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July 29, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 29, 2013, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Man, I love this.
I love it.
The Clintons are ticked off at the Wieners.
Oh, big time.
The Clintons are really mad that the Wieners are saying that Huma is just like Hillary.
The Clintons are running around behind the scenes saying, how dare they compare Huma with Hillary?
Hillary was the first lady.
Hillary was a senator.
She was a Secretary of State.
She was also a doormat, just like Huma is.
That's what the compared.
The Clintons are livid.
They're out there.
You know the media by this is the if you watch CNN and some of these other liberal cable.
Apparently 50-year-old film, now converted to video, of the uh the the family of Camelot, JFK and Jackie and then little two crumb crunchers.
They got some 50-year-old film running around.
Show what a wonderful family it is.
And there, and the media, I'm telling they're orgasming over it.
They're going gaga.
I mean, it's it's a it's a little snippet of Camelot.
And then I saw CNN go right into a story on the wieners from that without any apparent appreciation for the uh for the irony of it.
Anyway, I hope you all had a great weekend.
We're back.
We've got broadcast excellence for the next three hours.
Uh telephone number if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882, the email address L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
Uh ladies and gentlemen, I haven't received too much email on this, but I do want to get something out of the way here at the at the top.
There was another political story that ran last night on this program and the radio stations that uh it is on and is going to be on in the future.
And someday, someday, I am looking so forward to being able to detail all of this for you.
But suffice to say, nothing is gonna happen that you will notice.
Nothing is going to change.
You are going to be able to get this radio program on as many, if not more radio stations down the road than it's on now.
And what you're what you're being treated to is just a public business negotiation.
Negotiations have been taken public by one side of this when I thought it was done that was over with.
Um and that's I would folks, I would love.
I mean, I love inside baseball stuff, and I would love to pass this on, but I must use proper business restraint here.
But I just want to assure you, everything's cool.
Uh, and as always, what's on the table for this program is growth.
Bob Schiefer.
Get back to the news.
You know, there's uh uh uh all kinds of stuff about the Clintons and the Wieners uh today, and I want to get to that first and maybe brumittan get out of the way because it just is what it is.
Um we've also got Obama admitting the limbaugh theorem in um in a New York Times interview.
There's only really one segment of that that I want to comment on.
We also have uh listen, what else was four out of five this story is being so misreported and so misinterpreted.
The story about four out of five Americans living in poverty.
Uh this this story is it needs to be it's a it's uh it's an AP exclusive.
Four in five in U.S. face near poverty and no work.
Four out of five U.S. adults struggle with joblessness near poverty, or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives, a sign of deteriorating economic security and an elusive American dream.
Now there's some interesting details to this, but you could you could say that the way that was written that that could describe a number of American families since the founding.
I've been out of work seven times.
I've been broke twice.
I've never been on government welfare, but I have been everybody is has has come up against it.
Uh It's it's it's part of the American experience.
That's one way of looking at it, and a lot of people looking at it as a way to hammer Obama, and of course, we'll chime in with that with glee.
Uh we'll be right in there on that.
But AP doesn't see that.
And we got what uh Hurricane Katrina Vanden Hoovel was in ABC yesterday saying that capitalism destroyed Detroit.
By the way, in addition to Katrina Van and Hoobell, there are a number of drive-by media stories that happen over the weekend and this morning that are oriented toward making as many people as possible believe that everything you've heard about Detroit's bankruptcy isn't true, that it isn't due to liberalism.
It isn't due to unions, it isn't due to Democrat mayors.
It isn't due to the Democrat Party.
So the spinmeisters are in gear.
Uh, the liberals, wherever they are to be found, Democrat Party in the media, circling the wagons and doing it as they always will, as they always do, to protect the ideology, to protect the uh the lifestyle, to protect the cause.
Even in the midst of so glaring and obvious a failure as Detroit, they are still undertaking a massive effort to see to it if they can convince people that capitalism and the pursuit of happiness in the American dream led by corporate entities is responsible for what happened to Detroit.
So we'll get to that.
Bob Schiefer yesterday said the Wiener scandal is sickening.
He said that on CBS Slay the Nation.
Um NBC is planning, I think not just NBC, but a lot of them, but NBC specifically is planning for a Hillary Clinton TV miniseries in the run-up to 2016.
A couple of stories on this Jodon Fund has one in National Review Online.
There's another one from the Associated Press.
And of course, it is designed to grease the skids for Hillary's 2016 presidential campaign and ultimate nomination, which has been written in stone again in the Democrat Party.
The last time this was written in stone for Hillary being the nominee was 2007.
And then out of nowhere, a skinny Chicago senator came along that captivated everybody, and the Democrat Party decided to throw Hillary overboard.
But now Hillary's back, and she is accordingly a fate accompli, and the made-for-tv movies are in the works designed to shape and form everybody's public opinion about Mrs. Clinton.
And there will not be quite naturally any of the negative stuff.
Nothing on her Secretary of State, nothing on her as the well.
Actually, some of them are not even going to start until after Obama took office.
Nothing on the Bimbo eruptions, nothing on the Clinton presidential years.
It's going to be an all-out effort.
You're going to get sick at it.
I already am.
Frankly, I'm already talking, I'm tired of talking about the Clintons, other than as they amuse me.
And this amuses me in the sense that they're all ticked off at the wieners.
I just think that's hilarious.
Bill and Cl Hillary Clinton angry with efforts by Anthony Wiener and his campaign to compare his internet sexcapades and his wife Huma's incredible forgiveness to the Clinton's notorious White House sugger.
Clintons are upset with the comparisons that the Wieners seem to be encouraging, that Huma is standing by her man the way Hillary did with Bill, which is not what she did, in fact, said a top state Democrat.
Well, now that's and That makes me want to read further.
A top state Democrat in New York said Hillary did not stand by her man.
What did she do then?
Wiener and his campaign aides have explicitly referred to the Clintons as they privately seek to convince skeptical Democrats that voters can back Wiener, despite his online sexual antics, just as they supported then President Clinton in the face of repeated allegations of marital betrayals.
I'll tell you something, folks.
I think people saying this have a point.
The media and the Democrats, if they are to be consistent, ought to be defending Wiener all the time.
They didn't have a problem with what Clinton did.
The media didn't have a problem with Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.
What did he do?
He destroyed the life of a 19-year-old.
He was having oral sex in the White House in the Oval Office with a 19-year-old intern.
He lied in grand jury testimony.
But yet the media was all there all the time defending him and trying to make Ken Starr out to be the sex pervert.
Now, if the and and and and going after all the women.
The media did their best to destroy Paula Jones, Kathleen Willie, Juanita Broderick, Jennifer Flowers, you name it.
If the media were being consistent, they would now be trying to destroy all the women sexting with Wiener.
If the media and the Democrats are trying to be consistent, they would be telling us, hey, it doesn't affect Wiener's ability to govern.
If they're being consistent, they'd be praising Huma for standing by her man the way they praised Hillary.
Because it is identical.
So all of these Democrats, Bob Schiefer, where were you?
If this sickens you, why didn't the Clintons?
Is that not a legitimate question?
If Wiener's sending photos of his member to young girls on the internet sickens you.
Well then why doesn't what happened with Clinton's Wiener?
Sicken you.
You see the inconsistency here.
Well, that's true.
There are no pictures of Clinton.
And there weren't because he didn't tweet any, because there weren't any tweets.
At least not as you and I know them.
And it's true, there aren't any pictures of what Clinton did.
There's this confirmation and proof in other forms, but no pictures.
But still, where's the defense?
They told us, hey, it's sex, it's a private matter, it doesn't affect his job and the way he governs.
Where is that excuse for Wiener?
They are being inconsistent with this.
What it all boils down, they don't like Wiener.
There are nothing very likable about the guy.
He's not really done anything except cause them trouble.
He's noted for going on TV and yelling at Fox anchors and anchorettes, and then trying to get their phone number afterwards.
But that's it.
He hasn't really accomplished anything.
Clinton, of course, took the Democrat Party to New Lowe's.
And about that there are things to celebrate.
So anyway, we've got audio soundbites to support all that, and who knows what's going to happen.
We'll just do the program, and as it happens, it happens, and we'll be here.
Don't go away, be right back.
You hear about the big Jewel Heist and Conn, 35 million pounds worth of jewels, the British pound, not weight.
A lot of money.
And it was at the uh the Carlton International Hotel, which is where, if you've seen the movie, the Hitchcock movie to catch a thief, was uh was filmed at that hotel and the surrounding environment.
Funny, great movie.
Anyway, CNN just had a banner up on the screen that said robber steals 163 million dollars worth of jewels from Posh Hotel.
Robber took jewels while unarmed.
Security guards just watched.
Now, is CNN all of a sudden encouraging security guards having guns?
Maybe even shooting people when they're just stealing property.
What's the big deal about the security guards being unarmed to CNN think they should be?
And if they do, isn't that a little hypocritical?
Diane Lane, you guys know who Diane Lane is, the actress.
She is she's gonna play Hillary in the NBC television movie of uh of Mrs. Clinton.
Well, I was I was not all that familiar.
I know that she used to be married to Josh uh Josh Brolin.
And she was in um some movie that took place in Venice when she was a teenage, it was her debut.
I can't remember the name of it, but um anyway, I am just I don't know if she's got the legs to pull this off or she can fill out a pantsuit.
The way Hillary fills out a pantsuit.
Well, I know there, you know, that's a good point.
There are uh prosthetics that can be used in makeup.
I should have thought of that.
Okay, never mind.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
Nothing to worry about there, folks.
They can make it they can make it happen.
Umrea Mitchell.
So subtle, so subtle.
Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, was on the Today Show today, and the co-host at Savannah Guthrie spoke to her about the comparisons made between Huma Abdon and Hillary Clinton.
Savannah Guthrie said, where are the Clintons on all of this?
Andrea, you know them uh well.
How do they feel about Wiener and this continued campaign?
This is terribly painful from people close to the Clintons, friends of both.
They care deeply about Huma, but this is getting to the point where it is really splashing up against the Clintons.
People have been making comparisons to the way Hillary Clinton handled Bill Clinton's difficulties in the 1992 campaign, and it's just uh only going to reach a further point if he stays in this race.
So they are not at all happy, they are loyal to Huma, but at this point, even some friends, mutual friends, are saying, why is she letting this happen to Hillary Clinton, her longtime mentor?
She can't stop it.
Nobody can stop this.
How can how can how can Huma let this happen to Hillary?
How could Huma stand by her man?
In one of the stories, there is somebody who says, why how can Huma do this?
How could Huma go out and do this and humiliate him?
What by the way, what the 92 campaign?
How about the second term?
I mean, it was a never-ending lifestyle with the Clintons.
There were bimbo eruptions all the time.
You you can't be alive and paying even scant attention and not see the similarities.
I think it is hilarious that the Clintons are putting a story out there that they are offended.
That they're hurt, that they're it's terribly painful, that they're really, really starting to get mad at Huma for behaving in such a way as to draw comparisons to Hillary.
Here's Bob Schiefer, he was on Slay the Nation yesterday.
People are talking about Wiener's wife, uh Hillary Clinton was her mentor.
She was a very close aide to her.
Now she some people saying she's taking a page from Hillary Clinton's book to stand by your man.
My sense of it from just a politics point of view, she's doing Hillary Clinton no favors whatsoever.
If Hillary Clinton is planning to run for president herself, bringing all this up again and reminding people of it uh is not uh helping her mentor.
She's not trying to help Hillary, she's trying to save herself, Bob.
By the way, Bob said that this whole thing is sickening.
He said about the Anthony Wiener story, has been said before.
Actually, several things.
One, it's not funny, it's sickening.
He said sickening in his a in his commentary section yesterday's face the nation.
Bob, you you people are all missing the point here.
Huma is not trying to help Hillary and her campaign here.
Huma is trying to save Wiener.
And she's doing it, Andrea, by emulating Hillary.
This is why they all the speculation last week.
And maybe the two had talked, and Hillary had told Huma how to do it.
Because Huma was replicating what Hillary did.
But this idea that, you know, Huma not helping Hillary with all this.
I mean, her run for president, bringing all this up again, reminding people of it's not helping her mentor.
She's trying to save herself.
She's married to an absolute buffoon, and she's trying to save herself and the marriage because of what it might mean to her politically.
You see this?
I'll tell you what, folks, it's just unbelievable.
This is I don't.
I don't believe what I just saw.
Mexican prostitutes find their voice.
That's the latest news on CNN.
learning journalism so they can tell their stories.
No, it's not that prostitutes and journalism is news.
That's not the story.
Prostitutes and journalism go together.
That I mean.
I do not believe I saw this.
Prostitutes in Mexico.
What did it say?
Prostitutes in Mexico get their story out.
Yeah, find their voice.
Mexican prostitutes find their voice.
And this is, I guess, related to what?
Amnesty?
Why else would we be concerned with whether or not Mexican prostitutes can talk?
Folks, I just glanced up.
New Zealand Chef, you're too fat.
That's the next story on the CNN.
Mexican prostitutes find their voice.
A good thing.
That's what that means.
A good thing.
Mexican prostitutes find their voice.
Learning journalism to tell.
Okay.
By the way, uh, I've been thinking about this uh Clinton and Wiener thing.
And I can see, by the way, why Bill Clinton would be mad at the comparison to Wiener.
I don't I don't understand why Hillary would be upset being compared to Huma.
But apparently Hillary is livid being compared to Huma.
That I don't understand.
I can see why Clinton would be mad.
Why Bill would be upset being compared to to Wiener.
Well, no, when it when it came when it comes to having an affair, Clinton did it.
He walked the walk.
Wiener just out there sending pictures.
Wiener is a pretender.
But Clinton, when you're talking about having affairs, Clinton is the real deal.
Wiener is just hiding on the internet.
So I can understand why that would upset Bill.
Hey man, if you're gonna do something, you do it.
Yeah.
I mean, I went so far as to ask the turf of my own camino.
You can you can't you compare yourself to me, you are a Packer, Wiener.
Well, I know.
Yeah, that I know all that that all the stories about how Huma was on Hillary's wing, under Hillary's wing.
That's that's why the stories are out there.
The then the drive-by media speculation was that Huma was being advised by Hillary.
That's what's great about this is that is that now the Clintons are upset at being compared, And I'm sorry, nobody has to write the story.
The comparison is just there.
No, I don't think Sterdley just asked me.
I don't think they were ever serious about repealing health care.
The Republicans.
I don't think they ever were.
I think that it has been lip service from the get-go.
The votes to stop me.
The leadership, House and Senate, I don't think they've ever really been serious about repealing Obamagare.
Especially since the Supreme Court does it.
I don't think so.
Well, here's why.
But now's as good a time as any.
If you go back and remember, as soon as Obamacare was signed into law, there was a we're not going to put up with every Republican running for office, promised we're going to do everything we can to repeal this, right?
That's what the Tea Party wanted.
It's what most Americans today still want is this bill to not go full-fledged effect.
Most Americans still don't like it.
And it's an increasing number.
And now the unions are joining the chorus, the anti-Obamacare chorus.
Then the Supreme Court decision happened, and the Republicans ramped up again.
And they say, well, we are.
But now the Republican leadership in Washington is saying, nah, there's not really anything we can do now.
You have Mike Lee, senator from Utah, who has a plan to defund large elements of Obamacare in the continuing resolution fight coming up in September.
And a bunch of Republicans are saying, nah, we really shouldn't.
Dumb idea.
Can't do it.
Wouldn't make any sense.
So I'm wondering, did they ever mean it in the first place, then?
And I have to tell you, I shouldn't, you know, it's easy to say this in hindsight.
I always have had my suspicions about this.
But have you noticed, just in the last uh, I guess week to ten days, an increasing number of Republicans, House and Senate both, and leadership and high ranking, are just totally caving on it.
And they want no part of Mike Lee's effort, and they're out laughing at it or making fun of it, or saying it doesn't have a prayer or it's dumb or it's stupid or what have you.
And it that's what has led me to question how serious they were at first when they talked about trying to repeal it.
I know that they were saying what people wanted to hear, politicians do, but there was a little bit of me that thought they that they meant it.
They're Republicans.
Nobody ought to be in favor of this.
I mean, it's we've been it's a disaster.
It's an absolute.
But now the the energy has gone from the uh from the opposition.
And something's happened.
Excuse me, folks, something has changed that has taken the wind out of the sails of all these Republicans who opposed it.
Now I know a lot of polls have been taken, and the polls that the Republicans see, who knows?
Maybe they've got a misleading poll that's got them thinking the country doesn't want it.
I don't think that's true.
I just, I just I don't think they were ever really let's put it this way.
It may be incorrect to say that they were never serious about repeal.
Maybe the more accurate thing to say is they were never really serious about rolling up their sleeves and following through on the fight.
That may be more accurate.
Because if they were what's happened, more and more Americans are signing on to opposition.
You would think that the opposition party would want to link up with that for political reasons alone, just to curry favor, just to be On the side of the majority.
But it's just the exact opposite.
As more and more people, at least as expressed in polls, want Obamacare repealed and oppose it for one reason or another.
Seems like more and more Republicans are throwing in the towel on it.
Anyway, quick timeout.
Gotta take it.
We'll be back and resume.
Right after this.
Don't go.
Snerdley, I think what happened is somebody, somebody took a poll.
And the results of the poll, they asked, are you in favor of uh health care reform?
And of course, 80% said, yeah, we're in favor of health care reform.
So the poll was shown to Republicans, and they interpreted that as meaning 80% in favor of Obamacare.
The poll did not ask about Obamacare.
The poll asked about health care route.
I don't know, American crossroads or something.
I don't know who.
I don't know who.
But that's one of the explanations that I have heard that would explain this.
Because really, you go back, Obamacare gets passed, and there's there's outrage from the Republicans as to how the whole thing happened in Congress.
And it was, I mean, it was it was the whole process to get the bill signed into law was an exercise of corruption.
And everybody said, okay, well, the Supreme Court will fix it.
Just like just like uh they were gonna fix campaign finance reform.
But every white, everybody was continuing to profess their opposition to Obamacare.
And we're you give us a chance that we're gonna repeal this.
People ran for office on the concept of repealing Obamacare.
Romney made it was a huge deal.
The first thing Romney was gonna do was repeal Obamacare, remember.
And the second thing he was gonna do was get to the bottom of Benghazi.
The third thing he was gonna do is fix the economy and get rid of a bunch of as much of Obamaism as he could.
But one of the first things he said he was going to do was sign a repeal of Obamacare, and a bunch of Republicans sign onto it.
Then the Supreme Court comes out, John Roberts says, you know what, they gave me a call the other night, and I guess it's can it's it's constitutional now, this this whole yes, oh the wind went at everybody's sails for a while, and then the Republicans came right back, we're gonna repeal this thing, we're gonna defund this thing.
And it wasn't two or three, it was a lot of Republicans.
Now, when a way has been presented of doing this, they've thrown in the towel.
The leadership and others are saying it'd be dumb idea, stupid idea, it would uh wreck the Republican Party.
And it just makes me question how serious they were from the beginning on repealing it versus how much of what they were saying was simply saying what they thought people wanted to hear.
And I know I'm not naive.
I know that that's a lot of what politics is.
I'm just saying, here's a chance.
Uh I just I'm stunned.
I get right down to it here.
We have an opposition party, forget liberal versus conservative.
And we know the Republican Party does not want to be.
The party leadership does not want it to be a conservative party.
We know that, but they are still the Republican Party.
And I thought they still wanted to beat Democrats.
I thought the Republicans wanted the chairmanship of all the committees in the Senate.
And that's why they didn't like Christine O'Donnell and Sharon Angle, because they thought they would lose, and the Republicans are missing out on their chance to get the committee chairmanships.
I always thought the Republicans at least wanted to beat the Democrats.
Maybe they don't want to be a conservative party, but it didn't doesn't even seem to be any pushback by the Republicans against the Democrats in Obamacare and Amnesty.
It appears there's acquiescence, doesn't it?
Well, it does, I mean, I hate to say it, don't miss it.
I'm not I'm not sitting here reveling in this, but this what it appears to me.
We gotta be like the Democrats.
We gotta go out, we gotta get the Hispanics, they hate us.
You know, whatever the Democrats say about us, we accept as truth, and then come up with a policy based on that.
Slow walk it, you know, cane walk it, whatever.
They still want amnesty.
They still want it.
There's no pushback.
Are you seeing any pushback on it?
Well, that's not there is some.
I I uh I don't want to say that everybody has is caved, but it just I don't know, it seems like it's a lot of work.
I know there's a profound that's that's the I think the thing that's that's guiding the Republican Party today is just abject fear.
And they're afraid of of the wrong things.
I mean, fear can be a good thing, but can be an incredible motivator.
Anyway, just my observations off the top of my head.
Here's Bob Schiefer, by the way, we have the soundbite where Schiefer thinks that what Wiener did is sickening.
What can be said about the Anthony Wiener story that hasn't been said before?
Actually, several things.
One, it is not funny, it is sickening.
Two, it is important.
What the mayor of New York says matters far beyond the New York City limits, which is why someone with Anthony Wiener's problems has no business there and should leave the race.
Anthony Wiener is not an entertaining kook.
He is a new age flasher who is traded the traditional raincoat that can be opened to show his wares for a digital camera that enables him to expose himself to the world, a dubious technological achievement.
Okay, all well and good, but where was all this on Clinton?
Where was this attitude on Clinton?
You know, you corrupting a young girl in the Oval Office, Lewinsky's in there, all the philandering, all uh well known.
Now, again, there's a big difference.
Clinton actually had the affairs.
Weiner is just pretending here with these photos.
Clinton actually went out there and went to bed with these babes.
Weiner is fantasizing.
And I can see why Clinton would be upset being compared to that.
The Huma Hillary comparison, I don't see why Hillary is that upset.
Here's uh Didi Myers also on Face the Nation yesterday.
Look, this isn't a story that anybody particularly the Clintons is happy to see splashed all over the you know, front pages and all over the news relentlessly.
And I think they, as much as anyone would like to see this go away.
And so, you know, if they could choose, they would certainly have Wiener get out of the race and Huma get on with her life.
It's very painful for the Clintons because they they're genuinely very close to Huma.
She is a confident of Mrs. Clinton's and of President Clinton's, and um, you know, it's not a comparable situation in a lot of ways to what I think Hillary Clinton went through.
Well, how's it different?
What do you mean it's not comparable?
It's exactly the same thing.
You got a philandering husband, you got a wife that needs to stand by the guy or his career is kaput.
Where was where was Bob Scheefer during JFK's heyday?
I mean, look at folks, this isn't really anything new here.
And but but she said this isn't a story that anybody, particularly Clinton's is happy to see splashed all over the front page splashed.
Ugh.
So anyway, that wraps it up on that.
I mean, that's that's the Huma Hillary Bill and Anthony show for today.
And I just find it hilarious, folks.
I say it again that the Clintons are just livid at this comparison.
Umbe it's a bit of an insult to Hillary.
I mean, look, she didn't just stand by her man.
She went on national TV and lied her head off about Bill's affairs, and Huma didn't do that.
Huma's admitted it and seems to be accepting it.
Hillary lied about it.
She trashed the women involved as liars, and she blamed a vast right wing conspiracy.
And Huma's not doing So I can see where maybe Bill and Hillary both would be let down because these two are Pikers, not real players in this arena.
The American Crossroads poll also asked, Do you think the government should be shut down?
Good idea or bad idea to risk shutting down the government in an effort to get rid of the law.
And a majority of Americans in this poll said, nope, don't shut down the government.
And that has iced the Republicans.
Since they've seen a poll that most Americans don't want the government shut down, that's it.
Over.
No more question.
We're out of here, done.
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