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July 15, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 15, 2013, Monday, Hour #3
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And we are back.
Great to have you with us, my friends, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence and Broadcasting Network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I am number 772 of George Bush's Thousand Points of Life.
Uh Light.
Remember that way back in 1988, 89, whatever.
George H.W. Bush 41 with his thousand points of light.
I was number actually, I think 773.
And uh Obama is hosting a ceremony at the White House, even as we speak, commemorating George H.W. Bush's Thousand Points of Light Movement, if you will.
It was uh it was a program that you know where all influences were all points of light, and can uh and can help others.
Now, I know that I said we're going to get into other things, and we are.
But I have to tell you, folks, programs like the one today depress me, and they infuriate me at the same time.
It's a combination of both.
Because I hate seeing what is happening to our country.
And it's manufactured.
It's all these emotions that are being ginned up by the media, by the left, the media, the left, it's the same thing.
The Democrat Party, Democrats, leftists, liberals, don't call them progressives either.
And don't let them get away with calling themselves progressives.
You know, when they don't they don't like the term liberal because it works in smearing them.
They do not like it.
The American people do not want liberals when they that's why I get so frustrated that they can't see that more people are liberal because the American people don't want liberalism.
John McWarter has a piece here in the New York Times, the dreaded P word.
It's no surprise in recent years some of the left have embraced the term progressive as a substitute for liberal.
The right has so demonized the L word that during a Democrat debate in 2007, Hillary asked for or asked by a voter whether she was a liberal said that she preferred to identify herself as a modern progressive.
Of course, they don't want to be called liber.
Don't call them progressives.
You talk about a misnomer.
They are not progressives.
They are not advancing anything.
The change that they are advocating is disastrous.
And you see it, we're living it.
You know if the Department of Justice wants to investigate something, you know what they should investigate?
They should investigate the state attorney that started this whole process.
They should investigate the legal justice system that made this into this circus that it is.
If they were really serious about it, Professor Dershowitz at Harvard.
In fact, is calling for a federal investigation into the civil rights violations stemming from the Zimmerman case.
But he says that the investigation should focus on prosecutorial misconduct rather than on allegations of racial profiling and bias.
And that, by the way, is another thing.
The left has begun to talk about profiling here, not racism.
And they're they're they're accusing Zimmerman of profiling Trayvon.
And that, of course, is a no-no to cops.
You can't, you know, nobody likes profile profiling because it's judgmental.
And in many cases, it's prejudicial.
So profiling would be see a young 17-year-old black guy in a hood equals criminal.
That's profiling, can't do it.
Racism, but profiling, you know, the the the charge of racism, I I they've beat that to death in a sense.
It still works, but it doesn't carry the magic.
It's not the automatic that it used to be.
So they're searching on the left for a new way of making the same charge with the same impact racism or racist used to have.
But it's like anything.
They've gone to the well with it so much and so often for so many years that people's emotional reservoirs are empty.
It's gotten to the point where whenever Al Sharpton opens his mouth and calls somebody a racist, oh yeah, yeah, another one now, another one, you've seen another one where?
Where?
Point him out to it.
People no longer take it as seriously as they used to.
But profiling is an attempt to have the impact that the charge of racism or racist once had.
And don't misunderstand, racist is not dead.
Racism as a charge is not dead.
But it it it it's not the automatic lightning rod it used to be.
So they're using profile.
You'll note if you pay close attention, you'll hear profiling mention more and more often, particularly in this case.
The problem with profiling is that it works.
And that's why they want to stamp it out.
That's why they want to get rid of it.
But look, this whole thing, I'll tell you, folks.
There's no reason for this country to be at war with itself.
And if the left stopped starting fires and stalking them, we wouldn't be at war with ourselves.
But they take an event where there isn't any racism, and they start belly aching and moaning and whining about it often enough, and they make and they start doctoring 9-11 tapes, and voila.
People think you've got a racial.
In the meantime, real racial incidents end up being ignored.
We got two examples of it just today, horrendous examples of black on white crime that just is ignored.
Shows up in local media, and that's it.
Nobody goes any further with it.
And nobody tries to extrapolate.
It's just reported for what it is, but it's not said to be representative of anything.
This Zimmerman Trayvon Martin thing was a bunch of nothing compared to what they tried to make it.
And Dershowitz's point is there was reasonable doubt from the get-go.
There was a reason the cops didn't charge Zimmerman.
There wasn't any evidence.
There was reasonable doubt from the get-go.
This case should have never been brought.
And Dershowitz wants he calls this uh the state attorney, uh, in this case, Angela Corey is her name, a prosecutorial tyrant.
And and Dershowitz, who is, if any, if he's anything, is a liberal, but he's a devotee of the law.
He claims that if anybody's rights were violated here, it was Zimmerman's by the judicial system.
This is not to discount what happened to Trayvon Martin, but in dealing with it, the left went hog wild and started it's and on top of this, they want to dump eleven million a citizens into the into this mix.
There isn't a melting pot in this country anymore.
You know what was meant by melting pot was everybody came here and up assimilating into a singular American culture, which there is, but it's been balkanized now.
And I have been using that term for years to describe the lack of assimilation, and not just among immigrants.
You know what the Democrat Party has done to the black population in this country is disappointing.
It's sad.
It's infuriating.
They have literally, under the guise of compassion, they have destroyed the black family.
The the The whole notion of genealogy, family tree, and all that in the black population.
When you've got what's the number?
73% of all births in the black community outside of marriage and so forth and the single parent families.
I mean, it's it's it's it's not good.
And then the insult to injury, all of this ends up being blamed on Republicans.
When the architects of this clearly have been and are the Democrat Party and liberalism.
But in it with this with this country at war with itself now and on purpose.
Most people don't want to hate their neighbor.
Most people don't want to even dislike anybody.
Everybody, in a whole Rodney King thing, can't we all get along?
Everybody wants to do that.
Nobody wants to live constantly in stress with high tension, fear, and all that.
Nobody would – there's a political movement that sponsors that, that promotes it, that creates it.
And they fuel it.
And they're the Democrats of this country.
The Democrat Party, the American left, to be more accurate.
The progressives, as they call themselves.
And on top of what's happening now, all of this strife, now we want to dump 11 million more into this, where there's no effort or desire or attempt for those people to assimilate and adopt this distinctive American culture.
This whole notion of American exceptionalism.
It was what it was because the people, it's always been the people that make this country great.
It's always been the freedom that's allowed people to pursue their dreams in this country, Most people around the world, their dreams are just that.
In this country, the dream can become reality.
But for more and more people, it's no different living here than their country of origin.
They just trade the geography, but the boundaries and the misery stays the same.
And that's because the Democrat Party needs a permanent underclass of underachievers, undereducated, low information, ideally dependent on government, so they keep voting for Democrats.
To hell with what that means or does to our culture or society or country at large.
They don't care.
As long as it enables them to stay in power, in charge of the money, then that's all that matters to them.
Which is fine and dandy fine.
But then to have all of the problems dumped on people that have nothing to do with it, we sit around and we literally watch people's emotions being fanned and flamed and stirred up where there aren't any.
Thank you.
And then when an honest and truthful assessment is offered to explain all this, then here come more charges of bigotry, racism, profiling now, whatever it is, because the left simply will not tolerate any opposition.
And now more and more they will not tolerate not getting their way, which is really what this is about.
They want you to think they care about Trayvon Martin as though he were their own son.
Hey, couldn't care less.
Trayvon Martin is holding as an opportunity.
Never let a crisis go to waste type of thing.
It's an opportunity for these forces of division to ratchet it up even more.
Trayvon Martin is an example of them supposedly getting screwed, getting shafted.
They didn't get their way, which to them is a sign that the country is still screwed up.
Despite the fact they've been getting their way and practically everything they want since Obama was elected.
They're just a bunch of spoiled brats who didn't get their way in this case.
They've gotten gay marriage.
They think they're going to get gun control.
They have they've got the government running health care now.
Although that's going to implode.
Everything they end up getting and wanting is destructive because it never works.
Couple of um audio sound bites.
I want you to I want you to hear Mark O'Mara.
The I'll tell you these defense lawyers, the guy named West on Saturday night, the bald headed defense lawyer, when this guy got to the microphone.
This guy did not hold back.
Who's his name?
I mean, this guy was firing both barrels.
He called this whole thing a travesty.
A miscarriage.
It said it should never have happened.
He didn't hold back.
He didn't care about political correctness or anything.
He just fired both barrels.
Now, Mark O'Mara, the defense lawyer, admitted before he took the case that he thought Zimmerman was a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, all these things, because that's what he had seen in the media.
A learned defense lawyer, not some low information schlub.
A member of the bar.
Now, many of the trial lawyers out there are abject leftists, but this guy's in the defenser.
He's not the plaintiff's bar.
He's a defense lawyer.
But he admitted he thought Zimmerman was all these horrible rotten things, and then he got to know him, found out everything he'd been told was true, was bogus.
So Saturday night, after the verdict came in, he said a lot of things, but we have here just about a half a minute of something I want you to hear.
Two systems went against George Zimmerman that he can't understand.
You guys, the media.
He was like a patient in an operating table where mad scientists were committing experiments on him and he had no anesthesia.
He didn't know why he was turned in to this monster, but quite honestly, you guys had a lot to do with it.
You just did.
Because you took a story that was fed to you, and you ran with it, and you ran right over him.
And that was horrid to him.
He wasn't even a human being to them.
He was an opportunity.
He was just a pawn in the game of life, like mongo in blazing saddles.
He was just a non-entity.
He was a pudgy kid that they could concoct.
He said like Frankenstein.
Make him anything they want.
A white Hispanic racist thug.
And they did.
And they don't care whose lives they destroy when they get in this.
They don't give a rat's wrecked them whose lives they destroy.
In fact, they might even relish it.
My friend Andy McCarthy was on Fox this afternoon.
Question Justice Department doesn't bring cases that it can't win.
The question here is you got the president of the NAALCP saying that he might have some people on the record who'll say that Zimmerman in fact was racist and profile people.
See, there it is.
Profile people.
In that area before.
Would that give you, Andy, as your former DOJ lawyer, would that give you a chance to reload at the case?
There's no federal connection here.
If it's possible, there's even less evidence of a federal jurisdictional nexus than there was evidence that he had the state of mind to commit depraved indifference murder, which is what he was charged with and what the jury rejected down in Florida.
There is no evidence after all the searching that they did that racism played into what happened in this altercation at all.
If it's possible, a federal case here would be even more frivolous than the state case was.
Exactly.
We'll be back.
Sit tight.
Big story from Forbes magazine today.
Labor unions among the key institutions responsible for the passage of Obamacare.
As you know, they spent tons of money electing Democrats to Congress in 06 and 08.
They fought hard to push the health law through the Congress in 2009 and 2010.
But now the unions are waking up to the fact that Obamacare is heavily disruptive to the health benefits of their members.
Last Thursday...
representatives of three of the nation's biggest unions fired off a letter to Dingy Harry Nancy Pelosi warning that Obamacare would quote shatter not only our hard-earned health benefits, it would destroy the foundation of the 40-hour work week that is the backbone of the American middle class.
The letter was penned, i.e., written for those of you in Rio Linda by Jimmy Hoffa of the Teamsters, Joseph Hanson of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, and Donald Tyler, or Taylor, president of Unite Here, a union representing hotel, airport, food service, gaming and textile workers.
See, these idiots.
They fought for this.
They fought for the rule that said any outfit that's got over 50 employees mandated to provide coverage.
They didn't stop to think that there are creative people running businesses.
You know, we have less than 50, we don't have to pay.
Okay, we're gonna convert you and you and you uh you're part-time, 30 hours.
That's it.
That's all you get.
No benefits either, no health care.
It's either that or we close the business.
We can't stay up and running otherwise.
These union guys have just figured out that the 40-hour week has been shot, which they claim is the backbone of the middle class to a certain extent, yeah.
I mean, they're trying to claim they are the backbone of America.
There aren't enough union members to claim they're the backbone of anything anymore, but other than the Democrat Party.
But the point, nevertheless.
Businesses are converting people to full-time from full-time to part-time and enabling themselves not to provide coverage.
Then Buddy Barack comes along and says, you know what, the employer is going to get a one-year waiver and not gonna have to provide.
But the employee is still gonna have to have insurance.
So they feel a little shafted here, but there's nothing they can do about it other than complain.
But they are complaining.
No, it's not enough to make them support Republicans.
They're just they're complaining.
They're not happy.
They're just part of the growing number of people in this country who do not want anything to do with Obamacare.
Business insider, the wealth gap is crushing America's youth.
You mention the ever widening wealth gap in America.
Chances are most of the focus is going to be on the adults.
Their 401ks were pummeled during the recession, their earnings plummeted, and even a college degree couldn't guarantee them a job in a shaky economy.
But what about the children?
Under the radar, study after study has shown just how the growing wealth gap could stymie upward mobility for America's youth.
Now, business insider here, and we love them there, but I mean they're two years late on this.
They're four years late on this.
This is just another reason why the country is hanging by a thread.
It's why people in this country are so tightly wound and ready to explode.
Economic opportunity is being wiped out.
Opportunity to move up the ladder, opportunity to improve economic standing and prosperity.
It's dwindling.
And it can't do anything else.
We've lost nine million jobs since Obama became president.
That's nine million opportunities to advance oneself economically.
And as the union guys just discovered, businesses are downsizing and converting people to part-time.
You don't build a career on part-time work.
You don't even really support a family on part-time work, not one part-time job.
You start at part-time work.
Now we got people who have been full-timers for years being converted, downsized to part-time.
So we hear about outsourcing and all this.
The American worker is being downsized.
The American employee is being downsized.
And with it is opportunity.
And the wealth gap, I don't know, you know, call it the wealth gap.
All it means is the people to have theirs have theirs.
But you don't have yours, your chances of getting yours are now reduced.
That's what it means.
The gap is one thing.
But the opportunity to close the gap is what's really vanishing.
And this, whether people consciously know it, they subconsciously are aware of it.
I had to laugh the other day.
I saw a story yesterday.
I should have printed it out.
For some reason it didn't make enough impression on me at the time to print it out.
But it referred to an economy finally now in full-fledged recovery, which is a laugh.
Our economy is not anywhere near a recovery, full-fledged or otherwise.
And people know it.
However you measure it, consumer spending, consumer confidence.
People's psychological mindset right now is hold on to what they've got.
The idea of building on it.
That's something that people can't conceive right now.
It's just enough to hold on to what they've got.
Just like the neighborhood that Zimmerman lived in.
That was really a bunch of people.
They start their neighborhood watch because they're being held up.
They're being robbed.
Little bit here, a little bit there.
And they don't they don't have so much that they can lose this and lose that and still be who they are.
Plus nobody wants to get held up and robbed anyway.
These are people that were climbing slowly the ladder, and they've they've made it into a community they thought safe, found out it wasn't.
Neighborhood watch, somebody ought to protect them, you know, one thing leads to another, but it's it's rooted in the fact that there is a general feeling of unsettledness.
Whether people can get their arms around it and tell you exactly what they mean, what they know is that this isn't how things are in an America that's working.
In an America that's right.
And while their economic opportunities are vanishing, they turn on the TV and they see a bunch of BS that has nothing to do with them.
And they turn on on TV and they look at political leaders who seem to care only right now about 11 million people who are here illegally.
And what they see is 11 million people going to be dumped into the society as competitors in the job market who are going to work for a lot less than they do, and they don't understand it.
And then the ones who do understand it get really mad.
The others are just depressed.
But whether they're able to articulate it or not, they full well understand that this is not how this country used to be.
This is not the way you feel when the country's working.
This is not the way you feel when you are confident that you're in the right place and you've got a chance or opportunity to improve yourself.
Then they turn on the TV and they see people impugned, made fun of, criticized if they happen to improve themselves.
They see all kinds of reprobate thuggery rewarded with fame and wealth, and they see people who are well mannered, virtuous perhaps, but certainly no threat to anybody, laughed at, impugned, and made fun of.
And it just isn't right.
Something about it doesn't make sense.
Something about it.
It's just not right.
Something is wrong, and they don't see anybody that seems to understand it.
At least in political leadership.
They don't see or hear anybody who seems to understand it the way they feel it.
And so it becomes well, I gotta look out for myself.
Nobody else is, which ain't all that bad, by the way, in one sense.
But there also has to be trust and confidence and faith in uh political leadership, and there isn't any right now.
Speaking of all this, blackentertainment.com, BET, black unemployment rate rose in June to almost 14%.
The nationwide unemployment rate held steady at 7.6%, African American unemployment rate went up 13.5 to 13.7%.
The youth unemployment rate, unemployment rate for 18 to 29 year olds, 16%.
This is exactly what I'm talking about.
You have people to heck with careers.
How about just a job?
And when they turn on the TV, they see the latest with the Kardashians in the name of the baby, or that some gay couple's now getting divorced or what have you, and they say, what the hell?
Well, it's true.
Jane Lynch, star of the TV show Glee, is divorcing from her wife of three years.
Big news and low information networks.
Spanking in childhood tied to adult obesity and heart disease.
Did you know that?
This is from medpagetoday.com.
Children who were punished physically had higher risks for heart disease, arthritis, and obesity in adulthood.
Really?
I mean, people are here, that's what do you mean?
Getting spanked leads to obesity?
How does that happen?
How does that work?
And if people had the ability to look at a story like this purely politically, they'd understand it.
Because there's nothing but politics in this story.
But I must interrupt myself.
Brief time out will continue with much more right after this.
Ladies and gentlemen, I uh I meant to spend more time on this today, but I didn't want to cloud it with all the attention folks on Trayvon Martin, but we've been recommending books lately.
And there is an absolutely wonderful book out.
It's essential.
It is uh by my old buddy Brent Bozell from the Media Research Center.
Uh they do the absolute best job of anybody documenting, and they've done it for decades, the left-wing mainstream media.
The title of the new book is collusion.
How the subtitle is how the media stole the 2012 election and how to stop them from doing it in uh in 2016.
But this is one of these books that is not just filled with somebody's opinion.
This book contains what the media research center does that nobody else does, and that is document sound bite by soundbite, story by story, clip by clip, every claim that they're making.
A prove it.
Absolute undeniable proof of every allegation they make, how the media stole the 2012 election.
This is a book that you need to.
You probably think you understand it, and most of you probably do.
This is the kind of book that you give to a liberal.
And you cajole them into reading it.
This is the kind of book you give to people who need to understand how they are being lied to, how they are being misinformed by an institution that they might trust.
I don't care if the polling data says journalists are lower on the totem pole of respect than anybody.
They still are believed.
They have subtle techniques of creating mass assumptions.
And this book, Collusion, it's about the 2012 election and how the media stole it and how they promulgated it, but in it there are lessons for how the media operates each and every day.
Brett Mozell, collusion.
Oh no, the name of the book is Collusion, how the media stole a 2012 election, but it's it's about much more than that.
Brent Mosell is the author, and Brent Baker.
Collusion.
Folks, thank you so much for being with us today.
Thoroughly enjoy it.
Constantly appreciative of you being here.
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