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Aug. 21, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 21, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Now what is this?
Look at that on Fox.
Look at that.
Now don't turn it on, folks.
I've done that for you.
Don't.
I'm just, I'm just, don't, don't, you don't need to turn on Fox.
It says the Republicans are backing away from a government shutdown strategy to defund Obamacare.
There never was a government shutdown strategy.
What do you mean Republicans are backing away from a government shutdown?
There never was one.
All there was was a bunch of idle chit-chat about it, but there were never anyway, folks, it's great to have here Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I have to tell you something.
It is not often that I, El Rushbo, get surprised.
Yesterday, I ended up surprised.
One of my closest friends, Roger Ailes.
I met Roger Ailes in 1989 or 90 in New York, a couple of years after I had moved there.
And he ended up being the executive producer of my TV show.
He used to have these just absolutely fabulous Saturday afternoon summertime water volleyball games with all the crowd at his house.
At the time, he lived at Croton on Hudson.
And I've maintained a close relationship with him.
Yesterday, there's this news story that hits that Ailes' right-hand man, the only executive at Fox that dares offer a contrary view, but he does wait in private to do it, had been fired.
Guy named Brian Lewis.
He was the PR executive.
And he was.
I mean, he was in the executive suite, and he was in charge of PR, not just for Fox News, but 20th Century Fox so forth.
He was portrayed.
I never heard of this guy is the point.
I didn't know the guy existed.
Don't misunderstand.
I'm not, this is how well you can know somebody.
And this guy is apparently Roger's right-hand man, and he handles all the PR.
And, you know, there's a book coming out.
You know, Zeb Chaffetz wrote a biography of Ailes, and there's another book coming out, I guess, in January, by a guy who writes for The New Yorker.
No, New York Magazine.
And apparently, this right-hand man, this Brian Lewis guy, has been leaking all kinds of critical, unflattering stuff about Roger for a number of years now.
And so two weeks ago, he was fired and walked out of the building, escorted out by other security.
There was some talk of financial irregularities and so forth.
So the news today, the news today is that Ailes is all alone.
Snerdley, can you believe?
Roger Ailes, all alone, hunkered down in the corner of his office, huddled in fear, unable to face the day because his chief number one right-hand guy was fired two weeks ago and is gone.
Roger Ailes doesn't need a right-hand man.
I mean, all of this is a little bit trumped up.
I'm not denying that this guy, Brian Lewis, worked there.
Don't misunderstand.
And I'm not saying that he wasn't important because I didn't know him.
That's a whole different story.
I mean, I don't know a whole lot of executives at Fox.
It's not that I know everybody and have heard of this guy.
I don't know hardly any of them.
But Rogers never talked about this guy to me.
I do not know, did not know he existed.
And yet it's being portrayed that Roger cannot face the day without this guy.
And I just wanted to assure everybody that Ailes isn't alone.
I know a lot of your Fox News devotees.
Ailes isn't alone, and it wouldn't matter if he was.
He can handle it.
Anyway, I did feel strange.
I mean, the guy's name is Brian Lewis, and when you look at a picture of him, he looks like a Brian Lewis.
Do you hear somebody, well, that's not an insult.
Do you often hear people, you read, you hear people look at people's names.
Do you wonder what they look like?
Well, this guy looked like what I thought a Brian Lewis would look like.
That's all I'm saying.
It's neither good or bad.
What is so funny about that?
Well, there's no prejudice involved because it's not a critical view.
I mean, he just looked like what I thought a guy named Brian Lewis would look like.
No, not nerdy.
I'm not going to describe it.
It just looks like, you know, an average run-of-the-mill white guy, Brian Lewis.
How many of them are there?
15,000 in America?
He looks like one of them.
That's all.
If Roger Ailes had a son, he'd look like Brian Lewis.
Roger does have a son named Zachary.
And by the way, anyway, it's just, there is such fear of Fox News, like there is of this program, and really fear of Ailes, that they're just, you know, nobody's successful.
The real point of this is nobody is successful of Ailes could really have done it on their own.
Isn't that one of the fundamental aspects of liberalism that nobody really ever does anything by themselves?
Everybody has help.
Everybody has assistance.
Nobody does it all by themselves.
And so here comes this opportunity for these guys to portray that the guy who really made Ailes who he is, the guy who really did Ailes thinking for him, the guy who, and they're also portraying him as Ailes' guy that kept Ailes in line from being a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe extremist.
That's how they're portraying this guy, the guy who got fired for some financials.
They're not being very open about this.
There are going to be lawyers going back and forth.
But apparently he was leaking stuff to this other biographer whose book is coming out.
I don't know how this was discovered.
What?
I have no idea if the NSA was involved.
See, it was the NS.
I don't know.
I do not know how, whoever found out what here.
It was two weeks ago when this happened.
I do not know what the leak was.
But I mean, the message is Ailes didn't build that.
See, that's what the left wants to pull off here with this whole story.
Ailes didn't build that.
Nobody builds anything on their own.
Nobody's single-handedly that smart and that effective.
Everybody needs assistance.
Everybody needs help.
It takes a village, and all of that.
And I'm just telling you, I know Roger very well, and I never, he never mentioned this guy to me.
Ever.
And if he did, well, he didn't, because I didn't remember it.
Anyway, The only reason I'm bringing that up is because I'm watching Fox Here as the show starts and they're doing some segment here on the Republicans backing away from a government shutdown strategiery on defunding Obamacare.
I don't know what I missed there, but I don't know about you.
Did you ever believe the Republicans in the House were ever, particularly at the leadership level, were ever considering anything that would shut down the government?
Never been a realistic possibility.
And yet, here comes the news: another Republican failure.
Now they're backing, getting smart.
Getting smart.
Ladies and gentlemen, I hope, I hope that people appreciate what a public service that we provide here, the EIB network.
And one of the many things that we do here is keep people from being bored.
The one thing that will never happen to you if you listen to this program every day is you will never be bored.
Safe to say.
Never ever.
We keep and save people from being bored.
We've been, in fact, this whole week, and there's going to be more of it today.
It may even become an ongoing miniature project.
We've been trying to reach out to young people, the millennials, especially.
Just think how many lives we have saved over the years because there is no boredom.
Let me ask you a question.
Even if you have gotten bored, did you ever think about just randomly going to killing somebody?
Did you ever think about doing that when you were bored?
I mean, we all do get bored.
None of us are bored during these three hours, but you're on your own when the program ends.
And when you get bored, you ever think, you know what, let's go shoot somebody.
Well, that's what these three guys did.
Oklahoma, they got bored.
Let's go shoot a white guy.
Folks, I got to tell you, there's something else about this.
This is Trayvon Martin in reverse, only worse.
This was nowhere near self-defense.
I mean, this is just cold-blooded.
First-degree, recreational, for the fun of it, because they were bored murder.
And you have, what is it, two black guys and a white guy in the group.
No matter where you look in the media, it's not a racial event.
Nothing about, this is, it is, this is the epitome of media irresponsibility.
This is a classic illustration of just what role the mainstream media is playing in the destruction of American culture and society.
There has been more outrage in the mainstream media, more attention paid in the mainstream media to that stupid clown story at the Missouri State Fair than there has been to this wanton murder in Oklahoma.
I had this program, I had this show yesterday, the story yesterday, with the photos.
I had the three perps and I had a picture of the victim.
And I purposely did not say one word about it.
I was conducting my own personal study to find out how long it would take the mainstream media to get to a story like this that happened in Oklahoma, where the victim is white and two of the perpetrators are black.
I wanted to see how long it would take them to get there and then how they treated it when they did get there.
And it took them 24 hours from when I first saw this on a webpage, newspaper webpage.
I printed it out.
I had it here in the stack of stuff yesterday.
I purposely didn't do it because I wanted to see, and it took them 24 hours to get to this, to discover it, and to start reporting about it.
And they are reporting it and letting it go.
They're not paying any much attention to it at all.
They're not focusing on the racial component of any of the people involved in this.
We have not heard from the Reverend Sharpton, the Reverend Jackson, the NAAC, but we haven't heard from anybody.
There has not been anywhere near the outrage, the intensity, even that we got on this state fair clown story.
Well, I know you could read three stories on it yesterday.
Snurdle's senting me a note here that he read three stories on it yesterday.
Race wasn't mentioned.
He only learned today that two of the teenagers did the shooting were black.
And he heard the story yesterday, and he only heard today that two of the shooters are black.
If you go to the Facebook page of one of the suspects, you'll notice how often the suspect quotes rappers, especially rap lyrics about killing people.
You go to this guy's Facebook page, and all over it is almost worship for the lyrics of rappers who talk about killing people.
And yet we don't hear one peep about curtailing the violence that is celebrated in rap and the rest of the thug culture.
Instead, they earn millions of dollars and endless rewards and profound fame.
They are chosen to endorse products all over this country.
It's destructive as it can be.
It's excused by the left because they tell us it's cultural, Mr. Limboy.
You wouldn't understand.
But rap is simply a reflection of the way these people have been forced to grow up in this country.
And rather than get mad and be judgmental, you need to take time out and try to understand the rage.
And this is how it's excused.
This is how it is explained.
And it's just, this is, it's worse than a double standard.
This is a purposeful, willful ignoring of the exact racial components, but in reverse, that happened in the Trayvon Martin shooting.
The Trayvon Martin shooting, I'll just tell you something.
From Obama on down, he didn't care about Trayvon Martin.
All that mattered was that incident offered them an opportunity to advance their political agenda.
This doesn't.
Everything to these people is political.
There's nothing about this Oklahoma shooting that will allow the left or the Democrats to advance their political agenda.
This harms their agenda.
So that's why the media is not trumpeting it.
That's why they're just reporting it in a perfunctory way.
You know, after the shootings at Tucson, any number of other instances, the news media immediately tried to blame right-wing talk radio or the Tea Party, Brian Ross, ABC, within seconds of an event like that happening.
Tucson, you name it, Trayvon Martin.
Let's go find out what talk show host they listen to.
Well, now we've got evidence these shooters celebrate and worship rappers and lyrics talking about killing people, and the media can't be bothered.
Got to take a break because of the constraints of the programming format and the time.
But we'll be back.
Don't go away.
The Oklahoma shooting is not getting anywhere near the coverage the Atlanta Elementary School shooting got, where nobody thankfully was shot.
In Oklahoma, the white guy drove the getaway car.
The shooters were the two African Americans.
Now, what the drive-bys are doing here, folks, they're looking at the Oklahoma shooting, and what their focus is guns, gun violence.
They're going to use this.
This is why we need gun control.
And of course, that wasn't even anywhere near the focus in the Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin case.
See, this story does not advance the Democrat agenda.
This does not advance the agenda that minorities are put upon and discriminated against.
This harms the left's agenda.
So let's take elements of it.
There was a gun use.
Oh, my God, that's horrible.
So we'll focus on gun violence.
But their heart really isn't in it.
I'm watching the drive-bys cover this story, and boy, they're being drawn to this reluctantly.
They really don't want to get anywhere near this.
And the reason they don't is because this is black-on-white crime.
And that doesn't happen.
In the mainstream media world that they portray, in the mainstream media world that they present us each and every day, black-on-white crime doesn't happen.
And so it can't happen here.
It won't be reported.
They'll report it casually.
Focus on the gun aspect.
I just checked the Yahoo News.
Yahoo News for low-information voters is still the biggest news portal on the internet.
Kids and low-information voters go to Yahoo News, and you can't find one story about the Oklahoma shooting on Yahoo News.
They do have a story about Hawaii becoming the 50th state on this date, 54 years ago.
But even when you drill down to the AP feed, there's nothing.
Nothing on Yahoo News about this.
I mean, they're covering it, but just enough to let it go.
You're guiding light, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network.
Great to have you here, folks.
It's hump day.
It's the middle of week, Wednesday.
Get this day behind you and so-called over-the-hump.
It is.
It's fascinating.
Let there be a shooting at a school in Newtown, Connecticut.
Let there be the Trayvon Martin episode.
Let there be the shooting of Gabby Giffords in Tucson, Arizona.
Let there be some guy go crazy at a theater in Aurora, Colorado.
And what did the media first do?
Try to find out what conservative media the shooter listened to.
Gabby Gifford's shooter was said to have been influenced by a crosshairs icon on Sarah Palin's website.
And then me, Sarah Palin and me, and then the Aurora, Colorado shooter, Brian Ross ABC said, yeah, they found that guy's Tea Party member.
I mean, within minutes of the event, yeah, there's a Tea Party member with the same name.
And they said, no, we can't be sure yet if it's the same guy.
Well, then why report it in the first place?
These shooters on their Facebook pages is all kinds of hero worship for rappers and thugs who celebrate killing in their rap lyrics.
Media can't be bothered.
Media can't be bothered to tell us what is actually known and no speculation required here.
So what they're doing, they're very reluctantly covering the story and they're not making a big deal about it at all.
And to the extent they are covering it, it is to focus once again on gun violence.
The only problem for the drive-by media trying to use the shooting in Oklahoma to promote gun control is that none of these kids are old enough to own a gun in any state in the country.
So what good do gun control laws do?
There's already, there are already laws on the books which prohibit people of their age from having them.
But they had them.
And they used them.
Let's go to the audio soundbites.
We'll start here with, what do we have?
Is this a montage?
Is this a.
It is.
Yeah, I guess it's a montage of reporters CNN ABC and NBC about this episode.
Outrage on two continents after an Australian student is senselessly murdered in Oklahoma.
Prosecutors say the teen suspects who allegedly shot the man did it out of sheer boredom.
Three Oklahoma teenagers are now in custody, formally charged with the murder of a popular college baseball player.
There is worldwide outrage this morning over the random killing of an Australian baseball player in Oklahoma.
Three teenagers are under arrest for the shooting.
Prosecutors say three teenagers targeted, shot, and killed 22-year-old Christopher Lane simply because they were bored.
Can I remind you of how the Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin story was reported?
White Hispanic George Zimmerman wantonly and in cold blood murdered a defenseless young, wonderful black child by the name of Trayvon Martin.
I mean, not in those exact words, but that was the impression conveyed.
White Hispanic George Zimmerman.
Race, not even mentioned here.
Race, not even a curiosity.
Race, not even worth mentioning.
No, it was boredom.
Just sheer boredom.
No curiosity whatsoever on the part of the media to try to find out if in the midst of their boring did they say, or boredom, did they say, hey, let's go find a white guy?
Or did they not?
We don't know because the media has not endeavored to find out.
They have zilch zero curiosity about this.
Why haven't we heard from President Obama on this?
I mean, after all, it's an international situation.
The dead baseball player is from Australia.
In fact, the former Australian Deputy Prime Minister on CNN this morning is warning citizens not to visit the U.S.
I mean, even the Australians get the Democrat playbook that this is the NRA's fault.
Kate Baldwin said to the former Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fisher, I think everybody agrees it's tragedy in Oklahoma, absolutely just that, just a senseless tragedy.
But why boycott the U.S. over the horrible actions of what appears to be a few disturbed teenagers?
Not true.
You've had, on average, 400 more people shot dead since Friday and the shocking murder in Duncan, Oklahoma.
In other words, there is murder mayhem on Main Street USA every day of the week.
But you hide from that.
You don't face up to that and you let your congressmen and senators escape and dance around the bush when it's a very real circumstance supported by the NRA.
Oh, the media loves this guy.
So here's a Deputy Prime Minister of Australia blaming the NRA, blaming guns, and banning or suggesting that Australians not visit America because of all of these deaths, all of these shootings.
See how the media, see what they do?
Everything is going to be turned into something, a story that will advance their agenda.
Pure and simple.
It goes on to claim that Australia has zero gun massacres since 1996.
The CNN Infobabe said, but there are statistics that gun-related homicides have gone down dramatically in the U.S.
And that, by the way, is true.
Gun violence in this country is way down as innocent citizens have armed themselves to protect themselves.
Gun violence is way down.
And she points this out to the deputy, former deputy Australian Prime Minister Tim Fisher.
So it does appear the U.S. making progress.
I'll ask you, why is this senseless tragedy an indictment of an entire country?
Many people enjoy visiting America, sir.
Because your massacre level, I mean, since 1996, since we took positive action under John Howard's legislation, zero gun massacres in Australia.
Since 1996, every year in the USA, more gun massacres.
Try the Harvard study, which points out that children in the USA are 11 times more likely to be shot dead through and from guns than any other OECD country in the world.
You have to face up to this.
Which children would that be?
Hmm.
Which children would that be, Mr. Fisher?
So anyway, you have the CNN Infobabe.
Kate Baldwin is very, very upset here that he would indict an entire country for a senseless shooting here.
These two guys did it just out of boredom.
I don't know about you.
This kind of stuff makes me seethe.
You look at how they spent months ginning this country up, roiling this country up, creating racial division, racial divide, did everything they could to promote disharmony with the Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman story.
And here, just ignore it, for all intents.
And then when you do bring it up, focus on the NRA and gun violence and not the perps because the perps, we can't look at the perps.
The perps, the perpetrators here happen to be black, and that's, no, no, leave them alone.
It's just not, you know, we have to be understanding and a little tolerant and all that.
So we'll ignore the racial aspect.
There's really any racism here.
There's no prejudice.
That only happens when a white person, a white Hispanic pulls the trigger.
When I heard about this Deputy Prime Minister commenting on this, I went, wanted to see what they were saying in the Australian newspapers.
And I have a story here by Carmel Malooney in the Australia Herald Sun.
And it's quite long, and it's got Australian slang in it, which needs to be translated for you.
But this story in the Herald Sun had some of the earliest and most complete reporting on the case.
And this story also makes points that no one in the U.S. drive-by media will make, such as what appears to be the involvement of the shooters in the Crips.
Apparently, the shooters either idolized and held in great reverence, role models, if you will, the Crips, or else they were members.
Their Facebook pages.
You're not going to get this in the drive-by media.
Their Facebook pages indicate that they loved Crips and that they were celebrating and honoring rap music artists' lyrics about killing people.
The U.S. media is putting most of the blame on guns, which is like blaming lynchings on the rope.
But that's what they're doing.
No blame placed on the thug culture.
But if there had been an opportunity to find a way to include right-wing talk radio in this story, they would have found it.
But now there is a direct link on the perps Facebook pages to rap music, idolizing killing.
No, can't go there.
No, we're going to ignore that.
No, that wouldn't be helpful.
No, that wouldn't be useful.
I mean, there's a lot of quotes on these guys' Facebook pages from rappers.
These shooters were not listening to talk radio.
The article also notes this.
Chief Ford said that the teenagers had no motive other than to make a name for themselves.
Now, the U.S. media is telling us that these guys did this because they were bored.
This story in the Australian Herald Sun is telling us that these guys wanted to be famous.
And lo and behold, they've got Facebook pages.
And lo and behold, on their Facebook pages, they idolize and hold in great reverence the thug killer lyrics to rap music.
You know, one of my often expressed concerns about all this social media is that, oh, there's two things.
Spend a lot of time reading social media and you're going to get a complex.
You think everybody else is having a great time and why aren't you?
Must be something wrong with you.
Because everybody gets on these social websites and lies.
They lie about who they know, where they know, what they've been doing, how much fun they've been having.
Whoa, man, what am I missing?
They start getting complexes.
Then they want to get famous, do anything to get noticed.
And lo and behold, this story quotes Chief Ford saying these guys had no motive.
It wasn't boredom, no motive other than to make a name for themselves.
In any case, folks, the U.S. drive-by media downplaying all elements of this story as best they can.
Yahoo News, nothing.
And that's a major news portal for young people and low-information voters.
Let's take a take a break.
Look at the clock.
But sit tight.
We'll be back and continue.
Much more right after this.
Don't go away.
Rushland bought talent on loan from God.
One of the other interesting notes from the Australian Herald Sun version of this story: the headline.
See if you know what this means in Australia.
They have their own English vernacular.
Man who daubed in suspects, accused of murdering Melbourne baseball players, says his son was next.
You know what daubed in means?
The teenagers accused of murdering Melbourne baseball player Chris Lane were daubed in by a local man who claims his son was the trio's next target.
Daubbed in means reported.
D-O-B-B-E-D, dobbed in.
Drop the dime.
Drobbed in.
That's Australian for reported.
Chancy Alan Luna, 16.
James Francis Edwards Jr., 15, been charged with first-degree murder over the fatal shooting in Duncan, Oklahoma.
Michael DeWayne Jones, 17, charged with driving the getaway vehicle.
James Johnson, 52, call the cops to tell them the accused killers were hiding in the car park of a Baptist church around 5 o'clock in the afternoon, two hours after they shot Lane.
My son called me, said they're saying they're coming to kill me.
So I call the cops and they got here within three minutes.
So this guy said that his son was next because they were just bored.
They were just bored.
I don't know.
I've been bored when I was a teenager.
Never once thought about going on killing anybody.
I also wasn't obsessed with being famous.
Here's Mike and Lewiston, New York, as we go to the phones.
Mike, glad you called.
Welcome.
Thank you.
Good afternoon, Mr. Mayor.
Longtime citizen of Realville.
I appreciate you being out there.
Listen, I got a question.
When, if ever, do you think that the media or some of the black leaders will face the truth that those in gangs or in the hip-hop culture are the problem and do something about it?
I think it's going to be a long time.
I don't know that something like that will happen in my lifetime.
It's been going on too long.
It's been obvious for too long, and yet it's excused.
If you go out and say what you just said, if you say it to the wrong person, like a Reverend Sharpener Jesse Jackson, I mean, they'll jump back down your chili, and they will tell you that you just don't understand the rage.
This is what's wrong with America, that you don't understand why this is happening.
This is nothing more than an artistic expression of the culture in which these people grow up.
And we'd better learn it.
And we'd better learn to deal with it because that's what it's like in this country that sucks from front to back.
Change the culture.
It's these guys are, look at them.
You're going to have a tough time walking this back.
They're famous.
They are movie stars.
They endorse products from Pepsi-Cola to computers to you name it.
They drive the hottest automobiles.
They are incalculably wealthy.
They are the epitome of success, in one sense.
You're not going to walk that back.
I just, I think it's sad, really sad, is what it is.
It's one of the things that we are going to have to find some way to deal with.
I don't see the civil rights leadership ever doing anything about that.
Some rappers even get invited to the White House.
Some rappers even endorse presidents.
Some presidents accept the endorsement and invite them to the White House.
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