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June 6, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 6, 2013, Thursday, Hour #2
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And greetings, my friends.
Great to have you back with us, Rush Limbaugh, the fastest week in media.
It's already here at Thursday.
I know Monday through Wednesday.
I take it back.
Monday and Tuesday were kind of slow for you because I wasn't here.
But man, yesterday and today, I mean, they're just zipping right by here.
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Some of the things I'm going to be discussing, we'd have an update on the 10-year-old girl and lung transplant story from yesterday.
But a very powerful piece I want to share with you about that that appeared at redstate.com about media bias and what it really means and how it really manifests itself.
And it's a great piece.
I've got that coming up.
Also, more on the IRS scandal that continues to bloom and blossom and grow as the liberal Democrats and the regime of Obama try to contain it.
There's also a miniature summit this weekend between President Obama and the Chinese Premier, Jing Ping Sing.
And we talked about that in a minor way, but the controversy involved here over Michelle Obama not going and leaving the celebrity, very, very hot wife of the Chinese premier hanging, so to speak.
A little bit more on that.
In addition, let me just give you a little teaser on this.
The CHICOMs have a recently enacted ordinance that, are you ready for this?
Will fine women who have children out of wedlock up to six times the average disposable CHICOM income.
In other words, there's an ordinance in China.
A woman who has, a single mother, a woman who has a child out of wedlock will face a fine of up to six times the average annual earnings, income, disposable income.
The CHICOMs are going to charge.
That's exactly right, Snurdly.
We in this country have turned single parenthood into sainthood.
Single mothers are saints in this country.
Single mothers justify wealth transfers.
Single mothers justify expansion of health care and other benefits.
Single motherhood justifies and promotes the redistribution of wealth.
In this country, we've made it a sainthood status and we award it and we compensate.
The CHICOMs are going to fine people.
But nevertheless, we're moving in the same direction the ChiComs used to go.
If anybody in this country is going to get fined for being involved in birth somehow, who might it be if Obama well, I'll leave that question open until we get back to this subject.
And don't forget more on the IRS scandal and the 10-year-old lung transplant, because a judge has taken the regime off the hook.
And the judge has told the regime, get rid of this stupid age limitation and put that child on the transplant list.
But there's more to that than meets the eye.
Right now, I want to focus on the NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers every day.
I don't know that it's probably just Verizon.
But I'll tell you what, this is the first time that any of this has come up under the Obama regime.
And that's not because Obama hasn't been doing this.
I have no doubt that Obama has been collecting phone records and data and information on people from the get-go.
And I have no doubt, because I know liberals, folks, I know how they are.
I know what liberalism is.
I know that they love exuding power and using it over people.
So I have no doubt that Obama has conducted operations like this on a far more massive scale than George Bush ever did.
The drive-by media today, typified by Ron Fournier's piece, oh my God, look what Obama and Bush have been doing.
In fact, Bush's name appears first in all these stories.
Look what Bush and Obama have been doing.
Oh, my God, how could this possibly happen?
Bush and Obama.
In fact, grab audio soundbite number three.
This is F. Chuck Todd.
Unprecedented Obama surveillance is George Bush's fault.
This is from the Today Show this morning.
This is part of a secret surveillance, domestic surveillance program that was first launched during the Bush administration.
And in order to do this court order, the Obama administration is essentially exploiting a part of the highly controversial Patriot Act.
It's all George Bush's fault.
George Bush made Obama do this.
These media supporters, these slobbering, slavic devotees of Barack Obama cannot allow anybody to think that Obama could possibly do this.
It's not possible.
Obama believes in privacy, civil libertarianism.
Obama's a great constitutional scholar.
Obama wouldn't have done this on his own.
It had to be that Bush made him do it or whatever the thinking is.
Here's the difference, as far as I'm concerned, because, like I say, I'm convinced that Obama has been doing this at a far grander scale, far more massive scale than Bush ever did.
The only difference is that the news media doesn't care that Obama's doing it.
When you get right down to it, folks, they don't care that Obama's doing it.
They were scooped on this by a UK newspaper.
This exclusive report comes from the UK Guardian, a left-wing rag, no less, but it still is a UK newspaper.
It's a British newspaper.
Our media have not even bothered to look into what Obama has been doing along these lines for five years.
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if this leak was shopped to the usual suspects, New York Times, Washington Post, AP, they all probably said, nah, we're not interested because of their loyalty to Obama.
They're not going to do anything to make him look bad.
Contrary to what you're hoping for, it isn't going to happen, folks.
They are not going to do it.
The drive-by media today is, I'm telling you, last night they were having cocktail parties or whatever they do, celebrating that Obama got away with Benghazi again.
That's what the Susan Rice elevation means.
By the way, it also means she can't be called to ever testify on this because she's part of the executive branch now.
So there are no confirmation hearings and she can't be called to testify.
So that she's been paid off, she's been paid back, and this is a giant F you to the Republicans, and it's Obama beating the Republicans, which is all they care about.
I'm telling you, what inspires and motivates the American left is beating us.
And the more you make it look like you feel bad over that, the happier they're going to be.
And the more you hold out hope that the media is going to turn on Obama and finally see the light.
They already see the light.
They know who he is.
They are not going to allow in any way, if they can help it, one negative light to shine on Barack Obama.
Not if they can help it.
I am sure that whoever leaked this called the New York Times.
I am sure that they called the Washington Post, the AP, and I'm sure they called the L.A. Times, and I'm sure they were told not interested.
And that's how the UK Guardian got it.
In any case, we are never going to see the same level of outrage from the drive-bys about this that we saw under Bush for similar operations on a far, far smaller scale, folks.
The Bush warrantless wiretaps involved foreign telephone calls.
Remember when the left was getting so aggravated over the Bush warrantless wiretaps?
They were involving domestic to foreign phone calls and foreign to domestic.
The Bush administration was not monitoring domestic phone calls, contrary to what you were told or maybe led to believe.
Obama is doing that exact thing.
This is every phone call that Verizon handles.
Now, they're telling us, don't worry, it's just the metadata, which is the phone numbers of every call, the length of the call, nothing about the details of the call, nothing about the contents.
No, no, no, Mr. Lumbaugh.
What they're looking for is spikes.
They want to see if a bunch of numbers are called frequently, constantly, in large numbers over long periods of time, and then they'll zero in to find out who was making those calls.
And so now what the media is saying, along with Obama, hey, this is all to protect you.
Don't sweat it.
There's nothing to see here.
When these stories, these kinds of stories have come up about the NSA and phone records in the past under Bush, this is not collection in the usual spycraft sense of eavesdropping.
These phone logs are being used.
It's called traffic analysis.
Metadata involves looking for patterns in the data.
But the huge number of records is almost certainly unprecedented here, as is the daily monitoring.
But here's the real question.
Didn't Obama tell us that the war on terror is over?
Didn't he tell us that?
Yeah, I know.
We're not supposed to remember he said that.
But see, I can't help it.
I do.
I have a memory that frightens 24-year-old women.
Threatens them.
And he did say it.
Al-Qaeda's on the run.
Terrorism is no big deal.
Why is he doing this then?
Well, it all started on the day of the Boston bombing.
So that's what they're going to say it has to do with.
I thought we knew everything we had to know about the Boston bomb, that they were not linked to terrorists, in fact.
They were not linked to al-Qaeda.
Did somebody just say something to me that I missed that's important or not?
Okay.
Now, I want to read to you something.
There happens to be a new book out, ladies and gentlemen, by Eric Schmidt, who is the chairman at Google, co-written by a man named Jared Cohen.
And their book is called The New Digital Age.
And in the book, Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen basically advocate for this kind of behavior by the government.
And I want to read to you a review, a brief portion of a review of the Eric Schmidt Jared Cohen book that appeared in the New York Times.
Here is an excerpt of the review of that book.
I have a very different perspective.
The advance of information technology, epitomized by Google, heralds the death of privacy for most people and shifts the world toward authoritarianism.
This is the principal thesis in my book, Cyberfunks.
But while Mr. Schmidt and Mr. Cohen tell us that the death of privacy will aid governments in repressive autocracies in targeting their citizens, they also say that governments in open democracies will see it as a gift, enabling them to better respond to citizen and customer concerns.
In reality, the erosion of individual privacy in the West and the attendant centralization of power make abuse inevitable, moving the good societies closer to the bad ones.
That review of the new book by Eric Schmidt from Google was written by Julian Assange of WikiLeaks.
Now, wait, just wait just a second.
Forget, see, this is why I didn't tell you who wrote it before I quoted from it.
You disagree with anything we said here.
Snerdley, do you disagree with anything?
The Google guys are in the business of doing what Obama's doing with Verizon.
They're in the business of scanning your emails.
They're in the business of collecting and harvesting data on everybody.
Now, the reason Google does it is for the purposes of targeted advertising.
That's how they earn their money.
And if it's just within that confine, fine and dandy.
But then you learn that Eric Schmidt and Google are in bed with every Democrat that they can come into contact with.
They're in bed with Obama.
And then you begin to wonder: okay, is Google simply harvesting data for their own advertising purposes?
Or are they maybe harvesting data for Obama and teaching Obama and the Democrats how to harvest their own data?
And we know that Obama's not harvesting data for advertising sales.
What would he want the data for?
Well, why did the Clintons have 500 FBI files on people?
900 FBI files.
So here you have Google, which is the largest company of its kind, harvesting everybody's data, scanning your email.
I mean, every time you use a Google app, Google Maps, Google Plus, Google Search, every time you go Google Chrome, anything to do with Google, they are harvesting everything you do on it.
You use Google Mail, they are scanning your emails.
Now, ostensibly, and I don't want to go off on Google here, but I just scanning, they're trying to find data.
They claim it's all being done anonymously so that they can target advertising geographically, in terms of interest and so forth.
And they are harvesting and collecting reams of it.
Okay, all fine and dandy.
But then what happens when they get in bed with Obama?
What happens when they get in bed with fellow liberals?
What happens when all of this turns political?
And then what happens when the Google chairman writes a book saying, yep, this is perfectly cool, perfectly fine.
That's why when Julian Assassin, I don't care about the whoever wrote the review is actually inconsequential to me.
While Mr. Schmidt and Mr. Cohen tell us that the death of privacy will help government in repressive autocracies, in targeting the what he, like Schmidt and Cohen are admitting that third world dictators doing this, that's bad.
But they say that guys like Obama doing it, it's only going to improve customer service, like at the IRS.
Guys like Obama or any American president doing this and harvesting this kind of data and ending privacy.
They're advocating the end of privacy.
The Google Chairman is in his book.
Well, that's going to help guys like Obama.
I got to take a break here, folks, because the time don't go away.
Okay, let's go back to the phones in Zagaroanoke, Virginia.
Hi, Chris.
Great to have you with us on the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
I am a longtime listener since 1992.
Thank you.
And I wanted to comment on your comments about visiting the D-Day beaches.
I just came back from France and spent a day at Aramange, Omaha Beach, and Pointe du Hauc with my two children, my children aged 27, 22.
And they both told me that was the highlight of our trip to France.
We were in France for eight days.
Paris was fine, but the historical value of our visit was tremendous.
Our family was greatly impacted by World War II.
My parents, their grandparents were displaced persons after the war and selected the U.S. to immigrate to.
So the effects of World War II are well known by my children, as well as the cost of fighting for freedom and the value of freedom.
The visit to Aramanche was amazing just to see the artificial port that was put into place by the British.
Omaha Beach, to see it with your own eyes, was worth more than 1,000 words.
Isn't that incredible?
It's so huge.
You can see all the movies you want, but I encourage all your listeners to make a visit just to see the expanse, the distance, the massive length of the beach, and then the next beach and the Pointe du Hawk with its lunar craters from bombings still present, and you can climb into the bunkers and so on.
It was just amazing.
And to see the monuments along the beach there and to see the distance with your eyes and see it took six hours for these men to get to this point and all the casualties and then go to the cemetery to see the beautiful, beautiful memorial and the endless pool there.
It really impacted us.
Me too.
It's impossible for it.
You know, you say that you hope everybody could go.
Most people are never going to be able to, which is why glad you call.
You're very descriptive.
It's a great way you've told the story.
That last caller was just excellent in describing what she and her family had seen.
She said, I would urge all of your listeners to make the trip and see it.
Fact of the matter is, most people are not going to be able to take a trip to France to see this.
And in fact, folks, that's one of the reasons why I'm taking the time to explain it as I saw it and as it moved me.
Because I know that most people are not going to be able to ever go to France.
Many will, but a vast majority who would like to won't be able to.
And yet it's still, to me, very worthwhile.
It's relevant.
That's the greatest generation, as it's been popularly referred to.
And what happened in World War II and the bravery of Americans and reclaiming the country, it's indescribable.
You just hope, I hope, in describing, I can somehow convey the sheer unique bravery and audacity of what was attempted and what was achieved, what was accomplished against the odds.
It's why I've said, and I've gotten in trouble for this, talking about my own generation, the baby boom generation.
I mean, I saw the story earlier this week that baby boomers are committing suicide in record numbers.
And everybody's trying to figure out why.
And, you know, I've gotten a lot of trouble when I have pointed out that, in my opinion, my generation had it easy compared to the D-Day generation, compared to the World War II generation, compared to the Depression generation, the World War I generation.
I mean, those were tough times.
That required growing up and being an adult, realizing that there were far more things much bigger than you as an individual.
They had to learn that when they were 18, 14, 15 years old.
Baby boomers today, some of them in their 60s still do not come to grips with the fact that the world does not rotate around them.
So I've popularized the saying that we, baby boomers, had to invent our traumas to try to tell ourselves how tough our lives were compared to everybody else's.
And we've been very successful at it.
We have invented a lot of traumas and we've believed the traumas and we have created a whole lot of stress for ourselves.
And it's very real.
I'm not denying the stress is real.
I'm not denying that.
But when I say that in static terms, my generation hasn't faced nearly what the World War II generation faced.
Although, you might say that we do face it in a way now.
Back during the 1940s and 50s and 60s in the Cold War era, this country was threatened by external forces who verbalized the threat.
They promised.
They swore they would wipe us out.
They swore that they would make our children slaves.
My parents and grandparents believed them and fought them accordingly.
Today the threat still exists externally, but to many people there's an internal threat now as well that has to be fought.
And it's no less serious today than it was in the past.
So an argument could be made that these are every bit as serious times as they were back then.
But even, you know, all that aside, just it was 69 years ago when this happened, over 70 years ago when it began.
Pearl Harbor today, largely forgotten.
So I just realizing most people will never be able to go there and see it.
Most people's contact with it visually will be in a movie.
I feel very fortunate to have been able to visit this place and come back and share with you my thoughts on it.
Because to me, it's extremely important, understanding the past, its relationship to liberty and freedom, which is what I think the daily struggle in this country really is all about.
Individual liberty and freedom.
That to me is what American exceptionalism always means.
The history of humanity is one of tyranny, dungeons, bondage, prisons.
The vast majority of human beings who have lived on this planet have been subjected to tyrannical authoritarian governments, regimes, neighborhoods, leadership, what have you.
The United States really was the first time in the history of humanity where a nation was founded on the concept that it is the individual who reigns supreme, that it is the individual as he was created by God that makes the difference.
The individual triumphs over any government, over any institution.
The institutions and the government serve the individual, not the other way around.
That was what was exceptional.
Up until the founding of this country, the individual had always served the institution, the government, the dictator, the tyrannical leader, the whoever.
And we saw what happened with the founding of this country.
The turning loose of the natural-born yearning of the human spirit created the greatest country ever.
For one simple reason, we had the freedom to be the best we could be.
We had the freedom to pursue our dreams.
Our dreams in this country can become reality.
For most of the people who have lived on this planet, dreams remained just that.
History is replete with the accounts of great individuals who attempted to break free from tyranny and authoritarianism.
And that's why the founding of this country is so special.
And that's why so many people want to preserve it.
That's why so many people fear that it is under assault by fellow citizens who do not appreciate that aspect of this country, who do not believe in the prominence and the triumph of the individual.
Those people believe that individuals are incapable.
The people who do not believe in the founding of this country look at average people with contempt, and they see incompetence and inability.
They see people that need to be provided for, need to be led, need to have decisions made for them.
We don't.
We believe, turn people loose, and the vast majority of them will pursue excellence, however they define it, will try to make their dreams come true.
And in this country, more people than ever before made their dreams come true.
That's the beauty of it.
And in World War II, well, the D-Day invasion.
The accounts differ on the number of people who died, 9,000 on that day.
You walk through that cemetery.
Tell you the reaction I had, the American Cemetery at Normandy.
The wind is always blowing there.
It's never really still.
It's on the coast.
It was cold.
Even though it was sunny, it was chilly.
It always is.
There may be a month or two where it's in the 80s, but it's always chilly.
The wind is always blowing.
The wind is always a hawk.
You always have to bundle up in the daytime, especially nighttime.
But it's nevertheless strikingly beautiful today.
And you walk through that cemetery and you see these tombstones and the stars of David, and they are aligned perfectly.
And no matter which direction you look, they are perfectly aligned.
No matter what angle, they're perfectly aligned.
You can't help but be moved by it.
And then you look at the names and the dates of the death of everybody on the tombstones, and you see 18 to 22, 18 to 30.
I mean, you look at every tombstone represented a life.
Somebody was alive.
Somebody was living before that day.
And they died for people they would never meet.
They died for people they would never know.
It's just, to me, it's profound.
That's why every day I age, I have an increasing awe for people in the United States military and the military around the world.
I just have a great unbound appreciation for what they sign up for and what they accomplish.
So that's why I try to take the time to explain it because most people will not be able to ever see it other than in a movie.
Quick timeout.
Be back and continue.
Eric Holder was asked today: is the Department of Justice spying on Congress?
And he wouldn't answer.
He did not answer, would not answer that question.
By the way, folks, I want to frighten you here, but I want you to face a reality about something.
The NSA revelations that every phone call that Verizon handles must be turned over to the NSA on the orders of the regime.
Don't forget now that we have a nation.
I don't know how many millions of people who are voluntarily giving up every bit of data about themselves on Facebook, on Twitter, on MySpace, on MyBut, on whatever social media site there is.
They may not think anything of it.
They may not think it's any big deal.
They may not find a problem with it at all.
They might think Obama is my guy, and I don't think Obama would do anything to harm me.
Obama's a great constitutional scholar.
Just want to warn you, like everything else in the media, you see a story that you think might outrage the whole country, don't be surprised if you start seeing the media report.
Remember during the 90s, when Clinton was lying every time he opened his mouth, it wasn't long that we got stories in the media about how lying is good for us.
It protects people and their feelings from being hurt.
That lying is good.
During the massive unemployment uptick early on in the Obama regime, we got stories from the media on how great an opportunity being unemployed is to rediscover your family, rediscover your friends, and spend time with the pets or whatever it is.
So don't be surprised if in the midst of this, by maybe even tomorrow, we get stories in the media how this is actually good that the government is able to do this in order to protect us, that it's okay, that if you haven't done anything wrong, you've got nothing to worry about.
And keep in mind, I don't know how many millions it is, but you know that we've got a whole slew of uninformed voters out there, low information voters that are dying for everybody to know everything about them because they want to be famous.
Now, this may be a bit of a stretch, but there probably are some idiots out there hoping that they are discovered in this operation.
You never know.
Attorney General Eric Holder refused to answer today when asked if the Justice Department's spying on members of Congress.
He cited the need for classified conversation, which lawmakers accepted while asking him to make sure that evidence of such surveillance is not destroyed.
Are you spying on us?
Well, I can't really tell you that it's classified.
Well, okay.
Well, if you are, you keep the data so that we can find out later.
Okay, we'll do, no problem.
Here is Janet somewhere in Vermont, a lost state.
Great to have you.
Hi.
My late veteran father would be very proud that I got through and got the chance to talk to you.
I wanted to make the point that even though the government obtained only the phone numbers of all these Verizon customers, I'm sure they've got access to databases that they could easily extract names to match the names with those phone numbers.
Think of White Page's reverse phone that they could easily load their database with, and they could do sort on names.
They could do anything once they get that.
And they might even be able to identify the Americans into your show.
Identify the...
Oh!
Oh!
Identify the Americans calling this show.
Sure.
I mean, I have no doubt that they're getting a database on who's calling the show.
But we're thinking only numbers, but they could easily match those with names, I'm sure, you know.
Match those with, yeah.
Well, of course, that's the point.
You get the numbers, you find out who the people are.
The only thing you don't know, supposedly, supposedly, They're not being granted wiretapped conversations, recordings of content.
No content of the calls are part of this order, just the so-called metadata.
Now, look at me.
I happen to never make a phone call because I can't hear on the telephone.
And as such, nobody ever calls me.
I have it so great.
Nobody calls me because they know I'm not going to pick up.
I hate the phone ringing.
There's always somebody in the other end, and they always want something.
And so nobody ever calls me.
I don't use the phone.
So they're not learning anything on me.
However, however, what about texting SMS?
Are they getting that data as well?
Is it just voice calls or is it every use of the phone number?
And in the case of texting, you don't have to have a voice recording to get the content.
It's text.
I don't know.
I'm just raising the question.
No, I'm not going to tell you whether I have a Verizon account or not.
Why should I tell you that?
Anyway, so I'm if I were a low information, I could say, well, I don't care.
I don't care.
I don't make phone calls.
So it ain't going to affect me.
I don't care.
They can do what they want.
Doesn't matter to me.
I don't make phone calls.
Maybe a problem for the rest of you, but I'm free and clear.
Ha ha.
It's not just the NSA.
And it's not just the IRS.
It's the EPA.
Any number of organizations in the government collecting data, spying, what have you.
And we still have much to touch on.
Lots to discuss.
Lots to touch on.
We get back here after a brief time out here at the top of the hour.
And lots of soundbites.
I got to get some soundbites in here.
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