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July 10, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 10, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #2
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So a Senate bill that would freeze a low interest rate on one type of federal student loan for one more year failed to clear a vote just this afternoon.
So the interest rate, instead of going down to 3.4%, is going to stay at 6.8% for a yeah, it's it Democrats uh you know this whole thing, I'm I'll give you the history of this thing.
I'm just I'm just wetting your appetite with this now.
I'm not going to go into details.
But the this was all a campaign issue.
When the Democrats, one of the first pieces of legislation they wrote was to cut the student loan rate temporarily and then have it jump back up this or last summer in the in the campaign of 2012, the student loan rate was supposed to go up 6.8%.
Make it look like the Republicans were to blame for it.
It's campaign issue for Obama.
And that way they had the Republicans by the shorts in a sense, and they were going to lower it then last summer back down to 3.4%, which is what it was.
And the effort to get it back down to 3.4% has continued to fail.
Imagine that.
Washington just can't bring itself to return any money to anybody.
So there's that.
And then there's this from the Wall Street Journal.
Attention deficit disorder drugs do not boost kids' grades.
And this story is delightful if you come from a certain perspective on this, which I do.
Because this story, they just can't figure out.
They just don't understand why the drugs used by parents and teachers to tame these little boys, to take the little boy out of little boys, isn't working.
They don't know why.
They can't figure it out.
And I will help explain this in due course.
You know, I suffer from the opposite of attention deficit disorder.
I have attention surplus disorder.
And sometimes, and I think it's worse than attention deficit disorder, because I know too much.
And it works on my head.
Sometimes I think that it'd be blissful to be ignorant of certain things.
So there's uh there's that, and we also have uh Senator Turban.
Senator Turbin claiming that uh Republicans are gonna have to make the difference here on changing and improving Obamacare.
Yep, that's uh out of Chicago, our affiliate there, WLS.
Durbin calls on Republicans to change and improve Obamacare.
Yes, their fault.
It's the Republicans' fault.
The city of Washington, D.C., is thinking about raising the mandatory minimum wage at Walmart to $12.25 an hour.
And Walmart says, we're gonna leave.
If you guys do this, we're out of here.
We are packing up and we're decamping.
And the DC City Council said, what does that mean, decamping?
And Walmart said, we are leaving.
We are getting out of town.
They're calling it the living wage.
But before getting into the details on all of that, I have here in my formerly nicotine stained fingers.
A story from PJ Media.com that just cleared this morning.
And it's by Brian Preston.
Here's the headline.
And the headline pretty much says it, but we'll delve into it.
Newly released documents detail the Department of Justice's role in organizing Trayvon Martin protests.
Let me reread that with just a slight difference.
Newly released documents detail Eric Holder's role in organizing Trayvon Martin protests.
Judicial Watch announced today that it has obtained documents proving that Eric Holder and the Department of Justice played a major behind the scenes role in organizing protests against George Zimmerman.
Zimmerman's on trial for second degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, who, if he were Obama's son, would look like Obama.
Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the DOJ back on April 24th of 2012.
And according to the documents that they got, a little known DOJ unit called the Community Relations Service deployed to Sanford, Florida to organize and manage rallies against Zimmerman.
Now, folks, this is the United States government.
This is not some flea bag left-wing community agitator.
Well, actually it is now.
That's what this means.
The United States government has been converted by Obama and Holder into a community organizing agitator bunch.
The Department of Justice, I mean, every they're supposed to be totally blind there to justice.
They're not supposed to have any bias whatsoever.
This is this is a fundamental disintegration.
And it's just one of many that are happening to this country under this administration.
Freedom of information or judicial watch was given the documents by the DOJ that prove the DOJ was in Florida organizing anti-Zimmerman rallies.
You know the only reason this trial's taking place.
The only reason this trial is taking place is because the race hustler industry flew down there the minute this case happened.
When Zimmerman wasn't charged, the original law enforcement bunch that first was exposed to the evidence in this case, Didn't charge Zimmerman.
There was nothing to see here.
And then Al Sharpton and the race hustlers got in business and flew down there, and Eric Holder flew down there and thanked Reverend Al, as he called him for his community outreach and service.
And this regime saw an opportunity to turn something into a profoundly racial case for the express purpose of ripping the country apart.
I don't know how to describe it.
Here are some of the things that Judicial Watch is reporting that they found.
2012, March 25 through 27, the Community Relations Service.
That is, again, a little-known unit of the DOJ.
Thank you.
Community Relations Service spent $674 upon being deployed to Sanford, Florida to work marches, demonstrations, and rallies relating to the shooting and death of an African American teen by a neighborhood watch captain.
This is this is an official DOJ documents.
This is not something Freedom or Judicial Watch wrote.
The community research or relations service spent $674 after being deployed after when it went on the ground in Sanford, Florida, to work marches, demonstrations and rallies.
March 25 through 28.
The community relations service spent $1,0142 in Sanford to work marches, demonstrations, and rallies related to the shooting and death of an African American teen by a neighborhood watch captain.
March 30 through April 1st, 2012.
Community Relations Service spent another $900 in Sanford to provide support for protest deployment in Florida.
March 30th through April 1st, 2012.
Community relations service spent an additional $750 in Sanford to provide technical assistance to the City of Sanford to event organizers and law enforcement agencies for the march and rally on March 31st.
Forget the dollar amounts here.
These are just expenses.
The DOJ deployed people to gin up rallies to financially support them to promote them.
Demonstrations, rallies, protests.
The DOJ.
This was not even a federal case.
April 3rd through the 12th.
The DOJ spent another $1,300 in Sanford, Florida to provide technical assistance, conciliation, and on-site mediation during demonstrations planned in Sanford.
These people went down there and they organized the protest.
And then they gave support to the people that showed up to protest and rally.
But the DOJ lit the fuse.
The DOJ went down there and made sure that there were protests, is what this means.
The DOJ went down there and stirred the pot.
The Obama administration sent Eric Holder down there to stir up the people of Sanford, Florida, and to get them all worked up and to get them protesting and rallying.
April 11th and 12th of 2012, the Department of Justice spent another $500 to provide technical assistance for the preparations of possible marches and rallies related to this case.
And again, this is expenses for employees to travel, eat, and sleep.
They went down there to stir this up.
Judicial Watch says that the documents they obtained revealed that the Department of Justice is not engaging in its stated mission of conducting impartial mediation practices and conflict resolution.
Instead, it engaged on the side of anti-Zimmerman protesters.
Didn't just engage.
It revved them up.
It didn't just engage.
They went down there and started all of this.
On April 15th of 2012, during the height of the protests, the Orlando Sentinel reported that the DOJ, the Community Relations Service, helped set up a meeting between the local NAA LCP and elected officials that led to the temporary resignation of police chief Bill Lee.
This, according to Turner Clayton, Seminole County chapter president of the NAA LCP.
The paper quoted the Reverend Valerie Houston, pastor of the Allen Chapel AME Church as saying they were there for us after a march.
So they also went down, had a police chief fired.
This is the chief that wouldn't charge Zimmerman.
So the DOJ went down there, and this, according to the Orlando Sentinel, set up a meeting between the NAACP and local protesters that led to the temporary resignation of police chief.
This I look, you know as well as I do, this is just throws the Constitution out the window.
This is really serious stuff here.
It's not just that it's partisan.
It's not.
This administration's DOJ participated.
Hell.
They didn't participate.
Well, they did, but they did more than that.
They actually orchestrated racial strife.
They sponsored it.
They organized it, propped it up, paid for it, encouraged it.
Separately, in response to a Florida sunshine law request to the city of Sanford, Judicial Watch also obtained an audio recording of a community meeting held at the second Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in Sanford on April 19th of 2012.
The meeting, which led to the ouster of the police chief Bill Lee, was scheduled after a group of college students calling themselves the Dream Defenders barricaded the entrance to the police department demanding that the chief be fired.
According to the Orlando Sentinel, Department of Justice employees, along with the community relations service, had arranged a 40-mile police escort for the protesting students from Daytona Beach to Sanford.
So there was a an audio recording of a community meeting at a church on April 19th.
The meeting that led to the ouster of the police chief was scheduled after a group of college students, calling themselves the Dream Defenders barricaded the entrance to the police department.
Those college students were bussed in by the Department of Justice.
A 40-mile police escort for protesters to get to the right place from 40 miles away.
Are you shaking your heads out there?
Just rogue employees of the DOJ.
Nothing to do with Obama.
Nothing to do with Holder.
Like the rogue employees at the IRS.
Nothing to see here?
The documents detail the extraordinary intervention by the Justice Department in the pressure campaign leading to the prosecution of George Zimmerman.
Those are the words of Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
He said, My guess is that most Americans would object to taxpayers paying government employees to help organize racially charged demonstration.
If they knew about it, yeah.
Anyway, that's that's the latest on this.
That's George Zimmerman's trial and the DOJ.
Freedom Watch with a freedom of info, a judicial watch, a freedom of information request.
DOJ documents proving a DOJ was down there basically fanning the flames of protests.
Bussing protesters in with police escorts.
I wonder what we might learn about what what was that group occupy whatever they were?
This is folks, this this is this is simply uh it's outrageous.
It's unconstitutional, it's it's I can't think of a the proper descriptive here to express the anger I have over this.
And we go back to the phones as we have more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Rush Limbaugh show prep.
For the rest of the media, this is John in Ontario, Florida.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Nice to speak with you, Rush.
I think George Zimmerman has a lawsuit against the U.S. government.
I think his civil rights have been violated.
Certainly sounds like it, but what should he do?
Maybe file a complaint with the Department of Justice?
You should file a complaint with the Department of Justice.
I think there's lawyers out there that would defend his constitutional rights of having this thing all trumped up and mischaracterized.
This is a trial that should not even be occurring.
This is a trial occurring because the administration wants to promote racial division in this country.
I don't know how else to describe this.
There's no case here.
And you got Ruffel Thimmans out there saying, eh, it doesn't matter whether he's guilty or innocent.
He's gonna pay for it.
I mean, who is Ruffel Thimmman speaking to when he writes this stuff on his blog or whatever?
Whether he's guilty or innocent, Zimmerman will pay for it.
What does that mean?
So I don't know if he files a complaint with the Department of Justice.
I mean, they're the offending bunch here.
I mean, you you this is you you talk about you talk about a limbaugh theorem moment.
Here is Obama and Eric Holder, and they're out there.
Remember, what was the thought?
There were many.
Obama's gonna unite us.
And all of this racial strife is gonna end, all of this racism and the perceived racism is gonna end.
And we had a bunch of white people that voted for Obama hoping that it would show that they're not racist and finally prove it, wipe out the vestiges of slavery, and the world was gonna love us.
How's that working out?
Terms of American foreign policy.
And we're gonna finally, we're gonna end all this partisanship.
We're gonna be unified.
We're gonna work together to common goal.
We're gonna have politics like it's never been done before.
We're actually going to accomplish things.
So we're gonna focus on jobs, and we're gonna get people back to work.
Not one thing that people were led to believe would happen has even come close to happening.
And the Limbaugh theorem proves that Obama remains unattached from the failures that he has orchestrated.
We'll be right back.
Okay, here's a student loan news, a Senate bill.
Senate bill, a Democrats run the Senate, Senate bill that would freeze a low interest rate on one type of federal student loan for another year, along with uh buying lawmakers more time to craft a long-term strategy for setting all educational loan interest rates failed to clear a procedural vote this afternoon.
So that bounces the issue back to negotiations yet again, as lawmakers try to reach a consensus before the August recess, at which point most students will have to lock in their loans for the coming screw year.
The vote 51 in favor, 49 opposed, that was not enough to advance the bill.
The failed key test vote came after contentious discussions yesterday.
Much of it between the Democrats who have been split on the issue.
Split on the issue.
Why, what does that tell you?
Why, that tells you that some Democrats want the student loan interest rate kept at 6.8%.
By the way, pardon me just a moment.
Have you guys, I'm asking the people on the other side of the glass, have you noticed how this storm has been downgraded?
It's basically nothing.
It's now they've got an L on there for low pressure.
It's nothing more than a standard ordinary little thunderstorm cell that would move from the West Coast to the East Coast like anything else.
They start out, oh my God, we've got a potential tropical storm.
It might become a hurricane.
Oh my god, I'm again.
And they can make sure they kept Miami in the cone.
So as it on my friend down in Miami, and they told me that all over TV, people are heading to Walmart and home depot getting wood to board up their windows and crying out loud.
We don't even have ocean temperature circumstances favorable to for hurricane formulation yet.
And I had people, you know, I just I look, I hate to be in I told you so.
But uh a lot of people down here say, Rush, have you noticed his new strip?
Look, it you just wait.
This thing is gonna end up being downgraded to nothing, and they're gonna keep the cone up, even though because they started out making it look like something got to say face.
Now it's not even a tropical anything.
It's not even a tropical depression, just a low pressure area, which happens multiple times a day all over the country, but they've still got the track up there and all this.
Just no, no, my point is that even this hurricane stuff has become so politicized now, and it's all related to global warming.
There have to be more hurricanes happening because of global warming.
Who runs the Department of Commerce, which handles the weather?
It's the regime.
It's Obama.
And Obama's ratcheting up his global warming pitch again.
And part of the global warming pitch is that it's getting hotter than hell out there, and that means more hurricanes.
None of that's true.
It's not happening at all.
So I don't know.
You can't even, you can't even look at a weather forecast anymore and trust it to be apolitical.
They just politicize everything.
Anyway, back to this student alone business.
The key vote came after contentious discussions on Tuesday.
Much of it between Democrats have been split on the issue.
At the weekly Democrat caucus luncheon, Senator Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts criticized Joe Manchin of West Virginia for sponsoring a bill with Republicans that would tie interest rates for all major federal education loans to market rates, but would not impose a formal cap on how high those rates could go in future years.
So the Democrats couldn't come to an agreement on this.
And as they say here, they've got until next month to get this done before he leaves.
So you students, you're counting on your best buds, the Democrats to lower your interest rate for you.
They couldn't even come to an agreement on that yesterday.
Attention deficit disorder.
Not a problem for me.
I have attention surplus disorder.
Never lose my place.
I'm not hyperkinetic energy-wise.
You know this whole ADD thing.
I and I've gotten in big trouble on this program because from the moment it was first created as a disease.
I was dubious.
And even longtime fans and longtime listeners of the program who were parents got mad at me because everybody wants to come up with some sort of a medical explanation for what they think is wrong with either themselves or their children.
Because if there's a medical reason for it, then somehow.
Well, that's okay.
But if it's the result of a lack of parental parental discipline, for example, or uh just a bunch of rotten kids, that's a problem.
But if the kids are rotten and the parents are not doing whatever because there's a disease, well, then it makes it all okay.
And with every new disease comes a new drug or a series of drugs.
But in this case, this ADD stuff, you know what it bothered me for?
Or why, or what bothered me about it was it was a bunch of school teachers who didn't know what to do with energetic boys.
And that was considered to be bad.
These boys, they wanted to go out and pretend they were G.I. Joe instead of sitting in a class and learning.
And they wanted to be out playing football.
And they'd get all fidgety in there.
And they wouldn't learn.
And maybe pull the pigtails that a girl stood in front of them.
Oh, my God, we can't have that.
and So I had to come up with some way to tame them.
Had to come up with some way to take the little boy out of little boys.
And how do you do that?
You zone them out.
And zoning them out was supposed to refocus their attention.
Because it was scattered.
It was all over the place.
But it wasn't on the teacher and it wasn't on learning.
Well, it was on a teacher sometimes, but that's another subject.
They weren't focused on learning, and so their grades weren't very good.
So we had to do something, so we had to calm them down.
We had to tone them down.
We have to tame them out there and have to sit them there basically sitting like zombies from the walking dead, except they look normal.
And that was going to lead to massive scholarly scholastic improvement.
And everything was gonna be hunky-dory, and it was gonna be wonderful.
Except it wasn't and isn't.
Wall Street Journal headline ADHD drugs do not boost kids' grades, and they're just devastated out there.
They just can't figure out how all of these drugs used by parents and teachers to tame the little boy out of the little boy's not improving their grades.
That's right.
Four million kids are on ADD drugs.
Four million.
Actually, I'm kind of surprised it's that low.
It's no longer shock.
I know some of you getting mad at me right now.
I know it.
I can I can hear you.
You're shouting at your radio, you're getting mad.
Come on, Rush.
You're using it it's real.
It happens.
My kids got it.
It's a real problem, Rush.
I know I know, I know you're out there.
I know you feel this way.
And there may be instances of abnormality that is explainable by virtuous something that is pharmacological or medical whatever, something other than just human nature.
I understand that, but I don't that this was an effort to paint everybody that behaved in a certain way with a disorder.
Anyway, it's no longer shocking, this is how the story begins.
No longer shocking to hear of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
And others simply facing a big test, taking ADHD medicine to boost their performance and scrule.
But new studies point to problem.
There's little evidence that drugs actually improve academic outcomes.
Stimulants used to treat ADHD like Ritalin and Adderall.
Have you asked you a question?
I know you're all familiar with drug testing in professional sports.
Um does it give you pause when you learn that one of the most used drugs in professional sports, NFL, is Adderall, and that your kid is on it, and that the league bans its use.
Second, Ritalin.
Some players, because they believe what's been said about ADHD and Ritalin and Focus.
Talking about just versions of amphetamines here.
All to combat what in the old days was just normalcy.
Stimulants used to treat ADHD like Ritalin and Adderall are sometimes called cognitive enhancers, because they have been shown in a number of studies to improve attention, concentration, and even certain types of memory in the short term.
And there are a lot of college kids trying to get hold of Adderall before a big final, or a anybody in any business tries to get hold of it for writers do this.
Writers try to find it for focus as they approach the deadline.
Similar drugs were given to World War II soldiers to improve their ability to stay alert while scanning radars or enemy aircraft.
However, a growing body of research finds that in the long run, achievement scores, grade point averages, or the likelihood of repeating a grade generally are not any different in kids with ADHD who take medication compared with those who don't.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 2.7 million kids were taking medication for ADHD in the U.S. as of 2007.
But it's it's up to four million now.
It's higher than that now.
The lack of academic benefit has been surprising to the experts.
Because the drugs seem to have the potential to improve memory among other cognitive skills.
For instance, Claire Advocat, a professor emerita in the psychology department at LSU, and Her colleagues found in a small study that episodic memory, memory for experiences improved with kids.
ADHD took relevant medication.
Children with ADHD not taking stibulants did far worse than kids taking medication in tasks that involved remembering scenes from a story they both heard and saw illustrated.
Kids taking medication did just as well as the control children without ADHD.
But the effects largely don't seem to translate into the classroom, especially in the long run.
Now, for the first year of the study, the eight and nine-year-old children who receive medication and a combination treatment saw greater improvement in their symptoms than the other two groups, but not in their grades.
There's even less information about whether stimulants lead to any improvement in quality of life overall.
So the upshot of this is that the drugs work in altering behavior in certain ways, promoting it in ways that are desirable or not, but it doesn't lead to improved grades.
And they can't figure out why.
Could it be the kids are not studying?
Could it be they're not learning the material?
Could it be they're not doing their homework?
I have experience with that.
Boys not doing their homework.
It's a national crisis, I tell you.
I have my own test for ADHD.
Well, I realize, folks, it's a controversial subject out there.
And I don't have kids, so it's probably easier for me to uh discuss this, obviously this dispassionately than those of you who have uh children who the doctor said yeah, they've got this.
But my I have a simple test.
Can the child sit and play video games for hours and hours?
And if so, I don't think they got ADHD.
Would that be pretty safe assumption?
Would an ADHD kid sit there and play video games for six hours in a row or five or three?
Anyway, Weston and Safford, Arizona.
You're next.
It's great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you very much, Rush.
I'm calling because um John McCain and Jeff Flake both, from what I understand, voted for the immigration bill, which makes no sense to me, being that they're from Arizona.
You think that they would understand the dangerous possibilities of bringing in all these illegal immigrants, wouldn't it?
Well, McCain's answered this question.
You know, you don't you don't accept what he says.
I'm sorry, I didn't catch that.
He said McCain has answered your question, why he supports it.
You don't accept what he says?
No, I don't.
Um, it just I can understand br giving out work to be, but I know the the rancher who was killed here in southern New Mexico a couple years ago by illegal immigrant.
Isolated incident.
Um my grandparents who live in southern Arizona here have had multiple times where they've had illegals knock on their door in the middle of the night thinking that was a pickup spot, so my grandpa has to come to the door with a shotgun to scare them off.
Multiple times.
Isolated incidents.
These are future happened.
These are future Republican voters you're talking about.
That's what Senator McCain would tell you.
But it just makes no sense to me how liberal McCain is going.
Like he he seems like he's playing out of Obama's pocket.
I know.
I know.
I know your frustration, being serious for a moment.
It it on it within the arena common sense, it makes no sense at all.
So there have to be reasons that you and I don't understand.
And there are, I'm sure, a multitude of them.
But I think that they're being honest when they say they want those people as voters.
I I look at I know that there are a lot of Republicans who are scared to death these people are all going to vote Democrat, and they and they believe this notion that if they oppose Amnesty, that they're never going to get them.
The polling data does not support that the notion that supporting amnesty is how you get their vote.
A new poll shows that a uh a majority of registered Hispanic voters believe that any immigration legislation that becomes law should deal with border security and interior immigration law enforcement first, before legalization.
Well, obviously, what these already Hispanic citizens think doesn't matter either.
What this is about is these 11 million.
Apparently.
But I know it doesn't make sense.
I'm not going to be able to explain it to you either, if they can't.
It is the fastest three hours in media.
Two of them are already down and in the can, and we still have much more to go.
White House ramping up the effort to sell Obamacare, which means that Obama is uh using taxpayer money to try again to sell people on the failed plan, but they're out selling something that is already the law.
And they continue to do so along with immigration.
So those two issues survive, and we've got other things as well.
So sit tight, my friends.
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