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June 7, 2013, Friday, Hour #1

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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	Now I'm gonna try to make sense of this, but folks, it just keeps coming.
	They just keep coming after us.
	They just keep piling stuff on us.
	And the really smart people tell us nothing to see here.
	There's nothing to worry about.
	The mature and level-headed thinkers are saying they're nothing to worry about here at all.
	It's not a big deal.
	Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
	It's open line Friday.
	Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yeah.
	Who it is open line Friday.
	Here's the telephone number if you want to be on the program.
	It is 800 282.
	2882.
	Now, for those of you new to the program, there are a couple things different about Friday than there are Monday through Thursday.
	At least as it regards telephone calls.
	Monday through Thursday.
	If you call a program and hope to get on the air, you have to be calling about something I am interested in.
	Because if it's not, you won't get on.
	You'd be politely told try later.
	But on Friday, we broom all that and we throw it all.
	We also try to take more phone calls on Friday.
	We don't always manage to do that.
	We try to.
	It's always an objective.
	But on Friday, you don't have to talk about things I care about.
	That doesn't matter.
	You can bring up whatever you want, make a question or ask question, make a comment, doesn't matter.
	It is uh just a little departure.
	And some days, Fridays don't sound any different than Thursdays, but for I mean, for example, uh Monday is Apple's worldwide developers conference.
	And it's the first major appearance that Apple has had in 215 days.
	And the the Apple fanboy community is about to go nuts in eager anticipation.
	And there's all kinds of stuff if people have questions or comments about that.
	Nothing to do with the issues of the day, but it's perfectly fine on Open Line Fridays.
	It's a classic example of uh of how Open Line Friday works.
	Okay, so let me tell what I was doing.
	I was late yesterday afternoon.
	Um I was sitting in the library at home, and I was just swamped.
	It ever it seemed like every 90 seconds, somebody needed something.
	Or somebody had a question, or somebody in a comment, something requiring my response.
	And it was during the period of time that I generally devote to reading my tech blogs, you know, where I abandon all of this and get away from it and start spending time on what quote unquote my hobby.
	But everybody could just just it was one of those days.
	I'm sure you have them.
	They may happen every day, but I just I I could if I were if if I had been watching a TV show, I would have hit the pause button every minute to deal with something.
	It would have taken me two hours yesterday to watch a 40-minute program.
	So in the midst of all of this, I hear about Prism.
	Not the NSA sweep of telephone records.
	In fact, let me start before I heard about Prism.
	Even before I heard about Prism, I am hearing from the intelligentsia in Washington that there's nothing to be really concerned about here.
	With what we had learned the NSA demanding and getting every phone record from Verizon.
	And by the way, we now know T-Mobile and ATT have been added to it.
	The intelligent people were saying, nothing to see here.
	The reaction is way overblown.
	Those of us who think this is something worrisome here are overreacting, and we're too oriented in politics.
	And the mature thinkers had weighed in.
	And sound reason and level-headedness assured us that there was nothing to fear here, because this was just metadata.
	And in fact, this is something we should all be thankful that the government is able to do today.
	And I'm I'm I'm I have to tell you when I'm listening to all the the smart people tell me this, my mind is about to explode.
	And I'm saying, do these people not realize what we just learned in the last three weeks?
	We got the IRS starting in 2010, taking action to suppress the political involvement and ultimately votes of Tea Party people and conservative Republicans.
	This regime, this government, on the orders of the highest level.
	And we've got that in fact that investigation is ongoing.
	We have fast and furious, we have Obamacare, we have the evidence of the totalitarian nature or the authoritarian nature of this administration is on display undeniably every day, and yet in the midst of this, well, don't go off half-cocked on this rush.
	I'll be very level-headed about there.
	Nothing really to see.
	There's no context here.
	And I'm it it made me once again understand, folks, what you and I are up against here.
	There are just way too many people, and I'm talking about on our side who do not want to admit what we face, who do not want to engage or admit, or whatever what we really face here.
	It matters.
	This kind of stuff matters because of who the people doing it happen to be.
	It's one thing if Colonel Sanders would be collecting all this data, but it's not Colonel Sanders.
	It's Barack Obama and everybody that works for him.
	And we know who they are.
	And we know what their goals are.
	We know what their intentions...
	Folks, let me tell you what here's the thing, I guess that gets me.
	I mentioned uh Herbert Meyer.
	We interviewed him, the Limbaugh letter a few short months ago.
	Herbert Meyer was in the national security apparatus during the Reagan administration, a good friend of Ronald Reagan.
	And he was uh he was instrumental in establishing Reagan administration policies that brought down the Soviet Union.
	And he's uh we've talked to him about the his what the big news to him that's uh really noteworthy, we talked about it, is that he thinks that the world's coming out of poverty.
	And it is a big story.
	The Economist of London had the uh had a big story on it recently.
	We mentioned it to you, and it's a great testament to capitalism.
	It's not socialism, not welfare, it's not compassion, and it's not the redistribution of wealth, it's not high taxes that are bringing people out of poverty, it's capitalism, and none other than a leftist publication to London had to admit it.
	Oh, Herb Meyer was the first to sound this notice some months ago.
	And I also mentioned he wrote a piece that that currently is in the American Thinker earlier this week, and it was it was had the potential to be controversial because he used Adolf Hitler and Nazism in it, and it was his way of explaining, he's he made this point in the piece that nowhere there are people looking for a smoking gun to nail Obama on all these scandals, and Herbs isn't going to be one.
	And he said, whether you believe it or not, there is not one document linking Adolf Hitler to the Holocaust.
	Adolf Hitler never put it on paper what he intended to do.
	There is no smoking gun.
	And yet, what happened?
	We know that the Nazis engaged in the Holocaust.
	And Herbmeyer's point was that the people Hitler hired didn't have to be told.
	They didn't have to be given instructions.
	All they had to do was listen, what Hitler was saying.
	All they had to do was listen to what his objectives were.
	And he said the same thing's happening here with this administration.
	He went to great pains to say, I'm not calling this administration a bunch of Nazis, doing something.
	I'm just using this as an illustration.
	I know people will get my point if I use something this notorious, the Nazi regime.
	And it's a point that I've made here, the IRS.
	Well, I can't link it into Obama.
	You don't need to link Obama to it.
	He hired people, Lois Lerner, everybody at the IRS doing this is doing everything they can to please Obama.
	He does it's it not going to be a smoking gun, but you don't need a smoking gun to know why this administration is doing what it's doing.
	Obama puts people in position, Eric Holder, you name it, they're doing Obama's bidding.
	Everybody, Susan Rice, Samantha Power, they are Obama.
	And there's a context for what's happening.
	And Herbert Meyer, if I may quote him again, asserted that essentially what's taking place in the United States right now is a coup.
	Not a violent coup and not a militaristic coup, but nevertheless a takeover of a government.
	And it's being done by the Obama administration.
	He referred to it as, I don't know if he used the word peaceful, but clearly there's a coup d'etat going on.
	You know it, and I know it.
	This is what animates us.
	This is why the Tea Party exists.
	This country was founded on certain concepts, principles, beliefs, and they're under assault.
	Chief among them under assault, the right to privacy.
	And that's what all this is about.
	So in the midst of this coup d'etat, I happen to like that formulation.
	I happen to, you know, and in seeking ways to persuade, for example, the low information voters of what's going on.
	I mean, these are the people continuing to prop Obama up with high approval numbers.
	The Limbaugh theorem.
	Okay, how do we reach him?
	How do we tell them?
	How do we explain what's going on when they have a uh perhaps an almost an idolatrous relationship with the president?
	Well, maybe you tell them there's a coup going on.
	There are people attempting to take over this country and to make it something that it wasn't founded as.
	Turn it into something that it wasn't intended to be.
	That is happening.
	You know it and I know it.
	It's peaceful, nonviolent, military isn't involved, but nevertheless, it's a coup.
	So in the context of that, and the realization that's happening, in the midst of learning that the National Security Agency is literally hoovering, vacuuming every telephone record they can.
	Nothing to see here, Rush, calm down.
	Slow down, Rush, this is nothing to get concerned about, and nothing illegal here.
	The Fourth Amendment's not being violated or reached.
	This is nothing whatsoever to get concerned about.
	How can I know how people can look at this in context and say that the people doing this are what make it a big deal.
	Their motives and their intentions and their clear assault on the whole notion of privacy make it interesting.
	So it's it's it's in the midst of hearing, I'm sorry for the long detour there, but in the in the midst of being told that I need to be more level-headed, and not just me, but all of us who were a little bit concerned here about this Verizon story.
	We were all being felt, man, back off, back off, nothing to see here, not really, really concerned.
	It was in the midst of that that I heard about Prism.
	And that was a Washington Post story that posted on their website around five or six o'clock yesterday afternoon.
	And the basic tenet of this story is that somebody in the intelligence community, NSA somewhere, is so concerned over what he's seeing take place that he went to the Washington Post and took with him a little PowerPoint slide presentation and gave it to the Post and their reporters, and they wrote a story up and put it on their website.
	And the story is that practically every major tech group and company in this country is participating with the government in allowing the government access to their servers, to emails, texts, phone calls, photographs, virtually any communication that's taking place via the Apple servers, the Microsoft servers, the Google servers.
	The NSA is able to look at this as the story now.
	Able to look at this in real time.
	The guy that went to the Washington Post said it was so scary.
	They can watch us as we type.
	And the Washington Post published some of the PowerPoint slides.
	And I'm reading this after being told that the Verizoning no big deal, nothing to get concerned about, nothing to see here.
	Don't get too worried about that.
	Don't go off half-guard.
	Here comes the prison story.
	And then, shortly after the prison story hits, then all of these tech firms start denying it.
	Apple says, well, I never heard of Prism.
	We don't know what this is about.
	We never let anybody have access to our servers without a warrant, without a court order.
	We never, Google said the same thing.
	Microsoft said the same thing.
	Facebook said the same thing.
	They're all out there denying it.
	So I thought, did the Washington Post get set up?
	I'm asking myself, did they get set up by somebody walking in and telling them something that wasn't true?
	But then I saw that Prism reported someplace else by this Glenn Greenwald guy at the UK Guardian.
	So there were two sources for the prison story, but the tech firms involved continue to deny it.
	Nope, not happening.
	Now we've got audio sound bites, these guys from the tech firms like Greenwald and some of these are blaming Bush for all of this still today.
	Still today, all of this is the fault of Bush.
	Bush is the guy that got this ball rolling.
	So there must be something to it if the left is circling the wagons around Obama and trying to make all of us think that all of this is the fault of George W. Bush.
	I just gotta tell you something, folks.
	Richard Nixon never even dreamed of this kind of stuff.
	And yet most people in this country think that Nixon did 10 times as bad as what's happening now.
	The fact is, Nixon never dreamed whatever he wanted to cook up, he never even came up with this.
	So there is clearly somewhere, somehow, in some form or another, there's a coup taking place, and there is an assault on privacy, and there are assaults on people because of their politics and their ideology.
	It is taking place, it's undeniable.
	And yet, many of the people we would hope would be pushing back against this and doing their best to join us and warning everybody nothing to see here.
	Don't get all crazy about this.
	We must be level-headed.
	And so you gotta take a break.
	Sit tight, my friends, back with much more open line Friday here on the EIB network right after this.
	So Obama's in California.
	Why fundraising?
	He's also got a meeting with the Chinese communist premier, but it's fundraising, that's why they go to California anyway.
	He got out there to speak, and there's no prompter in the amenity notes, and he just stood there.
	He didn't know what to do.
	Honestly, folks.
	48 seconds or something, nothing happened.
	He finally shouted, People, and somebody in his staff brought him his notes.
	He was clueless.
	Now, a lot of people yesterday who were saying, Rosh Christ, don't get all upset about this.
	There's nothing to see here.
	This uh NSA business in Verizon, nothing going on.
	Look.
	One of the what one of the accusations was that people just getting upset are because it was Obama and just trusting Obama.
	And as much as not that's not reason enough to get concerned about this.
	My point is, and speaking about you and me, we're not all stupid out here.
	We're all not stupid about this.
	And this is not simply because we distrust Obama.
	I don't want my government doing this.
	I do not want my government preoccupied with paying this close attention to what every citizen is doing every minute.
	This government's already too big.
	It's too damn powerful, and it's too unforgiving.
	And this doesn't have anything to do with competent intelligence gathering.
	This throwing wide nets like this is BS.
	It's assuming way too much to think that this is not a big deal.
	This is just left-wing overreaction, my back at a moment.
	Hi, welcome back.
	Open line Friday.
	A Rush Limbaugh wrapping up another busy broadcast week here at the Limbaugh Institute.
	There used to be a time.
	There was a time when the United States government earned the trust of its people.
	There was a time when most people believed that the United States government was protecting them.
	It was a time when most people believed that the United States government was spying on the bad guys.
	And That the United States government was, in fact, earning the trust of the people.
	But this current data collection, scamming, whatever you want to call it, unfortunately has to be judged in context.
	The IRS leaks, the now unquestionable, undeniable, admitted to it IRS tactic of suppressing the vote of Tea Party conservatives,
	denying them their First Amendment rights, the regime and its tricks with the Associated Press and Fox reporter James Rosen, the Benghazi cover-ups, the fast and furious operation, suing the state of Arizona for simply enforcing essentially federal immigration law.
	You can't just try to be the smartest guy in the room and say, well, we must be level-headed about this and understand that this is just metadata.
	You cannot take the motives and intelligence guided by experience.
	Watching this administration over the last four and a half years, five years, and what their express purpose is.
	I was reminded this morning, we had a soundbite of Maxine Waters back on February 3rd of this year.
	She was on a TV show, some network TV One, and it was a show hosted by Roland Martin, who used to be, may still be, a personality at CNN.
	And he was interviewing Maxine Waters, and every time she speaks, you know, we have a good laugh about it, because clearly she's insane.
	And uh we nevertheless will play as sound bites, because what what her her natural existence is such that she gives away the game.
	She will give away what the administration's all about.
	She will give away the fact that they want to nationalize all these companies.
	And she did it again on this Washington watch with Roland Martin show back on February 3rd of 2001.
	He said to her, the reality is like anything else, you'd better get what you can while he's there because look, come 2016, that's it.
	Well, you know, I don't know, and I think some people are missing something here.
	The President has put in place an organization that contains the kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life.
	That's going to be very, very powerful.
	That database will have information about everything on every individual in ways that it's never been done before.
	See, she gives it up.
	Now when I remember playing that sound button.
	I remember we made a big deal of it at uh at the website, Rush 24-7.
	Uh and we thought, well, just it's just Maxine being magazine.
	But in this case, now going back, looking at it in hindsight, what in the world is she talking about?
	At the time we thought she was talking about all of his high-tech campaign advancements.
	But maybe she wasn't.
	I'll tell you, the New York Times yesterday, this was kind of funny, too.
	The New York Times decided it was time to get really mad.
	So they wrote an editorial really ripping into Obama over this.
	They called it President Obama's dragnet.
	The editors at the New York Times were hopping mad, or at least they're pretending to be.
	And they really got carried away.
	They had to change their original editorial.
	They they they reissued it.
	The original editorial said the administration has now lost all credibility.
	They changed that in their second issuance to the administration has now lost all credibility on this issue.
	But the point is they were right the first time.
	I don't know, maybe they don't want to shock their readers with with so much truth.
	But but they went so far as to say at the New York Times, Mr. Obama is proving the truism that the executive branch will use any power it's given and very likely abuse it.
	Now keep in mind, this was written by people who are the loudest proponents of the expansion of government.
	These are people who don't believe the government can possibly get too big.
	It's not possible for it to get too big.
	It's not possible for the government to get too powerful.
	It's not possible.
	And yet they are worried at the New York Times about what is happening to it under the guidance of the presidency of Mr. Obama.
	What everybody knows and nobody wants to really come to grips with is that we are in the midst of a coup taking place.
	Now I know what's going to happen.
	And the people on the other side of the glass going, will you dial that coup talk back?
	That's all the headlines are going to be.
	I don't care.
	In fact, it's it's almost on a par with I hope he fails.
	How does that sound now, by the way?
	I hope he fails.
	I'm constantly looking for ways here to persuade people of what I passionately believe.
	And I'm not in it to lie to anybody.
	There's nothing to be gained by lying to you about what I really think.
	There's nothing to be gained here by lying about facts.
	There's nothing to be gained here by gaining ground under false pretense.
	So if the Constitution exists as it is, country was founded as it was, and an administration comes along and does it like that and is doing everything it can to overturn that Constitution without a convention, doing everything it can to change the direction of this country.
	And what's the word transform it?
	What's wrong with calling this a coup?
	Mr. Limbaugh, a coup is when rebels join forth with the military and start launting military attacks and shooting people.
	No, no, no, not always.
	And that's my point.
	You ever heard about, remember I when I was a kid, my dad kept saying, son, if things don't change, the Soviets are going to take over this country without firing a shot.
	What he's talking about was a coup.
	Anyway, folks, there's there's a lot here to be concerned about.
	And you know as well as I do.
	I just I just I just I guess get a little perplexed when people that I think see the world as I do, and are, in my opinion, on my side, want to come along for reasons I can't fathom To excuse things that need not be excused.
	Now, Obama went out there today.
	He's in uh he's in Palm Springs, and he addressed this NSA story, and he defended the spy programs as legitimate because Congress has been consistently informed about them.
	He uh he got mad, we didn't get mad, but he he sort of complained about all the hype over the phone data gathering.
	Because it's approved by the Pfizer Court, it's approved by the Congress.
	He said, Nobody's listening to your phone calls.
	They're looking at megadata, but he meant made it metadata and tracking terrorists.
	Nobody is listening to content.
	He did modest encroachments on privacy are worth doing.
	We're gonna have to make some choices as a society.
	You can't have 100% security and have 100% privacy.
	This is what he said today out in Palm Springs.
	This is the guy, don't forget, who got elected convincing people that this kind of stuff was never gonna happen anymore.
	This is the guy who got elected, mischaracterizing the kind of intelligence gathering it was ongoing with the Bush administration.
	This is the guy who got elected president by telling us that what is happening now was never going to happen when he was president.
	This is a guy who got elected telling us in 2007-2008 that what's going on now was going on then.
	Bush was doing this.
	Identical stuff.
	That's what they're trying to tell, even now.
	He got elected, warning us that what's happening now was happening in 2007-2008, and promising us this was not gonna happen.
	And everything that was happening in 2007 has only grown.
	There's only more of it.
	It's more sweeping than it's ever been.
	Gotta take a break, and I'll come back and we'll start getting your phone calls in.
	As I say, we like to get more calls than usual in on open line Friday.
	Only way to do that is to start taking them in the first hour.
	Have we already forgotten what this regime has done to the donors to the Mitt Romney campaign, all of the IRS harassment and audits?
	Attention paid them by the EPA if necessary.
	This is clearly an administration who wants to identify its enemies and then take action against them somehow, to intimidate or what have you.
	You can't take that context out.
	And this Wall Street Journal has a story here about uh I think it's PRISM.
	You know, PRISM is a code name too.
	So when when these companies like Microsoft and Google and Apple say, well, we never heard of it, well, they may not have heard of it.
	It may be called something else.
	And they say, well, we don't, we we don't let anybody have access to our servers without court orders.
	Well, maybe there have been court orders.
	If there is a program like this going on, one thing that would have to be, a part of it is that the companies involved would have to be able to deny it.
	They would be, they could not, we'll put it this way.
	They would be sworn to secrecy.
	They could not broadcast their involvement in it, because it's taking place under the guise of national security.
	Do you realize what a vacuum cleaner that is?
	I mean, they can hoover up everything they want under the guise of national security.
	Anyway, the Wall Street Journal U.S. collects vast data trove.
	NSA monitoring includes three phone companies, as well as online activity.
	And then there's this.
	National security agencies monitoring of American Americans includes customer records from the major phone networks, as well as emails and web searches, and the agency has also cataloged credit card transactions.
	Now, would somebody Maybe who thought the phone company sweep wasn't any big deal.
	Would somebody in there maybe want to say that cataloging credit card transactions might be news?
	I am just asking.
	By the way.
	Last couple of days have spent a lot of time talking about Catherine and my trip to Normandy on our vacation.
	And yesterday, you know, I've I've this does slip my mind.
	I we took some pictures.
	Not a whole lot, but we took some pictures while we were there at Poinduho, Normandy Omaha Beach and the and the cemetery.
	We posted them on our Facebook page.
	And there have already been 600 plus thousand views without even mentioning that.
	We just I just I sorry, folks.
	I don't know where my head was.
	I just remembered this last night.
	In the midst of all of this, I mean, I'm really, I had people coming at me left and right every 30 seconds, somebody wanted something.
	And then and uh and Catherine said, you know what, the pictures aren't up on your website.
	Slap my head.
	I forgot all about it.
	So I sent them up Coco, and Coco got them posted last night.
	So we've got them at you can you can get the link to our Facebook page at our website, Rushlimbaugh.com, or go straight to the Facebook page.
	And just a few pictures there, but uh a couple of really good ones of Catherine in the uh in the cemetery and a couple of wide shots of Puente Ho accompany the story of what happened there.
	Okay, now the phones, Brian in Los Angeles.
	I'm glad you called your up first on open line Friday.
	It's an awesome responsibility.
	You set the tone for everybody to follow.
	Thank you, Russ.
	I appreciate that.
	Um I agree with you 49.9% of the time, but I already always marvel at your ability to communicate your ideas.
	I really do.
	Okay, I'll bite.
	No, it's no.
	I I'm there's no deception in me.
	I I agree with you about 49% of the time.
	I disagree with you on social issues.
	I agree completely with you on on uh uh issues related to our defense and to uh you know what we need to do overseas.
	But to get to my point, um my my my favorite adage is be careful what you wish for because you just might get it.
	And I'm referring to all of us, me included, you all of us talking after 9-11, you know, what our government needs to do to keep us safe.
	You know what?
	I'm glad Brian, I'm not gonna take away time.
	I you just reminded me of something, and I'm gonna get up a challenge to my web people.
	I I I just I think the first two days, within the first two days after 9-11, I specifically said or warned or asked or begged that whatever we do, we do not do anything that takes away our rights or encroaches on them or freedom.
	I I remember making that point, whatever we do.
	So I'm I'm just I'm taking a I I did not wish for what's happening now is the point.
	I was worried that what's happening now was gonna happen precisely because of 9-11.
	Uh I'm worried too.
	I I we all recognize the need to keep ourselves safe.
	Um the people, some of the people that are complaining about what's going on on now are the same ones last month when the Boston bombing happened, they wanted to know, you know, why hadn't Obama found them in the first five minutes?
	You know, you have to decide which side do you want?
	Well, now I'm glad you mentioned that.
	I honestly am, because this kind of data collection has been going on before the Boston bombing.
	I would like to know how in the world we rip remember the news, Brian.
	We knew that the Russians had warned us about these customs.
	Yes, absolutely.
	And we ignored it.
	So even though we had the data, our intelligence people ignored it, thought it wasn't any big deal.
	And so it leads to the question, what good does having all this data do if you're not going to use it?
	Which leads me to then ask, why is it really being collected?
	They say national security, but the Russians and a number of others had warned us about the Sanaev brothers.
	And we discounted it.
	We forgot about it.
	Or we didn't give it much credence in the first place.
	Look, I didn't, I want to I want you to hold on because I took more of your time than I intended, but you kept inspiring me.
	So sit tight, Brian, and we'll be back.
	Don't go away.
	Let me read to you, folks, from a Reuters story on March 13th of this year, a couple of months ago.
	You ready?
	It was an exclusive.
	The Obama administration is drawing up plans to give all U.S. spy agencies full access to a massive database that contains financial data on American citizens and others who bank in this country, according to a Treasury Department document seen by Reuters.
	So back in March, this is nothing new to Obama.

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