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June 27, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 27, 2013, Thursday, Hour #3
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The views expressed by the host of this program documented to be still no change, almost always right 99.7% of the time.
Latest opinion audit for the month of actually it is, it's it's May that just came in.
And no change.
I was hoping for an uptick.
Hadn't happened yet.
You gotta be right for a heck of a long time to move up like from almost uh right 99.7 to say 99.8.
It takes a string of 100% accuracy to uh to move it up there.
Anyway, great to have your folks, and I want to apologize to you.
I really I got here today and I was in such a robust and good mood, and within the first hour, I'd I just got literally ticked off, and I'm still fuming over some stuff, and I I'm feel like I'm not doing a good enough job of of hiding that or covering it up.
So I'm trying not to have it affect things here, but it does.
And it's nothing to do with in the news, it's none of that.
Um there's enough of that anyway.
I mean, I just I've got two things on TV right now that just literally depressed the hell out of me.
Marco Rubio is one of them, and I'm not gonna tell you what the other one is, because I wouldn't survive it.
But anyway, uh telephone number you want to be in the program, 800-282-288-2, the email address L Rushboat EIBNet.com on this Aaron Hernandez business.
The I'm I'm really even though I'm gonna tell you what what the law enforcement authorities are telling the media, I'm still nervous about this because it's all alleged and law enforcement is always believed.
Whenever law enforcement leaks something, says something, everybody, it's just the nature of the beast.
Everybody automatically believes it.
And it's not always true.
But here's the latest in this Aaron Hernandez stuff.
He's been charged with murder in the case of uh Odin, whatever it is, poor guy's last name is.
But now the cops are telling us the motivation.
And apparently there is a double murder that Hernandez might have been involved in, and the reason that this Odin guy was killed was because he apparently told some other people to be wary of Hernandez.
Don't make this guy mad, look what happens when you do, and cited this other double murder.
That's one of the things that's being leaked to Boston media.
And they are reporting it as to why this latest victim of Hernandez, the only one we know for sure, well, the only alleged one for sure, said to have been killed.
In addition to that, Sports Illustrated uh on their website has a story, it was just placed in front of me before the previous hour ended.
Aaron Hernandez linked to Bristol Bloods Gang.
You're surely aware of the legal trouble of New England Patriots tied in Aaron Hernandez.
Part of the unearthing of Hernandez's secret life was his gang affiliation.
Aaron Hernandez was rumored to be affiliated with gangs in his hometown of Bristol, Connecticut.
Bristol, by the way, is where ESPN is, and I thought they were the gang there.
I didn't know that there were other gangs.
I thought ESPN was the gang, but nevertheless, apparently there are gangs there in Bristol, and Aaron Hernandez, rumored to be affiliated with the gangs there in Bristol, Connecticut, those suspected affiliations have been credited for his slip into the fourth round of the NFL draft.
It was it's being reported that teams knew of his gang involvement, and that's why he slipped to the fourth round of the NFL draft.
Rather than being drafted in a higher rounds.
They had they had character concerns because he'd been a member of gangs in Bristol.
At yesterday's arraignment, it was noticed that among Aaron Hernandez's numerous tattoos was a bla a blood tattoo on his right hand.
The Bloods are a famous gang that has been chronicled extensively in rap music.
I wonder if anybody will go get that quote of mine now.
I don't think they will, Mr. Snerdley.
I don't think anybody will dig that quote up now.
TMZ has discovered a picture of Aaron Hernandez throwing a gang or throwing gang signs in high school.
It's worth noting that he's dressed in all red, the color associated with this gang.
He was also arrested wearing red shorts, though that could purely be coincidence.
Now that's the kind of stuff this is descended to.
You want to know something else about colors?
I didn't know this.
But there are numerous sports writers who write about this.
As you know, many sports teams have their home uniforms and their away uniforms.
Home uniform is the primary color, the away uniform is uh white or gray, depending on the sport.
Uh and some teams add a third alternate, alternative or alternate jersey.
Or even in the primary home jersey, they add a third color, and that is black.
And I've read numerous sports life sports writers alleging that teams are adding black to their uniforms because it's a gang color.
It is a color that is loved by gangs.
Now, why would teams, if that's true, why would teams do that?
Why would teams encourage the gang mentality by adding black to their unit when black is not part of the color scheme?
And a number of NFL teams have done it.
The Detroit Lions have added black.
There's no black in the Detroit Lions color scheme.
There never has been, but there is now.
A lot of teams have a a third jersey that's black when black is not part of the color scheme.
And there are certain sports writers who say because it's a gang color.
Here's TMZ saying that red is a is a gang color.
Now, the gangs don't have any exclusivity in terms of ownership of the color.
Don't misunderstand.
What is being reported is that because the gangs have adopted these colors, that certain teams have gone ahead and put those colors in their uniforms because that's what their players want.
Snirdley said to me mere moments ago, Rush, what's going on here is all these guys want to be part of the gangsta culture.
You mean in hip hop?
Is that what you're talking about?
They all want to be part of gang.
They all want to be, well, I guess there may be some of that.
the There may be some players that want to be in a gang, and and and some of the gangs want to be athletes.
So there may be some overlap or Chris Gross.
Anyway, they claim here that they have discovered well, none of his claiming Aaron Hernandez apparently was well known as a member of the Bloods in Bristol, Connecticut.
And it led to him being drafted fourth round instead of the first or second round.
Imagine that.
On your resume, you're a member of a gang.
Most places you don't stand a prayer.
In the NFL, you just lose a couple of rounds in the draft order.
Anyway, that's the uh the latest about that.
I also made a reference earlier today, and I and yesterday with a caller, that what I think, and I've this nothing new either, but really the the one of the objectives the American left has is the elimination of God.
Everywhere they can succeed in doing so.
The incessant attacks on Christianity in the Catholic Church.
Um no biblical references in school, no nativity scenes, it's an ongoing thing.
But it's a very risky thing to say, because the arbiters of political correctness rear their ugly heads and start throwing out labels like racist or bigot or what have you.
When you start raising these objections.
Well, here's a story from Todd Starnes at Fox News Radio.
Louisiana lawman is livid over the federal government's decision to cut off money for two programs to help troubled young people, all he says, Louisiana lawman, because he refused to sign a pledge to bar prayer or any mention of God at their meetings.
Julian Whittington.
The Sheriff of Bozier Parish, Louisiana, told Fox News that the Department of Justice Office of Civil Rights defunded $30,000 for their Young Marines chapter, as well as a youth diversion program.
Federal officials objected to a voluntary student-led prayer in the department's youth diversion program and an oath recited by the young Marines that mentions God, according to Whittington, who blasted what he considers the government's aggression and infringement of our religious freedoms.
Now, is there any doubt that this administration has launched an all-out war on religious freedom?
There isn't.
That's what the war on women is really all about.
And the war on women that's being waged in this country is being waged by the Democrats and by Obama at institutions like the Catholic Church, forcing Catholic churches and universities to pass out contraception in violation of their own religious beliefs.
But they're mandating it to be done.
So what we have here is the Obama Department of Justice has taken away thirty thousand dollars from a youth program in Louisiana because the sheriff who runs it refused to remove all mention of God from everything they do.
And this is your money, folks.
This is American taxpayer money that is being used to deny religious freedom.
It isn't just the IRS.
Speaking of which, from the Washington Examiner, the IRS targeted 292 Tea Party groups and just six liberal groups.
Refuting Democrat suggestions that progressive groups were also swept up in the IRS probe, the Treasury Department's inspector general has revealed that only six liberal groups were targeted compared to 292 conservative groups.
stop and think.
We talk about this and the words just roll off our tongues as though we're talking about turning on the faucet.
Oh yeah, the IRS targeted conservative groups.
Okay.
That's not something insignificant or even casual.
That is gross malfeasance.
That is a gross violation.
That is a gross violation.
Of government overreach.
Now the regime is using all of the money, or a good percentage of it anyway, that's allocated to set up these health care exchanges as outreach for the Democrat Party, get out the vote efforts and so forth, and I'm sure all part of that is its own degree of intimidation.
Let's take a brief time out.
We'll come back.
We have some sound bites of of Senator Rubio on the Senate floor yesterday selling immigration.
Back to the phones in just a quick minute, but we have the polosi soundbite.
It was from uh her weekly press briefing in Washington this morning.
Pretty soon we'll all be leaving for the Fourth of July recess next week when we celebrate Independence Day.
We'll also be observing health independence.
This marks one year since the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Affordable Care Act offers just that.
A healthier life, the liberty, pursue a person's happiness.
To be free of constraint, be job locked, uh, because they're policy locked.
So if you wanted to be a cameraman, a writer, you want to be self-employed, if you want to uh start a business, if you want to change jobs, whatever it is you want to do, you are free.
And that's what you're supposed to give thanks for next fourth of July.
That's the same sales pitch that she used, and it's bogus as it can before this thing was signed.
You want to be a cameraman or writer, you're gonna be self-employed, start a business, change jobs, whatever you want to do, you're free because you're covered because you've got Obamacare.
If you don't pay the fine.
It doesn't matter if you're a cameraman.
It doesn't matter if you're a writer or you're a self-employed, or if you want to start a business.
If you want to change jobs, you're gonna have to have health insurance, or you're gonna have to pay a fine.
Happy and unless you're an illegal immigrant.
Happy independence day.
Here's Joseph in Charleston, South Carolina.
They've been waiting a long time.
I appreciate your patience.
Hello, sir.
Good morning, Rush, or afternoon, actually.
I uh I wanted to call back to something you talked about in the first hour when you said Steve uh Steve Schmidt was joining up with the ACLU.
Yeah, that's back when I was in a good mood.
Uh gay marriage.
Yeah, that's the uh ACLU story.
This is back when I was in a good mood, the first hour.
The uh the thing I wanted to say about that is it it always baffles me why the Republicans go in for something like this, because it's not like if if every Republican in the entire country decided that they were gonna support gay marriage at the state level, it's not like the gay vote would shift over to the Republicans.
The Democrats would still get credit for it anyway.
And I think the Democrats enjoy watching the Republican Party self-destruct over trying to liberalize itself even more than they enjoy destroying it themselves.
Um yes, of course, good.
But grab grab soundbite uh number 15.
Um you uh want to know why this is happening.
I have a soundbite here.
Dana Perino was on a five yesterday afternoon on Fox, and they were having a discussion about the Supreme Court rulings on DOMA and Prop 8.
And this doesn't take long, it's sixteen seconds, but this is what she said.
Politically, I think that in some ways this begins the long road to having gay marriage no longer be a political weapon used by either side and gives people a chance to maybe then focus on other important issues that we have in the country.
Now that that that way of thinking, Joseph, is probably pretty reflective of the Republican Party establishment.
So what there's what she's saying there is look, we're losing on this.
We're losing bad.
We got to get this behind us, so let's agree to it.
Let's just okay, fine, gay marriage, fine, go do it.
Well, get that behind us, and uh same thing with immigration, we'll get that behind us, and then those are no longer issues, they think.
This is where this is where we're that's what you said.
They're blowing it.
That's what makes me mad about the party.
You have low information voters, you have an anti-information media, the party gets out as soon as they hear anything that sounds liberal, certain members of our side go chomping after it, and what they do is they they just spiral like what is it, the the 76% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
That means 76% of Americans are broke.
There's your demographic, there's your brass ring.
I'm sure there's some gay people and Latinos and African Americans.
Exactly too.
That is exactly my point again from the first hour, and again when I was in a good mood.
The economy, jobs, those are the things that matter to the vast majority of people, no matter what their sexual orientation or their nationality, their gender, any of that happened to be, and it's being ignored.
The Republicans are living in abject fear.
So when when Dana Perino says, okay, this is no longer gonna be a political issue, what she means is this can no longer hurt us.
But what's gonna happen is this is gonna keep coming back until they get this constitutionally recognized nationwide.
And as if the Republicans continue to oppose it, uh they're gonna be scared to death that the party establishment level are gonna lose votes from the gay community, lose money.
You you hit the nail on the head.
When all this stuff happens, the Republicans aren't going to get a dime's worth of credit for it.
They're not going to get a dime's worth of campaign donations from this group.
Oh, and Rush, they're they're doing this, by the way, in my opinion, for the youth vote.
The number one concern of youth of young voters this last election.
Well, that's true.
The economy.
That's true.
And the economy is terrible still.
So they have climate change now on the docket, gay marriage, immigration, student loans.
They will not solve the economy.
They want the American people to accept that the economy is going to be this bad in perpetuity.
So here's the things that tug at your heart strings.
And the younger voters, the crowd that has only seen Clinton and Bush and Obama as president will see the Democrat Party as the party that's really fighting for the issues that touch them deep down in their chewy nuggety center, and they'll vote for them even when they should have shifted to a conservative voting pattern because they're actually making money, they will continue to vote for liberalism and do it to themselves, and the Democrats will be even happier about that than they are about losing a Republican.
I don't think that's disputable.
I think this thinking is really not yours.
The thinking that we can get issues behind us is really unfortunate.
Because the truth of the matter is that nothing that can be used against the Republicans will ever be taken off the table.
If they have to make it up, nothing that they can use against the Republicans will ever be taken off the table.
So the Republican establishment is trying to make all these things go away because they think that's the source of opposition.
What they're going to end up doing is imploding.
They are driving their base away.
And when they drive their base away, they don't, they're not going to remain viable with a with uh uh Nat's eyelash chance of winning elections.
But they think like join the ACLU, join a project, the ACLU, Republican campaign consultants, to go now work on the states, to get the Republicans in the 50 states to agree to gay marriage to get the issue behind us.
We're being killed by it, Mr. Limbaugh.
They're killing us.
They're killing us with immigration.
We've got to get it behind us.
We can move on to things that really matter.
Well, why don't you stand for things that really matter, come up with an agenda about things that really matter to hell with this stuff.
Stop letting the Democrats set the agenda.
We haven't put slavery behind us 150 years ago, right?
Slavery, for all intents and purposes, as far as a lot of people think still exists.
The Republican Party still wants it.
We haven't even put that behind us.
And it's been 150 years.
So gay marriage we're going to put behind us, immigration we're going to put behind us, and all of this is designed to make those who hate us love us by putting it behind us.
And there's no putting it behind you.
And there's no taking it off the table.
It really is dumbfounding.
It's dumbfounding to watch this.
I had uh friend of mine say, you know what you're having trouble coming to grips with is that the Republican Party hates its base and they're really trying to drive them away.
And I said, I think there are things that are more important to them than that.
I know they're embarrassed by the base.
Uh the pro-lifers and the gun people and so forth.
But there's also the financial component here, money.
In terms of illegal immigration, the corporatists and the crony capitalists want the cheap labor.
The hell with anything else that happens as a result of it.
But the theory still gets guys still said, no, no, no, Rush, they don't like their base, and they're hoping to drive it away with this stuff.
They can't be that short-side.
What are they going to end up with?
What are they going to be left with if they drive their base away?
And the guy said, they're going to be happy as a permanent minority because they won't be embarrassed by anybody else in their party.
I say, you've got to be kidding.
You really think that's what's he said?
I do.
I do.
I think they so hate their base, this friend of mine.
I think they so dislike us.
I think they're so embarrassed by some of us that they'd be happy to go back to the mode of Bob Michael with 125 members of the House and 30 senators and occasionally win the presidency and be liked by everybody.
Because Rush, they're not liked.
They think the reason liberals hate them is because of their base.
So there's that theory, there's all kinds of theories, but regardless, to listen to the rationale for not fighting on these cultural issues.
Well, we gotta get it behind us, just get these issues uh over with and make them no longer uh viable as political weapons.
And see, the the problem with that, sadly, is that anything that can be used against the Republicans will never be taken off the table.
And slavery, I offer as an example, a hundred and fifty years ago, and it may as well still be what Republicans want.
In the minds of low information people, because who tells them this?
Anyway, brief time out, my friends.
We'll be back with much more after this.
Now, this is another thing that I don't understand why other people don't get it.
The White House is uh, well, some people are being critical of the the White House, the regime.
They had a meeting with the assistant to some really radical uh Islamic religious guy.
I mean, this guy has uh uh spoken out in in favor of the uh genocide of the Jews uh just is really just a reprehensible sharia Islamist, and this guy's not here, but one of the guys that works for him is here in a meeting in the White House.
The guy who's not here, the guy that is his representative is here, is banned from the United States.
So this guy is here in the White House and having meetings with people in the regime.
And people say, why, wow.
What is so hard to understand about this?
That the Obama administration would have meetings with radical Islamists.
Now, the announced reason is, well, Rush, this is outreach.
They're trying to meet with these radicalized guys and sort of de radicalize them.
They're meeting with these guys to show them that they have a friend in the White House, that we don't mean them any harm, and they don't need to hate us.
Really?
That's what's going on here?
That's why they're having these people into the White House.
Employees or assistants or whatever of radicals who are denied admittance into the country.
That's the kind of thing Republicans would do.
Call the enemy and say, we're not so bad.
I have a tough time accepting that explanation, but that's what they're saying it is.
All right, now this this you all believe.
Obama, as you know, is in Kenya.
He's on a trip of Africa.
And the weekly standard just released a little little blurb, White House touts Kenyan program to obtain national ID cards for voter registration.
In a nutshell, while Obama's vacationing in Africa, the White House put out a list of things they're doing for Africa.
And one of the first items is a $53 million program in Kenya that helps young people obtain national ID cards, which is a prerequisite for voter registration.
I I I kid you not.
The very same thing they oppose and fight here.
They are bragging about helping become a reality in Kenya.
Don't ask me to explain this because I've only got two seconds.
I have no seconds.
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