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July 25, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 25, 2013, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes.
Hello, folks.
Great to have you.
Great to be back after 21-hour respite.
Here we are, revved up and ready to go.
Broadcast excellence for the next three big, busy broadcast hours.
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You know, I don't want to lose control of myself here.
It's the wrong way to put this.
I don't want to lose my head here.
But a lot of yesterday's program is reflected in the drive-by media today.
And that seldom, if ever, happens.
Two things.
The drive-by media reaction to Obama's speech yesterday is exactly, not exactly, very, very, very, very close to what you would get here.
And the drive-by media reaction in many places to the Anthony Wiener, Nick Danger, whatever, Tony, whatever, and Huma Abidden press conference yesterday is pretty close to what happened on this program yesterday.
There are a lot of drive-by media out, not all.
CNN's still very sympathetic to Huma Abaddon.
But there are a number of drive-by media outlets who think Wiener's got to go now, and there is a huge backlash against Huma.
Because the bottom line is Wiener isn't Clinton.
The story was that Hillary is Huma's mentor.
And if Hillary took Huma aside at her knee, as it was, and said, this is how you do this.
But there's a big difference.
Whatever you want to say about Bill Clinton, he was popular within the party.
Within the Democrat Party, he was popular when all that went down.
Bad choice of words.
He was popular.
I really didn't mean he was popular during the Lewinsky stuff and all of the scandals with the women.
He was still scoring big.
He was still really popular, the Democrat Party.
Wiener's not.
Democrats outside of New York wish this guy would go away.
There isn't a whole lot of respect for him.
Fuck, there's a low information site today.
Well, it's the blaze, but they're not the source.
They're sourcing something that's low information.
Wiener is now being laughed at in ways that never happened to Clinton.
For example, and I'm just going to tell you, they're making fun of how quickly Wiener ejaculates during phone sex.
They're making fun of it.
He's on the last more 20 seconds.
That's the story.
I mean, when this kind of stuff starts happening to me, this never happened to Clinton.
So the idea that Huma can do Hillary and save Weiner, the way Hillary saved Clinton, probably does it wash.
And you're beginning to see that out there.
Now, don't misunderstand anything.
I'm the one who has repeatedly told all of you, do not look for any signs of success in the mainstream media as an indication that things are changing.
And I'm not doing that.
I'm just telling you that things are becoming so obvious now that the drive-bys cannot escape it.
And in many cases, they cannot avoid reporting it.
Forget Wiener for a second.
Let's start with Obama's speech yesterday.
It is being panned in a number of places.
It was panned in a number of places while it was taking place.
It was made fun of even before it started at places like F. Chuck Todd at NBC.
People have caught on.
Everybody in the drive-by media, everybody now is describing, when they talk about what Obama's doing, they are all describing the Limbaugh theorem without saying so.
A classic example here is the Associated Press.
They won't say it, but they are now explaining the Limbaugh Theorem in their coverage of Obama's speech at Knox College yesterday, Galesburg, Illinois.
Seeking to build momentum for looming fiscal fights, President Obama on Wednesday cast himself as the champion for middle-class Americans struggling to make ends meet.
He chided Washington for having taken its eye off the ball and declared that the economy would be the highest priority of his second term.
Obama, as he often does, when criticizing Washington, glossed over his own status as the inhabitant of the city's most powerful office.
Indeed, the president's remarks were void of new policy proposals or fresh solutions for breaking Washington's stalemates, and there were no new approaches presented for resolving potential showdowns with Republicans this fall.
So the AP is calling Obama out on this.
And then there is Ron Fournier, the former AP bureau chief, White House correspondent now over at the National Journal.
And he tweeted the following this morning.
If leadership was merely about speaking to the converted and winning fights and positioning to blame other people, America would be in great hands.
White House is failing.
White House failing.
That's a hashtag at Twitter.
Hashtag is a fail is a hashtag.
Now, I don't care about Fournier throwing in the House hashtag fail in this tweet.
The president's the only important player in any leadership role.
This tweet was a reaction to an incredibly boring, weak speech from the president.
If leadership was merely about speaking to the converted, so here's Obama's going out and talking to college kids.
Big whoop.
He's going out, he's talking, he's preaching to the choir.
He's simply trying to win fights with the Republicans and blaming them, but he's not accomplishing anything.
And so then the UK Telegraph in a piece by Niall Gardner, it's been a rough few weeks for Barack Obama.
A wave of scandals has undermined trust in the White House, and a series of major polls has hammered the president in the first year of his second term.
Today's speech at Knox College, Illinois was supposed to be the president's comeback moment, the first of a series of addresses aimed at retaking the initiative of the White House.
Instead, it was a train wreck.
In an hour-long address, which seemed to last forever, the president spoke in deeply partisan terms, often with bitterness and anger, lambasting his political opponents, dismissing criticism of his policies, and launching into his favorite theme of class warfare, attacking the wealthy in what he calls the winner-takes-all economy.
Obama is no Ronald Reagan, who always sought to bring the country together based on the common ideals of the founding fathers.
President Obama's message will do nothing to reassure a skeptical American public.
And another pool quote: Obama spoke the language of decline, promising more of the same left-wing policies that have weakened U.S. competitiveness, eroded economic freedom, and have saddled the world's superpower with historic levels of debt.
Americans deserve better than the failed statism that has bankrupted cities like Detroit and threatens to do the same to the rest of the country.
So the British press gets it full on.
The AP and Ron Fournier are tiptoeing around it.
There are still some drive-by outlets that are getting the vapors as their idol speaketh, so to speak.
But I'm telling you, five years in or four and a half years in, this speech was received almost everywhere with disappointment or yawns, or been there, done that, been there, heard that.
Now, the reason for my pointing this out to you, for this is this is not just to Obama's not running again.
So this is not to really affect public opinion on Obama so much.
That's not the point.
There is another point, and that is there are a lot of things coming up that will require or be aided by Obama's popularity.
You know, we still have to deal with the final implementation of Obamacare.
We've got the exchanges to be fully funded and implemented by the first of the year.
There are a couple of other things.
And there is one last chance to stop all that.
One last chance to stop it all.
And that's in the next continuing resolution budget fight.
The current continuing resolution that is funding the government as we speak expires on September 30th.
And so there are talks about a government shutdown, and there always are, there always are talks about a government shutdown.
The press brings it up trying to intimidate the Republicans.
But denying Obama and the Democrats their continuing resolution on September 30th is looking to be a crucial thing, a very important, a strategic thing that if the Republican Party does want to get in the game and push back, that would be where we've got the August recess kicks off, I think,
next week or the week after.
And that's when members of Congress are going to go home, and that's when they might conduct town hall meetings, and that's when they might hear from you that they're not happy and they want some pushback.
We will be discussing that as the program unfolds, both today and in subsequent programs.
Now, because of this, because The last three really crucial elements that will cement Obamacare as an entitlement that will be almost impossible to repeal happened on January 1st.
Obama's also, in addition now, one of the reasons he's making speeches on the economy, boring, dull, repetitive.
These speeches themselves are a distraction, I think, because Obamacare is it.
Obamacare is it.
You have immigration as an issue off to the side, too, but the 2014 elections for the Democrats, really what they're focused on.
Winning the House in 2014.
That's what everything is about.
I still think that the Democrats' positioning here on amnesty still may be primarily oriented toward losing the issue and having it as a campaign issue for 2014.
Not getting amnesty this time around, but actually using it as a campaign.
Based on the polling data that we've seen this week, that show the illegals living in the shadows would vote Democrat 8 to 1.
And when the Democrats see polling data like that, they're content to say, you know, let's delay amnesty a couple of years and let's set it up so the Republicans look like they're the ones that defeat it.
And then we'll run and try to win the House in 2014 on the basis that Republicans hate Hispanics.
So we got polling data to back it up.
And they may be further oriented toward not winning, not passing the Gang of AIDS bill in the House, actually having it go down in flames.
But Obama is also going to be out selling Obamacare.
And selling Obamacare, as you know, is about the 2014 midterms because they remember what happened to him in the 2010 midterms, which was all about Obamacare.
So everything Obama's doing is nothing to do with substance, folks.
It's all strategic.
Excuse me, it's all strategizing.
It's all aimed at the 2014 midterms.
Sure, the speech on the economy is, well, the next two-month campaign on the economy.
Yeah, I mean, it's aimed at continuing the Limbaugh theorem, the idea that Obama's got nothing to do with it to protect his poll numbers, which are plummeting, by the way, in a number of different...
He's at 45%, I think, in the NBC poll, 45% or CBS, one of the two.
His approval number is as low as it's ever been.
I mean, there's some people that are nervous out there, folks, and not so much about Obama.
I mean, because he's it.
I mean, he's in for now.
No other elections in his future, but he's still the standard-bearer.
And the Democrats have grand designs on the country, and he's the, of course, the leader in that regard.
So his popularity is still rather important to him, but not from the standpoint of him winning elections.
So we have Obama out continuing to act as an outsider.
Everything remains oriented toward class warfare and blaming the Republicans for every problem that exists.
If I had to sum up the Obama strategy in one sentence, that would be it.
Let me take a brief time out.
We'll come back and start putting all of this together, make the complex understandable here on the EIB network right after this.
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I wish somebody would do something.
I'm getting tired of reading about Alex Rodriguez every day in the sportsman.
Just do something.
Either put him back on the team or suspend him.
He may be facing a lifetime ban.
Did you know that, Snertley?
Yeah, apparently, Ryan Braun of the Milwaukee Brewers has got a 65-game suspension.
It'll last for the remainder of the season based on evidence put forward by his biogenetics fraudulent, basically a drug factory down in Miami that was giving these guys human growth hormone and whatever else they wanted.
And apparently, you know, Braun did not even fight it, which automatically grants credibility to this Bosch guy who ran the drug factory down in Miami.
And the scuttlebutt is that the data that Major League Baseball has on Rodriguez is mountainous compared to what they had on Ryan Braun of the Brewers.
So the scuttlebutt is, and you can never trust the scuttlebutt's conventional wisdom, is that A-Rod might be suspended from the game, like Pete Rose was by Bart Giamatti.
Certainly be suspended for longer than 65 games.
Supposedly, Rodriguez is trying to balance things so we're going to lose the $100 million the Yankees still owe him in the balance of his contract.
Anyway, every day, this is in the sports page.
That's all that's in the sports page.
And it's one of these things.
Would you just do something on it already so something else can start grabbing the headlines?
Now, this Ron Fournier business, I don't want to be misunderstood, folks.
I'm the one, I constantly tell you not to rely on the media to feel good.
I'm the one that constantly tells you the media is never going to see it our way.
They're never going to be on our side.
And I'm not saying that that's happening here.
I don't want to be misunderstood.
I don't think, for example, that Ron Fournier tweets or AP stories are going to result in Obama approval numbers plunging into the 20s.
What it means is the act is getting old, that Obama's modus operandi is getting old.
They're bored by it.
Kind of like people are bored waving and reading about A-Rod and whatever this mess is and however that's going to shake out.
Or whatever else you're bored with.
Obama has been making the same speech on the 19th or 20th time he's made this speech.
It's the media counting now.
So the act is getting old.
This campaign mode of fighting for the people, as though you're not running the country for four years, this effort that Obama's making, make himself look like he's an outsider with no power, trying to fix things and get elected finally to do something.
It's getting old.
The media is losing interest in supporting it and promulgating.
The campaign mode of fighting for the people has been exposed, this Limbaugh theorem.
So that all that means is that we have an opportunity here.
Might be a small one, but we have an opportunity with the media bored and tired and worn out of the Obama Act.
In his speech at Knox University or Knox College, Galesville, Illinois yesterday, Obama dismissed a series of controversies dogging his administration as phony.
Yeah, these scandals are all phony.
And even this story from thehill.com, they're not buying this.
Folks, it's not just that Obama has gone into reruns here.
You know how you get bored with TV reruns.
The media has seen it all.
They've covered it all.
They've encouraged it all.
They've inspired it all.
They've promoted it all.
They want Obama to do something different.
Obama's Apple.
They haven't had a new product in a year.
They want Obama to go into full-fledged dictator mode.
And Obama's in reruns.
Hell, he's not in reruns.
He's in syndication.
They're watching Seinfeld for the 30th time, not the second.
You ever wonder who it is, Brian, that watches episodes of Seinfeld for the 35th and 40th time?
Unlike Cable Channel 68.
And that's what the media feels like right now.
They've been there.
They've done that.
They've heard it all.
They've seen it all.
They've stood behind it all.
They want a new iPhone.
They want a new iPad.
They want something.
They want dictatorship.
They want Obama to run out there and take control of things instead of pretending like he's not in charge.
They want him to be a proud liberal.
They want him to take ownership of this stuff.
Instead, he's acting like he got nothing to do with it.
And that doesn't thrill them.
That doesn't excite them.
The Wiener stuff, the Huma stuff, that excites.
It's new.
Well, relatively new.
It's a replay of the Clinton stuff, but still it's got new characteristics to it.
But Obama is becoming old hat.
Hell, Seinfeld in syndication.
I love Lucy in syndication.
That's how old this act has gotten.
Well, I know Seinfeld's a good show.
I don't mean to focus on Seinfeld.
I just want to pick a show that everybody knows.
I know Seinfeld was a good show.
This is a bad show.
The Obama show stinks.
Nothing's working in the Obama show.
See, the media believes that what Obama was going to do when he took over, go dictator immediately, that was what this country needs.
Finally, central government running everything.
They wanted Obamacare fully implemented now.
They wanted immigration to be done by now.
They wanted Detroit bailed out by now.
They wanted every, they wanted this utopia.
They wanted it now, not just the media or the left.
And they're getting bored.
Obama's out there in little college towns speaking to the choir, repeating things that he'd been saying for five years, and they're getting tired of reporting it.
And I submit to you, ladies and gentlemen, this presents us an opportunity.
It doesn't mean that Obama's poll numbers are going to dip into the 20s like Bushes did.
It doesn't mean that there's going to be a massive call in the media for Obama to, you know, they're not going to turn him into a lame duck.
It's not that.
But they are bored.
They're waiting for something thrilling.
They're waiting for something new.
They're waiting for something exciting.
They don't have to get elected.
They are hangers-on in the ruling class, but they don't look at themselves as hangers-on.
They look at themselves as crucially important.
But the mainstream media doesn't have to get elected.
Obama and his party, they have to get elected.
So Obama has to do what he has continually done to get elected.
Obama hasn't gotten elected because of substance.
Obama got elected.
Democrats always get elected because of what they say Republicans are going to do to people, which is a continuation of what Obama's doing.
Well, the press knows that.
They've been there.
They've done that.
They're tired of hearing what the Republicans are going to do.
They've been reporting that.
Obama's out there saying that the Republicans are going to take your house away from you.
They're going to kick you out of your house if you're an elder.
They're going to cancel your Social Security.
Obama is out there.
The rich only care about Republicans and vice versa.
And the Republicans only care about Wall Street and so forth.
And they've been there.
They've done that.
They've heard it all.
That's why the subtext in most of the drive-by media complaints about Obama is how boring it is lately, about how boring he is.
They want him to be more.
They want him to be new.
They want him to be dramatic.
They want the guy to act.
They want a new iPhone.
It's been a year.
So when Obama goes out and says he hasn't been able to fix the economy in five years because he's been focused on phony scandals, the media says, wait a minute, we've been protecting you on that.
We have been helping deflect everybody's attention.
We've been telling people these scandals don't amount to much.
Why are you bringing them back up now?
See, we're supposed to believe that Fast and Furious, Benghazi, the IRS targeting of the Tea Party, by the way, this IRS scandal.
I don't, this is a whole nother subject, but for the life of me, I do not understand why the House leadership is not running with this.
I don't know why they haven't tried to find Manut Bowl or whoever, the fastest man in the world, and carried a ball on this forum.
This is made the order, this IRS scandal, and what we're learning about the targeting of various conservatives.
Christine O'Donnell is one, but it does reach all the way to Obama, apparently.
And there doesn't appear to be any desire on the part of the Republican leadership in the House doing about this or Benghazi.
It's a little frustrating.
The Department of Justice seizing of news media, phone records, the NSA data mining of millions of records, these are phony scandals.
These are very real scandals.
And Obama is telling his choir audience that he hasn't been able to focus on the economy because he's been distracted by all these phony scandals.
Didn't he make a solemn pledge to the families who lost loved ones in Menghazi that he's going to get to the bottom of it?
Didn't he tell them that he was going to find out what happened?
Why are people there being sequestered and kept away from microphones?
Why are the people who could shed light on this not allowed to do so?
Did Obama tell the family members of those killed Benghazi it's a phony scandal?
He's telling them that now.
Didn't Obama say that the IRS scandal is so outrageous it could not be permitted, he's going to get to the bottom of that too?
Was he lying then or is he lying now?
He told everybody how bad the IRS scandal was.
We just couldn't permit this.
But now that's a phony scandal.
Yeah, I saw that.
CNN, in the lower third, they got a Chiron graphic on the screen.
Is monogamy realistic in today's society?
I mean, that's just all in for Wiener and Huma.
Is monogamy realistic in today's society?
And the broader discussion is how America or how U.S. views differ from other countries' cultural attitudes about infidelity, how they're different here.
Different here?
Yeah, we're prudes.
Yeah, we're exactly.
The Europeans have this right.
The Europeans have got this monogamy thing down pat.
They don't believe in it.
Right.
Japanese go-to-hostess clubs.
Chi-Coms have it down pat.
We are prudes.
And the wiener story proves it.
That's what's being discussed on CNN right now.
Is monogamy realistic?
It's not.
Is monogamy overrated?
That is the question.
Okay, quick timeout.
We'll continue.
We've got much more straight ahead right after this.
Don't go away.
And we're back.
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Let's go to Janet in Shiloh, Illinois.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Last Man Standing.
I wanted to call and give you another reason why Detroit fell.
No one's touched upon this, and you're the one that needs to know it.
In 1970, there was a statewide ballot proposal by Governor Millikan for to allow taxpayers of Michigan to use tax dollars to pay for their children's religious educations.
And it was to help the Catholics, because historically, the Catholic Church at that point was transitioning from nuns to lay people to teaching.
So they were dealing with paying salaries and benefits.
And Governor Millikan thought this would really harm the Catholic schools.
And they have always been seen as a vital part of a healthy neighborhood.
It really integral.
And the ballot proposal got shot down.
And in Detroit, particularly, what you saw the next few years was the closing of Catholic schools.
And when the Catholic schools closed, the people in those neighborhoods were dependent upon the school system, the Detroit public school system, which we all know is a disaster.
And that caused people to leave neighborhoods they were connected to.
And the reason that's so important is because Obama really is doing the same thing today.
It's not money.
It's with the HHS mandate.
And with the mandate, he's going to force, as the bishops and cardinals have rightly said, we're going to have to close our schools.
And if we close those schools, not only will neighborhoods lose out, state budgets will implode because they'll have to take on the cost of educating Catholic school kids.
And what's going on in Chicago?
What did Rahm Emmanuel just do?
Didn't he just fire a thousand teachers he can't afford?
I mean, this is unbelievable.
The blueprint for what was done to Detroit, Obama has taken across this country.
And we're just getting all caught up in ridiculous things.
Like, you know, well, I'm not going to go.
I'll let you talk about it.
Well, what ridiculous things do you think we're getting caught up in?
What ridiculous things?
Well, okay, I thought you were marvelous yesterday, but I always think you're marvelous.
I'm probably your biggest fan.
The way you spoke, I hope that 24-year-old girl that's afraid of you was listening to you when you re-educated her on real women.
Hillary Clinton owns that marriage of Huma and Wiener.
You were the one who in the 90s were explaining in proper ways why we needed to hold Bill Clinton accountable.
And you were called every name in the book, and you still are to this day.
You are, I mean, I started listening to you because of Sidney Blumenthal telling me you had a problem on C-SPAN with strong women.
My gosh, you adore them.
Boy, that's for sure.
And he, I mean, Rush, Hillary, the reason they have to bail out Huma is to save Hillary's chances for 216, because if you are able to connect the dots from Huma to Hillary, because you can't see when you look at Hillary's original.
That is an excellent point.
That is an if Huma bails, what does that make Hillary look like?
Because everybody knows that Huma is Hillary's body person.
And Bill married them.
Bill, he presided over the marriage of Wiener and Huma.
I know this.
This is really for a couple.
The whole Democrat Party, the Clinton wing of the party is a mad magazine all on its own.
Yes.
You've got a great point here.
And I'm not trying to set your Detroit stuff aside.
I'll get back to that in just a second.
Here's Hillary, who is being reported as the mentor to Huma.
Right.
And advising Huma on how to handle all this.
And you've got to do it like I did.
This is the assumption.
Do it like I did, Huma.
Stand by the guy.
The guy's going to place when he gets there.
Take over.
You know, like I did.
The difference is nobody likes Weiner.
Right.
He's not likable, Rush.
He's not likable.
And that's what the Democrats need.
They thought Obama was more likable than Hillary.
He's not.
And now Hillary, he's making Hillary look good again.
Well, I don't think he is.
I've never thought any of them are likable.
Well, I know.
Clinton is an exception.
20 years, okay?
23 years.
Bill Clinton's an exception.
I'm on record as saying I'd love to go to a ballgame with a guy and chase women afterwards.
I mean, he's that kind of guy.
But there's nothing like, I've never thought Hillary's always been nurse ratchet to me.
Huma, I don't see anything but just stay away from that.
And Wiener is insane.
Wiener's an unbalanced lunatic.
But here's the point that you made that is really good.
So here's Hillary, the role model.
Hillary's shown every Hillary gave it all up at Yale, and she followed Bill to Arkansas, and she hung by him, and she hung in.
And doing so permitted Bill to become what he became, which then permitted Hillary to do what she wanted to do.
And Hillary's singing, now, Huma, you got to hang in there.
You got to hang in there.
Well, if Huma doesn't hang in there, what does it make Hillary look like?
Right.
So I think you're right.
I think Huma's hanging in there primarily because Hillary's, she may love the guy, but God, that's hard to imagine.
But look at, not, I mean, I don't even want to go there.
There's no explaining that.
I don't want to.
No, we shouldn't go there.
We don't need to go there.
That's the whole beauty of the Democratic Party these days.
We don't need to go to these places anymore.
They've gone there and we all see it.
I mean, technology has brought about wonderful exposures of these people.
We're just lucky Ted Kennedy didn't live long enough to have a Twitter account.
Well, but we don't all see it.
You're on a roll here.
If Ted Kennedy had a Twitter account.
How about Ted Kennedy had a YouTube account?
That'd be even better.
Yeah.
Anyway, the whole country doesn't see it.
Obama and the Democrats keep getting elected.
They don't see it.
The low-information crowd doesn't see it.
They still are mesmerized by all this.
Look, back to, because time is dwindling, what you said about schools and Detroit.
Let me tell you something.
Everything in the world to drive people out of the city in Detroit was happening.
The black riots in 1967.
Then Coleman Young gets elected mayor, and he turns the place into basically a separatist black nationalist enclave.
And he's happy with the white flight, the white flight to the suburbs.
It offers him the opportunity to continue to castigate them as people abandoning the city, yet trying to lead it from outside.
And the school system crumbling, which you described, which was a contributing factor to people fleeing.
Schools are crucially important to parents, or used to be, certainly were back in the 70s.
Catholic schools not standing.
And so everything that could have happened to drive people out of Detroit did.
And a lot of it was planned and orchestrated, and some of it wasn't, but it all added up to what we see now.
And the idea, the fact that you think Obama's got a blueprint for the rest of the country based on that is scary.
A lot of people think that too.
But you try to persuade others of that, and they can't possibly believe we'd ever have a president that would want that kind of thing to happen.
But why doesn't Obama go to Detroit and make an economic revival speech?
I've got to take a break, but think about that.
If you're going to go out and talk about the economy and reviving it, why not go to Detroit and do it?
Fastest three hours in media.
We've got to take a brief time out.
We'll be back and continue the EIB network and we'll include more of your phone calls.
So sit tight, folks.
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