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July 4, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 4, 2013, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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It's great to be here, folks.
And I I've seen all the praise that the uh that the drive-bys are heaping upon Michelle Obama for her incredibly rude response to that poor lesbo Democrat donor.
Even the paid liar.
Oh.
That's what Daryl Issa called the spokes kid Jay Carney.
And by the way, in true Republican form, shortly after ISA called Jay Carney a paid liar.
It happened on CNN Sunday.
House Republican leadership staffers, staffers.
House Republican leadership staffers called ICE's AIDS with a message.
Cool it.
ICE's age promptly responded, the remark was over the top, they agreed, according to sources familiar with so staff members, I guess of Boehner and whoever else is in leadership, called staff members of ISA.
And they said, you know, your guy calling this guy at the White House a paid liar.
That's a little bit over the top.
That's that's not that's not kosher.
That's not who we are.
And the staffers went to ISA and said, you know, you're over the top.
You shouldn't be calling a spokes kid a paid liar.
It was not Boehner that called ISA and said, hey, cool it, buddy.
It was Boehner's or whoever's staff members call ISIS staff members.
And ICE's aides agreed that the paid liar remark was over the top.
This is this is why the Republicans are in the situation.
I mean, they basically apologizing for inhaling and they apologize for exhaling.
And whatever words are formed in the process.
Anyway, the media is just heaping praise all over Michelle Obama for her.
I mean, I think it was rude.
Others of you may not.
But you had this this lesbo donor who uh I think I saw you, she paid 700 bucks to get in there.
And the president had promised her and other gay lesbian, bisexual, transgender uh people that uh he'd come up with the legislation or executive order something to make things totally fair, equal, and whatever.
And it hasn't happened.
Whatever he promised them, they don't think that it's happened.
So the protestor shows up, the Michelle Obama, and wants to know why it hasn't happened.
And Michelle Obama says, all right, look.
It's either her or it's me.
You take this microphone, and I'm splitting.
I'm getting out of here.
I'm gonna handle the next seminar caller we get that way because I want the mainstream media calling me brilliant.
Which is what the spokes kid did.
Oh, yeah, Michelle's response was after By the way, Michelle is snubbing the first lady of the Chicons.
There apparently is a two-day summit this weekend in California between Obama and uh Xing Jinping, whatever the uh the new Chinese communist premier.
Apparently, this guy's wife, the ChICOM leader's wife, is she a hot, she's hot.
I mean, I said I'm looking for the what would be the Washington diplomatic way of describing her hotness.
She's hot.
I mean, they've they've they've got publicity photos of this babe as though she were a model or something.
And she's coming with her husband, Xin Jinping, whatever, to the because they they're hoping that the publicity that would be surrounding her and her hotness would change world opinion of Chikon leadership.
But Michelle isn't going.
Michelle's going to stay in Washington because her daughters are ending their academic year.
Story does not say that there are graduation ceremonies or any of that, just that Michelle's daughters are ending their academic year, and Michelle's not going in.
Therefore, it is the Chiccoms are considering it a snub.
And it will because it will limit the visibility of the Chicom First Lady.
Chikom First Lady just can't go out and run around on her own.
She's got to have Michelle with her.
I guess, according to uh according to protocol.
Dust off Hillary.
Well, I hadn't thought of that.
Um Hillary not looking bad after the, you know, everybody taught Hillary's taking time off because of Benghazi.
You know, they couldn't find Hillary for a while.
Where is she?
Nobody knew where she was.
And everybody said she's out of sight because of Benghazi.
And that's not at all what it wasn't plastic surgery, just a little touch up.
Little Botox here, a new hairdo there, ironing of the face here, getting rid of some wrinkles.
It was a good press job.
Probably went to a Chinese laundry.
Get it done.
But it wasn't major.
Wasn't major.
And of course, in its advance of the Democrat primary between her and Governor Christie.
And I think probably Rom Emanuel, he'll be in that primary.
And who else besides Rom?
Oh, Andrew Cuomo, son of Mario the Pious.
The governor of Maryland, that's right.
He wants to wants to throw his hat uh in the ring, too.
So it could be an interesting uh Democrat primary.
Anyway, the spokeskin said that Michelle My Bell was brilliant.
My personal opinion that she handled it brilliantly.
Have you uh have you seen the big news according to the uh the mainstream press?
What do you think the big news is in the mainstream press?
No, it's not Verizon.
Do you know that the mainstream press has not that Verizon story, which we're gonna get into, by the way, folks, you sit tight.
I can't do it all in the opening monologue.
This Verizon story, and I don't think it's just Verizon, I think it's just what we know.
But it's uh broken by the UK Guardian.
The American media hasn't broken a single Obama scandal.
The American media hasn't taken the lead on any of the four major Obama scandals.
They're just playing follow the leader.
Glenn Greenwald is the guy who wrote the story for the UK Guardian, and he got a leak from somewhere in the Justice Department, somebody in the government had to leak it to him, and they probably leaked it to others in the drive-by media in this country who are not interested.
And in fact, I wasn't gonna get into this now, but since Snerdley brought it up, our old buddy, Ron Fournier, or Fournier, I've heard her pronounce both ways.
Have you how do you know?
Fournier, the former bureau chief of the AP and White House correspondent, now works at the National Journal.
We have in the Obama administration, there's nobody even close to the violation of privacy and civil liberties.
Nobody even close.
They can talk about Bush here and but nobody compares to what Obama's.
In fact, folks, as you know.
I read the tech blogs.
I don't mean to beat you over the head with that, but but we have new people tuning into this program each and every day.
And I'm sorry if some of this is repetitive or redundant, but it's quite necessary.
And it and all these tech blogs, they just love Obama.
They have bought the uh they drink the Kool-Ide, the Kool-Aid, that Obama's the greatest civil libertarian.
Obama's uh into private Obama Obama, he's just the greatest liberal that's ever been, and they can't believe this.
They just they can't believe that Obama would do that.
They hated Bush for doing it.
They can't believe that Obama did this.
I don't expect to change anything.
But our buddy Ron Fournier, here we have, folks, what this Verizon story with the national security of the NSA monitoring, not monitoring, what they're doing is this.
They have demanded that for three months Verizon turnover the records of every phone call.
What is called the metadata.
The metadata is the phone numbers, the length of time of each call, who originated the call, but not the contents, supposedly.
The contents is not part of what Verizon has turned over.
After the metadata is analyzed via various algorithms that put it through computer analyze it and come up with a data set.
Then if there is anything suspicious, then the contents might be subpoenaed or requested.
But it is massive.
It is every phone call that Verizon handles, every phone call.
If you call dominoes on your Verizon cell phone, that call is being turned over to the NSA.
Every phone call is nothing like this that has ever happened.
And the media, they just they can't believe it either.
And so our buddy Ron Fournier, welcome to the Bush Obama White House.
They're spying on us.
Welcome to the era of Bush Obama.
Whose name is first in this story?
Bush.
And it's not just Ron Fournier.
It's all over.
F. Chuck Todd and NBC.
This is all Bush's fault.
If Bush hadn't been the guy that started this, Obama and Holder would not be doing it themselves.
I kid you not.
Welcome to the era of Bush Obama, a 16-year span of U.S. history that'll be remembered for an unprecedented erosion of civil liberties and a disregard for transparency.
On the war against a tactic, terrorism, and its insidious fallout.
The U.S. could have skipped the 2008 election.
We could have left Bush in, and everything would have been the same.
I mean, this is utterly embarrassingly shameless.
To bend over backwards or forwards or to pretzel yourself in whatever perverted position necessary to include George W. Bush in this.
But that's what they're doing.
Because it just can't be Obama's fault.
It just can't be.
That's not.
They think they are Obama.
They have the same culture, the same education, the same value system, uh, the same pedigree, the same worldview, the same age.
All they think they are Obama.
And they wouldn't do anything like this.
It has to be some hidden sinister force that is tugging Obama in this direction.
It's totally against his own instincts.
And it has to be that Bush paved the way to make it possible.
Anyway, we'll have more details on this, the program unfolds.
But that's not the big news in the media.
That's not the that's not what it's going to do.
The big news in the media is Paris Jackson has been rushed to the hospital after an apparent suicide attempt.
And the drive-bys have been exemplary In dropping all the other nonsense in the news to give us minute by minute updates, even though there aren't any.
Now, if you don't know who Paris Jackson is, then congratulations.
You are officially a high information voter.
But since we are in the midst of our outreach to the low information voter here at the EIB network, I thought I'd better lead with the news that matters most to them.
And the low information news media.
That isn't Paris Jackson, Michael's daughter, tried to commit suicide out in California.
But they saved her.
She's okay.
And everything is cool.
The IRS hearings this morning in Washington.
I have a soundbite here that I want to play for you.
Mixed emotions about this.
It's Elijah Cummings.
He's the Democrat.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is the ranking member, that's the leading Democrat of the Minority Party in this committee.
He's a former chairman of Congressional Black Caucasians.
He's from Maryland.
And he is reacting to the news that the IRS spent $50 million on this series of seminars and trips to learn about customer service and line dances and all the while Obama's telling everybody, hey, it's a new day.
You don't get in your jet and you don't go to Vegas anymore.
And you know, the IRS is out there in a in a $50 million spending spree, admitting they've lost the receipts.
Have you heard that?
They do not have they've been asked for the committee to produce the receipts to show all of the expenditures at these seminars, and they don't have them.
The IRS admitting, well, I don't know if they lost them, they don't have the receipts.
They either can't find them or they didn't keep them.
They don't have the receipts.
What happens when we don't have our receipts?
Then everything we allege is disallowed.
If you don't have the receipt, it's disallowed, pal.
Anyway, this is Ted Cruz had it right.
You know, this is this is the best chance we've let's just ditch this bunch and just reform it.
Simple, flat tax, fair tax, whatever.
Put it on a postcard.
What you make, send it in.
And anyway, here's a lot.
Well, look, I'm gonna take it a break first because I want to follow it with some in-depth unique commentary.
So sit tight, come back with you uh with the Elijah Cummings' reaction to the latest discoveries of the abuses of the IRS.
Don't go away.
By the way, folks, today is the 69th anniversary, the D-Day invasion.
I mentioned yesterday that Ronald Reagan gave one of the greatest speeches of his presidency during the 50th anniversary of the invasion at Poinduho.
The Point Duhoc.
Pronounced both ways, as I've since learned.
Now, we provided a link to the Reagan speech at our website, Rushlimbaugh.com yesterday, the site update, as well as Rush in a hurry.
And I'm gonna play for you in the next half hour the first six minutes of the speech.
It runs about 15, I'll play the first six four.
Here's Elijah Cummings this morning, upset over the report the IRS spent 50 million dollars holding 220 employee conferences over three years.
I live in a block where most people don't even make $50,000 a year.
But yet still we can produce a video that has no redeeming value.
None.
And spend taxpayers' hard-earned dollars for that.
And then there was that line dance.
Couldn't see any of there either.
And so I say we can do better.
But guess what?
Mr. Fink, the money that was spent on that, that's my money.
That's the lady who got the early bus this morning.
That's her money.
The one who makes $35,000.
Her.
The gentleman up the street from me that makes $45.
Calling trash.
That's their money.
Well, Shazam.
Shazam.
Now, if not all due props, that you can't say it much better than he said it there.
But how about all the other trillions of dollars that this government wastes?
Where is the same attitude about all of those wasted dollars?
Why now is this attitude only about the IRS excess when it happens to be the top of the news?
But how about all the other millions, trillions of dollars wasted that are also taxpayer dollars that are also the dollars of the guy hauling trash at 45 grand a year up the street from you at your neighborhood.
But better late than never.
Sit tight, my friends.
We've only just begun.
Carpenters, 1969.
Hi, welcome back.
Great to have you.
L. Rushbow serving humanity.
How?
Easy.
Simply by showing up.
That's a kind of comment that scares and threatens 24-year-old women.
It's just too much confidence.
Anyway, uh one thing about Elijah Cummings.
I know, I know that the 45,000 dollar trash hauler, the $35,000 made or whatever in his district.
And he's telling the IRS guy, how's it their dollars?
They're just spending.
That's their hard-earned money.
We all know those people aren't paying any income tax.
I know that.
People at those income levels are not paying any income tax.
Nevertheless, I find the fact that Cummings made it a point of expressing such outrage.
Now, liberals will always tell you what they fear.
They always will do that.
They know this is serious.
See, the IRS is the tax collection agency of liberalism.
The IRS is crucial.
They cannot, they cannot act like this isn't any big deal.
They've got to do what they can to limit the damage here.
Even though it may be big, they've got to try to limit it.
But what he said, the real question is well, where's that attitude about all of government?
Where's that attitude about every dime of government waste?
Not just to the IRS.
Because I'm gonna tell you the real IRS scandal is that this goes on every damn day in this government.
The EPA hounds and harasses people.
The agriculture department harasses people, fish and game, you name it, the people of this country are harassed by government every day.
People in this country are increasingly fearful of their government each and every day.
This government wastes money each and every day.
To the tune now that we're 16 trillion dollars in debt and counting.
Today is the exact 69th anniversary of the Allied troop invasion of the beaches of Normandy in France, commonly known as D-Day.
The Normandy beaches comprised a 50-mile stretch of heavily fortified coastline.
The Germans at the time owned it.
They occupied France, and they knew that the northern shore of that country would be the site of an invasion that would determine the future of Europe.
And so it was heavily fortified.
I know Catherine and I, as you know, we spent a day at the Normandy Beaches at Omaha Beach, we went to Puente Hoe and the American cemetery on Monday.
I have a series of emails, by the way, from people who said that they have done the same thing in the past three years ago, ten years ago, what have you.
What we did, we came home and we watched the first 30 minutes of saving Private Ryan last night.
The Spielberg movie with Tom Hanks that reenacted it, in what veterans say is the most accurate portrayal of the horrors, the butchery of the invasion they've ever seen.
And as we're watching the movie, and in the movie, the first troops that land on the beaches of Normandy are literally being wiped out.
And you watch it and you ask yourself, how in the world did we prevail?
Because in the movie, and this is what most people's frame of reference would be, seems like every American, seems like seven out of ten Americans got killed.
The answer is the Americans and the British and the Canadians just kept coming.
The Germans ended up being outmanned and overrun, and by the end of the day, the Allies controlled the Normandy beaches.
Five thousand ships.
Thirteen thousand aircraft supported the invasion.
Nine thousand Allied soldiers were killed or wounded.
That cemetery has 10,000 graves.
But more than 100,000 soldiers survived and began the march across Europe that reclaimed Europe and France for liberty and freedom.
The Americans just kept coming.
That's how it happened.
They just kept coming.
Nearly 200,000 arrived.
And there was a great act of deception that day.
Germans knew that an invasion was coming.
They didn't know when.
They didn't know exactly where.
The deception was so great that the German commander, Erwin Rommel, was not even there.
He was taken a couple days' leave for his either his anniversary, his wife's birthday.
It's either in Paris or back in Germany.
I'm not sure which.
But it was uh even being faked out, the the Germans were still a formidable, formidable force.
Well, I mentioned to you that Reagan gave one of the greatest speeches of his presidency, my mind anyway.
On June 6, 1984, the 50th anniversary, uh the 40th anniversary of the invasion in Normandy, and we posted from the Reagan Library the uh the speech on our website, Rushlimbaugh.com.
We sent it out in our post-show update, Rush in a hurry, the free email we send everybody that wants it.
And that's been LinkedIn Drudge.
I want to play for you the first six minutes.
The whole thing runs about 15 to 20.
If you want to watch the whole thing, you can do it at our website, Rushlimbaugh.com, the Reagan Library site, of course.
But the first six minutes tells the story of what happened in just one location on the Normandy beaches, and that would be at, as the president pronounced it, Fuente Hope.
We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied armies joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty.
For four long years, much of Europe had been under a terrible shadow.
Free nations had fallen, Jews cried out in the camps, millions cried out for liberation.
Europe was enslaved, and the world prayed for its rescue.
Here in Normandy, the rescue began.
Here the Allies stood and fought against tyranny in a giant undertaking unparalleled in human history.
We stand on a lonely windswept point on the northern shore of France.
The air is soft, but forty years ago at this moment, the air was dense with smoke and the cries of men, and the air was filled with the crack of rifle fire and the roar of cannon.
At dawn, on the morning of the 6th of June 1944, 225 Rangers jumped off the British landing craft and ran to the bottom of these cliffs.
Their mission was one of the most Difficult and daring of the invasion to climb these sheer and desolate cliffs and take out the enemy guns.
The Allies had been told that some of the mightiest of these guns were here, and they would be trained on the beaches to stop the Allied advance.
The Rangers looked up and saw the enemy soldiers at the edge of the cliffs, shooting down at them with machine guns and throwing grenades.
And the American Rangers began to climb.
They shot rope ladders over the face of these cliffs and began to pull themselves up.
When one ranger fell, another would take his place.
When one rope was cut, a ranger would grab another and begin his climb again.
They climbed, shot back, and held their footing.
Soon, one by one, the rangers pulled themselves over the top, and in seizing the firm land at the top of these cliffs, they began to seize back the continent of Europe.
Two hundred and twenty-five came here.
After two days of fighting, only ninety could still bear arms.
Behind me is a memorial that symbolizes the ranger daggers that were thrust into the top of these cliffs.
And before me are the men who put them there.
These are the boys of Puente de Ho.
Thank you.
These are the men who took the cliffs.
These are the champions who helped free a continent, and these are the heroes who helped end a war.
Gentlemen, I look at you and I think of the words of Stephen Spender's poem.
You were men who in your quote lives fought for life and lift left the vivid air signed with your honor.
I think I know what you may be thinking right now.
Thinking we were just part of a bigger effort, everyone was brave that day.
Well, everyone was.
Do you remember the story of Bill Millen of the 51st Highlanders?
Forty years ago today, British troops were pinned down near a bridge waiting desperately for help.
Suddenly they heard the sound of bagpipes, and some thought they were dreaming.
Well, they weren't.
They looked up and saw Bill Millen with his bagpipes leading the reinforcements and ignoring the smack of the bullets into the ground around him.
Lord Lovett was with him.
Lord Lovett of Scotland, who calmly announced when he got to the bridge, sorry, I'm a few minutes late, as if he'd been delayed by a traffic jam, when in truth he'd just come from the bloody fighting on Sword Beach, which he and his men had just taken.
There was the impossible valor of the Poles, who threw themselves between the enemy and the rest of Europe as the invasion took hold, and the unsurpassed courage of the Canadians, who had already seen the horrors of war on this coast.
They knew what awaited them there, but they would not be deterred.
And once they hit Juneau Beach, they never looked back.
All of these men were part of a roll call of honor, with names that spoke of a pride as bright as the colors they bore.
The Royal Winnipeg Rifles, Poland's 24th Lancers, the Royal Scots fusiliers, the screaming eagles, the yeomen of England's armored divisions, the forces of free France, the Coast Guard's matchbox fleet, and you, the American Rangers.
Forty summers have passed since the battle that you fought here.
You were young the day you took these cliffs.
Some of you were hardly more than boys with the deepest joys of life before you.
Yet you risked everything here.
Why?
Why did you do it?
Well, what impelled you to put aside the instinct for self-preservation and risk your lives to take these cliffs?
What inspired all the men of the armies that met here?
We look at you and somehow we know the answer.
It was faith and belief.
It was loyalty and love.
The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right.
Faith that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them mercy on this beach hid or on the next.
It was the deep knowledge, and pray God we have not lost it.
That there is a profound moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest.
You were here to liberate, not to conquer.
And so you and those others did not doubt your cause.
And you were right not to doubt.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, was a president.
The great Ronald Reagan, affectionately known here as Renaultus Magnus.
That was a president.
That speech on D-Day of 1984, June the 6th.
That was in the middle of the presidential campaign for that election year.
The Democrat candidate was Walter of Mondo.
The Democrat convention had not yet occurred in San Francisco, where Mondo was going to promise to raise everybody's taxes.
But the Mondo people know that they were that they had the nomination at the point.
It wasn't official convention hadn't happened, but but they knew when Reagan gave that speech that it was curtains.
Because that was a president.
You can't fake sincerity like that.
And I really urge you to try to find time to listen to all of it.
It's about, I think 15-20 minutes.
And as I say, if we've linked to it, it at Rushlimbaugh.com and the uh Reagan Library site has it as well.
To the phones we go, this is Mark and Royal Oak Michigan.
Welcome, sir.
I'm glad that you called.
Hi.
Thank you.
Thanks for taking my call.
I was uh speaking to your call screener uh as I was waiting, and uh you you stole my point about what Elijah Cummings said, the fact that uh women, you know, there's a woman that makes thirty-five thousand dollars a year, and uh uh she's paying for this these boondoggles that the IRS is uh doing.
And my first thought was, well, yeah, she's making thirty-five thousand dollars a year, she doesn't pay any taxes.
You stole my point.
That's okay, but I want to get to my other point, which is the twenty-one years that I've been listening to you, you have changed not only the way I think, I think that the way millions of people in this country think.
The first thing that I thought of when I heard that Elijah Cummings clip was yeah, that lady doesn't pay any taxes because she's making thirty-five thousand dollars a year.
I think had alternative um media not existed, we would still be sucking up the tablum that the mainstream media is feeding to us, and that kind of stuff would have just gone right by us.
So I want to thank you profoundly for changing not only the way I think, but the way America thinks.
Wow, I appreciate that, sir.
Uh I really do.
That's uh quite a very nice thing for you to say.
Well, I mean it from the bottom of my heart, because much to the chagrin of my mother, she raised us kids to think for ourselves.
Uh she was she was and still is to this day a very staunch liberal thinker.
And one of the things that one of the things that she had always done in her life was profess the fact that she let us kids decide for ourselves how to think.
And I can't tell you how much I thank her for doing that in us, because had she tried to indoctrinate us with her political thinking, she would have had five very liberal kids.
But we had the opportunity to think for ourselves.
Well, you know, that's something I'm I'm glad you mentioned that.
Um it is for people that are aware that they have that ability.
It is really a comforting thing to know that that you have the ability to avoid the conventional wisdom of the day, that you have the ability to recognize how the crowd is being swept up.
You have the ability not, if you choose to, to follow it and go along with it.
Stand out to be um individual.
And that's a it's a it's a very confidence inspiring thing to be aware of about yourself.
And I'm I'm glad that you have it, and I appreciate your coming.
I really do.
Changing the way America thinks.
One American at a time.
That's why we're engaged now.
Don't forget in our outreach to the low information voters out there, folks.
All right, folks.
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