much, Raj.
I was born in Argentina before I became an American, the best nation that ever was.
And I grew up learning songs of praise to Evita.
In kindergarten, they made us sing and dance songs of praise.
But when I hear now kids in school learning songs of praise to Obama, I get a chill in my back.
I can imagine you do.
Now, I want to tell you this.
Most Hispanics, like me and many friends that I have, we don't want to make America the same crappy place we came from.
That's the last thing in our hope.
Most of us are conservatives.
I'm a conservative.
I'm a patriot.
I love America.
Well, this is a...
You know what?
Pablo's a good point.
A mistake is being made in that all Spanish-speaking people are being lumped into Hispanics.
But, of course, you are Argentinian.
I'm American.
American.
Others are Mexican.
Others are from Cuba.
Others from Hispaniola, from El Salvador.
They're all over the place.
And they do have cultural differences.
They're not monolithic.
But most of us do not want to make America the place where we come from.
We don't want to destroy America.
We are not liberal.
We're not Democrats.
We are not socialists.
We leave our own version of socialism in our nation.
And it didn't work.
How many Hispanic arrivals might you be talking about who don't know what the Democrat Party is doing?
They don't know that the Democrats are in the process of turning this country into Argentina or whatever else you escape.
But I think they learn quickly.
Like I learned, Rash, when I was from 15 to 21 years old, I was a communist myself in Argentina.
So I know a communist when I hear one, when I see one.
I was one.
I studied.
I can still sing you the international, and I can tell you by heart the manifesto.
But I know where that takes you.
Of course, I'm a patriot.
I'm American and a conservative 100% now.
But I can tell you, I can recognize the communists.
And we have that in government.
that is a terrible thing that is happening to America that we never thought it could happen.
I mean if America's gone there's nothing left there's nowhere to go that's it we are it there is no other place on earth that is going to stand up for the freedom of anybody anywhere.
And I wish most Americans will stop taking all these freedoms for granted and understand that it we can also collapse.
I mean it happened before socialism what it does to you economically is the least of the damage what it does to the spirit of people is absolutely horrendous and that's forever I I I have business in the Ukraine I I I have to go there sometimes, and I deal with people that lived under communism.
And I tell you their spirits are broken because they're in the unable to trust on anything because that's what communism teaches you to distrust everything, including yourself.
That's exactly right.
That's exactly right.
Broken spirits, no hope, no aspirations, no ambition, no dreaming.
Right.
They become sarcastic, and that's the end, because at that point they cannot take anything seriously, not even their own freedom, their own life.
They cannot even fight for their own life.
They give up.
And they believe that that is the normal status of the man, they never saw anything else, and you cannot repair it.
And we have that in Argentina, and that's why Argentina, even though they have the third largest shell deposit in the world, is totally bankrupt, and it will continue to be that way.
It's the result of Peronism, which was our own version of socialism.
You know, Pablo, you uh I can hear the voice of experience when you talk.
I can hear it.
Uh I don't know, I wish people like you ran for office, but I know you don't want the media anal exam that you would get.
But uh keep talking.
Keep talking.
I'm glad you called.
I must take a break.
Folks, sit tight.
We will be back in mere moment.
America's Anchorman, Rush.
On the EIB Network.
John in Chicago.
Hello, sir.
Great to have you here.
Thanks, Rush.
You had made a statement earlier about how difficult it is to sell freedom in this country, but I do believe that what we are being sold is in fact a form of freedom.
Financial freedom.
The woman that you said makes more on welfare than she could at a job.
That's freedom to her and to many people.
Why endure having to go to work and struggle with that whole career deal when you can live more than a subsistent lifestyle by being on welfare.
Public employees, government employees.
They they work twenty, twenty-five, maybe thirty years, two hundred and fifty maybe thousand in savings, but yet they get an annuity cash stream worth three to five million dollars.
Comments, please.
So what you're saying is that they do the Democrats others are selling freedom.
Freedom from responsibility.
Correct.
Freedom from hassle.
Uh freedom from the from the need to uh find a job.
And a struggle.
Freedom from the struggle.
Yes, sir.
Freedom from risk.
Correct.
That's what they're selling.
I believe so, and it's very attractive, wouldn't you say?
I guess to some people it is.
Well, obviously.
Obviously it is.
And of course, there's no stigma attached to that anymore.
There's no stigma.
In fact, it's a uh it's uh it's uh almost a badge of honor if you figured out a way to game the system.
Makes you a big proud person.
Anyway, that is uh that's an excellent point.
Why you're while you're talking I'm looking for that story, and I I uh maybe I didn't print it out.
Maybe and maybe I just saw it on the fly, but I know I did.
Look, John, thanks for the uh for the call.
I appreciate it.
It was a pretty detailed story.
It was about a a particular woman who had worked hard and done everything she could, and then learned that there was more waiting for her on the welfare roles with a combined like the the Obama phone and food stamps, you know the drill.
And she was able to uh she just she discovered as much more happiness, what have you in not having to work, just exactly what he was talking about.
Now it's repugnant to me, but we still have no action yet on the political story, lawmakers and their aides may get an Obamacare exemption.
Then there's this, this from Fox News, uh uh lawmakers are warning that the cost of the federal free phone program is spinning out of control.
This this whole Obama phone thing.
It originally started to help poor people in rural areas have a telephone.
Case of emergency.
Now it's mushroomed into free cell phones.
The cost has gone from $143 million a year a few years ago to $2.2 billion today.
15 times what it used to be.
They're never gonna take this away.
I mean, this is a had you know of entitlement program that's ever been stripped away.
Rush Limbaugh, pointing the way on the EIB Network.
you The thinking now, by the way, the Boston bombs were set off by using uh toy car remote.
That's what they think the guys.
Can you imagine the relief when the regime found out that Obama phones were not used?
Turned out that they were uh toy car, car toy remotes.
Anyway, open line Friday tomorrow.
Tell you about this job story, too.
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