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May 21, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 21, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #3
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So I just got an email note.
Rush, how come you don't mean it's about Apple and all this stuff?
Why don't you do more social networking?
Yeah, I'm going to answer that in a minute.
As you know, ladies and gentlemen, I have expressed often and for a long time on this program my discomfort over this seeming desire on the part of young people to just tell everybody everything about themselves.
I just my I haven't been able to put my finger on it.
But having lost my anonymity, I've got a different perspective on this.
And I just, I think it's it's after a bunch of years of this, it's gonna lead to some really psychologically messed up people.
It is it's abnormal to start telling everybody everything about yourself, every moment of the day, where you are, where you're going, uh, when you're going to get there, when you've arrived, how long you're gonna be there, and then when you're leaving, uh, what you think about this, uh, what you're wearing, all of this.
This is not it's not normal, but it it's this it's it's all rooted in a desire for fame.
And people associate fame with the Hollywood red carpet and with fawning media coverage that actors and actresses get, and people like Beyoncé and Jay-Z and then the whoever, you know, the Kardashians, they think that's fame.
They think it'd be really cool.
And so they they they start trying to do things to become famous or become uh notorious.
It just I can't put my finger on it yet.
Although I have I've gotten a little closer, and I actually think it's gonna lead to some deeply rooted psychological problems.
Because let me tell you one aspect of this.
By the way, greetings and welcome back.
And this is primarily a cautionary tale to you parents out there whose um youngsters are all over the social network stuff.
There's a downside to this that I don't think a lot of people are thinking about.
And I I used to have the same attitude about TV shows like Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.
What was that show?
That show was basically telling you everything you're not and never will be.
And I think all this social networks, so let's let's say you are uh, you know, you're you're young Freddy, and you're reading about all these people, supposedly doing all this stuff, and going all these places and chatting with all these friends, and you're little Freddie, and you're not doing any of that.
And I think it's actually it it could instead of all this social network stuff, ostensibly bringing everybody closer, I think it's gonna have uh a much different impact on most people, and it's gonna end up telling them how left out of things they are.
I think they're it's it's possible that the message is gonna be look what you're not doing.
Look what you're missing out on.
People you don't even know on these nights.
Yeah, you know, I went over here the other day, and then I went to the yard house, we left a little yard house, and then we went and hooked up, and after we hooked up, we went over dunking donuts, and after we went to dunking donuts, we went to the microbrewery, and after the microbrewery we hooked up again.
And you're a little Freddy and you're reading all this, and you're not doing any of that.
My God, what am I missing on us?
You say, okay, I'm gonna go get a gun and start shooting people.
Or what have you.
Extreme example.
But all of this social networking stuff could end up making most people feel like they're being left out of a whole lot of things.
Yeah, I don't know that uh I could be totally misreading it and putting the wrong emphasis on it.
Just think something I think is possibility.
Anyway, great to have you back here, folks.
So Rush Ball and the EIB network of the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
We have an update here from Jay Carney, another one on the IRS scandal.
There are now, I figure, eight or nine different versions of what happened.
The White House has had four or five shifting accounts of why it happened, who did it, who knew about it, who knew about it and didn't tell the president about it, who knew about it and didn't tell anybody else about it.
Every day it's a new thing.
And here's the latest from the spokes kid Jay Carney, the Daily Press briefing this afternoon.
A reporter said, okay, Jay, who did Treasury talk to here at the White House?
Who is it?
Who did the Treasury Department tell here what was going on in Cincinnati about targeting the Tea Party groups?
It was Mark Childress, uh, Deputy Chief of Staff.
The President was not made aware of this notification absolutely.
He was not, and I think we made that clear.
Some people have suggested that was uh unwise.
I think people in the know and people who understand uh why it's important to maintain uh distance from these kinds of things for a White House, understand that that was the right call in our view.
Okay, so the White House didn't tell Obama about the IRS because it was a wise thing to do to keep him in the dark.
And so now we get we have a name.
Mark Childress, Deputy White House Chief of Staff was the person who interacted with their Treasury Department learning what the IRS was doing.
So the net is drawing closer.
So every day we get a new update on who knew and who was involved.
So now we find out that the deputy White House Chief of Staff was cahooting with the Treasury Department on how best to put this story out.
After the elections, by the way, after the elections.
But the primary point here from the spoke.
What?
Hmm.
Oh, yeah, they've they want you to believe that Obama knew nothing.
Jay Carr, right here.
We didn't tell Obama about the IRS because it was wise to keep him in the dark.
It was important to maintain distance from these kinds of things for a White House.
Understand that that was the right call in our view, not telling the president.
Now, A, I don't believe he didn't know, but if he didn't, I'm my the larger point is he didn't have to be told to know this was going on.
Uh ladies and gentlemen, again, there are a bunch of sycophants and groupies and just true believers.
Maybe not even groupies are sick of it.
They just literally, I mean, these are died in the wool true believers.
Obama was the Messiah.
Obama is the Messiah.
Obama he's it.
He's good.
He's infallible.
And if conservatives and Republicans are the worst thing to him, and then I'm gonna protect him.
I'm gonna make sure that a conservatives don't get to him.
I'm gonna make sure the conservatives don't harm my guy.
I'm gonna make sure these Republicans do not inflict damage on my guy because my guy's God, my guy's infallible, my guy is the answer to everybody's problems.
My guy, I'm gonna protect my guy, and if that means taking out Republicans, the IRS, that's what I'm gonna do.
No, those are the kind of people that get hired, folks.
I'm telling you, he doesn't have to know.
He doesn't have to issue orders, he doesn't have to have an operator's manual for this.
These people get hired because it is understood by everybody in the hiring process that this is what they're gonna do.
Well, yeah.
Right now, now Snerdley, you say, wait a minute.
How come this kind of ignorance doesn't fly for CEOs?
For example, if the CEO at BP says, you know what?
I'm sitting over here in Britain and I'm having a cigar with my port, and at Oilwell Leak, nobody told me.
Go talk to the guys over there in the Gulf.
I don't know anything about it.
They purposely didn't tell me about this so that I could be in plausible deniability.
I'm the CEO.
I can't be told what's going on.
I know that doesn't fly.
I know that doesn't fly.
It doesn't, it doesn't pass anybody's smell test.
But in this case, they remember their target now.
Their target for all of this.
When Jay Carney goes out there, he's he's giving the media an excuse they will swallow and then report that they won't call him on, and he's also sending a message to the low information voters.
Obama's too big.
Obama couldn't be told about this.
They had to give Obama some deniability.
Whatever.
And the the the sycophant supporters of Obama are going to it that they're going to accept this right off the bat.
These are people who don't want to think ill of Obama, and we're not going to make that happen.
We're not going to reverse that.
You take these low information people idolize Obama or look at it.
In their minds, when Obama goes out and says he's mad about this, and we're going to get to the bottom of it, they believe that.
They believe he didn't know.
He went out there and he said he didn't know what was going on.
And it's really made him mad.
This is totally unfair.
This is not how the IRS is supposed to be used.
And I'm going to get to the bottom of it, and we're going to get rid of people.
And they they they believe it.
Remember, his whole presidency.
You can't, obviously, and if Snerdley can't, a lot of you can't either.
If I have to keep reminding him every day of the limbaugh theorem, then what that tells me is that he's still, and he's involved in this stuff like it's his job too.
But the instinctive understanding of how Obama is doing this, a lot of people still don't get.
He's purposely unattached.
He is purposely distant.
He's purposely not involved.
He's not governing.
He's not making these decisions.
That's his survivability technique.
He is constantly campaigning.
He is not seen as governing.
His enemies are doing all of this to try to undermine him.
And Obama has some loyal supporters who are trying to get to the bottom of it to protect him.
He has successfully positioned himself the first president, I'm sure, in history to whom his supporters really don't look at.
I mean, they look at him as the big cheese in the head honcho, but they don't see him as hands-on involved in anything.
Let's face it, the country's still a mess.
It's gotten worse since he took office.
He can't take ownership for that and survive.
The only way he can survive with the country getting worse is getting worse because of his policies.
The only way he can survive is if his supporters, the low information voters, continue to believe that he's being undermined, or that the problems are so deeply rooted from Bush that it's going to take much, much longer than anybody thought to get to the bottom of them and start reversing this.
But you're not going to convince them that Obama is not trying to fix these messes.
And you're not going to convince them that he's causing them.
You're just not.
Therefore, I keep saying I'm blue in the face, the focus on this has got to be above and beyond Obama.
I mean, it's funny and it's interesting to play these sound bites and listen to these dorks at the White House, try to insult our intelligence and tell us why it's totally plausible Obama didn't know anything.
Now you and I know that it's bogus.
We know he knows everything.
We know he is directly hands-on.
We know that stuff like this, which is oriented toward eliminating his enemies, he is Patton.
He is General Patton on this stuff.
You and I know this.
And a lot of people in the media know it, but they're not going to cover it that way.
They're into covering for him.
Pure and simple.
And that isn't going to change.
So the focus for me in terms of defeating Obama in 2014 and the Democrats In 2016, is to remind people hey, you even you, Obama supporters know this ain't right.
This country's not going in the right direction.
Even if we can't convince you that it's Obama's fault, it is the Democrats.
It is big government.
This is exactly what.
And that's that's the um, in my humble opinion the way to approach it.
Now let's take a brief timeout, as we must, and we'll continue, and much more follows right after this when we get back.
Folks, if you're still having trouble understanding this, let me put it to you this way.
Obama isn't just too big to fail.
He's too big to know.
Obama is so important.
He is so vital to the country and to the world.
He must be kept out of the loop in order to save him from his failed presidency.
The only way to keep Obama safe from his failed presidency is to keep him in the dark.
Do not accuse me of making a racist statement with that.
That's a common phrase that people use.
So in order to save Obama from his own failed regime, he must be kept out of the loop.
He's too big to fail, he's too big to know.
If he knew, he would be aware of how he's failing.
Can't have that.
Audio sound by time.
Here is the governor of Oklahoma on Good Morning America today, George Stevanopoulos, talking to Mary Fallon.
She's a Republican.
Stephanopoulos said, we know how determined and resilient you are.
Will Oklahoma be back?
And of course she said, No, you know, I think George's tornadoes totally wiped out the state.
And I don't think we're gonna have a prayer coming back.
Um we're just gonna pack up, we're gonna go to Mexico and try to replace the people in Mexico who've come here.
Because this tornado has wiped us out, George.
No way we can come back.
What is she supposed to say to the here's what she did say.
Will we be back?
Absolutely.
Oklahoma has gone through this a couple of times, and we're resilient strong, courageous people.
Our people are very strong, and they will make it through this, but we're gonna need a lot of prayer and a lot of support to get back on our feet.
Prayer.
We need to know the contents of those prayers before we give you any aid, madam governor.
Well, the Tea Party groups had to divulge the contents of their prayers to get their tax exempt status.
The governor's probably gonna have to divulge the contents of her prayers in order to get federal disaster aid.
I'm telling you these people to backbone of America, folks.
Will they be back?
Of course they're gonna be back.
Here's uh Sheldon White House yesterday afternoon, five minutes after the tornado hit, this is on the Senate floor, Democrat from Rhode Island.
Why do you Sheldon White House, Democrat of Rhode Island, care if we Republicans run off the climate cliff like a bunch of proverbial lemmings and disgrace ourselves?
I'll tell you why.
We're stuck in this together.
He's talking to himself.
Why do you, Sheldon White House, Democrat of Rhode Island, care if the Republicans run off the climate cliff?
So the tornado happened because Republicans don't believe in climate change, don't believe in global warming, and haven't authorized the money.
You see, with more money we could have stopped the tornado.
And more money we could have told a tornado, go somewhere else.
You're not wanted.
Or somehow.
Now he complains about the money.
See, Democrats aren't supposed to care about what things cost.
When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama, and wildfire scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of dollars to recover.
And the damage that your polluters and deniers are doing doesn't just hit Oklahoma and Alabama and Texas.
It hits Rhode Island with floods and storms.
It hits Oregon with acidified seas.
It hits Montana with dying forests.
So like it or not, we're in this together.
You know, that really is reprehensible.
That really is.
He ought to be made to apologize to everybody for that this this folks.
Do you do you want you just heard?
When storms tear up Oklahoma and hurricane swamp Alabama, wildfire scorched Texas, you come to us.
The rest of the country for billions of dollars to recover and the damage that your polluters and your deniers are doing.
So you polluters caused that tornado, and you you global warming deniers, you cause the tornado, and you dare come ask us for money.
He just accused the people of Oklahoma of causing this disaster.
And then coming to Washington with their hands out, begging for money.
And he says it doesn't work that way.
Because of your pollution and because of your denial of global warming.
Well, your messes also hit us in Rhode Island with floods and storms.
It hits Oregon.
It hits Montana.
So your polluters and your deniers aren't just destroying your state.
You're destroying all of our then you dare come here and ask us for this folks, this is beyond the pale.
Sheldon White House.
Obviously Democrat from Rhode Island.
Before it was even known that the death toll is.
Seeking to blame citizens in Oklahoma.
Back to the audio synop.
I got a bunch here I want to I want to squeeze in.
Uh one more on the global warming and climate change and the tornadoes.
Piers Morgan Live last night, CNN.
He interviewed TV personality, Bill Nye, the science guy.
Why are you laughing?
Bill Nye is not a science guy.
Bill Nye is.
That's why he's a TV personality.
Bill Nye is not a scientist.
Bill Nye can explain to kids things like surface tension, you know, why you can fill a glass above the rim and it won't fall over if it's just the right amount.
He can explain things like that, surface tension.
He's not a scientist.
He knows it, nobody else knows it.
It doesn't matter.
CNN put him on as a scientist.
And they had this little chat about the tornado and global warming.
As a scientist, when you hear about the size scale, power and devastation of this tornado.
What does it tell you about the ongoing debate about climate change?
Well, climate change is you you just have to think of it.
I mean, ten of the last twelve years have been the warmest years recorded.
No.
So thunderstorms are driven by heat.
And a tornado is a super thunderstorm.
No.
A result of a super thunderstorm.
So you gotta figure if there's more heat driving the storm, then there's gonna be more tornadoes.
No.
No, no, no, no, no.
No, no.
It's cold air that causes these things.
It's cold air that causes hurricanes.
It's cold.
This guy is not a scientist, folks.
Piers Morgan just put a guy on is not a scientist.
He's a TV personality.
But it's the BBC with a story two days ago.
There hasn't been any warming in 15 years.
All of the global warming freaks know this.
And it's got them freaked out.
They can't understand it.
And here he is say, well, eight of the last ten years have been the warmest years record.
No, no, no, no, no.
Anyway.
Just wanted to show you how this fraud is perpetrated.
And it is it's utterly harmless.
I mean, Bill Nye, the science guy is an utterly unintimidating guy.
He puts on a white coat, looks like a scientist.
His hair is uh unkempt, he looks like a scientist.
He's got the look down, Pat.
Here's Carl Levin this morning.
Uh during the Senate hearing on Apple and their bad citizenship And their irresponsibility.
Apple has not done anything illegal when it comes to their taxes, and nobody has accused them of that.
Then why are they up there, Mr. Lumbo?
You keep saying that they haven't broken the law.
Then why why are they up there?
Mr. New Castradi is asking.
Because the company is huge, it's big, it's popular, and it got there without government, and therefore they're the enemy.
They got to be brought down a couple pegs.
They ought to be paying more.
Obama campaigned against companies like this.
Making all this money and not paying their fair share.
They got more money than they need, but they're not breaking the law.
So they're dragged up there and accused of bad citizenship and more.
Carl Levin, the uh ranking Democrat lead leader of the committee on the Democrat side, Democrat for Michigan.
The lost tax revenue feeds a budget deficit that has reached troubling proportions.
It has helped lead to round after round of budget slashing and the ill-advised sequestration that now threatens our economic recovery.
Because of those cuts, children across the country are not going to get early education from Head Start.
Needy seniors are going to go without meals.
Fighter jets sit idle on tarmac because our military lacks the funding to keep pilots trained.
That's a crock.
That's a load of croc.
They sit on a tarmac because nobody in the regime will order them into the air.
Anyway, Apple is to blame for all of that.
The Apple CEO, the Apple CFO, and an Apple tax specialist are sitting there.
As Carl Levin blames them for seasoned citizens not eating, for young kids not going to Head Start, for fighter jets sitting idle on the tarm.
All because of Apple.
And by the way, there are little mayors in towns in California who are also blaming Apple for their problems.
Because Apple isn't giving them enough money in California either.
There was one Senator, well, Rob Portman in later on, Rob Port Senator from Ohio this afternoon, he also spoke up in defense of Apple.
Somewhat.
But it was left to Rand Paul who actually apologized or said that Congress should be apologizing to Apple for this.
Frankly, I'm offended by the tone and tenor of this hearing.
I'm offended by a four trillion dollar government bullying, berating, and badgering one of America's greatest success stories.
You know, tell me one of these politicians up here who doesn't minimize their taxes.
Tell me a chief financial officer that you would hire if he didn't try to minimize your taxes legally.
I'm offended by a government that uses the IRS to bully tea parties, but I'm also offended by a government that convenes a hearing to bully one of America's greatest success stories.
I'm offended by the spectacle of dragging in executives from an American company that is not doing anything illegal.
Yeah, Rand Paul, cookist, extremist, wackoist, Tea Party Republican in the Senate.
Defending the good liberals from Apple.
He wasn't finished.
Here's where he says Congress should apologize.
I frankly think the committee should apologize to Apple.
We haul before this committee one of America's greatest success stories, and you want applause?
I say instead of Apple executives, we should have brought in here today a giant mirror, okay?
So we can look at the reflection of Congress because this problem is solely and completely created by the awful tax code.
If you want to assign blame, the committee needs to look in this mirror and see who created the mess.
See who created this tax code that is chasing American companies overseas.
Apple has about a hundred and ten billion dollars out of their 145 or 50 billion dollar cash reserve, 110 billion of it's overseas.
They leave it there because to bring it home would cost them 35%.
Just not going to do it.
And so they have holding companies in uh in Ireland.
If you folks, if you want me to, and I know you don't, but I could explain every tax thing Apple is doing in a way you would understand it.
It it's made to look complicated, but it really isn't.
It's as simple as Apple has a holding company in Ireland, a holding company, expressly to collect sales outside of the United States, which are not taxable.
Ireland's tax laws are Ireland's.
And the U.S. Senate has not got a damn thing to say about those.
And yet that's what they're complaining about today is the way Apple is set up in Ireland.
Even the country of Ireland got mad today at the at this committee for impugning their tax law.
They said, you guys are claiming we made a special deal with Apple, and we didn't.
Our tax law is our tax law.
We didn't make a special deal with Apple.
We don't make a special deal with anybody.
But Carl Levin was livid at Rand Paul for what you just heard him say.
No company, no company should be able to determine how much it's going to pay in taxes, how many profits they're going to keep offshore, how they're going to bring them back home, using all kinds of gimmicks to avoid paying the taxes that should be paid to this country.
If you want to hold up a mirror, you can hold up a mirror to anybody you want.
You can apologize to anyone you want.
This subcommittee is not going to apologize to Apple.
I'll tell you, it was vicious.
I don't know how much money Apple has sent to Carl Levin's pack.
I don't know if they've sent any, but if they have, they're probably.
I don't even know if they regret it.
Hell, folks, this is probably all just considered part of the game, the way it's played.
Come in here, you know, eat the excrement sandwich for today and head on back to Cupertino, keep doing what you're doing.
That's probably what it is.
You know, just the dog and pony show.
Okay, it's our turn, we'll come up here, we'll take the medicine, we'll head home.
Hell with these guys.
Not going to waste a lot of time with it.
But did you hear him?
No company should be able to determine how much it's going to pay in taxes.
Really?
No company should be able to determine how many profits they're going to keep offshore.
Really?
No company should determine how they're going to bring them back home, the profits.
No company.
Using all kinds of gimmicks and gimmicks, they're legal tax laws.
To avoid paying the taxes that should be paid to this country.
Should be.
They are paying the taxes it should be.
They're paying every dime they owe, Senator.
Anyway, I got to take a break, folks.
You sit tight, much more straight ahead right after this.
Imagine this, folks.
You have uh this this bunch of senators who've demonstrated they're totally inept at balancing a budget.
They're totally inept and administering a country in a reasonable fiscal sense.
They can't it's horrible what these senators have done, and and members of the House too.
And here they are preaching to the CEO and the CFO of perhaps the country's most profitable corporation, the country's most successful corporation.
They ought to be asking these guys at Apple for help.
They ought to be asking these guys at Apple for their advice.
But, you know, I know it's all game because most of these people at Apple support the very people that are ripping them today.
I mean, uh Steve Jobs' widow, Lorreen Powell Jobs, she just did an interview in the New York Times.
She talked about how she's gonna start doing more for climate change, gun control, and immigration.
I guess it didn't help.
The Senate still went after her husband's company.
Okay, maybe.
It depends on how things play out between now and tomorrow.
But if I if I have time and there are things that are not more important, and I'm I may go through the Apple tax structure, because it uh what once you see what they're doing and how, it's fascinating.
And when you go through you wish that you had their CFO working for you.
Anyway, you sit tight, my friends, yet much more.
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