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July 15, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 15, 2013, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hey, there's a protest.
I see it.
I'm looking at it.
No, it's sorry.
It's in Egypt.
Never mind.
It's a bunch of people protesting for Morcy.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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I had a dream last night.
I had the craziest dream in the world.
Wait until you hear this dream, folks.
I had a dream that the president, Barack Obama, decided to promote racial healing by reaching out and appointing Zimmerman to replace Janet Napolitano.
And I woke up with a start, and I said, whoa, what is this?
It was a cross between a dream and a nightmare.
Of course, it would never, ever happen.
Obviously, it never ever happened.
But what in the world made me dream this?
So I remember, snerdly, we were sitting here speculating on Friday about the trial and the reaction to the trial.
And let's just go back, grab audio sunbutton number one.
Let's just review the points that I made about this on Friday's big program.
It's hard to predict what's going to happen.
Well, Monday or Friday, what difference did they make to a rioter?
No, no.
A big difference.
Even if you get media coverage of your riot on Saturday, it's not as impactful as you get media coverage on a Monday or Tuesday.
This they're just hoping.
I mean, as I say, they haven't had any real good riots since Rodney King.
They're long overdue.
What are you shaking your head at in there, Dawn?
Do you think that's not true?
No, I'm not.
No, we don't name the media.
I'm talking the media needs.
I don't want any riots from the media perspective.
We haven't had a good riot in this country in I don't know how long.
A riot is an opportunity for the media to show how unjust and unfair and basically how sucky the country is.
And there hasn't been that chance.
We were talking about if a verdict comes on Saturday, what is the impact going to be versus if a verdict came today or Tuesday?
And the verdict came late Saturday night, and I don't think that's a coincidence.
Late Saturday night.
I was stuck.
I got to tell you something, folks.
I was surprised.
I really was.
All during the day and evening, I had people asking my opinion.
People do that all the time, ask me what I think about everything.
And I told them I expected some sort of a guilty verdict.
I mean, it was all there.
You had six female jurors.
You had race.
You had the president been involved.
You got a community scared to death of what will happen if there's a not guilty verdict.
Emotion over common sense evidence, all this kind of thing.
And when that verdict came down, I wasn't even watching TV at the time.
I was notified by virtue of somebody sending me an email or a text.
I forget which.
So then I turned on the TV and started reading.
I was stunned.
And then I looked at the time.
Well, it's almost near midnight here.
And then I started looking at the pictures on TV.
There was nobody.
The crowds at the courthouse were very tiny.
And Fox didn't have anybody.
Poor Harris Faulkner had to anchor the thing for an hour by herself before they were able to rouse any of their experts out of bed or the bars, wherever they were on late Saturday night and get them in there.
And then I saw Geraldo.
They went to Geraldo, right?
Uh-oh, I said, the Grim Reaper, something's happened if they've got Harolo.
It turns out Harollo was just the first one out of bed.
I mean, nobody was prepared for this to happen a Saturday.
And I think that there, who will never know, probably, but I just find it difficult to think that there was a, that it was a coincidence that the verdict was announced late on a Saturday when nobody was really expecting it to happen.
And it might have been a rather smart thing to do.
But, you know, I'm watching all of the progressives, the leftists react to this.
And there are some vigils going on, and there are some maybe you'd call them rallies and so forth.
But, you know, I get the impression, and I really, I really believe this.
If you look at the people unhappy with this, and maybe I'm dead wrong about this, but no matter where you go, CNN, MSNBC, some of the blogs, of course, we had the NFL players tweeting on this, but they're just, I don't know, their heart doesn't seem to be fully invested in this thing.
And as a result, the media is doing everything it can to fire up emotions.
Every picture of Trayvon Martin that we see, he gets younger and younger.
I fully expect before the end of the week, somebody will find a picture of him in diapers to put up there.
But if you look, look at it this way: there was a story at Business Insider on Sunday about thousands protesting the Zimmerman trial verdict.
And they'd taken over Times Square.
And there were a lot of people there.
So I tuned into it.
And I just got the impression that these people, I don't think, really care so much about Trayvon Martin.
I think what we're looking at here is a remember Peter Jennings after the Republicans won the House in 1994.
What an equality.
He said, the public had a temper tantrum.
The kids had a temper tantrum.
And in a way, this is sort of the way I see this.
The progressives, the liberals out there having a little temper tantrum because they didn't get their way.
But really, folks, how often are they on the losing end of anything anymore?
They're getting gay marriage.
They got Obamacare.
They've got Obama.
I mean, if the mob wishes to impose something, it happens.
The left really isn't losing anything.
This verdict is not part of a string of defeats for the left.
It is an interruption in a string of victory after victory, profound victory after victory after victory.
And so these are people that have, you know, in the past four or five years, have been used to getting their way on whatever it is.
Gay marriage, immigration, you name it, they are getting their way.
Massive health care entitlement.
And so here comes a little burp in the whole process.
And for once, they're on the losing end of something.
Yeah, like gun control.
This and gun control are two of the things that they still haven't been able to impose on people.
And if look at what my point is, if they don't like a voter-approved initiative, such as in California, they get it overturned.
They find a judge who will proclaim it's unconstitutional.
And while all this happens, the Republicans dutifully roll over and play dead and all this.
So their attitude, I think, how dare a jury not comply?
How dare a jury deny us what we want?
And I think it's, I think these protests are more about that than they are about the fate of Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin.
Because when you get right down to it, Zimmerman is not a white guy.
The whole effort here to make this a racial thing really hasn't been on firm ground.
Zimmerman is biracial.
So they call him a white Hispanic in an effort to gin up the racial aspect, but they just weren't able to at the end of the day.
They tried, but I think that's what they're really ticked off about.
They know if they had been able to really make this a racial hate crime, then they would have gotten the verdict they want.
But they weren't able to.
They weren't able to convince people that this really was an event governed by the institutional racism and bigotry and near slavery of this country.
And as such, they're just having a temper tantrum.
I mean, there are real, real crimes where real black people are being slaughtered in American cities, and they don't raise a syllable of protest about it.
Chicago comes to mind, but there are other cities, of course.
But this was a hopeful event.
Hopeful in the sense that the media and the progressives looked at it as another chance to make the case that this country's unjust and immoral, but they really didn't have the recipe with full-fledged pure ingredients because Zimmerman isn't a white guy.
He is Hispanic and as such is part of a minority.
I mean, calling Zimmerman a white Hispanic would be no different than calling Obama a white African American in the sense that they are both biracial.
Now, because they didn't get their way, for one of the few times recently, that's why you hear all these people making noise about the DOJ moving in now.
CNN won't let this go.
MSNBC is a disaster.
The Zimmerman camp actually thinking of suing NBC for defamation and a number of other things.
And that would be fascinating if they try that.
Grab Soundbites 20 and 21.
This goes back to February of 2012, February 26th.
The two dates of February 26th, 2012, and March 27th of 2012.
You may have forgotten this, but this will be instantly memorable for you.
On February 26th, here is the unedited in-context tape of the 9-11 call between Zimmerman and a police dispatcher shortly before Trayvon Martin was shot.
In fact, play 21 first.
Let's move forward to March.
Let's do that.
Let's play NBC's version of this tape.
The edited version of the 9-11 call, 911 call.
This is on the Today Show, March 27th of 2012.
This guy looks like he's up to no good.
He looks black.
This is one of the reasons why the Zimmerman camp is thinking of suing NBC.
That is not what really happened on the tape.
And if you recall, NBC went through the motions of firing somebody.
This was the Miami NBC Bureau, where the tape, the 9-11 tape, was altered.
Here is what really happened.
This guy looks like he's up to no good, or he's on drugs or something.
It's raining.
He's just walking around looking about.
Okay, this guy, is he white, black, or Hispanic?
He looks black.
So Zimmerman didn't offer one thing about Trayvon Martin's race until he was asked.
The dispatcher was asking him for a description.
Is this guy, is he white, black, or Hispanic?
Zimmerman says he looks black.
Here again, Soundbite 21, this is what NBC did with that.
This guy looks like he's up to no good.
He looks black.
So the media, that's why I said all last week the media has been fully invested here in a guilty verdict and they attempted to shape the jury pool.
This is actionable stuff, if you ask me, what NBC did.
It's not the first time that NBC has engaged in this kind of chicanery.
And of course, NBC, just somebody was overzealous in there.
We got time constraints on the Today Show.
And he took the 9-11 tape and edited it down to make it fit in our time constraint.
Got a little overzealous.
No, no, no, no.
Somebody knew what they were doing when they cut this.
Somebody knew exactly what they were doing when they cut this.
And it was somebody that had the authority and the power to do it when they did it.
And there's a culture at NBC.
Something like this does not happen unless there's a culture at the place.
Every business has a culture.
Fox News has a culture.
You know what it is.
McDonald's has a culture.
NBC, as it turns out, and most of the rest of the media have cultures too.
So NBC was clearly doing everything it could.
This is just one example of what they did to shape this into a crime that it wasn't.
I think I know what happened here.
I think I know what went down.
And there's a fascinating piece, by the way, that I'll get to in a minute.
Robert Stacey McCain writing in the American Spectator today and the headline, how a Miami school crime cover-up policy led to Trayvon Martin's death.
This is a column by, again, Robert Stacey McCain, who goes back and details some of the real crimes Trayvon Martin committed as a kid, as a student, that were overlooked and went unpunished.
And as such, had an impact in creating, in his mind, what he could get away with and what he couldn't.
It all matters.
And then this neighborhood, this neighborhood where this happened is, I think, a fascinating place within the context now of the U.S. economy and what was going on in this neighborhood for weeks prior to this event.
And why Zimmerman, why they even had a neighborhood watch, and why Zimmerman wanted to be part of it.
These were people at neighborhood.
These are people that had worked hard enough to actually have homes in places that to them, they were really nice neighborhoods as far as they'd worked hard to get there and they wanted it desperate to hold on to it.
Like everybody in this economy has been desperate to hold on to what they've got as this economy becomes weaker and weaker and job opportunities vanish and opportunity to economically improve oneself and one's family, as those chances dwindle, all kinds of pressure is created to hold on to what you've got, including not let criminals come into the neighborhood and destroy it or steal it or what have you.
And it all creates a heightened tension for everybody.
I think this whole event is much more involved, detailed, nuanced, if you will, than the way the media has attempted to construct it for people.
They've pared it down to what they think is the simplest thing in the world people understand racism.
Because they believe the country still is.
And so they didn't get their jury, and they're having their little temper tantrum, and they didn't get what they want, and they're used to getting what they want the last five years, no matter what, no matter how, they're used to getting it.
They didn't get it in this case.
They couldn't do a John Roberts on this jury, and they apparently weren't able to do a John Roberts on this judge.
And they thought they had it in a bag, I think.
They thought they were going to get their way.
They didn't.
So now they're out there acting like little kids having a temper tantrum.
I got to take a break here, folks.
You sit tight.
We got much more on this.
We get back.
Don't go away.
My friends, my friends, do not be worried.
I am not going to be distracted by all of this.
I'm not going to spend this whole show on this.
In fact, there's big news out there.
Labor unions, Obama's big donors, Obama's big supporters are not happy at all with Obamacare.
There's a story at Forbes today, labor unions, Obamacare will shatter our health benefits.
Obamacare will cause nightmare scenarios.
And they're talking to Obama, and they've written letters to Obama and Dingy Harry and Nancy Pelosi.
So Obamacare continues to unravel out there.
We're not going to be distracted.
There's all kinds of stuff today.
How about what happened at the Oakland TV station getting punked?
Oh, my God, did I love this?
On the names of the flight crew of that Asiana airline that crashed in San Francisco.
Did you hear about that, Snerdley?
Oh, yes, you did.
You just don't know what I'm talking about.
I wish I'd have done that one myself.
Oh, yeah, if you go to Twitter, if you go to Facebook, hell if you go to comments anyway.
It's so racist.
It's just as offensive as it can be.
I can't believe people actually think this way.
I can just see these little people in their pajamas writing these comments on Twitter over what happened on KTVU, Channel 1, I guess, Channel 2, in Oakland, in the Bay Area.
It's a Fox affiliate, and that probably ticked them off even more.
And you have this, you have this clueless Infobabe.
Folks, I hope you've had a chance to actually see this because the look on the anchor's face, the Infobabe's face, after she reads the copy.
I mean, they've got a graphic up there.
Ostensibly, the airline released the names of the flight crew.
And they've got these names.
And by the way, the NTSB approved this.
The apparent release came from the National Transportation Safety Board.
So it had the imprimatur of government sanctions.
Of course, they blame an intern in there.
Probably somebody in Cincinnati.
And so they have this graphic with all of the names of the flight crew on the Asiana flight, the accident in San Francisco.
And the InfoBabe obviously did not proofread or pre-read any of the copies.
She's going to see what's on the prompter for the first time.
And she's reading these names.
And the look on her face after she reads the copy illustrates she was probably reading it for the first time.
So here are the names that appear.
Did you see this?
Did you see this, Dawn?
You did or didn't?
Oh, you're just now seeing it for the first time.
Imagine TV screen with big blue graphic with the Chiron names bigger than you got a big screen.
They're up there.
I mean, they're huge.
The chief pilot was Sum Ting Wong.
Three names.
The co-pilot, Wee, Too Low.
The next one, I can't say.
It's got an F bomb, but they put it up there.
It was on the screen.
Ho Lee F-U-K on the screen.
And the woman's reading it.
The anchors are reading it.
And then the final name was Bang Ding O.
And I'm telling you, the reading of this, in addition to seeing it, makes this what it is.
With all solemnity and so forth.
So somebody pulled a great, great prank here.
It reminded me of some of my greats, some of the things that I have done in my earlier broadcast career.
I mean, I'm sitting there.
I'm a little jealous that somebody was able to pull this off.
This was aired just afternoon local time.
The station later read a statement later in the broadcast.
Earlier in the newscast, we gave some names of pilots involved in the Asiana Airlines crash.
These names were not accurate, despite an NTSB official in Washington confirming them.
Late this morning, we apologized for the error.
Then the NTSB released a statement confirming that an intern confirmed the names of the flight crew to KTVU, Channel 2, in Oakland.
The National Transportation Safety Board apologizes for inaccurate and offensive names that were mistakenly confirmed as those of the pilots with a straight face.
I saw this.
I can't believe.
Is this not a great illustration of how dumbed down did no, she knew after it didn't take, she knew.
You can see it on her face it's that's.
That's why they call these people newsreaders, not journalists, not reporters.
They're newsreaders as reading those the prompter and as she's reading it, I mean she.
Obviously, when she saw it on the prompter it didn't make any big.
When she, when she hears herself saying these things about the third name when she got the holy, I think that's probably when the light went off that something here wasn't right.
Oh yeah, Obama would have read this.
Yeah, he would have read the prompter straight and somebody some intern in Cincinnati, um would have been canned.
We'll try to get the video.
We got the video we'll.
We'll link to the video at Rushlimbaugh.com.
I tell you I'm not gonna let the Trayvon case distract us and other news out there.
We're gonna be mixing things throughout the program.
Today, the Reverend Zach's ladies and gentlemen, you hear what he said, because I'm telling the way to look at this is the left, the liberals, are having a temper tantrum over not getting their way.
They're winning everything, folks.
They're getting everything they want, except gun control and and as of yet, they haven't gotten amnesty, but they haven't lost amnesty yet either.
They think they're on the road to getting that.
They're winning everything.
They got Obama in the Oval Orifice and whatever Obama wants to do, he's doing.
They've got gay marriage.
They've got everything they want.
They didn't get this.
I don't really think they care that much about Trayvon Martin.
They didn't know Trayvon Martin.
What this is is just, it's a temper tantrum over not having gotten their way when, in this case, I think they fully expected to.
The noted media critic analyst, Bernard Goldberg, has a new column on this.
Let me read to you an excerpt from Bernie's piece.
The single biggest reason the trial got so much attention is because it played into a narrative a false narrative, to be true, but one that many blacks and many white liberals love to perpetuate.
It's the great American drama about how white people get away with not only oppressing black people, but even getting get away with killing them.
Isn't that what Tavis Smiley meant when he said, for many Americans, the verdict is Another piece of evidence of the incontrovertible contempt that this nation often shows and displays for black men.
Someone needs to tell Mr. Smiley, writes Bernie here, and somebody needs to tell the Reverend Sharpton and the civil rights establishment and white liberals, both in and out of the media, that we're no longer living in 1955, Mississippi.
If there is a crime involving two races today, the victim is most likely going to be white, and the criminal is most likely going to be black, not the other way around.
That may be one more thing polite people aren't supposed to say out loud, and certainly not in public.
That's Bernard Goldberg in a recent column, his latest column about all this.
The Reverend Odax said that the problem here was that Trayvon Martin did not have a jury of his peers.
Now, off the top of your head, what's wrong with that?
That's exactly right.
Good.
Somebody on my staff knew Trayvon Martin wasn't on trial.
It was Zimmerman who is guaranteed by our Constitution a jury of his peers, not Trayvon Martin.
Trayvon Martin wasn't on trial.
But this comment, when I heard it made by the Reverend Odax, is exactly why I believe these people are in the middle of having a temper tantrum.
They just didn't get their way.
And whatever it takes to get their way, even if it means ignoring the Constitution or pretending it's not there or whatever, they'll do it.
And this attempt to sway people's opinions by saying that somehow, because there weren't any blacks on the jury, that Trayvon didn't get justice when Trayvon wasn't on trial.
I guess nobody is going to have the temerity to point out that Reverend Jackson is an idiot and doesn't know what he's talking about, probably because he knows exactly what he's doing when he says this.
Got another brief timeout.
We come back.
The two pieces I mentioned: Robert Stacey McCain on Trayvon Martin's history in school, and I don't know.
I've got some random thoughts about this whole Sanford, Florida, so-called gated community neighborhood type thing that I think is a relevant aspect of what happened here and why.
So I'll give that a shot.
No teleprompter here, folks.
The EIB network.
Back after this.
By the way, folks, Asiana Airlines announced today that they're going to sue KTVU Eyeball News 2 in Oakland.
Asiana Airlines is going to sue the TV station because they say it damaged the airline's reputation by using bogus and racially offensive names for four pilots on a plane that crashed in San Francisco.
Now, we've got the audio of the InfoBabe reciting this.
And I'm going to play the audio for you.
Again, we will link to the video at rushlimbaugh.com in case you haven't seen it.
But here is the audio.
The Infobabe is Tori Campbell, KTVU, Eyeball News to a Fox affiliate in the Bay Area.
We have new information now also on the plane crash.
KTBU has just learned the names of the four pilots who were on board the flight.
They are Captain Sum Ting Wong, Wee Too Low, Ho Li Fuk, and Bang Ding Oo.
The NTSB has confirmed these are the names of the pilots on board Flight 214 when it crashed.
We are working to determine exactly what roles each of them played during the landing on Saturday.
So Channel 2 was working to determine exactly what role Sum Ting Wong played during the landing,
what role Wee Too Low played, what role Holy Fuk played, and what role Bang Ding Oo played in and during the landing on Saturday.
And it's priceless, the look on her face, when she realizes that she's been punked.
It just is price.
Let's play this again because it's worth it.
Here's the replay.
We have new information now also on the plane crash.
KTBU has just learned the names of the four pilots who were on board the flight.
They are Captain Sum Ting Wong, Wee Too Low, Ho Lee Fuk, and Bang Ding Ao.
The NTSB has confirmed these are the names of the pilots on board Flight 214 when it crashed.
We are working to determine exactly what roles each of them played during the landing on Saturday.
What did you do?
When you first saw this, before you'd heard or seen the video, when you just saw those names printed the first time you did, what was your reaction?
You knew immediately.
It might have taken you, wait a minute, something wrong, something was it, but it didn't take you long to figure out here.
Then you realize what happened and you got utter disbelief flowing.
Obviously, not a highly trained broadcast specialist, but just they're newsreaders.
It's on the prompter and that's what's on the prompter.
And so that's what's in the news.
Robert Stacey McCain has a piece at the American Spectator on the Trayvon Martin case.
How a Miami school crime cover-up policy led to Trayvon Martin's death.
The February 2012 shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin might never have happened if screw-aw officials in Miami-Dade County had not instituted an unofficial policy of treating crimes as screw-off disciplinary infractions.
Revelations that emerged from an internal affairs investigation explain why Trayvon Martin was not arrested when caught at school with stolen jewelry October 2011 or with marijuana in February 2012.
Instead, Martin was suspended from screw the last time just days before he was shot by George Zimmerman.
Trayvon Martin was not from Sanford, Florida.
He was from Miami Gardens, more than 200 miles away.
Trayvon Martin had come to Sanford, Florida to stay with his father's girlfriend, Brandy Green, at her home in the townhouse community where Zimmerman was in charge of the neighborhood watch.
Trayvon was staying with Brandy Green after he had been suspended from school for the second time in six months.
It's Kropp High School, Miami-Dade County, and his father and mother both lived there.
But he was suspended, so he left town and went up to Sanford to stay with his father's girlfriend.
Mr. McCain says here that both of Trayvon Martin's suspensions during his junior year at Cropp Haskruel involved crimes that could have led to his prosecution as a juvenile offender.
However, Chief Charles Hurley, the Miami-Dade's police department, in 2010 had implemented a policy that reduced the number of criminal reports, manipulating statistics to create the appearance of a reduction in crime within the school system.
So less than two weeks before Martin's death, the school system commended Chief Hurley for decreasing school-related juvenile delinquency by an impressive 60% for the last six months of 2011.
What was actually happening was that crimes were not being reported as crimes.
Instead, they were treated as disciplinary actions.
So what you had here was a bureaucracy that was intent on making itself look good.
And they were playing games with numbers.
So real crimes would be committed by students, not just Trayvon.
And rather than be categorized as such, they were just pushed over here into another column on the spreadsheet that said disciplinary actions.
And so at the end of the day, these reports made it look like that the school district superintendent had really started kicking butt on crimes in the schools and had really reduced it when they hadn't whatsoever.
Now the upshot is that criminal activity wasn't punished.
It was barely even disciplined.
And so the perpetrators were never held to account, nor did they ever have to come to grips with the severity of their actions.
Anyway, I got to take a break.
You can see where that leads.
We'll be back.
So think about it.
In some schools, you get thrown out for a long time for just drawing a picture of a gun.
But in Miami-Dade, you can commit real crimes, and the school will cover up for you to make their stats look better.
Sit tight, my friends.
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