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June 14, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 14, 2013, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hi, folks.
Greetings.
Great to have you here.
And we have arrived at that moment that everybody kind of loves and is saddened by at the same time.
The end of another busy broadcast week on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Oh yeah.
Oh, yes, sir, Rebub.
Open line Friday, the greatest career risk taken by a major media figure in major media.
And essentially it is this.
On Friday, we turn the content of the program over to you.
When we go to the phones.
Why is that a risk?
Because you are broadcast amateurs.
I am a highly trained broadcast specialist.
You aren't.
But you are nevertheless lovable and you are adored and appreciated.
It's always fun.
Monday through Thursday, if you don't talk about something I care about, you don't have a chance unless you lie.
And then if you lie and you get caught, you're gone anyway.
So it doesn't pay.
But on Friday, whenever you want to talk about fair game, here's the telephone number, 800 28282, and the email address Ilrushball at EIB net.com.
So on Monday, I installed Monday night, I installed the uh the new beta for the iOS 7.
New Apple operating system for the iPhone.
It's created a lot of controversy out there because of the new look.
I happen to love it, and I always do a test when this happens.
I use it for a day, then I go back to the old version.
And I can't help the old version just now seems like an antique.
I think I think you people are really, those of you who have Apple products, iPhones, iPads, I think you are really gonna love this.
It's got the same functionality, but it is gonna require um it does the same things, but in different ways.
But there are so many fabulous, great new features in this thing.
And this is just the first beta.
It's really raw, it's really buggy.
Uh and it's because it's it's uh a brand new system, it's it's gonna be upgraded quite a lot before it's released sometime in the fall.
But I can't stop playing with it.
I really can't use it full time because, for example, the dictation doesn't work all the time when I'm on a cell network.
When I'm on Wi-Fi, it does.
It just buggy.
So I can't do it when I'm violating the law, texting while driving.
The addictation.
Anyway, so there's that.
And I've been watching the U.S. Open.
I've I've been in a funk.
Folks, all week long.
I've just been in a funk.
And I told you a little bit about it yesterday, just a general funk.
And I'll basically tell you why.
You know, I get I get uh hopeful emails from people, and you know me, I am two things.
I am Mr. Optimism.
I am the epitome of optimism, but I also am the mayor of Realville.
And so my optimism is always tempered with reality.
And my optimism always prevails.
Meaning whatever is negative going on out there, I believe eventually and in time it can be overcome.
And I still believe that, and I believe it be it in an individual life, um, be it in the life of a country or whatever.
But having said that, the the pressure every day to be negative is just overwhelming.
Major media today is designed to tell you and me every day that we don't count, that we are hardly worth even laughing at, much less being paid attention to.
Major media every day, if you don't know how to deal with it, will depress you.
Major media every day will have you conclude the following.
Nothing's gonna happen to Obama in any of these investigations.
Nothing is gonna happen to any Democrat in these investigations.
The media is never going to change.
All the Republican Party wants to do is be more like Democrats.
And anybody thinking anything else is living in fantasy land.
Isn't that what you are tempted to think each and every day?
As a template.
The FBI has not contacted a single Tea Party group in its probe of the IRS.
Yes.
By the way, you know this idea that the IRS scandal was located in Cincinnati and it was lying employees, a couple of rogue employees.
That turns out to be such bunk.
The IRS was a Cincinnati problem equals the video was responsible for Benghazi.
The IRS scandal is huge.
It originated in Washington, and it's all about Obama targeting his enemies.
I got called on the carpet by the former Bush speech writer, Michael Gerson, now a columnist for the Washington Post.
He said I'm way over the top.
Well, in referring to uh uh Obama administration as the regime.
That's that's just that's that's that's it's over the top.
And and to say that we're in the midst of a coup d'etat, that just that's going too far.
It's just going too far.
That it's unpatriotic and it's it's not conservative.
I'm I'm not conservative and I'm being I'm I'm certainly not patriotic, because I am I'm I'm portraying myself and and all conservatives as anti-government, and we love government.
We conservatives, we love government.
And uh we uh we understand that government has to be shaped and melded and molded, but but I'm coming across as uh unpatriotic and and and uh whatever else.
Well, I don't think he does.
I think I think Mr. Gerson is is um I think his is his role model might be Michael Brook uh David Brooks.
But I was, I was called on the carpet, and Levin was called on the carpet.
Who else in this article?
I don't have it in front of me.
Those were the Oh, you wait a minute, I do have it.
You get you printed it out, didn't you, HR.
Let's see if I can find it here in the you know, I might have pitched it because I had no intention of talking about it.
Look what it yeah, you well, I didn't hear all of what you said, but um I'm a legendary of what.
Oh, oh, oh, alleging conspiracy.
No, I'm not alleging conspiracies.
I that's what the thing I'm there's nothing conspiratorial about this in the sense that we don't know what's going on, we know exactly what's going on.
Yeah, I'm I'm alleging conspiracies.
Um he didn't say kook, but he but he means you know kook fringe, this kind of stuff.
I threw it away, HR.
I'm going, I'm going through your stack here.
Well, no, no, no, I've got it, I've got it in the trash here to the left.
And folks, what's the fiddle cam, this is the trash and you have to find it.
I guess not.
Oh anyway, didn't like that that I call it the regime and didn't like that call it a coup d'etat.
Yeah.
And you know, all I'm doing is trying to find unique ways of describing what I think is going on.
And by the way, this coup d'etat thing, uh, Mr. Gerson, I mentioned this too, but people didn't hear this, I guess.
I first was alerted to the powers of that description by Herbert Meyer.
Herbert Meyer is uh the former security, national security official with the Reagan administration.
And Herbert Meyer runs around, he makes speeches, he does corporate appearances, he does seminars for CEOs and so forth.
And in a recent presentation, and By the way, he wrote a column about this, and I cited it, and this this uh it could have had a lot of people seen it.
It could have really incited a lot of controversy.
He started out, you've heard me mention this, so this is gonna be redundant for you, but he described Hitler and Nazism, and he made the claim, because this is his column that focused on people hoping there's a smoking gun, linking Obama to all of these scandals.
And Herbert Meyer said there isn't going to be a smoking gun.
There is no memo.
Obama doesn't have to write a memo of instructions or desires, because everybody working for him already knows what he wants.
Everybody working for him is a miniature Obama or a full-fledged Obama.
And as an example, Herbert Meyer used Hitler and the Nazis.
And he said, despite the fact that everybody knows that Adolf Hitler ran the Holocaust, you will not find one document where Hitler issues orders for the Holocaust to be carried out.
If we needed that to prove what Hitler was, we would never be able to prove it because it doesn't exist.
He was not, and he went to great pains to make this point.
He was not comparing anything in this country to Hitler or Nazis.
He was using that as a teaching device.
For people looking for a smoking gun to link Obama.
There's not any link.
Obama's barely linkable to his administration.
Limbaugh theorem.
You can barely, in fact, most people do not even link Obama to anything happening in this country.
He is escaping attachment to any and all of his policies, be it on the economy, be it on health care, even though his health care is named after him.
The American people simply do not, when they express total disagreement with the agenda, total disagreement with the direction the country is going, they do not blame Obama for any of it.
It's a phenomenon explained by the Limbaugh theorem.
Over the same token, Herbert Meyer's point was you're not going to find a memo from Obama, the lowest learners, then go out there and target the Tea Party.
Lois learner doesn't need that memo.
And Herbert Meyer made the point that what we have here is a peaceful coup d'etat.
Most people when you think of coup d'etat, you think of rebels in a jungle with little beat-up jeeps driving around firing machine guns at everybody and killing the pigs.
And he said, that's not what's happening here.
We have a peaceful coup d'etat where this administration is totally taking over this government and transforming it into something it was not founded to be and not intended to be.
And it was Herb Meyer's formulation of coup d'etat.
I liked it.
And the first time I mentioned it to him, I uh to you, I credited Herb Meyer with it.
Of course, now it sticks to me, but I think it works extremely well.
Uh as a as an aid as a teaching aid, as a as a way of persuading.
Now let's see, I've got some of the uh some are here's Gerson's uh piece, and I've met Gerson in the White House, sitting at uh big long conference table in the West where I went in to see Carl Rove and Pete Weiner.
And uh this is toward the end of the Bush administration before Gerson had left, but it was still there.
It was very nice.
I think he knew who I was.
Anyway, he writes this his Washington Post column yesterday.
A number of libertarians and conservative populists have found data collection by the NSA to be the final confirmation of their worst fears about Barack Obama and modern government.
It's an attempt, according to Ron Paul, to deliberately destroy the Constitution.
To radio talk show host Mark Levin, it reveals the elements of a police state to rush limboy as part of a coup d'etat by the Obama regime.
Some on the right believe, as they say in the Intel business, that they have connected the dots.
All the scandals are really part of one big scandal.
For Levin, it encompasses abuses by the Internal Revenue Service, the collection of DNA by cops, Obamacare centralization of medical records, the use of domestic drones.
Limbaugh presents a similar list, demonstrating what he calls the totalitarian nature or the authoritarian nature of this administration.
He hones in on the NSA revelations.
The main question is, quoting me here now.
Main question is, why is such a gigantic surveillance operation even necessary?
What's really going on here?
Who is the enemy?
Well, the Tea Party, we know, is an enemy of this administration.
We know that conservative Republicans, and I could give you names, are enemies of this administration.
And Gerson agrees with that, by the way, and says it's rotten.
It clearly it's really, really bad what the IRS is doing with the Tea Party, but that's as far as Gerson's willing to go.
He doesn't want to extrapolate it might mean anything.
But to me it does.
Well, I don't know, I don't know what he thinks about it.
I just I think he thinks all governments engage in excesses, and some governments have individuals who go outside the boundaries, and this is par for the court.
I'm I don't know.
I'm wild guessing here.
But he does admit in his piece that the IRS thing, he doesn't say this, but he essentially says I'm right and I have a point about that.
But where I go off the rails is then attaching the IRS scandal to anything else that's happening.
And suggesting that it has meaning.
And suggesting that it is a way of defining the uh the regime.
If there's one flaw in my coup analogy, and it's a minor flaw, and I'm willing to admit my flaws, but if there's one flaw in my coup analogy, it's that regimes don't do coups against themselves.
But that just goes to show the Limbaugh theorem.
Obama could do a coup on himself and not get blamed for it.
But the coup, he's not elected, but the coup is transforming the country while nobody cares, pays attention, or is even aware of it.
But here's Gerson.
But asserting that U.S. intelligence agencies are part of a conspiracy that somehow includes a national gun registry, drone surveillance, and Lois Lerner crosses a line.
It's one thing to oppose the policies of an administration.
It's quite another to call for resistance against a regime and a police state.
Who did that?
He means armed resistance.
That's what he's not saying.
Nobody's doing that.
You know, these people that are not in this business have no idea about it.
All they have is.
For example, folks, I've got to take a break, but there's this thing going on in Washington right now.
Some conservative for the future heartbeat of some such thing going on right now.
And Jeb Bush is there.
And Jeb Bush is going to say Republicans are too reactionary.
Or too many Republicans are reactionary.
Oh, you know what he means?
Talk radio.
Too reactionary.
I gotta take a break.
Sadly, the clock.
I can't do an about it.
Reactionary.
Jeb Bush said that too many Republicans are reactionary.
Now you know as well as I do that reactionary is a code word.
You know what it means?
What is reactionary mean, Snerdly, when these when Republicans well anybody uses it against me or anybody that's conservative.
What do they mean?
Exactly right.
It's a code word used by people who aren't conservative To taint us as extremists.
Just a bunch of reactionaries.
Extremists.
Nonconformists.
People always arguing.
Never ever agreeing.
Never bipartisan.
A bunch of extremist wackos.
Reactionary.
No, they've never said it about Obama, and they don't say it about any of the people on MSNBC, and they don't say it about anybody in the liberal media.
It's only us, Snerdley.
Who are reactionary.
But guess what?
Who are the real reactionaries?
Mainstream freaking Republicans.
Democrats say we need amnesty.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we do.
Oh, uh, well, maybe smarter way, but yeah, yeah.
The Republicans are the ones who are always reacting.
Whatever the Democrats say, Republicans react and just snap too.
Carl Marx came up with the word.
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Here's Jeb Bush.
This was the Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference.
I didn't even know what was going on.
I think Ralph Reed uh put it together.
I saw a report on Fox this morning that whatever else this thing was, it was a place for potential Republican presidential candidates to show up and take the temperature of people, people take the temperature of them.
One of these, hey, I'm thinking of running for president things.
What do you think of that?
Engaging reaction to it.
And one of the speakers was Jeb Bush, and among the things he said was this.
Let me just say that we got beat because our brand is perceived to be tarnished, to be reactionary, to be too negative rather than hopeful and positive.
Increasing numbers of Americans are defaulting to a false choice of economic security through government, because we haven't offered really a compelling alternative based on economic opportunity.
I...
So much here, and that's just a twenty two-second bite.
We got beat because our brand is perceived to be tarnished to be reactionary.
To be negative, too negative rather than hopeful and positive.
You people listen to this program every day.
This program is optimistic, upbeat, hopeful, can do, can be what we want to happen.
Reactionary?
I know that's a hit on talk radio, and again, this this whole notion reactionary folks is simply a code word used by people to taint mainstream conservatives as extremists.
It is a uh it's a word that Karl Marx came up with.
He coined it to contrast with the word revolutionary.
Revolutionary, that's a positive word.
That's a good word.
The Cuban revolution is still going on, by the way.
The one from 1959.
They still call it the revolution.
They don't call it the reaction.
The reaction to the revolution, that's said to be the problem.
The revolution was the good thing.
So reactionary means what?
We just democrats say something and we react to it and refuse to accept it.
And we create the impression that we're not agreeable people and that we're not bipartisan and so forth.
But we didn't lose because the brand is perceived to be tarnished because it's reactionary.
We lost precisely because the party is considered wishy-washy and mushy.
And doesn't stand for conservatism anymore.
That's why the Republican Party loses presidential races.
Increasing numbers of Americans are defaulting to a false choice of economic security through government because we haven't offered a compelling alternative based on economic opportunity.
Well, we have here, that's all we do on this program.
I can't speak for the party.
But what this is all about, folks, is blaming conservatism and conservatives for the defeats that the Republican Party is experiencing.
That's it's it's a it's a one off.
It's blame those people on talk radius, blame conservatives, blame these cooks, blame these pro-lifers, blame these gun nuts, you reactionaries.
That's the that's the attempt here.
We all know why we lost the 2012 election, especially in hindsight, when we look at the demographics and the turnout, we know why, which we've uh been through over and over again.
Back to Michael Gerson in his piece.
He said, questioning the legitimacy of our government, which is what he's accusing me of doing in his piece yesterday in the Washington Post.
Questioning the legitimacy of our government is the poisoning of patriotism.
Questioning the legitimacy of government is the poisoning of patriotism.
I want to take you back to April 28th, 2003 in Hartford, Connecticut.
I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic, and we should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration.
Okay, okay, I know, I know, I know, but still it makes the point.
The left is allowed to do this all day long.
Michael Gerson was writing speeches for George W. Bush when people were lying about Bush and ripping Bush and everybody in his administration to shreds.
They weren't intimating Bush was illegitimate, they were claiming it ever since the Florida recount.
I don't remember Gerson writing a piece taking any Democrats to task for their poisoning of patriotism.
Saves those salvos for talk radio.
It's amazing how the Republican Party is scared to death of it.
The Democrats are scared of it.
Obama is obsessed with it.
Clinton was obsessed with it.
The Republican Party seems to be afraid of it.
A bunch of people on the radio.
Speaking of Hillary, do you know what she took over Clinton's uh foundation?
You know, the Bill Clinton Global, whatever it is.
What is the Clinton Global Express?
No, the Clinton Global.
The Clinton Global Initiative.
That's right.
This is the uh thing that every spring where they bring a bunch of women from all over the world in disguised as ambassadors.
And it's always in New York.
This is yesterday's Chicago at the Clinton Global Initiative America Conference.
When women participate in the economy, everyone benefits.
This also should be a no-brainer.
When women participate in peacemaking and peacekeeping, we are all safer and more secure.
And when women participate in politics, the effects ripple out across society.
Can I tell you something has occurred to me, by the way?
We noted yesterday that the new deputy director of the CIA is a woman, a lawyer from the regime.
And you've noticed the CIA, the IRS people said, Uh ranking people, one of them's a woman.
Obama's placing women in hyper Susan Rice, Samantha Powers, Samantha Powers Ambassador to UN, Susan Rice, the NSA advisor, now Avril Haynes, Deputy Director CIA.
You know what this really is?
I tell you, it just occurred to me, it's Machiavellian, folks.
This is none of these women are qualified.
Really, particularly Avril Haynes.
Susan Rice, obviously being paid off for taking the bullet on Benghazi, Samantha Powers being promoted because she's Cass Sunstein's dutiful wife.
But what do you do when you put women in all these positions?
You make it impossible for the women or the agencies to be criticized.
War on women, anybody.
So you put Avril Haynes over at CIA, deputy director, going to run the show for it, all intents and purposes.
Any criticism, any Republican criticism of what she does, any criticism of Susan Rice, any criticism of Samantha Power, and the Democrat's reaction is more the same.
Republican war on women.
It's the same reason that the Democrats were very smart in nominating Obama.
First black president, any criticism is race, any criticism is racist.
So there can't be any criticism of Obama.
It is all illegitimate.
And now the more women that he appoints, same thing.
It's an insurance policy.
The media, the Democrats know the Republicans will be reluctant to be critical of any of these women because then will come the charge.
See, it's just more of this Neanderthal, women ought to be barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen republicanism, that's what they really think.
They just don't like strong, powerful women, they don't like women in powerful positions, they're threatened by it, they're intimidated by it, and that's why the Republicans have their war on women.
So Obama puts women in these positions, and they're all insulated.
Not only the women, but the institutions they run, immune from any criticism.
It's actually quite brilliant.
It's Obama knowing full well his enemy, and that's how he looks at the Republicans.
Now here's Hillary announcing that she has actually taken over the Clinton Global Initiative.
We are officially renaming the Bill Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Yeah.
It was the Clinton Global Initiative.
Now it's the Bill Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
And that's what she did.
She finds the guy at Yale, they get married, she decides to hook her self to his coattails, and wherever he goes, take over.
I'm holding here, folks, in my trusty uh uh nicotine stand fingers my iPhone, and then in the iPhone I've got an email.
And the email is all about how NBC just loved Jeb Bush's speech today at the Faith and Freedom Coalition.
That's right.
Uh distractions aside, Jeb Bush's speech stood out as sober and serious.
And among the things that Jeb said was, I won't be pointing out the failures of the Obama administration, Bush said to silence.
They're clear for those that want to see them.
So he's gonna leave it to the reactionaries, but he's not going to point out the failures of the Obama administration.
But somehow, those of us who question the people attacking the legitimacy of the Constitution, we will be pointed out.
We will be pointed to.
We are questioning those who attack the legitimacy of the Constitution.
Somehow, some reason we are targeted for criticism or what else?
But Jeb wasn't finished.
After saying to silence that he wasn't gonna criticize the Obama administration, because it's plain to see for anybody who wants to, he then said this.
Immigrants create far more businesses than Native born Americans over the last 20 years.
Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families, and they're more in they have more intact families and they bring a younger population.
Immigrants create an imor uh an engine of economic prosperity.
Did did you know that?
Did you know that immigrants are more fertile than Native born Americans?
Did you know that immigrants create far more businesses than Native born Americans?
Did you know that?
Did you know that they uh love their families and they have more intact families than Native born Americans?
And did you they bring a younger population?
And an engine of economic.
Why don't we just it sounds like I know I'm looking at the economic engine that they brought to California?
I'm looking at the economic prosperity that's, I mean, barely containable out in California.
I'm I'm looking at it.
I don't really see it, but I'm looking at it.
I can't try not to be reactionary.
This is the point, trying desperately not to be reactionary.
Immigrants are more fertile.
Did you hear folk?
This is getting.
This is becoming as ridiculous as the global warming.
Did you hear?
I hate this.
I folks, I can't I can't tell you.
I don't I don't even want to have to say this is painful.
Did you hear what Senator Rubio said?
We have to we have to what we need to bring the illegals here so that they will pay for the border security that we need.
I know I can't tell you this is painful for me.
Not that they said it that we I'm I'm paraphrasing as I don't have the exact quote, but uh the immigrants that we legalize, we we have to have them because they are going to pay for border security.
Now I guess what is meant to pay for the fence.
I guess what is meant by that is that we need the new taxpayers.
Ummigrants are more fertile.
They create more businesses than native-born Americans over the last twenty years.
They love their families.
We don't.
He didn't say that, but why point out that they love their families?
They're more intact families, younger population.
At night.
Trying not to be reactionary, it's not why I'm saying anything here, folks.
I'm good.
So Jeb Bush, who we really like here, said that at at the uh at the Faith and Freedom Coalition that he wasn't he wasn't gonna be critical of the Obama administration.
That really worked out for Romney, didn't it?
And then it really worked out for McCain before him, didn't it?
So we had 2008.
We're not gonna criticize Obama.
No, no, no.
We'll attack his policy, Rush, but we're not gonna go after him.
You didn't even do that.
And then in 2012, uh we left Benghazi alone.
We um criticum is a great guy, family guy.
What a great, great, great guy.
Just, you know, sort of in over his head, doesn't quite know what he's doing.
That's as far as it would go.
It really worked out, didn't it?
The Rubio quote: We need to register them as soon as possible.
Not just to keep the problem from getting worse, but we're going to require them to pay a fine.
And that fine money that we're going to use to pay for the border security.
If we don't get that fine money from the people that have violated our immigration laws, then the American taxpayer is going to have to pay for border security.
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