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Jan. 2, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 2, 2014, Thursday, Hour #3
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Now, see, here's a case in point.
Every cable news network is going wall to wall with the blizzard.
It's going to hit Chicago and the Northeast, Boston and New York.
And they're all talking about record cold temperatures, record amounts of snowfall for this date and for this time of year, record cold record.
And not one of them, not one, maybe Fox is.
But even rarely there, but very, hardly any of them are contrasting it to all of the news they have broadcast about global warming, about all of the advocacy they at cable news networks have engaged in for global warming.
And why?
To blame us for destroying the climate so that we will be forced to accept higher taxes, smaller cars, worthless podunk cars.
They blame us for creating circumstances destroying the planet by using fossil fuels, greenhouse gases.
We got this stupid, this stupid crews of global warming hoaxers in the Antarctic going down there to prove that there isn't any ice because it's melting.
They get stuck in it for a week.
It takes a massive rescue effort to get their bums out of there.
And not one of these networks draws the connection to the fact that maybe the global warming people are full of it.
And the reason they don't is because global warming is not really what's the agenda.
The agenda is expanding government, more control over people, higher taxes, blaming people for advanced lifestyles causing problems.
It's just outrageous.
It is irresponsible.
There's no truth in anything.
Now, they can sit there and talk about how cold it's going to be, and they can talk about the record snowfall, but to ignore the fact that they have been claiming this kind of day was never going to come again.
It wasn't going to snow again because of global warming.
The coastline in New York was going to disappear.
These people have all said that.
So, folks, the problem is these people are lying through their teeth.
The news business isn't even news business anymore.
It's nothing more than the branch office of the Democrat Party.
And their purpose is to advance the agenda, whatever it is the Democrat Party.
And right now, the agenda of the Democrat Party is to destroy conservatives.
We stand as their biggest enemy.
We are their biggest stumbling block.
They think we are the biggest problem they and everybody else faces.
But everything they believe in is a lie.
Everything they believe in is wrong.
And I'll get this from the San Jose Mercury News.
This is exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about when I say standards, truth, law doesn't matter anymore.
Obama can just change the health care law, will he?
No, he can't, but he's doing it.
He can lie through his teeth about you get to keep your doctor, keep your plant.
No, you can't.
They still lie.
They're lying about the number of people they said they needed, 7 million.
No, we never said 7 million.
Yes, you did.
They're lying about everything.
They're lying about their failures.
They're lying about successes that they haven't had.
Citing a new state law allowing illegal immigrants to get their law licenses.
The California Supreme Court, the last court in line here in the state.
The California Supreme Court, obviously populated by a bunch of leftists, paved the way for a Chico illegal alien to fulfill his dream of becoming an attorney despite the fact he's not a citizen.
In a unanimous ruling, the California state Supreme Court determined there's no reason to block Sergio Garcia's bid for a California law license now that a new law permits the state's high court to give such licenses to immigrants who are not yet citizens.
Because they're going to be someday, soon as we do amnesty, they're going to be.
So go ahead and let them have law licenses.
State legislators backed by Governor Jerry Brown pushed the legislation last fall as Garcia's case was unfolding in the Supreme Court.
Now, during arguments in the fall, the justices appeared unlikely to back Garcia because federal immigration law appeared to preclude giving a law license.
How in the world, how in the name of Sam Hill can an illegal alien, by definition, illegal, in violation of the law.
Look, you may not like it.
Some people might think that it's not nice.
And some people might think that it isn't fair, but there's a law against immigrating to the country illegally.
And if you do that, you have broken the law.
And that's why you are an illegal immigrant.
Illegal alien, or better stated, unregistered Democrat voter.
Because that's what they really are, undocumented Democrats.
But this man wants to be a lawyer, and it's his lifelong dream.
And who are we to deny his lifelong dream?
So even though he's not a citizen, and even though he broke the law, he wants to be a lawyer.
So let him be one.
And the California Supreme Court said, yep, yep, fine with us.
Well, if this kind of thing keeps up, nothing is going to mean anything.
There isn't going to be any foundation of meaning to anything.
No achievement is going to be real.
This is just, you know why this is being done.
Tell me, sturdily.
Tell me why this is being done.
It's part of paving the way to amnesty.
It's based on the presumption that there will be amnesty.
I mean, it's going to be legal someday because there's going to be amnesty.
It's going to happen.
And so we're going to go ahead and give him his law.
But the real reason it's happening is touchy feely.
Well, it's just not nice.
Man's lifelong dream.
Remember I told you I never identified the well-known media figure in this story.
When I was out playing golf, a good friend of mine in Palm Springs, Rancho Mirage or Frank Sinatra Boulevard, someplace out there.
And at dinner, my host, by the way, is a fervent anti-amnesty individual.
And he is informed and he is expert and he is passionate.
And there is nobody who can outstatistic him out arguing on this issue.
Well, a well-known American media figure happened to be in the dining room of the clubhouse that night, one afternoon, one evening after our round of golf.
And he came over to say hi, and somehow the topic of amnesty and illegal immigration popped up.
And this well-known media figure just started bleeding all over the table.
Well, look, he said to us, if some poor person wants to come to my country to make the best of themselves, if some poor person wants to come here and become the best they can be, then I'm not going to deny them.
Who am I to say you can't come to America and become the best you want to be?
And my host lost it.
Okay, what if the guy happens to hop the fence in your backyard and wants to date your daughter?
What happens if the guy hops the fence, has a gun, whatever.
Then the statistics on the number of emergency rooms that had closed and hospitals that had closed and all the, none of it mattered.
None of the real facts mattered to this guy.
All that mattered was, in fact, we're driving away.
And my host is still so livid, he's pounding the dashboard of his car while we're driving away.
He's just livid.
And I said, well, you're missing the point.
The sap doesn't even know what he's saying.
He doesn't care.
He does not, all he cares about is that you not think he's a mean guy.
The whole point, our major media figure wanted you to know that he's got a big heart and that he's compassionate and that he's not judgmental.
He doesn't care what impact it has in the country.
Not his problem.
He doesn't care about, all he cares about is the way he is seen.
All he cares about is what people think of him.
And so he's not going to be critical of this because it's minorities that we're talking about.
Hispanics.
And my host said, I know, damn it, you're right.
And this is exactly what I'm talking about.
So the truth, the law, none of it matters.
And what takes precedent over it is all of these silly, specious things that end up being vastly detrimental.
So, well, that's a good question.
So now if you have in California, you got an illegal alien, by definition a criminal.
And you see, just by, I guarantee my saying that has caused leftist listeners program to absolutely go into orbit.
They're not criminals.
They're people being shut out by people like you.
They're people being denied their chance to improve their life by people like you because you're racist and you're a pig and you don't want people like that in the country.
It's not that at all.
Simply, we have immigration law.
It matters.
The law exists for a reason.
There is a dominant American culture that people used to want to preserve.
That's going by the wayside, too.
But if it's now okay for an illegal alien to practice law in California, then can anybody else who's broken the law get a law license?
And if not, why not?
Why are they going to be discriminated against?
What if Frank the felon decides that he wants to become a lawyer and cites Sergio Garcia here?
Well, Sergio may not be a felon.
He's just an illegal alien and so forth.
But folks, this is how you water down borders, you water down standards, you water down every line of separation.
And sometimes they're needed.
But this is the root in this, in the support for this among the low-information voter.
Yeah, this is so nice.
We support this because this is nice.
This man just wants to be a lawyer.
And who are we to deny him?
Who are we to say he can't be a lawyer?
Legal criminals will be second-class citizens in America.
What is a legal criminal?
Oh, oh, oh.
I say criminal, you're here legally.
So you're, no, no, no, no.
You're here illegally, but you're here.
So you're a criminal legally.
You're a legal criminal.
Instead of an illegal alien, you're a legal criminal.
Is that what you're saying?
Right?
Oh.
Well, is that true?
Can your average Joe Blow born in America who has broken a law not get a law license?
Is that right?
A native-born American who has broken a law can't get a law license, but an illegal alien criminal can.
So now an illegal American criminal is a second-class citizen.
Yeah, it could well be.
I don't know.
California illegal immigrants can get law license.
State Supreme Court rules.
They're really all you need to know.
Here's the headline.
And this, I'm telling you, among forget the lawyers on the Supreme Court.
I mean, their motivation is going to be political and different.
Well, it's an interesting question.
Could Sergio Garcia, after he gets his law license and wins a couple cases, could Jerry Brown appoint him to the California Supreme Court?
Yeah, I assume so.
I mean, you know, you do not have to be a lawyer to be on the U.S. Supreme Court.
You do not have to have been a lawyer to be on the U.S. Supreme Court.
It's just everybody is, but you don't have to be.
If you look at the requirements, you don't have to be.
Pretty soon, Sergio Garcia could be a U.S. Supreme Court justice, maybe.
Sergio Garcia from Chico, California, not the golfer.
Sergio Garcia.
Okay, look.
And now, in this section, I intended to do the Conan O'Brien rip-off soundbite.
I'm not going to get to that.
And also, a pioneer of talk radio has passed away, Bob Grant.
And I have a few words to say about him and, of course, more of your phone calls.
So I got to take a brief timeout.
Now we call it obscene profit timeouts, obscene profit breaks, but we'll be back and roll right on after this.
Yeah, I'll tell you what else.
I've got all of these sound bites today.
I really don't like making me the focus of this program.
I mean, this is the most listened-to program and the most discussed program.
It's the most talked about program in media today.
And there's a lot of it that went on the last two weeks when I was out.
Media just continuing and left just going nuts over me and the pulp and the media, the left is going bonkers over.
They're so happy they found the church again.
Who else among us could say that he or she has driven the left back to church?
But I can.
It's an amazing feat.
Few could have accomplished this, but I've done it.
I was going to get to those soundbites today, too, but I'm going to have to lay those off until tomorrow on Open Line Friday.
I do want to say a few words about Bob Grant.
Bob Grant was the first to popularize conservative talk radio, and he did it in New York City on WABC and on WOR.
And everybody in talk radio had heard of Bob Grant.
He was legendary, he was courageous, confrontational.
It was all of those adjectives.
It was funny.
He was also a nice guy.
I'll tell you something about Bob Grant.
There was a roast for him.
So, I guess, 1990 or something, and I was on my way back from a rush to excellence tour.
I was invited to attend it.
I was on my way back to New York, and Steit was in New Jersey, and I went to the roast.
And it was people like Freddie Roman and Pat Cooper, a bunch of comedians had gathered.
And it was just an hilarious evening.
And there was no way that I was going to be able to compete with these professional comedians.
So, what I did was I stood up and I basically said some nice things about Bob Grant because I really meant them.
He was extremely accommodating to me when I arrived in New York.
And by all rights, could have been just the opposite.
But he wasn't.
He was helpful.
He was accommodating.
It helped me.
Folks, my first two weeks on the air in New York, every phone call I took, all they wanted to talk about was what Bob Grant had said the day before.
He was that powerful in New York.
He was that provocative.
What I was saying my first two weeks, people didn't know who I was.
I was still getting my feet wet in New York.
I had no idea if what I was doing was going to succeed or not.
And every phone, literally every phone call, people wanted to talk to me about what Bob Grant had said the day before.
And I ended up laughing with him about that.
But he was one of these people, he has this on-air reputation confrontation, but he was just a down-to-earth, humble guy who never got lost in his ego.
He never got lost in all of this.
He was, as far as I was concerned, both feet were planted in reality his entire life.
And he helped me immensely when I got there.
Okay, let me set the stage for you.
When I got to New York and started at WABC, and again today, moving over to WOR.
But Bob Grant was there, and Bob Grant was king.
And he was the only one doing what he did.
Well, Barry Farber was out there, too.
There were some others, but Grant Was the first quote-unquote controversial, provocative, conservative, unabashed, unafraid, conservative in the daytime and work in the afternoons.
So here I come.
I knew who Grant was.
Everybody did.
I quickly learned that you did not leave your lunch in the refrigerator when Grant was going to arrive, or it might not be there when you wanted it.
It was a everybody joked about it.
But my first, as I say, first two weeks, all anybody wanted to talk to me about was what Bob Grant said the day before.
And I was asking myself, you know, I'm never going to break through here.
I mean, nobody cares what I'm saying.
It's all about what Grant said.
These are people that can't get through to Grant calling me, telling me what they thought about what Grant said.
And I eventually met him and I was complimentary, told him how much I admired him and so forth.
He was extremely gracious and accommodating.
He's come to this new kid.
This happened all the time, new arrivals, and he was the Pope.
By the way, speaking, can you believe how famous and popular I'm making to Pope Esquire has named the Pope what the best dressed man of 2013?
Who else could have done that but me?
It's unbelievable how popular that I have made the Pope.
Anyway, eventually my program took off.
And when it did, there was all kinds of curiosity on the part of the news media.
And local and network camera crews would come in and they would want to get footage of my program, say, post-State of the Union or do an interview feature with me.
And after a while, Grant, Bob Grant, said, What is going on here?
Why do they want to talk to him?
You know, when the local affiliate Channel 7, WABC-TV, would come in.
He said, wait a minute, I work for ABC.
He doesn't.
He doesn't work here.
He's just doing a show here.
Why do they want to talk to him?
And eventually he had me on the air, had me on his show.
And he said, just who are you?
Just who are you?
What are you doing?
But it was all in good fun.
It was, you know, a lesser person would have tried to undermine me or, I mean, these people are all over the place in every business.
But the point is, he was the epitome of class.
But not only did he not undermine me, he was helpful and he was supportive.
And there are not very many people in any business who would have done that.
In fact, I'll give you an example.
Brett Favre, Aaron Rodgers playing for the Packers.
Brett Favre is still starting quarterback and got hurt in a very important game in Dallas.
And Aaron Rodgers gets thrown in, and he's a first or second year rookie.
He hasn't played.
It's an important game.
And the announcers are saying Favre is not helping him on the sidelines.
This kid Rogers is on his own.
And we were left to conclude that, of course, Favre wouldn't help him.
It's Favre's job.
Makes all the sense in the world.
I was surprised.
Now, wait a minute.
You're on the same team here.
I would think Favre would be trying to help the guy.
But the announcer said, and I don't know that this is true, that the announcers of Favre, you'll notice, is not helping Rogers when the Packers defense is on the field.
This is, and I just thought it strange.
And the conclusion I drew was, well, Favre was saying, oh, you look at it.
I'm not going to help this guy take my job.
And he's on his own.
I'm going to eventually get over this injury and I'm going to be back.
I'm not going to help this guy.
And nobody thought that was strange.
Now, I don't know that that really happened.
That's just what the announcer said.
Don't anybody call Brett Favre and tell him that I said X. I'm just telling you what the announcement.
I don't know what went on in the sideline other than what the game announcers reported.
And that's what I'm telling you.
And the point is that telling you this only because Bob Grant went out of his way to be helpful.
He was just a decent guy, despite the media did everything they could to destroy him in New York.
They tried to paint him.
They took him out of context.
It's nothing new what leftists in the media tries to do to successful conservatives in the media.
But I really liked him.
And he was funny.
He was a curmudgeon kind of guy now and then.
But he was likable.
He was fun to be around.
And nobody that I've just, nobody had a bad word to say about the guy other than teasing him.
He was thought of very affectionately.
And I had the chance to thank him a number of times personally when he was alive.
I made sure to do that because he's been in failing health for a while.
But he was, in many ways, he was the trailblazer.
He was the pioneer who took the arrows.
New York City was an institution.
When I was on the air in Sacramento, before I'd moved to New York, you know, sometimes people from New York came there, had relatives or whatever, and they would call and just start telling me about Bob Grant, what Bob Grant's saying in New York.
I couldn't get away from the guy.
I just could not get away from the guy, no matter what, no matter where I went.
I had people telling me what Bob Grant was saying.
It was a plus to be able to have known him, be able to call him a friend.
Now, let me do this before I have to end up putting this off.
This Conan O'Brien ripoff, because this is dead flat ripoff.
I don't know.
Snurgly, do you believe it's possible that somebody, nobody at the Conan staff knows what we've done here?
You don't think it's possible.
Because we've been doing this since 2000.
Let's go back.
Here's what we're talking about.
Go back, Mike, grab soundbite.
What is it, number three?
Or is it number?
Soundbite number three.
This is it.
You remember this.
We put this soundbite together starting in July of 2000.
This is a montage when George W. Bush decided to choose Dick Cheney as his vice presidential running mate.
His weaknesses, lack of gravitas.
We see the son who is seeking some gravitas.
They were looking at candidates with gravitas.
But he has the gravitas.
You can sum it up in one word: stature.
It may go to the gravitas.
Or to use the favorite phrase, gravitas.
This is a vice president who brought gravitas.
This will give some gravitas, add some credibility.
I think the gravitas that Cheney bought to the ticket.
What he gets is gravitas, a sense of weight.
He does not need anybody to give him gravitas.
It means that, you know, gravitas.
I think he also needs some gravitas to give gravitas.
Well, he brings gravitas.
He does seem to bring some gravitas.
It's called gravitas.
A little gravitas.
You certainly have gravitas tonight.
He displayed tonight as certain gravitas.
I think gravitas is the word.
Unfortunately for the governor, you can't graft.
Gravitas.
He has gravitas.
All right.
So that was the first time we had put something like that together.
And it was, as I say, in July of 2000 through August of 2000.
And it was, you know, it was phenomenal.
I mean, that's, let me count.
It's over 20 people.
Over 20 people saying the same thing about one event in the news.
And I remember asking, how does this happen?
Who sends the memo out?
How does it happen that 25 people all have independently the same reaction to an event?
And is that possible?
Is it possible that all of these people independently thought to describe this choice as gravitas?
That's a hard thing to believe.
And there have been countless other instances of this since 2000, and we've documented them each and every time.
There's another one.
It's soundbite, what is it?
Grab number two.
This is one that we put together Sunday and Monday.
This is a montage.
The media repeating, the New York Times had a story.
No, folks.
Oh, this, this.
The New York Times had a story over the weekend, which is a CYA for Hillary.
The New York Times is preparing Hillary's presidential run.
They did a story on Benghazi in which they maintained two things.
There was no al-Qaeda involved in Benghazi, and it was all caused by a video.
Now, you and I know that it was al-Qaeda and that the video, the people involved said they didn't even know about a video.
The video, nobody ever saw it.
The video made by this poor hapless guy had no impact on what happened in Benghazi.
But Hillary and Obama have been lying through their teeth about it ever since it happened.
So the New York Times has come up with a story over the weekend that spreads those lies.
That it wasn't Al-Qaeda.
Benghazi, no big deal.
It was just a video.
Everything Hillary said.
And everybody knows what this is.
It's the New York Times paving the way and getting this issue out of the way for Hillary.
And we put together another media montage of all the media saying the exact same thing about it.
Al-Qaeda was not behind the 2012 attack.
The attack was likely carried out by independent Libyan militias and that those fighters were in fact infuriated by that anti-Muslim movie.
It really was an anti-Islam film that sparked the attack that killed four Americans.
There was no involvement by al-Qaeda.
The attack was in part fueled by anger over an American-made video.
No proof al-Qaeda played any role at all.
And that many of the attackers were in fact motivated by that anti-Muslim web video.
No evidence that Al-Qaeda or other international terrorist groups had any role in the assault.
It was fueled in large part by anger at, yes, an American-made video.
No evidence that al-Qaeda or other international terrorist groups had any role.
His reporting assigns a central role in the tragedy to that American-made video denigrating Islam.
There is no evidence that al-Qaeda or other international terrorist groups had any role in the assault, and it was fueled in large part by a video denigrating Islam.
There is no evidence that Al-Qaeda had any role in the attack.
And the anti-Muslim video did play a role in the middle.
There's no evidence Al-Qaeda was involved in the Benghazi attack at all.
And it was all sparked by that YouTube video.
Al-Qaeda was likely not involved in the attack.
It was fueled in part by a U.S.-made anti-Muslim video.
The propaganda shows up and it gets regurgitated verbatim by everybody in the media.
We have been pointing this out since 2000.
Should be 13 or 14 years now.
Well, last week, Conan O'Brien did this.
And the story that I have at company talks about what a brilliant thing it is and how informative and what an educational thing Conan O'Brien is doing by illustrating how the media is marching in lockstep.
Oh, thank God for Conan O'Brien.
Wow, we would have never known this was going on if Conan had not brilliantly spotted it.
And we have that soundbite after the next obscene profit timeout.
Don't go away.
What the hell?
Look at this.
CNN Anchor reveals lifelong psoriasis battle.
You have got to be kidding me.
You know, some days, three hours just isn't enough here.
They've been doing this segment here for 10 minutes, and I finally read what is CNN Anchor Reveals Lifelong Psoriasis Battle.
Well, yeah, I guess it does sound very sad.
But I mean, that's not looking very far for news, one of your own anchors.
Lifelong psoriasis battle.
What do you, what, what, what?
I'm not making fun of psoriasis.
I'm talking about the, it's like Conan O'Brien.
He's not even on a network.
He's on TBS.
I don't know.
Does anybody intentionally watch that show or do they see it when they're surfing?
Anyway, here's the, I better play the bite.
I'm going to run out of time.
This is it.
It's actually from late November.
And Conan is introducing and playing a montage of various news anchors from around the country all saying the same thing and thinking he's onto something big.
Judging by local news, and I've been looking at a lot of local news, there's an even bigger story that's sweeping the nation right now.
Who are you really shopping for this holiday season?
It's okay.
You can admit it if you've bought an item or two or 10 for yourself.
Well, it's okay.
You can admit it if you have bought an item or two or maybe 10 for yourself.
It's okay.
You can admit it.
You've bought an item or two or 10 for yourself.
Okay, you can admit it if you bought an item or two or 10 for yourself.
It's okay.
You can admit it if you bought an item or two or ten for yourself.
It's okay.
You can admit it.
If you've bought an item or two or ten for yourself, it's okay.
You can admit it.
If you've bought an item or two or ten for yourself.
It's okay.
You can admit it.
If you bought an item or two or ten for yourself, it's okay.
You can admit it.
If you've got an item or two or maybe ten for yourself, it's okay.
You can admit it.
If you've bought an item or two or 10 for yourself.
It's okay.
You can admit it.
If you bought one or two or maybe three or four, maybe even 10 items for yourself, it's okay.
You can admit that you admit it.
That's it.
Now, this goes on for another minute.
He found anchors.
Now, obviously, what happened here is that these are local anchors from around the country.
If this is legit, I don't know if they produce this, but if it's legit, it's clear that some consultant who consults all of these local stations told the anchors to do this.
All the news anchors are robots these days.
Consultants dictate what's said to relate to people via focus groups and so forth.
Well, but it's lazy people doing the news.
But I mean, this is verbatim.
So this is obviously from a consultant who consults a consulting firm that consults all these stations.
Anyway, the people reporting this wow, Conan has really taught us something here about how the news media marches in lockstep.
Yeah, you watch, and this they'll probably win an Emmy for this.
20 writers will probably get an Emmy for that, folks.
I know it's great to have me back, and it's great to be back.
So it's great both ways: forwards, backwards, inside out, you name it.
We are united.
And we'll be here tomorrow, Open Line Friday, 21 hours.
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