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July 24, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 24, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #2
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So Clinton, sorry, Obama.
Uh getting ready to make uh one of a number of speeches upcoming in the next couple of months, laser like focus on the economy for the 19th time.
The media is mocking this.
F. Chuck Todd is calling it uh uh Deja Pivot, as in deja vu.
Uh a lot of the other uh media been there done that uh AP even, Obama's latest economic push has familiar field.
If President Obama's new focus on the economy sounds familiar, it's because he's done it before.
Since the first year of his presidency, Obama has been launching and relaunching initiatives on the economy.
Some came with new policy proposals, others with catchy slogans.
Remember 2011's winning the future campaign, or the we can't wait initiatives that followed later that year.
Just a few months ago, Obama was headlining the middle class jobs and opportunity tour.
So far there's no slogan attached to the White House.
Yes, there is.
Yes, there is.
It's a we're all in this together economy.
We're gonna build it from the middle out.
There is a new slogan.
We talked about it yesterday.
By the way, Detroit.
Detroit, it that's exactly what happens when you build from the middle out, you get Detroit.
That is exactly what the unions did to Detroit.
They took a city that was built by manufacturing giants.
They took control for the past 50 years, they had a better way.
Unions and the Democrats should begin to grow Detroit from the middle out, and look what happened.
By the way, I've got to tell you something.
I happened to mention I for either yesterday or the day before.
Wait a minute.
Is this this is Wednesday, right?
I I cannot believe how fast the day.
Well, I think it was Monday.
Whenever I mentioned it.
I talked about Zeph Chaffetz's book about Detroit, what really exp was yesterday, okay.
What really explains Detroit's bankruptcy.
Zev Chaffitz published a book in 1990 called Devil's Night Out and Other True Tales of Detroit.
And I reviewed some of the book, I skimmed it, and a little book report for you yesterday, and the book focuses on the mayor Coleman Young as the real culprit in what happened to Detroit.
And uh the fact that, yeah, there was a little you can't deny that liberalism played a large role in Detroit's failure of unchecked Democrat power unions as well, uh decline of the auto industry, all those are factors, but Zeb Chaffetz's point in his book is that it was Coleman Young.
The mayor leave of Coleman Young, single-handedly, is responsible, well, nothing single-handedly, but largely responsible for what happened to Detroit.
Now the title of Zev's book, Devil's Night and Other True Tales of Detroit, when I mentioned this, Zeb's book was at about one million, ranked one million at Amazon.
I mean, it's 1990, 23 years old.
Today, Zev's book is at Number 300 after just talking about it yesterday, and they're thinking they might want to reissue it.
Let me just review for those of you who missed it, because this uh it's a fascinating take, especially.
We have just learned that the Detroit City Council has demanded, they have passed a proclamation of something, a proclamation or a uh an ordinance.
They've unanimously agreed that George Zimmerman must be investigated by the federal government.
The city council of a bankrupt city took the time to debate whether or not the city ought to demand a federal investigation of George Zimmerman.
Oh, and speaking of Zimmerman, the UK Daily Mail has an interesting story.
The family rescued by George Zimmerman after a rollover crash in Florida are terrified that they will become targets for hate mobs.
They're not afraid of the Tea Party.
They are afraid of Democrat Party and Twitter hate mobs.
This has not been reported in the U.S. media that I have seen.
The uh family name is is uh Gerstel.
Mark and Dana Michelle Gerstel said they do not want to talk publicly about Zimmerman for fear that they'll be accused of portraying him as a hero.
Zimmerman pulled a couple and their two children from their car after that rollover on July 17th.
First time Zimmerman was seen since being acquitted in the uh trial, Trey Von Martin's murder, or death, uh went into hiding after he, his family, and attorneys received death threats and thousands protested the verdict.
The Gerstel family are frightened that Zimmerman haters will target them too.
They're very grateful to Zimmerman for what he did, but they do not want to get involved.
And the only reason that they came forward to the extent that they have is because, as predicted, it was all over the Twitter verse and everywhere else that this was a staged event.
It didn't really happen.
It wasn't a genuine event, that it was staged to make Zimmerman look good, and it wasn't.
The family has surfaced, but they don't want to talk publicly about it because they're afraid they're going to be targeted.
Amazing, literally amazing.
It's in the UK Daily Mail.
Now, there's Obama.
Is he being heckled?
No, he's not being heckled, he's pointing at somebody in the audience.
He's in uh he's in Galesburg, Illinois.
And this is the Limbaugh theorem.
What Obama is doing is now he's going outside Washington.
He's on the campaign trail.
He's talking about the economy as though he's got nothing to do with it.
He's talking about what we've got to do to get this economy going.
We're into year five of his presidency.
His policies have had a horrible impact on the U.S. economy.
And he's out trying to make sure that his base and the low information voters do not figure that out.
He's now campaigning against what he did.
And he's trying to make look like other people are responsible.
And he's now aligned with everybody who's hurting, and he's less like they are, he's trying to fix it.
He's working hard, he's got these uncooperative Republicans in Washington who don't care about you.
And they're content to let this economy squander because they think that's how they can have political victory over Obama.
So he's out on the campaign trail for the next two months.
And the purpose of these optics is to make it appear like he has no attachment whatsoever.
It's the limbaugh theorem, live and in person.
And as I say, the media is not falling for it.
Anyway, let me finish this the business about Zepp's book, The Devil's Night and Other Two Tales.
Because I I read this, uh somebody had told me, Rush, you re- you need to look at this because it's not just liberalism that did Detroit in race did Detroit in.
It was race.
And you Need to understand what really happened.
So they focused, they directed me or steered me to Zev's book.
And according to the book Devil's Night, Other True Tales of Detroit, Detroit was the most racist city in the North for decades, and it wasn't accidental.
The police department in Detroit, by virtue of policy, hired lawmen, police officers, and so forth from the South, Southern accents and all that, and they gave these guys orders to kick ass.
And they did.
And the city was completely segregated, and urban renewal, which was a feature of many big cities in the country at the time.
Urban renewal had the effect of crowding all the black population into very small neighborhoods in the city.
And the racial tension mounted.
In 1967, it boiled over, and the black population of Detroit rioted.
And they burned down and looted entire neighborhoods.
This caused the white population of Detroit to flee the city.
They got out of there so fast, according to this book, Devil's Night.
They moved into unfinished houses in the suburbs.
Some of the houses didn't even have electricity run to them yet.
Some didn't have water lines and so forth, much less furniture and this kind of didn't matter.
The riots and the chaos were such that the white population just skedaddled.
This resulted in a depopulation of the city, which actually had started with the building of freeways in the 50s, making it easier to get out of the city.
These riots accelerated the exodus, and it became a full-fledged exodus from the city.
So in 1973, the majority black population of Detroit elected Coleman Young.
He was the first black mayor.
And Coleman Young, and this was a something I didn't know.
I mean, I hadn't even thought about it, but uh Coleman Young did not come from the civil rights movement.
He was not like an Andrew Young in Atlanta or any of the other newly elected mayors, black mayors in the 70s.
He was a radical of a uh very leftist organization.
And he's a tough guy, he was charismatic, he was funny, but he did not turn the other cheek.
I mean, he was loaded for bear every day.
Every day was a battle.
He was not happy unless he was battling somebody.
He invented battles.
He invented reasons to be at war.
That was his mentality.
And he was at war with the white population, who he accused of abandoning the city.
But he accused them not only of abandoning the city, but then he accused them of trying to run the city from outside the city.
They had fled to the burbs.
So he declared war on what he called the hostile suburbs of Detroit.
You know, there were calls after the riots for gun control.
He said, no way, we're not having any.
I want my people fully armed in this city.
So he hexed any gun control on the grounds that it'd be dangerous to disarm his people in the face of this white KKK lurking beyond eight mile road.
So this ended up discouraging any type of investment in the city.
And that investment, which did happen, had to go through his office.
Any any investment, growth, whatever in the city did not happen unless it first went through his office.
He turned the police force into his militia.
And what he did was set out to create a black city-state south of Eight Mile Road.
And he called what he was doing the rebellion.
He called a former white administration's occupying powers.
And his the black population of Detroit's eating this up, folks.
They loved it.
They absolutely loved Coleman Young.
This is a guy who was at war with the former white leadership of Detroit that had fled the city after the riots and went to the suburbs.
And he is calling them the KKK lurking beyond eight-mile occupying powers.
He even erected a statue in honor of Joe Lewis, which is a giant black fist right at the freeway entrance to downtown Detroit.
Anyway, this went on for 20 years.
There were twenty years of municipal black nationalism and ideological separatism.
And by the time he left, the city was in a shambles.
And the book, I mean, this is just a really surface report.
I didn't have a chance to read the entire thing.
I skimmed it, checked things that looked interesting to me, and came up for you with this little book report here.
But Detroit's just the first of many cities that are on this path.
They do have things in common, liberalism, control of the city by unions, but...
But the the point that this book makes in analyzing what's wrong with Detroit is that you cannot leave race out of the equation.
And in fact, it may be the number one reason that Detroit is in the mess that uh that it is in.
So Detroit, the legacy of Coleman Young.
I mean, he got rich, and he was happy, and he couldn't, you know, as far as he was concerned, this is the pinnacle of his career, but he left a city with no tax base, no budget, no funds, no services, no schools, hardly any employment, a fleeing middle class, but people were just running as fast as they could to get out of town.
And the city now bankrupt is being run by Republican governor by virtue of all this, which is a great irony.
Anyway, uh Devil's Night, the other true tales of Detroit is my Zet Chabitz.
I gotta take a quick time out, my friends, and we'll be back with much more.
Don't go away.
By the way, don't misunderstand, folks.
I'm not, I'm not trying to de-emphasize liberalism as a cause for what happened in Detroit, because racial tension is liberalism.
Race wars is liberalism.
Race wars happen because of liberalism.
And if not caused by, they certainly are encouraged.
And the the flames of race wars are fanned by liberals.
It is a the the two are inseparable.
But I mean the point of Zeb's book is it it would be um uh to miss the point just to chalk it all up to liberalism.
You have a card-carrying communist as a mayor who wanted a black nationalist separatist city that was really done in uh by his leadership, and that was all brought about by the riots in uh in 1967.
Anyway, uh to the phones.
People, as always, patiently waiting.
Monica in Iron Mountain, Michigan.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hi, Ross.
I just wanted to say that I really think it's Anthony Wiener who defines creepy ass cracker.
Wiener is a creepy ass cracker.
We'd have to check with uh with uh Rita Jen Red on it.
Uh uh uh Rachel Jon Tower Rachel Gentel, yeah, we'd have to check with Rita Rachel Gentel on that, but you're right, creepy ass cracker.
I mean, let me tell you something I'm in a neighborhood and I get Anthony Wiener following me, creepy ass cracker, damn right, and I make tracks.
Excellent point.
Monica, I appreciate it.
Thank you much.
Joe in St. Louis, you're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
You know, Rush, that's all we heard about was the war on women.
Because of birth control and silly things like that.
I watched that press conference with Wiener.
And if that woman isn't psychologically, and maybe even physically abused and beat down to the point that she must feel like she has absolutely no self-value or no self-worth.
Now no, no, no, no, no, no.
Wait, just that we do not, we don't want to go anywhere near allegations that we can't possibly, a physical abuse, don't even want to go there.
That's I don't know.
But Rush, you know what?
If it was reversed, that's all you'd hear on Rachel Maddow and Pierce Morgan and all that is what is wrong with this woman if she allows this man to do this to her.
If it was a Republican and it was reversed, that's what you hear on every one of these talk shows.
I know.
But Wiener is a is a white Hispanic, Carlos Danger.
Hey, can I make a quick comment about Crayvon Morton, Russia?
Well, no, Wiener is his position, he's a white Hispanic now, he's Carlos Danger.
And and uh what?
Can I make a question?
I'm sorry, anyway.
Um his career must not be interrupted.
Because if his career is, then Huma's got trouble.
That's what it's all about.
You know, I'm uh uh listening to a little bit of Obama's speech during the obscene profit timeout.
It's embarrassing.
Anybody that's been paying attention for uh four and a half years, it's embarrassing.
I don't know how else to describe it.
But for people that have been paying attention, for low information people, Obama sounds like somebody that thinks we need to fix the economy.
That people are hurting.
And he just said, for example, endless posturing and phony scandals will not help.
Now most people hearing that will think nobody's gonna buy this.
But now that you know of the limbaugh theorem, you are fully aware that practically everybody in this audience watching him is buying every word of this.
They don't see him as responsible for any of this, folks.
And one of the reasons is the Republicans have not made the case.
It does take an opposition party, particularly when you have a media slavishly devoted to the president.
It does require an opposition party, and we don't have one.
We don't have a party that engages in regular, ideological or even political pushback.
The Republican Party is trying to do anything it can to be not disliked.
I mean, they're pursuing a double negative, actually.
But he's out talking about this as though he's campaigning for office in 2008.
And he says time somebody gets serious about this, he says.
And he's describing how the economy works in a philosophical strategic way.
People get jobs and they get health care and they get raises and so forth, and this has got to start happening in America.
We've we've got to start investing in one another.
We've got to all start working together.
So all this feel-good stuff, and he's uh it's clueless, poor clueless Americans are sitting there applauding.
It's not robust applause, by the way.
I frankly do not know how you can sit through a speech like this and not say to yourself, I've been hearing this for five years.
I don't know how you can sit through a speech like this and say, wait a minute, bud, you've been president for five years.
What have you done about I I don't know how that can happen, but it is.
Back to the audio sound bites we go, we're not through with the media and its adulation for Huma.
We left off with Dana Bash at CNN.
We're gonna stick with CNN.
Situation Room late yesterday afternoon, Gloria Borger and Wolf Blitzer decided to talk about it.
She made the point as the wife, I have forgiven him, she said.
I believe in him.
The point being that politically, if I've forgiven him, you ought to forgive him.
They both made the point that actually to them, to their marriage, to their personal life, that wasn't the key point time that this was something they had to continue working on, as he just admitted for almost a year uh afterwards.
But it is a question of judgment.
And will the voters buy this?
And I think he was aided by a powerful assist from his wife who showed up at that news conference.
Oh, yeah, so he's gonna he's fine.
He's absolutely Huma was fine, he was fine.
They're talking about this as though it's just a standard ordinary average day in Democrat Party politics.
What would I you know?
I asked Miss Would Gloria Borger.
I don't even know if she's married.
I assume she is.
Gloria Borger put up with this.
I don't know.
I shouldn't go there.
I shouldn't go there.
I just I just marvel at this, folks.
I don't I don't quite know how properly to express what I'm trying to say here.
I'm kind of I'm kind of hamstrung, because this whole thing is surreal to me.
That there is any.
I mean, I know I know these people like the back of my hand.
I know they're gonna do everything they can to keep a liberal propped up until they determine he really is a drag on the part, then they let him go.
But that that that that that hasn't happened that Wiener is not looked at as a dragonist party is quite telling in and of itself.
Anyway, here's uh uh Lanny uh Lanny Davis on uh Piers Morgan Live.
Uh Piers wasn't there.
Uh don't know where Piers was, but the fill-in host was Chris Cuomo.
He talking to Lanny Poof Davis about uh Wiener's uh new admission of an inappropriate online relationship.
And Chris Kumo said, uh you believe Anthony Wiener was not telling the truth when he said there would be more?
Was that enough to cover this?
That back then he said, hey, there's gonna be more people pop up.
Was that enough to cover this, uh Lanny?
Or was this new behavior that makes him untrustworthy?
Clearly he warned us ahead of time, and as someone who looks at crises and tries to mitigate harm, uh, that was a wise decision by him.
I would have liked for him to address the post resignation behavior more frontally, because that is an issue that will bother some voters.
What?
But the other thing I would point out about his performance today is that without Huma being next to him, it'd be a much different conversation.
This is a huge, huge meaningful presence by Huma.
Mm-hmm.
You know, well, we know that.
But Lanney said that he would have liked for Wiener to address the post-resignation behavior more frontally.
And what he means by that is that, see, Wiener resigned, but then he kept doing the perverted sex texting and stuff.
And Lanny said that he had he would have liked for Reiner to address that more frontally.
What did Weiner do here?
That Lanny said wasn't friendly.
What did Weiner do?
Did he get down on all fours and explain it?
What did he do?
More frontally.
Well, while we try to figure that out, let's just keep going because it gets better.
We now move to CBS this morning.
During the uh national correspondent Jan Crawford's report about Anthony Wiener's new admission of An inappropriate online relationship.
And uh co-host Charlie Rose and co-host Nora O'Donnell and Jan Crawford took their turn discussing it.
It wasn't just sexting, it was also conversation phone conversations.
Allegedly.
Yeah, the one that says that they spoke several times a day.
But those are always the things that we ask, right?
You see these disgraced politicians having affairs, cheating on their wives, and then why does the wife stand by the man?
So what is it?
Or does the wife stand by the man in the press conference?
And when what example has the wife ended up standing by the man or staying with the man?
Well, Hillary Clinton, right?
Probably the closest person to her in her life.
And a very close advisor.
Okay, so the act I don't know.
Hillary did this.
Hillary stood by her man and was a very close advisor.
Oh, oh, okay.
Oh, that's right.
Uh and and then their discussion continued with a classic declaration from Charlie Rose.
Here's the thing we all have to remember.
Perhaps she loves him.
Charlie, you sound like a romantic.
Perhaps she does love him.
I mean, we don't know.
I mean, goodness knows.
That's it.
She loves him.
Well, you know, you have, I'm sure we all can think of friends of ours, you want to say why she's staying with him.
And perhaps she's ambitious for him.
Well, which is it, Charlie?
She either loves him or she's ambitious for him.
At any rate, that's how it went on the drive-by media.
Actually, there's one more.
Uh George Stephanopoulos talked with Jeff Zelamy, used to be the New York Times, now with ABC.
Now, here you have a supposed news anchor in Stephanopolis who worked for Bill and Hillary during the height of the bimbo eruption days.
Stephanopoulos was in the middle of that.
And he's pushing the narrative here that Huma didn't know what was going on, which is a rerun of the Clinton playbook.
Wives don't know anything.
They run the show.
The low information crowd, though, eats up this victim routinely.
Huma didn't know.
Hillary didn't know, but they standing by their man.
This seemed to surprise even those closest to the campaign.
It did, George, and it surprised those closest to the family, friends close to the family, said that Huma was shocked and saddened by this when it happened.
You could see that look on her face.
No, you couldn't.
That is the point.
Huma did not look distressed.
Did she look distressed to you?
Huma looked almost joyful in this press conference.
She looked defiant and happy.
You contrast the way the way Huma looked with the way Sylda Spitzer looked when client number nine went out there.
I mean, she was devastated.
That woman was wilting before our eyes.
If she could have done a Claude Reigns and turned invisible, she would have done it.
But Huma was full of notice me, notice me, notice me.
Huma knew that it was all about her.
Wiener is chump change in this.
But here was Stephanopoulos from the Clinton war room making Huma the victim.
The poor, sympathetic victim.
And on the same day that the uh the Wiener scandal broke again.
Client number nine released an ad.
Spitzer running for the uh New York City controller ran an ad.
Look, I failed.
Big time.
I heard a lot of people.
When you dig yourself a hole, you can either lie in it the rest of your life or do something positive.
That's why I'm wrong.
Make sure your money goes where it's supposed to go and does what it's supposed to do.
And make sure the Wall Street firms that want us to invest with them play by the rules.
So if you're any negative noise out there, you will.
Keep in mind where it's coming from.
Maybe being hated by the Wall Street firms isn't such a terrible thing.
When I was taking on Wall Street firms, they were Cheating millions of middle class investors.
It was all about the same thing.
Everyone, no matter who you are, deserves a fair shot.
I'm asking voters to give the same to me.
So uh client number nine is asking us to haul him out of the hole.
He wants to do something positive.
And this is your this is your modern day Democrat Party.
Now, in New York City, you've got Wiener running for mayor, and Christine Quinn is running for mayor, and Quistine Christine Quinn is uh is lesbian.
Am I right?
She's gay.
Okay.
So you have Christine Quinn.
I mean, the liberals are gotta be torn here.
You got Bill Clinton Jr. and Hillary Jr. in Wiener and Huma versus Christine Quinn, who is I mean, this is a tough balancing act here for Democrats.
And it could well be that Christine Quinn loses him and Wiener could win this.
Now, what's it gonna say to the gay community?
That Democrats in New York preferred.
Oh, that's fun to think about that.
Just got an email from somebody.
Did you forget you were gonna talk about Mac Malcolm Gladwell and concussions in the NFL?
No, I didn't.
I've got it.
In fact, it's coming up in the next hour.
And we've got audio of Malcolm Gladwell comparing football to dog fighting.
That came up at the end of the program yesterday, and I said we'll do it tomorrow, which is now.
So that's coming up.
In the meantime, James in uh Gardner, Illinois.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Who is a political prostitute?
She learned the tricks of the trade from Hillary.
That's just the way it is.
She's gonna stand by her man because she knows that in the end, somewhere down the road, she's gonna be a first lady of New York City, possibly a senator, maybe even Secretary of State.
Yeah, somebody posited much the same theory early, but did not name it as you had.
Well, she she is selling her own personal integrity for political gain.
It's all it is.
I mean, any average American woman would have tricked Anthony Wiener to the curb, but not after the first time, definitely after the second time.
You know, you would you would think so.
You would think so.
But here's here's the point about this.
If you didn't hear him, James was on a uh a cheap Samsung cell phone.
Um he called her a political prostitute.
Well, I wouldn't have known if I didn't have a transcription of it here.
At any rate.
Um I know what he means by that.
And a lot of people have posited the same thing, that Huma is simply standing by here because it's in her best interests for her own acquisition of power.
And I we talked about this earlier.
I mean, what what a lesson?
Remember now, these are feminist women.
These are the cutting edge of modern womanhood.
This is the cutting edge of modern.
This is these are the women that tell other women how to do it.
So the message here, Hillary, Huma, how are they acquiring their power?
By being doormats.
Is this what you women burned your bras for?
Is this it?
Is this the ticket?
I mean, it's uh natural conclusion to draw.
Oh, yeah, Huma hanging in because she's gonna be able to really call the shots.
Why?
Well, because her hanging in enables and permits Wiener's career to not be railroaded.
And so Huma, by hanging in and accepting this kind of behavior from her husband, Is permitting a prominent male Democrat to continue to climb the ladder of political power.
And for that, she will be rewarded by being thrown some power herself somewhere.
So this is how you do it, right?
You don't acquire power by virtue of your own achievements.
You don't acquire power by climbing your own ladder and making your own way.
A Democrat woman amasses power by enabling a pervert husband to get away with it and then be paid off as a result of the loyalty.
Is that the lesson?
And after you do that, you're then permitted to run around and say about people like Ann Romney, she doesn't know what it's like to be a woman.
She never worked a day in her life.
Yep.
This is it.
The hookup culture meets the Democrat Party.
Malcolm Gladwell, who respected author, Outliers, posited the theory that you don't get good at anything until you put in at least 10,000 hours, says that college football, the NFL, no different than dog fighting and needs to be banned.
Said it on CNN Sunday.
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