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Aug. 14, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 14, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #2
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I've got the uh the full Anderson or Ashton Kutcher soundbite in which he describes these jobs that not one of which he felt was beneath him.
Now again, I you might think I'm making too much of this, and I might be.
I just I have been profoundly distressed privately with all the pessimism in this country.
You know, I've I've been blessed.
I've had so many wonderful things uh happened to me, and admittedly I've made some of those happen.
But I really believe if I can anybody can, and the idea that that this country's over in that regard just offends me as much as is anything being said by the fatalists and the doomsdayers, but they're poisoning the minds of young people who are going to determine the kind of country this is.
Their minds are being polluted, perverted, and poisoned with nothing but negativism and pessimism, which is easy.
It's easy to be depressed.
It's easy to be fatalistic and and and down in the dumps.
And it's easy to take refuge in the fact that you have no confidence that other people better than you are.
And this pessimism is being taught, it's being ingrained in people during the formative years of their education.
And what that means is this country is being lied about to these people.
Young people are being told lies and falsehoods about the the absolute unique, wonderful, great God given opportunity to live in this country and be an American, and it just irritates me beyond my ability to express it.
So when an actor of an age that is similar to the people we're talking about, articulates what you and I not only believe but know to be true.
I'm curious.
Now, again, I don't know Ashton Kutcher, and I've I've never heard him opine on anything before.
So I don't want I'm not trying to impugn at all.
I'm I'm actually trying to thank him, and uh hope this keeps up.
I know he's a Democrat.
As an actor, I know that he likes jobs.
He likes working.
They that's one thing.
Actors do like work because it isn't steady.
And most of the people do it because they love it and they want to do it.
But I also know many actors and actresses become the people they portray.
Um how many instances are there of, say, Jessica Lang testifying before Congress on agriculture problems because she played a farm wife in a movie about the Dust Bowl.
Now Hollywood senators bring her up as an expert, because they want to meet actresses too.
So it's it's it's a it's entirely possible that thatcher, exposed to Steve Jobs playing the role of jobs in this movie, had to absorb some of this.
Maybe this is who he is.
I'm not, again, impugning, but I do think that this is important.
It's just, and it's one of a series of little things happening out there that have not been happening in the past four and a half years that that could signal a turnaround of some kind.
Now here's the full quote.
Where did I put here it is?
This is where he mentions the jobs.
The quote that I played soundbite previously uh made it sound like he was just talking about there wasn't an acting job that he's had that he thought he was better than.
But here he details the kind of work that he's had what he's talking about.
I believe that opportunity looks a lot like hard work.
When I was 13, I had my first job with my dad carrying shingles up to the roof.
And then I got a job washing dishes at a restaurant.
And then I got a job in a grocery store deli.
And then I got a job in a factory sweeping Cheerio dust off the ground.
And I've never had a job in my life that I was better than.
I was always just lucky to have a job.
And every job I had was a stepping stone to my next job.
And I never quit my job until I had my next job.
And so opportunities look a lot like work.
So you can say what you want, but here's a here's a man.
Most of his fans think he was born on the red carpet.
They think he was born married to Demi Moore.
They think he was born on two and a half men.
And they're finding out something entirely different.
And it's it's di it's it's the it's completely opposite to what they're being taught elsewhere.
So kudos to Ashton Kutcher.
I'm sure by the time he hears about this, I will be the devil incarnate.
But regardless, kudos to him for that's again with Sunday night at the Teen Choice Awards.
Now, UK telegraph.
New York Times, by the way, the New York Times website is still down.
It has been hacked.
And it is a I would say it's a safe bet to say that the reason the Times has been hacked is that they have a story that exposes the Clinton Global Initiative, the Clinton charity.
It exposes it as something something really wrong with this thing, is their is their point.
There's something, many things really wrong with the Clinton Global Initiative.
And a guy named Tim Stanley at the UK Telegraph opens his headlines the story, the New York Times takes down the Clinton Foundation.
This could be devastating for Bill and Hillary.
And here is the lead is the New York Times being guest edited by Rush Limbaugh.
What that means is the New York Times doing an honest appraisal of the Clintons.
That's what that means.
On this program, September 16th, 2005.
I was talking about the Clinton Global Initiative.
Lo and behold, here's the Clinton Global Initiative, which is really nothing more than a platform for two things.
Clinton finally finding a legacy.
He doesn't know that he already has one.
Her name is Monica Lewinsky.
The second thing is to provide a foundation for Hillary Clinton's presidential perspirations.
And that's the purpose of this thing.
Back in 2005, eight years ago, your host, El Rushbow, pointing out what the real purpose of it was.
And I also added, it's a it's a it's a great way for Clinton to get women.
I mean, you ought to see the people that go to this thing.
They come from they come from all over the world.
This the Clinton Global Initiative meeting, if you will, in New York is always timed around the same time in October, September when the uh when a UN General Assembly is meeting.
So you've got people from all over the world, and they and they go.
I've I've I've told a story.
The only time I met Clinton was in a New York restaurant during the Clinton Global Initiative.
And I'm I won't bore you with it, but uh uh, but he had he had uh Mayor Via Garosa via Ragosa with him and Ron Burkle uh and and so forth.
And then Via Ragosa was sent around to distract me, basically.
I don't want to go into it.
Look, I want to stick with the story.
Because the Times website has been hacked because of this.
And I've got a couple of pull quotes from it before it went down.
And in a nutshell, the New York Times piece is suggesting that the Clinton Global Initiative, the Foundation, takes in calculable millions of dollars, and yet every year it's running a deficit.
And the New York Times is subtly suggesting that things may not be kosher here, that there may be something wrong somewhere here, because it it really does.
I mean, people left and right donate to this thing.
The people that have donated to Clinton, the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor in Little Rock, and the Clinton Global Initiative, I mean, people have given money to Bill Clinton.
It's one of the most amazing things.
People throw money at this guy, and it's...
Obviously, this foundation has that is one of its purposes a stage setter for a Hillary presidency or presidential campaign.
The New York Times also suggests that while the Clinton charity, the Clinton Foundation, is running huge deficits despite all these donations, the Clintons always seem to be doing very well.
The Clintons always find a way to profit from the philanthropy.
Now, as you know, one of the charities that we have two primary charities that we're associated with, the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation and the Leukemia Lymphoma Society of America.
And what is noteworthy about both of them is their small overhead.
The Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation basically turns every dollar donated around back to the charity.
The Leukemia lymphoma societies and the 90% here the Clintons run a deficit.
There aren't too many charities or foundations that do this.
And certainly not with the multiple millions that are donated to Clinton.
Something set the New York Times onto this.
This is, and as as as Tim Stanley says the UK Telegraph, this could be devastating for Bill and Hillary.
And you throw and Hillary there.
So who Bono?
Who benefits here?
Who benefits from an expose of the Clinton Global Initiative, which basically suggests that the Clintons are getting rich off of philanthropy?
That doesn't philanthropy is you getting rid of your wealth, not acquiring it.
What?
What'd you say?
Who benefits from this?
Okay, so well, who would be Hillary's potential rivals for the presidential nomination Democrat Party 2016?
Well, let's mention some names.
Biden, Chris Christie, uh Andrew Cuomo, Rahm Emanuel.
I wouldn't be surprised if either of those two have have presidential aspirations themselves.
But who benefits from this?
John Kerry, maybe.
Somebody upset at Hillary over Benghazi.
There could be any number of reasons, but then after you go through all that, then folks, you have to ask why did the Times agree.
I mean, they didn't have to run this.
This is news.
This is not breaking news.
This is an expose.
So when it comes, it has to be about Democrat Party politics.
It has to be.
Odds are.
So what this means is that the Times either in a vacuum doesn't want a Hillary presidency, or may not, or has sided with somebody who does.
We don't know.
We don't know anything.
All we know is we can't believe this.
The New York Times, daring.
I mean, the whole, you know, since Whitewater, since the early days of the Clinton 92 presidential campaign in the early days of the presidency, one of the it has been patently obvious that among many of the things the Clintons wanted was wealth.
The Clintons are typical of people in the 80s who saw a robust growing economy, and they saw people getting rich, and they're typical liberals, and then they think a lot of people took shortcuts and had special favors, sweetheart deals, and that's how they got.
And they didn't work, didn't work at it.
No, it's it was connections.
It was connections, sweetheart deals, and they got rich.
So there was Whitewater.
And that's what Whitewater was.
It was an attempt to get rich.
Well, not working.
The cattle futures investment attempt to get rich without working.
The Clintons brag about their wealth.
They both do.
Anytime tax policy is mentioned, Bill Clinton will stand, you know, uh, I got a lot of money now, and I don't need a tax cut.
You know, I really don't.
It got so bad we put together a parody, Bill Clinton and a game show.
I'm richer than you are.
Because it's these two, I think, have been obsessed because all their lives they're around these fabulously wealthy donors.
And Hollywood people, and Clinton's making 25 grand as governor of Arkansas, and Hillary's making a hundred grand at the Rose Law firm, and they're hanging around real wealth.
Jim Wolfenson at the World Bank with 15 homes around the world and so forth, and I've they wanted in on it, and they've now pulled it off.
And here comes the New York Times.
What they're really asking is, are the Clintons living off some of this money that's being donated to the foundation?
That is the specter being raised here.
Now that, folks, is profound.
Here's a money quote from the one one of the many money quotes from the New York Times story.
For all of its successes, the Clinton Foundation had become a sprawling concern, supervised by a rotating board of old Clinton hands, vulnerable to distraction, threatened by conflicts of interest.
It ran multimillion dollar deficits for several years, despite vast amounts of money flowing in.
That's what they're saying.
How do you get rich running a charity?
How do you get rich?
How does your charity end up owing millions?
Deficits of multiple millions when that's what you're receiving in donations.
Gotta take a timeout.
Sit tight, my friends.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
And we're back.
And the EIB network and El Rushbo having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
The New York Times in this story does go into uh into how Bill has parlayed the contacts from his foundation and the money for himself.
They make no bones about this.
Getting rich off of philanthropy.
Getting rich off of running a charity.
I'm not saying that hasn't been done before, but when it's done, it's it's it's it's not kosher.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, let me say you're you're dealing here with a guy who can see the stitches on a fastball.
You're dealing with the guy who can catch the spin on the curveball.
There is another reason why the New York Times is doing this.
Possible reason.
Snerdley, you will marvel at this.
This is one of these Snerdley's gonna end up calling me a great thinker again.
You have to think like these people do in order to see way, way out.
Okay, here we are in 2013.
Presidential campaign 2015.
Maybe the Clintons and the New York Times got word that Hillary rivals were going to really make a big deal out of this.
So the Clintons and the Times get together.
See, let's do the story now so that we can say in 2015 it's old news.
It's been reported.
There was nothing there.
I mean, it ran in the New York Times and nothing happened.
We didn't lose any donors, and there was nothing there.
There was nothing to it.
It's been done.
It's old news.
That's also a distinct possibility.
We just don't know.
But the one thing we do know is that it is really unusual.
Because Democrats are not exposed this way in the New York Times unless they are under orders to be taken out by party hierarchy.
The other thing we know is that the New York Times website is down and people can't get to this damn story.
Read the damn thing.
They've been hacked.
We'll be back.
Yeah, I know it is interesting.
I've been telling everybody all of these other email outfits.
They're scanning your emails.
They're taking data from your emails to give to advertisers to target advertised to you.
And it really isn't any big deal.
I don't think too many people are actually aware of the scope of it.
Well, big deal.
It is the the advertiser targeting stuff.
That's the But here's the thing.
Google is is this they're admitting it now.
Google told a court that you cannot expect privacy when sending messages via Gmail.
And if you care about privacy, you shouldn't be using their service.
This is a consumer watchdog saying this.
This is a consumer watchdog web server.
Don't doubt me.
Your safest bet here, even for those of you on the left, is don't doubt me.
And by the way, uh I somebody did some uh deep digging.
Ashton Kutcher has been totally in the tank for Barack Obama from the from the get-go.
Totally in the tank for Obama.
I d I don't want to analyzing that.
I very easily could.
That's just that's just being hip.
What Ashton Kutcher, what what Kutcher, what he said in these sound bites has nothing in common with what with Barack Obama.
There's not one thing Ashton Kutcher said that Barack Obama actually believes or would say or inspire and mean it.
Not one.
Nothing really in common there, other than cool hip Democrat, what have you.
Okay, let's go to the phones because people have been patiently waiting here.
Jennifer in uh Downingtown, Pennsylvania.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
You're up first today.
Thank you for waiting.
Thank you, and thanks for having me on the the air, Mr. Limbaugh.
Just a quick point about our president and the rodeo clown.
Uh shame on the Rodeo Clown for uh doing the event.
And uh, you know, shame on uh everyone who's having you know so so much so many problems with this, because as I'm sure you remember uh back when the campaign was full in full swing for presidency, Sarah Palin was hung in effigy over uh I think it was Halloween.
Let me tell you there were there were assassination books and movies about George W. Bush.
There have been Halloween clown costumes for Obama.
There have been Halloween costumes for Bush.
This is common.
I do remember.
That's what I'm saying.
I agree with you.
Yes.
Is there more?
Did I interrupt you or is there?
You know, I just wanted to point that out and just, you know, I don't I I mean, did Mr. Well, you started up by saying shame on the clown.
Why?
That's a good question.
That's why I thought there might be more.
You started out ripping the clown a new one, and then you started making excuses for the clown.
So I thought there was additional wisdom forthcoming.
Yeah, I just think it's not a wise thing to do.
However, I'm just wondering if Mr. Obama had anything to say about Sarah Palin hanging an effigy.
Here's the thing about this.
Uh you know, I w we've got people out there that are.
Do we have a call about this?
Somebody calling the KKK was like the KKK out there.
There's somebody th uh uh uh Jennifer, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
Somebody that was at the state fair is describing it like a KKK rally.
Now come on, folks.
We this has gotten so far out of hand.
This, as I said at the top of the program, this clown has now been banned for life.
This we have put a man in jail for supposedly producing an anti-Muslim video that caused four deaths in Benghazi that he had nothing to do with.
We have the the in in in the Netherlands we had the uh the Mohammed cartoons and all hell broke loose that you these are the people out there preaching tolerance.
We've got to be tolerant of gay marriage, we have to be tolerant of this, tolerant of that, tolerant of all this crap.
They are the most intolerant, and they have absolutely no sense of humor.
They cannot take a punch, they cannot take a joke.
And not only can they not take it, they then embark on an effort to ruin the lives of people who do nothing more than harmlessly offend them.
I d I want to full disclosure, I have not seen anything but a still picture of this clown.
I've not seen the act, I haven't watched any video, because I'm not big on website video.
Just I've just just me.
I've not watched it, just seen the still.
Uh and it's clear to me what this is all about.
This is all about race.
And it's all about the fact that we're not gonna make fun of the first black president.
If this were Bill Clinton in the White House and that clown had put on a Clinton mask, this would not have even been a story.
Now he's got these people running around, everybody scared to death, running around in literal fear if they don't get on the bandwagon that the clown needs to be destroyed, the fair needs to be shut down, and Missouri needs to secede from the country.
This is no different than this irrational reaction to the uh to the Mohammed cartoons.
It's exactly what this is.
It this is just it's absurd.
This is so over the top.
It it really bothers me about the the whole scope of censorship and the First Amendment uh the idea of people unable to laugh at themselves, and I'll tell you the real thing here.
The President of the United States is sitting here watching this kind of thing rip the country apart, and he could shut it down, he could stop it.
But this guy, Barack Obama, he can't laugh at himself, and he doesn't want anybody else.
That isn't gonna happen.
He's above it all, folks.
You don't dare.
I think we're dealing with somebody literally spoiled rotten from the early days of their lives, and it's just embarrassing.
The whole event, the whole thing, the reaction to it, the thing that happened, but this clown, that clown, a comedian.
A freaking rodeo.
They don't even do rodeos anymore except for jokes.
It's a fair exercise.
A clown for crying out loud.
Late night Bill, this this clown couldn't hold a candle to some of the stuff Bill Maher has said.
And nobody makes a move on Bill Maher to shut him up and ruin him and get him thrown off the air and HBO canceled and all that.
This clown has been banned for life.
Think about that.
A rodeo clown.
A rodeo clown has been banned for life.
The only people worse than this clown are people at smoke.
Meanwhile, Arod continues to play for the New York Yankees.
Well, I just thought I'd throw that in there.
I won't be surprised if this clown gets thrown in jail like the filmmaker was.
Nakula Nakula, who made the anti-Mohammed video.
Obama tried to blame that for the Benghazi attack.
Why didn't he just drone the state fair instead of going through all this?
Obama just launch a drone and have the drone attack the state fair and show Missouri what's what.
This is what happens when you dare criticize or laugh at our dear leader.
So here's another job destroyed because of Obama, which we ought to be used to by now.
If I were Obama, you know, I'd be bigger than this.
I just I would pardon the clown and I would turn it around, and if you want to make it look like something silly and ridiculous and childish, Obama could do that, put this thing in its place, and humiliate everybody involved himself and be done with it, make it a positive event.
Instead of the way this is all happening, this is just outrageous to me.
I think the president needs to do something for Oprah too.
It's all falling apart for Oprah.
We need a bag summit.
The White House.
We need the store clerk brought to Martha's Vineyard over from Switzerland.
We need Oprah taken up there, and the store clerk and Oprah and Obama have a bag summit in the backyard of this place he's renting.
Isn't that how they've solved problems like this in the uh in the past?
I don't know, folks.
I uh I mean this this hysteria.
That's what this is.
This is hysteria because of this Missouri State Fair thing.
And it's the same kind of hysteria we get when somebody insults Mohammed.
And I just when do we become a country?
On the same level as that.
End of the day this was harmless.
And now they're talking, well, it promoted violence.
Oh, give me a break.
It was a rodeo clown.
Promoted violence.
So you have here the uh the president of the Missouri Rodeo Cowboy Association's resigned after getting flack about the state fair event.
An attorney for the rodeo announcer said that the announcer's resignation from the group is not an acknowledgement of wrongdoing on his part, but rather a protest that the association's not banned, the Rodeo.
So the announcer is is resigning in protest.
A clown hasn't been banned, and now the clown has been.
What a bunch of gutless.
Cover your ass wonders we have here.
Cover your ass wonders we have here.
Ficken is the announcer, Mark Ficken, his resignation from the rodeo group, comes as he's now trying to hold on to his job as superintendent of the Boonville County Scrual District.
The Scrual System announced Monday it's hiring an investigator to look into whether the announcer at the rodeo was involved in any inappropriate conduct during the Saturday bull riding event at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia.
Utter irrational hysteria here.
And I, Ill Rushbo take another brief time out.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Stay with us, folks.
And welcome back, folks.
Wonderful to have you.
L. Rushbow.
Your guiding light, serving humanity, executing a scient host duties flawlessly, zero mistakes.
Okay, Mr. Broadcast Engineer, we go to the audio soundbite, so let's see.
We want to do uh.
Yep, number four and five.
Bob Filner.
San Diego mayor.
I have made the observation that the feminazis are ignoring this.
I mean, you've got massive sexual harassment going on here.
You have it in spades.
And I've referenced the fact that we don't see Gloria Allred making this a huge national cause celebration.
And we haven't had the Democrat Party make a big deal of it and getting stories about how Clinton taught this guy everything he knows and endorsed him and all of that.
So last night on San Diego's eyeball news, CBS News at at 11, News 8 at 11.
They're doing a report on Mayor Filner and in new sexual harassment charges.
The anchor Carlo Chaquetto introduced his report with this.
Bob Filner isn't the only one coming under fire in the sexual harassment scandal.
Rush Limbaugh is accusing feminists of ignoring it, and Powerhouse Attorney Gloria Allred of doing nothing.
Wow.
There they have it, see.
Rush Limbaugh accusing a feminist of ignoring it.
Powerhouse attorney Gloria Allred of doing nothing.
Now, in fairness to Gloria Allred, she does represent two of Filner's accusers.
But she has been doing it in a perfunctory way.
She's not on national TV every day, ripping into Filner.
She's not on national TV every day talking about what a reprobate is and how unfortunate it has been for her clients and all the hell and trouble her clients have been put through.
She's not doing all that.
She is representing a couple.
But from all appearances, it's behind the scene.
She has not been screaming from the rooftop.
She hasn't been declaring war on women because there's a Democrat involved.
Now she's starting to stir, however.
I wonder why.
They now go to their package at News 8, eyeball news, 11 p.m.
Here's a portion of the reporter Matt Johnson.
Reporting on Mayor Filner's new sexual harassment charges.
And Gloria Allred is in this bite.
As this story gets more and more national attention, more people are having their say about it.
You can add Rush Limbaugh to that list after he said that more feminists need to stand up against Filner, including Gloria Allred.
Now, Allred is already representing two people who have claimed that the mayor has sexually harassed them and hints that more are on the way.
Perhaps he's hoping that by not talking about the sexual harassment allegations, they will go away.
I can assure you they will not.
Rush Limbaugh suggested that people are going too easy on the Democratic Mayor by saying, quote, the response by all the usual suspects to this mayor, his name is Filner, is nothing.
Gloria Allred's not doing anything.
Allred says that's untrue, as she may already be planning a news conference with a third alleged Bob Filner victim.
You will be seeing me back in San Diego very soon, probably this week.
She'd already been there.
If this were a Republican being charged with all of these sex crimes.
So she got a couple clients, in all fairness, got a couple clients, but there's no, you know, pounding the high heels on the table and demanding fairness and talking about all the abuse.
And no language here about any war on women that's taking place.
So but now she's uh she's gonna be back in San Diego.
So she got a third client.
So anyway, that's uh eyeball news eight at eleven.
San Diego last night.
Talking about just a I shouldn't say this.
Did I talk about this Monday?
I must have, because I don't remember saying any of this stuff.
I'm not denying it, I'm sure I did talk about Filner.
I'm just Monday.
Was it last week?
Okay.
Because you know, Monday I finished the show and I said, I'm sorry, folks, there was just nothing to talk about.
And even when there's nothing to talk about, I can make it interesting, true.
But I had.
I mean, this is such old news.
I had forgotten I had said any of this.
I I want to thank News 8, Eyeball News, uh, San Diego, for reminding me of what I'd said.
And here is the PS de résistance.
Missouri officials are now saying that before they take part in any future state fair, the Missouri Rodeo Cowboy Association must provide evidence to the director of the Missouri State Fair that they have proof.
And all officials and subcontractors have successfully participated in sensitivity training.
I kid you not.
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