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Aug. 16, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 16, 2013, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Greetings, greetings, my friends, and welcome.
Yes, the Drive-By Media today is apoplectic.
All the news that's going on out there, the drive-bys are beside themselves that I might actually moderate a presidential debate.
And you know why they're worried about it?
The NBC political reporter Mike O'Brien gave it up.
They're worried that I might end up picking the Republican nominee and not them.
That's what bothers them.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's open line Friday.
I mean, get this.
HR, he gets off the train on the way into work today, goes into his favorite coffee shop.
Not a Starbucks, is it?
It's a local.
Yeah, okay.
Okay, before you get on Jersey, it's a local, local coffee shop where he gets on the train.
He walks in and they're talking about this.
You know, I was talking about it with Snerdley today.
None of these people are picking up on, you know, I was having fun toying with them.
I'll tell you, the most fun I have, well, it may be hard to say the most fun, but I mean, ranking right there in the top five things that are the most fun about this job is toying with the media.
It is so easy to play these people.
Anyway, they're all out there reacting to this, but they're not reacting to what I expected they would react to, and that is my saying I was too famous to do it.
They are, I thought they'd really have fun with that.
I thought they said Limbaugh's lost it now.
But no, they're taking it seriously and they're scared to death.
And they're really worried about this.
And I think the reason is they want to pick our nominee.
That's really what it boils down to.
The Democrat media wants to pick our nominee like they do every year.
Let's see, where is it?
Yeah, Mike O'Brien, who's the NBC political reporter, he said that if Republicans believe that Limbaugh and Hannity and Levin are the best moderators to vet candidates for the general election, they deserve their eventual nominee.
Now, isn't he basically saying that the drive-by moderators think it's their job to vet the candidates?
Not theirs, ours.
It's their job to vet the candidates.
They think they're the ones who should pick the nominee.
And I don't know whether this O'Brien guy knows that he's even admitting that, but it sounds like that's what he's saying to me.
I mean, look, the reason I think that's because I know that's how they look at it.
They want to pick our nominee.
They want to be the ones to determine who is the Republican.
It's one of the main arguments we make every four years on this program about, well, the fact that they do it.
Anyway, folks, it's great to have you here as we wrap up another big week of broadcast excellence.
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But on Friday, that's not the case.
Pretty much whatever you wish to discuss, question, comment, feel free.
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Well, what kind of person do you think I would pick?
Well, I was listening.
No, I didn't, no, I didn't.
I'm sorry.
Somebody sent me a transcript of Howard Dean on MSNBC last night.
And, you know, this is to me professionally, this is kind of interesting.
Howard Dean said, well, what are they going to do?
Tell everybody that the Republican Party hates gays and hates women, and that any woman takes birth control pills is a prostitute.
Is that what they're going to say?
And it indicated to me just how grossly the people on the left misunderstand this program.
You know, let me give you a way of illustrating this.
And I'm not going to mention any names because I don't want to affect whatever they do next.
The entertainment media cannot figure out my comments on Ashton Kutcher and his comments at the Teen Choice Awards.
They played those audio soundbites.
And I highlighted and praised Kutcher's comment, and they can't believe it.
They just, they think that I hate anything and everybody in Hollywood.
And they cannot get their arms around the fact that I actually said something positive about Ashton Kutcher.
It doesn't compute.
Folks, you know this as well as I do because you confront it.
The people who do not listen to this program have one of the most distorted views of what it is than anything in our culture.
The people who do not listen to this program but think they know everything that happens here are, they could not be more wrong.
And when they're confronted, I mean, what Ashton Kutcher said about jobs, about work, about opportunity is something I've been saying for 25 years.
Anybody who listens to this program regularly should not have been surprised at all what I said about Ashton Kutcher.
But it doesn't compute.
They can't figure it out.
They're trying to figure out, well, what's the trick?
It is, it is really strange.
Here you have the most listened-to radio talk show in the country, and these people, the most strident critics, have never listened to it.
Howard Dean has no idea what he's talking about when he sits there and says, well, Hannity and Limbaugh and Levin, they simply make sure the candidate hates women, hates birth control pills.
They have no clue what they're talking about.
And maybe it's the opposite.
Maybe they do, and they're purposefully distorting it.
I think it's a little bit of both.
Well, Howard Dean blames me for his losing the Democrat primary in whatever year that was.
Was it 2000?
But it's still, it's as though this radio show has a secret decoder ring, and only you people have the password.
And the critics of this show never listen to it.
They find out from third and fourth place sources what they think happened here.
It really, so this, this, they can't get, they just cannot believe that I didn't rip Ashton Kutcher to shreds simply because he's a Hollywood actor.
There are a couple of different entertainment outlets who have written about it, and you can tell when you read it that they're confused, that they don't quite get it.
And the same thing on this, moderating the Republican debate.
It's clear that the people in the drive-bys want to vet the candidates.
They want to choose ours.
And they're just terribly concerned that a candidate other than the one they would choose might end up getting the nomination if debates were moderated by me and Levin and Hannity and who else.
Now, just to show you, ladies and gentlemen, how on the brain of everybody on the left I am.
I live rent-free in Obama's head, and I think over half the drive-by media heads.
I live there.
Let's go to the audio soundbites.
CNN reporting on the rodeo clown.
What do I have to do with the rodeo clown in Missouri?
Nothing.
Zilch Zeronada.
I wasn't there.
I don't know the clown.
The closest anything could be is I was born in Missouri.
And let me ask a question.
There may be something I don't know.
The clown, the actual clown, was the actual clown a radio guy.
Does anybody know that?
Have you heard that?
Seriously, because it matters for this soundbite.
Here, listen, it's Wolf Blitzer.
And he's talking about the rodeo clown, but clearly the focus is on me.
If you listen to what Wolf says in his setup.
Clowns are supposed to make people laugh, but when our radio clown at a Missouri State Fair made fun of President Obama, started a national debate that's getting louder and angrier right now.
Here's CNN's Athena Jones.
Does anybody, seriously, I don't know.
I'm asking, I genuinely need the information.
Does anybody know the clown in Missouri works on the radio?
I haven't seen it.
I haven't seen it anywhere.
That's news.
If the clown in Missouri works, but yet Wolf thinks he does.
Who is Wolf thinking about when he says when a radio clown at a Missouri state fair made fun of Obama?
What's he thinking of?
Now, I stand to be correct.
I have not heard that the radio clown or that the clown in Missouri works on the radio.
I've not heard that.
Nobody said that to me, but I have not read everything about it, so I can't conclusively say.
But if the clown has nothing to do with radio, what in the world is Wolf Blitzer thinking here?
So now we go to Athena, what's her name?
Athena Jones, the CNN infobabe.
This is last night on the Situation Room.
And here is her report after Wolf and his grand introduction.
This is infantile.
This is childish.
This is worse than political correctness.
The firestorm over this clown act mocking the president has created a firestorm of its own.
Conservative commentators like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are defending the act that caused an uproar with moments like this.
President Obama, hey, I know I'm a clown.
He just run around acting like one doesn't know he is one.
this.
The Missouri chapter of the NAACP wants the Secret Service and the Justice Department to investigate the incident.
I spoke with the Secret Service about this, and a spokesman there told me they're aware of the incident, but they've determined that this behavior does not rise to the level of a threat.
The Justice Department is declining to comment at this time.
They had to call a Secret Service.
They had to call a Secret Service to find out that this act does not rise to the level of a threat.
The NAACP is calling this a hate crime.
It's a clown.
Anyway, another little clarification.
I haven't spent much time defending the act of the clown.
What gets me is this insane, irrational overreaction to it.
Now, that, my friends, has been my focus.
Because to me, the way the left in this country is behaving is no different than radical Islamists when they see Mohammed being made fun of in cartoons.
That's how irrational the people in this, the left in this country is being over.
This is a nothing thing.
Clowns make fun of things.
Clowns are comedians.
And the clown goes out wearing an Obama mask.
And because Obama happens to be African American, we've got a hate crime now.
And of course, all this is done on purpose.
This is all about silencing and eliminating any opposition.
This is embarrassing.
This is a national embarrassment, the reaction to this.
With the news that we have today of the NSA, this massive amount of spying they've been doing, the mistakes they have been making, quote unquote, I mean, the Washington Post, I mean, you could legitimately ask today if I'm now editing the Washington Post, as well as asking if I'm editing the New York Times.
The Washington Post just jumps all over the regime and the NSA for what the excesses here are, it's worse than anybody thought.
What the NSA has been doing, spying and information gathering on American citizens, monitoring phone calls.
It's just almost too massive to describe in ways that are understandable.
There are multiple stories in the Washington Post on this NSA blockbuster that suggests this is not a random act of journalism.
There's a column by Eugene Robinson.
There's a couple of other stories.
They have the facts.
They're quoting Obama to demonstrate a significant contradiction all on the same day.
You know, Obama's told people your phone calls are not being listened to.
Nobody cares.
The exact opposite.
Everybody's phone calls are being monitored.
This is 1984.
This is really Orwellian what is happening with this.
We've had the New York Times investigating the Clintons.
We have Reggie Love on the record demonstrating Obama's half-baked approach to commander-in-chief duties.
And now the Washington Post emptying out every last barrel of ink, exposing a president, running a rough shot over the Constitution, lying about it via the NSA spying scandal.
We also have a Washington Post story, Obama rodeo clown incident illustrates nation's continued racial divide.
It does no such thing.
It indicates the absolute intolerance and Stalin-like mentality of the American left.
Doesn't indicate that we have some sort of Racial divide?
Although we do, and who's responsible for that?
Who continues to talk about racial differences?
Who continues to highlight them?
Not us.
The Democrat Party and the American left.
Here's the head of the Missouri NAALCP, the National Association for the Advancement of Liberal Colored People, yesterday in Las Vegas, talking about the situation with the rodeo clown.
She is named Mary Ratliff, and here's what she had to say about the clown wearing the Obama mask.
It is an outrage.
Obama has been treated certainly differently than any other president.
I think that a hate crime occurred.
I think a hate crime occurs when you use a person race to despict who they are and to make degrading comments, gestures, et cetera, against them.
See, it's not possible, therefore, to not be racist.
I mean, if you're going to put on an Obama mask and there are plenty of them sold for Halloween, how can you not wear an Obama mask that makes him look like an African-American?
Anyway, I take a break here as we inch on head-on down the line.
Open Line Friday, El Rushball, back after this.
Don't go away.
Great to have you with us, my friends.
Another exciting, busy broadcast day here.
Open Line Friday, 800-282-2882.
The Washington Post says that the Obama rodeo clown incident illustrates the nation's continued racial divide.
Now, the purpose of this story in the Washington Post is to show what a bunch of redneck, right-wing racist hicks were at the fair.
And one of the most telling signs that there were a bunch of red-neck, right-wing racists at the Missouri State Fair was this.
The Wednesday crowd at the fair, which lasts 11 days in Sedalia, was overwhelmingly white.
Some vendors played right-wing talk radio from boom boxes at their tip.
Well, there you have it.
They had boom boxes with talk radio on it.
It had to be racist.
If they had boom boxes with Jay-Z playing out there about hoes and B.I. itches, it wouldn't have been racist, would it?
No, it would have been art.
That would have been high culture.
Washington Post Peace also claimed the broomstick that the clown shoved up his back was a racist attack.
That's the whole joke.
The Obama clown was supposed to be a dummy on a stick, like a scarecrow, who suddenly comes alive when the bull chases it.
That was the shtick.
That was the routine.
It's an old rodeo tradition.
And all these learned leftists who disdain American culture don't even know that.
Well, there you have it.
The RNC has approved its resolution to bar CNN and NBC from their presidential primary debates.
CNN and NBC officially banned.
RNC just passed the resolution.
Greetings.
Welcome back.
Open Line Friday, El Rushbow.
You know, folks, the elitists in this country, and they all reside.
Well, not all.
The vast majority of them are on the left.
And it is striking how ignorant they are of life in this country for the vast majority of people.
And not only are they unaware of what life is like for the vast majority of this country, they think they know everything about it and they hold it in contempt.
A classic illustration is the Missouri State Fair in Seville.
Just the concept of a state fair is foreign to them.
So they don't have state fairs in Europe.
And they don't have clowns that actually talk in Europe.
I mean, Europe, they've got mimes.
And they don't say anything.
They don't offend anybody.
People like Marcel Marceau running around, street urchins and corner artists that sit around and mime things.
But they don't offend anybody because they don't talk.
So they don't have state fairs in Europe, and they don't have clowns in Europe.
And they don't have anything in Europe that's hayseed or hick.
I mean, there's no modern equivalent to a cowboy in Europe.
There's nowhere in Europe that's comparable to Louisiana.
You'd never have a show like Duck Dynasty ever make the BBC.
It just wouldn't happen.
And if it did, they'd be profoundly embarrassed.
And then they would fire whoever ran the BBC if they ever put a show like Duck Dynasty on it.
They really, it's striking.
You know, the divide in this country is not racial, it's cultural.
And it's on one side, you have these holier-than-thou phony pseudo-intellectual elites who look with contempt on everybody who's different than they are, all the while preaching tolerance and understanding for the minorities of our country, the people who are put upon by the majority.
And they're always minorities based on the color of their skin or their gender or their sexual orientation.
But they have no idea.
The New York, Washington, Boston corridor, they've got no idea.
The Seattle, L.A., San Francisco Court, they've got no idea what goes on in 85% of this country, but they think they do, and they look upon all of it with disdain.
So you get to the Missouri State Fair or the Texas State Fair or any state fair.
And just the fact that there is one, it may as well be another planet, not a state.
And the whole concept of a fair, what happens at fair?
I mean, you go to a fair and you're dodging horse and cow manure and eating salt water, taffy, and cotton can, all this rotten stuff that kills you, and corn dogs and fried stuff.
I mean, yuck!
Just the whole mental picture that they conceive of what would happen at a state fair.
It's just dirty.
It's filthy.
It's like Neanderthal.
It's like caveman kind of stuff.
And the men are dragging women around by the hair, and the women and the men all talk like this, and they're doing nothing but going to church, and they talk about abortion all the time, and it's embarrassed everybody.
It's just a shame they're Americans.
And they view all this outside of every four years when there's a presidential race.
They view it all with contempt.
So you have the Missouri State Fair, and there's a rodeo tradition.
And it's been done with every president, Bush 41, many other presidents, celebrities.
And I must say, even the AP managed to report this part a couple of days ago, and they got fairly close to it.
It's been ignored, but the AP did report it.
Here's what they said.
The clown was meant to be imitating a dummy, according to Missouri Rodeo Cowboy Association member David Berry.
That's the routine.
The clown is imitating a dummy, like a scarecrow.
And that's what the stick, the broomstick that the clown had in the back of his shirt, he's supposed to be like a scarecrow.
He's an idiot.
He's an inanimate object.
Comes to life when the bull starts running towards him.
That's the joke.
By definition, the clown is a fool.
The clown is an idiot, not a political commentator.
By definition, he's a clown.
He's out there trying to make little kids laugh and everybody else laugh.
And it's no mean feat, by the way, to stay out of the way of an on-rushing bull.
They often dress as sitting presidents, Mr. Berry's.
And that's even in the AP story.
And the joke is not that it was, that the clown was the president.
That's not the joke.
They drag out this clown, this person dressed like a dummy, and all of a sudden, the dummy just takes off running.
Frightened by an on-rushing bull.
And the clowns always dress up as political figures or whatever.
But here's how the Washington Post described it on, I think, Saturday, earlier this week.
At the rodeo here last Saturday night, a clown wearing an Obama mask stood on the arena's dirt floor, propped up like a straw man, with the appearance that a broomstick was stuck up his backside.
So they don't even, they haven't the slightest idea, these cultural arbiters, these smarter than everybody people in the room wouldn't dare attend a state fair other than to do an expose on it and laugh about it and write a story about what is happening to our country.
Look at what these people here actually do.
And as such, just like they don't listen to this program and don't really have any idea what happens here, they have no idea what the role of a clown is at a state fair.
So they think that the clown had this stick up his butt making fun of Obama for a whole bunch of, they totally misunderstand it.
And of course, the people involved are too frightened to defend this, which is another aspect of this kind of thing.
The clown now done forever.
The state fair organizer done forever.
You have the governor, the lieutenant governor, the media, everybody clomping down on this as though it's the greatest offense that has ever happened in humanity.
And there's nobody willing to try to explain this for what it really is because there's nothing to be gained by it.
The truth doesn't matter.
The perception is all that matters.
And scoring the political point in this clown incident is nothing more than the latest effort, opportunity, the left and the Democrat Party to advance their agenda.
And part and parcel of that agenda is tarring and feathering their opposition, mischaracterizing them, impugning them, discrediting them.
So the clown in this instance is any Republican candidate for any office or a radio talk show host or whatever the left designates the clown to be.
The whole event here is nothing more than an eagerly accepted, happily accepted event to advance the Democrat agenda.
They're not really outraged.
They're not really upset.
They know exactly what this presents them.
While at the same time, if somebody sat down and explained to them what clown acts at rodeos are all about, they wouldn't get it, wouldn't hear about it, wouldn't want to hear about it, wouldn't want to report the truth because that's not the point.
This incident fits an ongoing, never-ending narrative that the left and the Democrat Party have established.
And it fits that mold and it's used for that purpose.
All the while, people who really know what's going on don't have the courage to stand up and defend this because, well, it's sad.
You can't really blame them on what are they going to do.
You see the whole country aligning against you and what you do.
And the path of least resistance is to tuck your tail between your legs and go away and hope people forget you and it, the incident.
And so when things like this happen, there's no.
I don't know how many people on our side even realize what this is and why it needs to be explained to people and why the real culprits here and why the real egregious behavior is being perpetrated by people on the left.
The real quote-unquote crime here is not what happened at the fair.
It's what's being done with this.
Because it furthers the left's mischaracterizations and lies about their political opponents.
That's why they seek this.
They love this.
In truth, folks.
They love this.
They act outraged.
They act offended.
They act like a hate crime.
And of course, their rank-and-file doofuses in their underwear and their pajamas, posting anonymous comments on their blogs, actually do believe it's a hate crime and actually do believe it's all this.
And these irresponsible, drooling, slobber-infested, missing a bunch of teeth people posting their comments on their websites, they end up becoming a hate-filled army for the Democrat Party.
Brief timeout.
We'll be back.
We'll continue.
By the way, there's a story in the Politico today.
It's almost impossible to find an establishment Republican in town who's not downright morose about the 2013 that has been and is about to be.
And this piece is an illustration of why it is the Republicans have no hope.
And you know why they have no hope?
Because most of their voters are like the clown.
It doesn't say that.
Read between the lines.
Most Republican voters hate gays, hate blacks, hate women.
And they are preventing the Republicans from reaching out to people they're going to need to win.
Hispanics, gays, blacks, women, transgenders.
Details coming up.
Don't go away, folks.
By the way, before we go to the phones, there's a perp here in this clown story.
And his name, I believe, is Perry Beam.
Perry B-E-A-M.
He is the one-man band who did the video and has been pushing this everywhere he can.
And he's the guy feeding the media on this.
And he says, it's a Washington Post story.
He says, you can disagree with a government policy.
That doesn't prompt you to put a stick up your backside and incite the crowd to say, many of you want to see him trampled by a bull.
If you're a white man in a black mask in a former slave-holding state with a broom lodged in your rectum and you're playing with your lips, you're going to be confused with a racist.
Except didn't happen.
The act is the clown plays a dummy on us, like a scarecrow.
There's no broom up the rectum for crying out loud.
This isn't the New York Police Department.
That happened to somebody named Abner Louema.
It did not happen to Obama.
Oh, Snerdley remembers that.
This is absurd.
This is outrageous.
So you've got a one-man band misrepresenting this to everybody with some clever-sounding language.
Slave-holding state, black man, white man, black mask, with a broom lodged in your rectus.
Believe me, if that had been the case, that audience would have walked out of this.
The audience of the Missouri State Fair is not going to sit there and watch something recreated that depicts a broomstick up somebody's rectum.
They aren't going to put up with that.
That's not what happened.
That's not what these clown acts are.
The audience, had that been the case, would have left because they would have been offended.
As would any other commonsensical person.
Let me go to the phones.
We'll start here.
In my adopted hometown, Sacramento, California.
It's Robbie.
Great to have you.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Last week you were talking about why my generation doesn't have hope.
And I've been thinking a lot about that.
And it struck me that for thousands of years of human history, for almost all the history of the United States, human beings have understood that we have a choice about how our lives are going to play out.
And we have a choice to overcome our backgrounds if we come out of a rough background.
But a movement has been mounting, and we've talked about it before, but it's kind of taboo to talk about, I've found.
But a movement has been mounting throughout probably in the 19th century, then grew momentum in the 20th century.
And possibly for the first time, it's been universally accepted in my generation that you're born with it.
You don't have a choice.
You're born with it.
If I was an alcoholic, you're going to be an alcoholic.
Your mom was a drug addict.
You're going to be a drug addict.
You've got bipolar?
Oh, you were born with that.
You can take this medication, by the way.
If you ever get off, you're going to commit suicide.
That's what all our statistics tell us.
And it seems to me that psychology and psychiatry and so-called science has been betraying my generation.
Why would we have hope?
We're told that we're born this way.
We can't do anything about it.
Robbie.
Yeah?
You're right.
You are more right than you even know.
You have hit the nail on the head.
Your generation is being told you don't have any choice.
Not only that, your parents, they're causing the globe to get warm.
They're causing global warming.
Your parents are destroying your world.
And you are too, if you're not doing the right thing.
You are exactly right.
This country, because of freedom, you've always had a choice.
You can be a bum.
You can choose not to work.
You can choose to live on whatever you can be given, or you can make your way in life.
Your generation is being told you don't have any choice because you don't have any free will.
You are predestined to misery and failure because everybody around you is that.
And as such, you must turn over your life to Democrats or to government or whoever who will protect you and coddle you and walk you through this misery and this maze.
I think she is so right about this.
She's explaining why this fog of depression and pessimism has swept over the millennial generation is because they are being told that theirs is a life of predestiny with no choice whatsoever and it's all negative.
I've got to take a break, but we'll be back.
I want to expand a little bit on what she said when we come back from the break at the top of the arm because she nailed it.
She nailed it.
Young people are being told it's being implied.
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