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June 5, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 5, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yeah, here we are.
Great to be back here.
The news just isn't the news when I'm not here to tell you about it.
I had so many people send me emails last week and the first couple days this week.
You know, Russia, there's a lot going on, but it just doesn't seem like it's actually going on without you here.
Folks, trust me, it was going on.
It was happening.
And I know it just doesn't seem the same, but the news isn't the news when I'm away.
Because there isn't any news anymore.
It's all agenda, propaganda, and all that.
Anyway, great to be back.
Great to be here back with you, folks.
Telephone number, as always, if you want to be on the program 800-282-2882, the email address elrushboardeibnet.com.
Forgive me, folks, but I'm being inundated with email from people.
Can you believe Obama?
Can you believe Obama appointing Susan Rice?
Yes, entirely, totally.
What do you...
Reign it in rush.
You're just back here.
Don't irritate people right off the bat.
Wait till the second hour to do that.
Folks, we're not going to stop Obama from being Obama.
And you've got to remember that everything you know about Susan Rice and Benghazi, over half the country doesn't know.
The low-information voters still don't know about that.
And they don't care.
And the name Samantha Power isn't going to mean beans to them.
Right now, they're focused on whether Kim Kardashian's baby in the womb is a boy or a girl.
And by the way, did you hear what Kim Kardashian said about that?
Well, it can't be a boy because we don't see the pee-pee.
And then Kanye, you know, you'd be able to see the pee-pee.
I mean, meanwhile, Bruce Jenner, who is Kardashian's stepfather, says, this West guy, you know, he's never around.
Now, that's the news that they're following out there.
But the fact that Susan Rice and Samantha Power, yeah, it is a giant in your face to the Republicans.
Exactly what it is.
That's who Obama is.
Okay, you guys think that Rice is bad news?
You think Samantha Power, here, let me give them even more power.
What do you think of that, Mitch?
What do you think of that, John?
That's exactly what this is.
That's who Obama is.
And there's no amount of news attention.
There's no amount of analysis of what Rice did and Samantha Power is.
You know, she's Mrs. Cass Sunstein.
And you know who Cass Sunstein?
Cass Sunstein is the Harvard law professor who arguably is the leader of this entire belief system that the Bill of Rights is anti-government and needs to be changed.
This Constitution is a charter of negative liberties business because it doesn't tell the government what they can do.
I mean, he's the architect of that thinking, arguably.
Samantha Power is his wife.
She's very anti-Israel.
Of course, Obama is gouging the Republicans in the eye with these two appointments.
That's who he is.
Anyway, and then Kathleen Sebelius, have you heard about this?
There's a little girl in Pennsylvania who is being denied lung transplant because she's 10 years old.
I lit a cigar in honor of Sarah Palin right as the program began.
Death panels.
Just exactly what Sarah Palin said, exactly what we all knew.
Obamacare establishes death panels, and right now Sebelius is it.
And that's what Obamacare says.
I don't know how many times it says in there, but the phrase, as the secretary shall determine, meaning the secretary of health and human services.
Well, Sebelius is determined a 10-year-old doesn't get the lung.
She doesn't get a lung transplant because she's 10 years old, and you have to be 12 to get a lung transplant under the current regulations.
Her congressman has begged Sebelius to waive the regulation, but she has refused.
Congressman is a Republican.
Of course, Sebelius would refuse.
And I remember how people laughed.
I remember how the media said, ah, you Republicans, you conservatives, you're just over the top.
There are any death panels in it.
are you talking about?
Look, I'm not even going to sit here and say that Sebelius is wrong not to not intervene, but they're death panels.
There's no the government's making the decision who lives and dies.
That's what Obamacare is.
Little think piece, just a little bit.
A proposition to the low-information voters.
Tell you what we're going to do.
You have two choices here.
President Obama and 14 people he names to run American health care, or Rush Limbaugh and 14 people he names to run American health care.
What do you choose?
And we'll point out now with Obama, he'll actually choose 14 people, and they will tell you what you can and can't have and where you can and can't go and what will and will not be paid for.
I will not set up such a commission.
I will tell you your health care business is yours.
You work it out with your doctor.
You work it out with your insurance company, but I have no control over whether or not your daughter gets a lung transplant.
And I'm not going to ever assume that kind of power over you.
But Obama and his people happily will, and they happily have.
So this is a forerunner.
It's just a glaring illustration that there are indeed death panels in Obamacare.
Now, you remember we had a story, oh, a month ago, maybe longer, that the average or lowest cost health insurance annual premium will be $20,000.
And I happen to be gearing up for my return to the golden EIB microphone starting yesterday.
And right there's a story in the Cybercast News Service, average health care cost, $20,000.
And there was an accompanying story, two-thirds of Americans probably will not have insurance.
They'll pay the fine.
This according to polling data, because it's going to be too expensive.
But there's a new poll.
You might be thinking, well, okay, Rush, that's cool.
That means they're going to nail Obama.
Uh-uh.
No.
From theHill.com, a new poll finds a trio of controversies raising public concerns about the honesty of the administration, not the president.
A new poll finds a trio of controversies raising public concern about the honesty of the Obama regime, even as the president maintains his approval rating.
Limbaugh Theorem again, a Wall Street Journal NBC news poll released late yesterday shows 55% believe the IRS targeting of conservative groups raised questions about the regime's overall honesty and integrity, but Obama had nothing to do with it.
They don't associate Obama with what the IRS did.
He had nothing to do with it.
A plurality, 43% also see the IRS missteps as part of a widespread effort to investigate Tea Party groups.
29% who blame the scandal on a few tax officials who were acting on their know on their own.
So, but get this now, given all the news and even the congressional hearings on the IR and the Inspector General report and the targeting of Tea Party groups, only 43%, not even half the country, sees that as a purposeful effort to investigate the Tea Party.
It just happened.
43%.
That number ought to be 75, 80%.
58% say the regime's handling of the Benghazi consulate attack also raises questions about the honesty of the White House.
Same number say the Justice Department's subpoenaing of reporter email and phone records, national security leak investigations also raises concerns, but the poll also finds that the controversies have not damaged Obama's personal standing.
He holds a 48% approval rating, 47% disapproving, and numbers match the same poll in April.
Limbaugh theorem.
So people in increasing numbers don't like what's happening in the country.
They don't associate Obama with it at all.
Not tainted by it.
His administration has problems.
His administration may be dishonest.
His administration, very, very troubling.
Not him.
According to the polling.
So, see, here's Snerdley says, at some point, this has got to stop.
I've been saying that for 25 years about the cultural rut.
Mr. I have for 25 years.
Longer than that.
I've been saying about the cultural rut.
At some point, it's got to stop.
At some point, it's got to bottom out.
It's got to reverse, but it hasn't.
It continues to plunge deeper and deeper and get worse and worse.
Now, Governor Christie of New Jersey.
Let me tell you something, folks.
This act of his to throw this open Senate seat because of the death of the Laut to an open election in New Jersey.
I'm just going to tell you something.
I will not be surprised.
I'm not predicting it officially here, but I will not be surprised if when 2016 rolls around and Governor Christie is seeking the presidency, I won't be surprised if he seeks the Democrat Party nomination.
I'm not predicting it.
I'm telling you, I won't be surprised.
Intelligence guided by experience.
You have here an opportunity to add a Republican senator.
I don't care whether it's for two months or 10 months or 18.
I don't, you've got a chance to buttress your party and stop or help stop this onslaught from the left that's happening in this country.
And there are some pretty important things that are coming up in the next 18 months.
Immigration reform.
You're going to have maybe, I don't know, you've got judge nominations.
Who knows?
It might be a Supreme Court vacancy, but you've got, in addition to immigration, gun control, any number of things of legislation to be coming up in the next 18 months, in the next 12 months, where a new Republican senator could make the difference in stopping it.
Instead, we're going to get a Democrat in there.
A special election in New Jersey?
And because it's only fair, the people of New Jersey elected the lout, and they didn't intend a Republican to have this seat.
You just reverse this.
If this is a Democrat governor, Republican senator dies when he happens.
The seat flips just like that.
There's more to this than meets the eye.
So you say to me, when's this stuff going to bottom out with stuff like this happening?
When's it there?
I still have to figure this out.
The immigration bill.
You know, Dingy Harry, the Politico, had a story that Dingy Harry said that Mitch McConnell told him they're not even going to try to block the vote.
They're not even going to force cloture on it.
And the McConnell's office sent an email.
I said, no, no, no, no.
That Politico got that wrong.
We're not going to get that immigration vote without cloture, 60 votes.
But there are rumblings that the Republicans in the Senate aren't going to do all that much to prevent this vote from taking place on immigration.
So, folks, we're not going to stop Obama from being Obama.
If he wants to gouge us in the eye by appointing Rice and Samantha Power, that's what he's going to do.
Show me the evidence where any of the things he's done, from economic policy to foreign policy to any, you name it.
You can't find any polling data, which all they care about in Washington, where he's been damaged by it at all.
Is an approval number still sky high?
Well, not sky high, but it's not dropping.
It's not plumbing.
And this IRS business, look, I have to take a break, and I do want to tell you a couple things about vacation.
It has a couple of fascinating trips.
But one of the, you know what, I don't expect anybody to understand this.
I really don't.
I debated whether or not to even mention and make a big deal out of it, but we went places, Catherine and I did, hoping that nobody would have ever heard of me.
That, to us, was peace.
Nobody caring who we were, where we were going, what we were saying, what we were doing.
And it happened.
Nobody cared.
And I can't tell you.
You know how I always talk about these sikh people on these young kids, all this social media, vomiting all their privacy, giving it all away and so forth, and telling them they're going to regret it, this pursuit of fame.
I can't tell you how liberating it was.
And I don't expect people to understand it, but I'm telling you that alone made the trip.
It wasn't until Sunday night, and even this was just for a brief moment.
I was recognized by a reporter for Sky News in London.
And he approached me, said, you're a genius, shook my hand, gave me his card, and walked off.
That was it.
Outside of that, I mean Zip Zero Nada.
It was absolutely worth it.
But we went, you know, we got the 69th anniversary of D-Day tomorrow.
And we went to Omaha Beach.
We went to the American Cemetery at Normandy.
And we went to Pointuhoc.
And I, by the way, I have been mistakenly mispronouncing that because of an error in which I had seen it public.
I've been calling it Pointu Ho.
It's Point, P-O-I-N-T-E Do-D-U-H-O-C.
And I had heard a number of people pronounce Poanduho.
It's actually Point du Hoac, Point duac.
The H is silent.
Just to be precise about it.
But it is about six miles due west of the center of where Omaha Beach was.
And it is a point.
It's a point that jumps out.
And German guns were there.
And they had to take those guns out as part of D-Day.
And those, I'd like to take a break here.
Otherwise, I'm going to be getting from the broadcast engineer reminding me I'm going too long.
So sit tight.
We'll be back here in just a second.
And we're back, El Rushball, already Wednesday.
You believe that?
The fastest week in media really helps when you're not here on Monday and Tuesday.
A week is really fast.
So we stopped in three places touring D-Day locations.
And we just barely scratched the surface.
The primary location, Omah Beach, where they do the annual anniversary celebrations.
But Omaha Beach is huge.
And there was Juneau Beach further down and then Utah Beach.
And D-Day was a giant, giant act of great deception on the part of Eisenhower.
The Germans were entirely faked out.
And it's a good thing because even being faked out, D-Day was a deadly event.
And I couldn't help while walking the beach at Omaha Beach, went down to Ponduho, Ponduhac.
And the, gosh, the American Cemetery.
I've seen pictures.
You have no, it's like most other things.
You have no appreciation for it until you're really there.
Just it's sobering, folks.
And then it's 69 years ago.
And the whole time we're walking the beach in these locations, it kept having a thought running around in my mind.
How many Americans even know anymore outside of saving Private Ryan?
How many would even be impressed if you could take them there and show them the serene place that it is today?
Say, guess what happened here 69 years ago?
Try to envision 200,000 Americans in ocean-going craft storming this beach and climbing these hills with German gun encampments all over the place, mowing them down.
Anyway, sit tight, folks.
We'll be back right after this.
I can't tell you why, but the whole D-Day invasion, particularly Omaha Beach and Poanduac, have mesmerized me.
I've been immersed in them.
And I've learned so much just in the last number of years As celebrations have taken place, things that I didn't know when I thought I knew it all.
A grand act of deception.
The Germans weren't sure where in Normandy, all along the northern coast of France, the Allied invasion was going to take place.
They weren't sure when.
It was a tremendous, without getting into great detail on this.
The Eisenhower and his command had done a terrific job in deception, building fake installations along the beach to indicate they were coming there, training in fake locations.
Germans even suspected that the invasion might hit Norway and not France.
The deception was so good that the German commander Rommel wasn't even on site on D-Day.
He was taking a couple days off.
I think it was his anniversary.
It was with his wife in Paris or back in Germany or something.
And he got the phone call early in the morning: guess what, General?
We're under assault here.
It was a tremendous, and even with that act of deception, the number of Americans who were killed, Allied forces killed, is stunning.
200,000 part of the invasion all along the north coast of France.
And its importance, that in the Battle of Belgium, and crucial to stopping what was happening in Europe and preserving Europe and the rest of the world for freedom.
But these Americans landing on Omaha Beach, well, all the way down, Juneau Beach, Utah Beach, they were sitting ducks.
German installations were high up on the hills.
There were bombing runs.
In the case of Point du Hoc, there were bombing runs.
I think it was the 9th Army Air Force was launching bombing runs.
And the number of seagoing efforts to assist in the ground assault, which was conducted by the Rangers.
The Rangers' 2nd Battalion.
Now, this was my first time at Point du Wac.
I'd been to this place in my mind, but I had never seen it other than pictures.
It's 100-plus feet straight up.
The Rangers land on the beach.
Ships launch ladders and other things on the sides of the cliff to assist the Rangers in climbing up.
Germans are shooting down on them.
And the Rangers just kept going.
Big guns, 155 millimeter guns were up there.
They just kept climbing, even as the Germans were mowing them down.
Now, one thing, the Germans, because of deception, thought that Utah Beach was going to be the focus, and they had moved many of the gun installations at Ponduac a mile west of Pointuac.
They still had some guns, but the big guns had been moved on the orders of Rommel.
Interestingly, the Ranger rank and file landing on the beach and climbing the cliff, they were not told.
The Ranger leadership knew that the guns had been moved, but the Ranger rank and file had not been told.
It was part of motivation.
They had to get that hill.
They had to get those installations of whether the Germans were in them or not.
They had to shut all that down all the way up and down the beach.
They had to secure that area.
And they did.
And in a couple of months, they're into Paris and the Germans are beaten back.
But to see it, folks, so pristine and peaceful now.
And to see what these Americans did, I mean, climbing straight up those cliffs with ropes, makeshift ladders with the Germans firing down on them.
Even though the bulk of the guns had been moved, there were still German small arms fire that was raining down on them, enough to kill them.
And a lot were killed.
That location, I think, was one of Ronald Reagan's greatest ever speeches as president, Boys of Pointu Ho.
He gave that speech on the 50th anniversary of D-Day.
And then we went to the cemetery, the American Cemetery at Normandy.
This is one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen.
And it's one of the quietest, one of the most sobering places.
Every tombstone, every cross is geometrically perfect.
No matter what angle, no matter what line you view these crosses, they are in perfect alignment, no matter what angle.
And they go on and on at 10,000 or plus, 10,000 more.
And tomorrow is the week is the 69th anniversary.
They'll do something big next year for the 70th.
But it was just another reminder for us about the greatness of the U.S. military and the people.
They're all volunteers back then, too.
Not all, but quite a few.
And the Rangers, equivalent of special forces in their own way.
You just can't go there and have any knowledge at all of what happened and not be in awe of what happened.
And you can't go there and not just be thankful as heck.
And I'm telling you, as you get older, at least for me, getting older, I become more and more in awe and in appreciation.
Appreciation just increases and increases for what people did.
And then you see the names on the crosses in the cemetery.
And you see 18 to 28-year-olds, 10,000 of them, used to be alive till that day or the day of their death.
And then runs the gamut in that cemetery.
But still, it's quite a sobering thought.
So I just wanted to share with you the really momentous time that it was.
Omaha Beach is huge.
And the entire beaches, Normandy, are huge.
I mean, a lot of the waterline to the cliffs and so forth.
So that was a large part.
That was the whole day, one day.
And then the rest of the time, we were in places where nobody knew who we were.
It was awesome.
Okay.
Thank you for indulging me in that.
I love sharing these trips and these instances.
You know me.
I love sharing my passions.
Now we've got other stuff happening here in the news.
We've touched on some of it at the opening of the program.
We're going to get your phone calls in on it as well.
People are bursting at the seams to weigh in on what's happened in the past number of days since I haven't been here.
Oh, and by the way, a special thanks to all of our guest hosts.
That's exactly right.
Doug Urbanski, Mark Stein, and who else was in there?
Those two?
And I want to thank myself on the best of day as guest host as well.
Sit tight, folks.
We'll be back and continue after this with much more.
Greetings, my friends.
Welcome back.
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One other thing I should mention about, by the way, Dawn pointed out, you keep contradicting yourself.
Is it Poanduho or Poanduac?
And it turns out it's both.
The elite French spelling is Poandu H-O-E.
The Nordic pronunciation, people had discovered the place.
Ponduac.
So I was alternating pronunciations because both are correct.
Both are accepted.
Now, that Ranger force that arrived at Puanduo, Punduac, 60% of those people were killed.
60% of the 2nd Ranger Battalion was killed.
Even other guns had been moved.
They had to take those hills.
Even though the big guns had been moved a mile west down toward Utah Beach, they had to take those hills because anybody sympathetic to the Germans could have occupied those installations and fired anything down the beach.
So 60% of the arriving force, 60% of the attack force of the Rangers was killed.
That speech that Reagan gave there on the 50th anniversary, where he concluded, and then some survivors, those still alive back in the 80s, kept talking about these are the boys of Poandu Ho or Poandu Hoc.
I forget how he pronounced it that day.
But it was one of his best speeches.
They had to take those hills.
It was a crucial operation.
I also get back, I see that the mayor of New York is attacking one of my businesses.
Did you see this?
New York City's campaign to cut consumption of sugary drinks now features ads warning people about sweet tea, sports drinks, energy drinks, fruit-flavored beverages.
The city health department launched a TV and bus ad campaign Monday.
And the commercials say that such drinks might sound healthy, but they're packed with added sugar, and that can lead to obesity and other health problems.
Some of the ads target kids and teens.
Instead, the health department is urging residents to drink fat-free milk, seltzer, or water, and eat fresh fruit instead of drinking juice.
1.4 million.
So the city of New York has an active ad campaign against my tea because some of it is sugary.
We also have diet versions as well.
We're not going to sit still for this.
We're not like some other companies that get all panicky and bowed down.
Oh, please leave us alone.
We don't do that.
That's not why we got into this business.
Folks, there's a piece.
I know there's a lot of stuff going on out there with the immigration bill, the IRS, and we're going to get to all that.
But there's some other things that I think are interesting and, in fact, fascinating.
I ran across a piece by a writer named Matthew Continetti.
I've seen that name before.
And I may have even quoted pieces that Matthew Continetti has written on prior broadcasts.
This is a piece that ran on May 31st in the Free Beacon.
And it's called The California Captivity of the Democrat Party.
And I'll tell you why it fascinates me.
What you and I, we look at the state of California, and we have red flags and warning bells that go off.
And we see a disaster that if the country goes the way of California, then the country is, at least in terms of the way it was founded, lost.
California is an abject mess.
High taxes.
You have a caste system of economics out there.
Got the poorest of the poor, the least educated of the least educated.
You have the wealthiest of the wealthy.
You have the most powerful of the powerful.
You have the extremes of wealth and the extremes of poverty, and it's all run by the American left.
It's all run by Democrats.
It's all run by moneyed people.
And Mr. Continetti's point here is that the state of California, when you and I look at it, say, my gosh, what a bit, the Republican Party hadn't been a factor there and when?
Since when, the 80s, 90s?
Republican Party hasn't mattered in California, and it may not for a long time.
You know, anything can happen in politics.
But if the trends continue, the Republican Party may as well not even exist there.
It's one-party state control, one-party control, and it's tax increase here, tax increase there, cost of living there, real estate price is skyrocketing.
The average American can't afford much of anything in California.
You go, I know that, well, the debt is horrendous.
You go inland in California.
You find an entirely different way of life than you'll find on the coasts.
But Continetti's point is that California is exactly what the American left wants the country to be.
That California is nirvana to them.
The state represents, this is a pull quote from Continetti's piece.
The state represents a possible future for the entire nation and the preferred future of the American left.
Environmentally stringent, demographically heterogeneous, Pacific-oriented, inequality-obsessed, and devoid of conservatives in positions of influence everywhere.
Another pull quote: The Southern Democrats are long dead.
The Midwestern and Rust Belt Democrats are dying.
The New England Puritan Democrats have ceded control of their party to the donors of the West.
If Obama and his party leadership have a problem with the California captivity of the Democrat Party, I can't detect it.
What they should not forget, though, is that California is known not only for its starlets and startups, but also for its earthquakes.
And one of the points of the piece is, you and I look at California, we ask, how in the world can people continue to vote such things against themselves?
How can this happen?
It's the same question that so many people have.
Why in the world is every Democrat in favor of higher taxes?
Don't they pay them too?
What in the world explains it?
No matter what answer you give people, none of it makes any sense.
Let me read just a few passages of Matthew Continetti's piece.
This is a story about politics and power in California, and it begins with money.
In early, in fact, it was Karl Marx, folks, who said that the most important and powerful thing in power is money.
The left has made everybody think that they do everything they do for altruistic or charitable reasons.
They don't care about money, and the exact opposite is true.
This is a story about politics and power in California.
It begins with money.
In early May, a luxury resort in Laguna Beach hosted a five-day semi-annual meeting with Democracy Alliance, secret invitation-only organization of liberal money bags that since its formation in 2005 has directed some $500 million in contributions to progressive groups.
Never has a wolf's den been so posh.
The alliance discloses neither its members nor its beneficiaries, but some of the details of its structure have leaked out over time.
Los Angeles Times, which was granted exclusive access to the Laguna Retreat, reports that Chris Hughes, the Facebook millionaire who owns a failing lifestyle magazine, has joined the ranks of the alliance, which has roughly 100 members.
They pay annual dues of $30,000.
They're required to contribute at least $200,000 to organizations in the group's workflow.
What motivates these people?
What motivates them is having access to power, getting it via money, and making sure that there is no opposition anywhere.
Now, that, I've often said, that's Obama's objective, is the elimination of all opposition.
And it is.
But it turns out that the California Democrat, the liberal, in Hollywood and in academia, you get Silicon Valley, you got Hollywood, you got academia.
Those are the three elements of liberalism in California, and they all exist to advance each other at whatever cost to anybody else.
And they insist on no Republicans being anywhere, anywhere around.
Let me cut to the chase in this California business and what it means, because it is fascinating.
My own take on it.
We'll get to that.
Everything else happening.
Great some audio sound bites here.
Get your phone calls in.
So we're loaded here today, folks.
And we come back and get right back into it before you know it.
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