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June 18, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 18, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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They can't decide what to name the baby.
Kanye Weston and Kim Kardashian can't decide what to name the baby.
It is a major controversy out there in low information media.
The first reported possible name was Christ.
K-R-I-S-T.
Yeah, but that was then reported to be a rumor.
It was the VH1 head that that that report.
Well, I guess you'd pronounce it Christ.
Why call it Christ?
K R I S. Anyway, they broomed that.
That was nothing but a rumor.
And then according to the UK Daily News, Kim and Kanye still battling it out over the name.
Kanye wants to name the baby Northwest.
I kid you not.
Well, his last name is West, North West.
It's tough to keep up with all the breaking news out there.
Northwest, by the way, is Shakespearean English for crazy, and I'm not kidding you.
But I don't think they know that.
I don't think Shakespeare's, I don't think Shakespeare's entered the picture here in their I have some suggestions.
Northwest doesn't cut it.
And Christ Christ doesn't cut it.
There are standards that have to be maintained now.
It's celebrity baby names.
So how about green clover?
Or how about yellow vines?
And I'm j I'm just, I'm just trying to help out here.
Blue grass.
No, can't do blue because it's already taken.
At any rate, that is the big controversy, according to the uh UK tabloid Metro News, family sources say that they're going to name the baby Kai Georgia Donda West.
Kai Georgia Donda West.
Anyway, it's the big, it's the big news in low information media, and of course, as you know, we have an outreach program going on.
By the try this headline in the New York Times.
I'm sorry, New York Post.
Are you ready?
Wiener wife Abaddon being probed.
All you have to do is stop there.
Wiener wife Abdon being probed over employment status.
Now the news is that one of the Senate's most aggressive investigators probing longtime Hillary Rodden Clinton aide, Huma Abidin Wiener, and her employment status, asking how she got a sweetheart deal to be a private six-figure consultant while still serving as a top State Department official.
That is not allowed.
You either in or you out, but you can't take a consulting gig while on the federal payroll and double up.
Abidin Weiner, uh, one of Clinton's most loyal aides is married to Anthony Weiner, who's in the midst of a vigorous effort to beat back his own scandal, become mayor.
The inquiry is by Senator Grassley of Iowa, compiled in a three-page letter to Abaddon and Secretary of State John Kerry, adds drama to Wiener's bid.
And saw Wiener wife Abdon is being probed over her employment status.
Grassley is the top judiciary committee Republican.
He wrote that he was concerned about this.
He's concerned about Abaddon's status, and it blurs the line between public and private sector employees, especially when employees receive full-time salaries for what appears to be part-time work.
So he peppered Abaddon Weiner and Kerry with 13 questions about her employment among them.
Who authorized The change in status in your official title, and who was made aware of the change in status.
Now a person close to Abdon Wiener said that she voluntarily disclosed that she worked for Hillary Clinton personally to allow Wiener or Abaddon Wiener, Huma to begin planning for Clinton's activities post-state.
So she would do in a consulting gig to get ready for Hillary's post-state life.
And she was also working for Taneo Holdings.
Now a person added that Taneo Holdings conducts no business with state, and that Abdon Weiner didn't provide political intelligence.
One source diagnosed the situation this way.
She has the Clinton disease, talking about Abbott and Wiener.
She says, if Clinton disease, when your husband gets knocked down, you get up right away or else.
So Hillary and Huma have things in common here.
And the advice is when your husband gets knocked down, you get up quick as you can.
So Wiener wife Abdon being probed over employment status.
Now let me get this straight.
Edward Snowden participated in an hour and a half long online chat yesterday.
Hour and a half.
Online chat, and the NSA can't find him.
I don't know.
Something tells me that we may not have anything to worry about about being tracked down.
If they can't, and they're looking all over the world for this guy.
He's online for an hour and a half.
And by virtue of his own reports, he's look at when I was there, I could read your email almost as you typed it.
Well, why can't they find the guy?
Now, if you think about it, actually, the fact that Edward Snowden would even do an online chat seems to throw some doubt on a number of his claims.
I mean, if, as he claims the NSA can see and do anything, and if he says they are out to kill him, why would he do an online chat for an hour and a half?
I think the guy's a bit of a drama queen.
I think the guy's got delusions of grandeur out there.
Now we know that that Snowden doesn't like Cheney, and there's also a story today in this DAG that Snowden doesn't like uh doesn't like Obama.
So we know that Snowden doesn't like Cheney, Obama doesn't like Cheney.
I want to go on the record and say I do like Cheney.
Just to differentiate myself.
According to uh latest CNN poll, Obama's job approval is down from 53% in May to 45% now.
Approval of his handling of the economy is down 2% to 42% on foreign affairs.
Obama's down five points to 44 on illegal immigration.
Obama's disapproval is up to 56.
And only 49% of respondents say Obama is honest or trustworthy.
This is, you know, this polling day, this is huge, folks.
We haven't seen this before.
We have not seen this kind of intense evidence of Obama losing approval, losing popularity, and losing support.
And it's a CNN poll.
Now, I that I think there's I think there's a reason for this.
And I to the extent that after the 2012 elections, and I'm I'm gonna be very reluctant to just discount polls anymore.
You know how we all sat here, said, well, look, these people are ignoring the 2010 turnout.
These polls can't possibly be right that showed Obama up five, up six, up eight.
And it turned out those polls were right.
So I I'm not gonna sit here and automatically just discount these things, particularly when it's from a mainstream drive-by polling unit like CNN.
So, what could excuse me, what could explain it?
Well, let's use the limbaugh theorem.
Obama is not campaigning against NSA spying.
Obama is not campaigning against IRS abuses.
All this is stopped.
Obama is not campaigning against spying on the media.
And he is not campaigning against Hillary Clinton's handling of Benghazi.
Now there's a story in the stack.
Dingy Harry needs the amnesty bill by the end of next week.
That is also losing ground.
The gang of eight immigration bill is losing ground.
Obama is losing ground in a couple of polls on immigration.
And it's it's it's uh I don't think it's a coincidence.
The dingy Harry is now starting to make noises that we got to do this now or never.
Whenever there's a crisis manufactured or otherwise, whenever there's an emergency, it usually means the liberals are in trouble, or they think they are.
And dingy Harry's starting to ring the bells and make some noise about we got to get this done.
We gotta stop piddling around with this.
Now, I think Obama got away from the playbook here.
He got away from the limbaugh theorem.
He stopped, I'm serious.
He stopped campaigning against the NSA spying.
All this news is still being reported.
Snowden and all this stuff.
The NSA guy was on TV today in a committee hearings explaining all their great successes.
Obama has stopped campaigning again.
In fact, what I mean is Obama is not on television telling people how upset he is about this.
And when he doesn't do that, he runs the risk that it will be attached to him.
I mean, the great miracle that he's pulled off is after four and a half years of his presidency, he is still not attached to anything that he's doing.
But he's made that possible by constantly running or campaigning, appearing to be against everything that's happening, even his own ideas.
Once he stops all of the campaigning, then he's not seen as his supporters have come to expect to see him.
It's a very subtle thing, and I could be all wet on it because the subtlety is such here that low information people, if if if this is the reason by the way, it's a subconscious realization on their part.
It's not something active.
They're not, I don't want anybody to misunderstand me.
Obama's supporters are not saying to themselves, you know, he's not campaigning against us anymore.
It must be his.
That's not how it's happening in their brains.
There's a four and a half year Obama behavioral pattern they become accustomed to.
Whatever happens that's going wrong, Obama is always perceived to be against it and trying to fix it.
Go out and make a speech, go out and make campaign appearance or whatever.
He hasn't been doing that in the last week to ten days when this poll was taken.
He has stopped complaining about the IRS abuses, but the stories keep coming.
And the stories are not favorable.
We now know that this attempt to blame it on a couple rogue employees in Cincinnati was the equivalent of the video caused Benghazi.
This was happening in the Washington, D.C. office, and uh the the news on the IRS scandals is that it's reaching higher and higher into levels of the White House.
And Obama's not out there campaigning saying, I'm gonna find an answer to this, and I'm gonna bring it to a screeching, oh, this isn't right and it isn't fair, the IRS shouldn't be used that way.
He said that at the outset of the scandal, but he hasn't said it in a week or ten days.
The uh spying on the media that the NSA is doing, all these NSA stuff, he's he's not he's not on the campaign trail making speeches opposing any of this stuff, folks, and I'm telling you.
That is a major departure in the way Obama is perceived.
But the I think the manifestation of this in the uh uh minds of his supporters is very, very subtle.
I don't know that they're even aware why they are all of a sudden giving him worse numbers in the poll.
This is just my theory, but basically what it is, he got away from the playbook.
He got away from his own playbook, and it's costing him.
He's half-heartedly campaigning for this, that, and the other thing.
But he has stopped appearing as though he's fighting for Americans.
He's he's not an outsider.
He hasn't been perceived as an outsider in this last week to tender, maybe two weeks.
Obama's spying on Americans.
Obama's IRS is targeting Obama enemies.
And that's why I think the focus on uh immigration is intensifying.
I remember uh, ladies and gentlemen, way back when I people were calling here, Rush.
What's it gonna take to change people's minds about Obama?
He's throwing their hands up, but I said, look, it's gonna take something pop culture ish to hurt Obama.
It is not gonna be a standard ordinary political scandal or a series of them that are gonna do Obama, and it's it's not gonna be the media turning.
And I made a joke, it's gonna be something along the lines of Obama publicly dissing Justin Timberlake's latest CD.
That's the kind of thing that will tick off low information voters and make them think maybe he isn't one of them.
Well, the NSA monitoring, and I don't want to make too big a deal of this, but for people under 30, this NSA monitoring could be the beginning of a tipping point.
Generation text.
My coinage.
If if people, only people aged 30 and older, could have voted in 2012, Romney would be president today.
Romney beat Obama among voters age 30 and over by two points, but he lost the election in part because Obama won younger voters 60 to 36.
And the young generation text who live their lives on their devices, watching this NSA thing, and all of a sudden Obama doesn't appear to be against it anymore.
And the news on this continued.
Now the at first Apple and Microsoft and uh and Facebook and Twitter, they they all denied it.
Then they all admitted it.
Then details of how they did it emerged, and then the quantity of data that was given to the government was released.
So we've had a steady progression here of tantamount admissions that all of this originally alleged and denied is indeed happening and has been happening.
And Obama is not appearing against it.
He's not campaigning, no speeches against it.
And it's very subtle.
You might even disagree with my take on this.
And these polls could be snapshots that turn out not to be true either.
We'll have to wait till the next two or three series of polls.
But it is new to have this kind of deterioration in virtually every question asked in the CNN poll for Obama.
Not that they care that much.
I mean, he's not running for re-election again, and so it it would not as not as disturbing to them as it would be if this were last September or October.
Let me take a brief time out as we must, and we'll be back.
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One more bit of information on the poll drop, another factor in this poll drop for Obama.
And you're not the drive by's are not spending a lot of time on this.
CNN is because it's their poll, but you're not seeing this too many places, which is another indication.
I think that it's uh well, look it.
It's gonna be disturbing to the drive-bys.
They've done everything they can to prop the prop the poor guy up.
And at some point, uh, you know, common sense says that at some point Obama will be held accountable.
All presidents are at some point.
Another factor in this poll drop, and it may be the biggest, is among people under 30.
What we're calling here generation text.
And these people may not like the idea of the government reading their texts.
Now, unlike the answer we got from Miss Alabama at the Miss USA pageant, by the way, which is, oh, you've got to be perfectly happy with them reading my emails.
I'm not uh government's job is to keep us safe, and if they're reading the emails can do that, then I'm all for it.
Yeah, yeah, yay.
But I'm not sure that that answer represents the consensus thinking of the generation text crowd, people under 30.
There was a 17% drop in approval for Obama in the under 30 group.
17%.
The biggest drop of any group surveyed just in the last month.
So it has to be.
It has to be due to the NSA story, the monitoring news that's out there.
CNN poll also found that almost half of the respondents thought that Obama ordered the IRS targeting of Tea Party groups.
That is a massive change, folks.
That is huge.
Almost half the people in the poll thought Obama ordered the IRS targeting it.
Now, the poll doesn't say whether they are mad about that or not.
But 50% think Obama did it.
That's big.
I have some amazing sound bites coming up for you in just a moment.
They are from Sunday, and they are from a black state senator in Louisiana.
His name is Elbert Gillary.
And he is a Republican.
And he released a video message to his constituents about why he switched parties from Democrat to Republican.
And it's uh it's amazing.
And it's we've heard it before in various forms over the course of many years, but with our low information outreach that is taking place here on the EIB network, it's especially timely.
I'll get to that just a second.
Byron York has the story on the falling polling data on the gang of eight immigration bill in the Washington Examiner, a new poll shows falling support for the gang of eight comprehensive immigration reform bill.
So Dingy Harry has announced an accelerated schedule in which the Senate would take a final up or down vote on passing it by the end of next week.
Dingy Harry said, Look, I'm just telling everybody now that we're going to either file cloture on this on Friday or Saturday or Sunday or Monday.
Now filing for cloture means ending debate.
That's where they need the 60 votes to move on to final passage of the bill.
Filing for cloture means that a final vote would be held three days later.
So if Denji Harry filed for cloture on Monday, June 24th, a final vote on the bill would be held on Thursday, June 27th.
And the 4th of July break starts the week after.
Dingy Harry warned his fellow lawmakers that if they want to consider amendments to the Gang 8 bill, they need to be prepared to work virtually nonstop between now and then.
He said, this may not be one of our normal weekends.
We've got to move forward on this legislation.
Why?
I mean, we all know they want it, but why all of a sudden the urgency, despite all the chatter about this, the fact of the matter is that debate on the gang of evil in the full Senate only started last week.
Well, you and I all know why they want to speed this up.
they don't want anybody to find out what's in it.
This bill already weighs 24 pounds.
It's already in the thousands of pages.
It is just like Obamacare.
There are people who do not want you to know everything that's in this bill.
That's why the speed.
And I mean, in addition to the falling polling numbers on this, they recognize, just like it was in 2007, the longer this goes, the more time it is for opponents to spread the word and gin up opposition to this.
But dingy Harry is making it look like there is an emergency involved.
And there's signs that support for immigration reform is slipping, general support.
After months of polls showing widespread support for some elements of immigration reform, this CNN poll that's out shows that it's just a bare majority now, 51% to 45% support the Gang of Eight bill.
And perhaps, as Myron York writes here, even more ominously, the poll found strong support for prioritizing border security above a pathway to citizenship for currently illegal immigrants.
Independence especially favors security before a path by two to one margin.
And as you know, independence are the gold mine in American politics.
As far as politicians are concerned, all of their consultants all assure them, hire me to run your campaign, I know how to get the independence.
The independents are thought to be the key to every election.
So in a poll here that shows independents demanding prioritizing border security above a pathway to citizenship, that's going to cause a crisis for Dingy Harry.
Because none of the people involved in this, particularly on the Democrat side, want to do anything about border security.
They don't want to change it.
They don't wrap it up because they want the influx to continue on the Democrat side.
Remember, the Democrats need a permanent underclass.
So Dingy Harry in a hurry, polling data showing that support for the bill is waning.
Independence demanding by polling data, border security first.
Democrats don't want that.
Another reason to hurry up here to get the thing passed with an illusion of border security being done first.
But of course they are shelving it.
Now, if Reed goes through with this schedule, the polls might not have a chance to change much between now and the end of time when he says this must be done.
And that's another reason for hurrying this up.
If the polls have started to shift, and the anti-amnesty sentiment is on the increase, gotta shut that down.
And getting this done by the end of next week would prevent another polling cycle from being completed and reported.
So contrary to all the news stories that this thing is essentially in the bag, the actions of Dingy Harry, the Senate Majority Leader, indicate otherwise.
Remember Senator Graham, Lindsey Graham, I I forget the exact words.
We played the soundbite yesterday.
But he basically said, correct me if I'm wrong, but he essentially said that we have to do this because Hispanics hate us.
And we've got to show them that we don't hate them.
It's a paraphrase, but his motivation was on one of the Sunday shows.
His declared motivation for this was the fact that Hispanics hate us, think we're racist, bigots, don't like them, hate them, don't want them here, don't care.
He says we got to show them that isn't the case, and that's why he wants to.
Yeah, you can write off 2016.
And you can write off any presidential race after that, he said.
And I want to take that line of thinking and expand upon it.
If the Republicans, if if one of the main reasons for passing the gang of AIDS immigration bill is so Republicans can prove that they don't hate Hispanics, then what's next?
Are the Republicans going to have to support gay marriage to prove that they don't hate gays?
And then are the Republicans going to have to support affirmative action to prove they don't hate blacks?
And then are they going to have to support legalization of marijuana and for giving student loans to prove they don't hate college kids?
And so on.
And it's very difficult, folks, to out-liberal a liberal.
And the here's Senator Graham said the only way we can get back in the good graces of the Hispanic community, in my view, is to pass comprehensive immigration reform.
The only way that we can get back in the good graces of the Hispanic community.
In fact, folks, this is a sentiment that exists all across the Republican Party and in certain elements of the so-called conservative media.
And it all boils down to the thing that I was talking about yesterday.
Worried about what people think of you.
And can you even control that?
Why do Hispanics hate Republicans?
A, do Hispanics hate Republicans?
Is that really true?
That's the first question.
Do Hispanics in mass hate Republicans?
If they do, why do they hate Republicans?
Is it because of what Republicans have done, not done, said, or not said, or is it because of the way they are portrayed by Democrats and the media?
If it's the latter, how in the world is supporting immigration reform going to change that.
But Senator Graham thinks it is crucial.
The only way we get back in the good graces of the Hispanic community, which again was barely 8% of the electorate in 2012.
What are we going to do to get back in the graces of the youths of America?
The youths of America voted for Obama in far greater numbers percentage-wise than Hispanics did.
And that's my point here.
Are we going to have to prove that we uh don't hate gays by supporting gay marriage?
Is that what this is going to come down to?
That we're hated.
The Republicans, not we.
The Republicans are hated.
And they're hated by all of these groups that vote Democrat.
And so the only way that's going to change is to support what all of these Democrat groups want, because that will prove to these Democrat groups that they are wrong in how they think about us.
It sounds to me like a pretty ingenious trick to get the Republican Party to toss aside what it stands for.
But this has even permeated the conservative media.
You will hear people at conservative media say things like, well, you know, the way they look at us now, they hate us.
All you got to do is you know, the guy trying to climb the fence, coming over here to feed his family, and we don't want that.
We want him to starve.
We got to change that picture.
We have to change that perception.
They think that we don't care about their family starving.
All a guy's trying to do is get across the border and feed his kid.
And they think we don't want him to do that.
So the impetus for doing this, and I would guess some of the highest levels of the party is the belief that Hispanics hate us.
And I guess that their evidence for that is election returns.
So for some reason the Hispanic population is now where the rubber meets the road for the future of the Republican Party in their minds.
But if this works, I guarantee you the next thing, well, you know, if you gays, look at they give all the money to Democrats, they raise money for Democrats.
The gays hate you guys.
They know you're a bunch of homophobes.
Okay, well, we'll support gay marriage then.
And you know, black people, you guys look at you never get more than 10% of the black vote.
You know, black people think you want to put them back on plantations and uh deny them this and deny them that.
That's why they vote never.
You gotta you gotta show them you don't hate them.
Okay, well, uh what can we support affirmative action or whatever the cause to level of the day is in that group?
And where does this end?
I'm only reacting to Senator Graham.
Maybe the big one.
Women supposedly hate us, right, because of abortion.
And you can't win the presidency without the female vote.
This is what we're gonna hear.
What do we have to do to make the women realize we don't hate them?
Change our attitude on abortion.
Where does this stuff stop if this is the reason?
If this is the reason that we do immigration reform, then there's a whole list of things that you and I know that it is said Republicans are hated.
Women hate us, blacks hate us, the gays hate us, uh Native Americans don't like us.
Uh Hispanics uh don't like us.
What do we have to do to make them all like us?
Because, see, we don't even have a chance of them voting for us until they like us.
Now, McCain was pro-amnesty.
I mean, you couldn't get more pro-amnesty than McCain.
I don't know.
Gotta take a break, folks.
The clock dictating programming format things here back in just a second.
Folks, forget about these individual groups.
Forget about the gays hate us, so what are we gonna have to do?
And the Hispanics hate us and blacks hate us and women hate us.
The Democrats hate us.
What are we gonna have to do to get the Democrats to like us?
What's the difference in suggesting, as Senator Graham did, the only way we get back in the good graces of the Hispanic community is to pass comprehensive immigration reform?
Well, the Democrats don't like us.
Hell with the Hispanics.
Democrats everywhere don't like us.
Democrat women, Democrat blacks, Democrat Hispanics, Democrat homosexuals, Democrat, you name it, don't.
What are we gonna do to get the Democrats to like us?
And why is it that nobody ever asks, what are the Democrats gonna have to do to make us like them?
Why is that never part of any political question equation process?
The Democrats lose elections, they don't win every election.
And when they lose elections, they lose elections because conservatives vote against them.
Republicans vote against them.
Why don't they ever say, why these Republicans hate us?
You know, we're gonna have to change some things here.
Make the Republicans like us so we win elections.
That never happens.
Never it is said.
Never is it said.
In fact, when the Democrats lose elections, what do they do?
They ramp, they ramp up, well, they say they didn't get their message out, but they start insulting Republicans and voters for being stupid, and they take it out on them the next time they do win by spying on them with the IRS or what have you.
Make no mistake, part of this IRS business was punitive.
I know it started before 2010, but the stuff that happened after the 2010 midterms, it was punitive.
It was Obama and the Democrats and the IRS punishing people for not supporting Obama.
But they never run around and ask why we don't like them.
And they never run around and ask themselves, anybody else, what they have to do to get back in our good graces.
There are Hispanics that vote Republican.
Why do the Democrats not say, what are we gonna have to do to make those Hispanics vote?
Democrat.
Why is it always one-way street?
And for those of you who doubt my Theory on why Obama's losing ground in polling data.
I want you to listen to this just now on CNN.
Around the world, Michael Holmes talking with Gloria Borger on the political aspect.
Does this help the president politically, or is he gonna have to do more?
Listen to this.
We know that the president has given some press interviews.
He's encouraged this conversation about the balance between liberty and national security.
But uh at some point the president's gonna have to lead the conversation because after all, this is the same person who railed against a form of these kind of surveillance when he was a United States Senator.
So I think it may be more incumbent upon him at a certain point, after they unroll this, as they're clearly trying to do, to come out and speak some more about it to the American people.
She's admitting it.
What she is saying that the president's got to go back to railing against spying.
She was being asked why support for Obama is starting to wane.
And she was that her answer, you heard it, she was essentially saying he's got to get back to railing against spying.
What she doesn't know is that she's saying he's got to get back to the Limbaugh theorem.
He's got to start campaigning.
He's got to resume campaigning against this stuff like he used to do.
Back after this.
It is indeed the fastest three hours in media.
We've got a brief time out here at the top.
Local news or whatever else happens out there.
On your local EIB affiliate, we'll come back with Elbert Gillary of these three sound bites I want you to hear.
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