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March 5, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 5, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Greetings, folks, welcome back.
Great to have you.
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Why would you take the Fifth Amendment if there's no corruption?
If as President Hussein Obama says that there is not a smidgen of corruption, why would you take the Fifth Amendment?
What why?
What how could you possibly incriminate yourself if there is not a smidgen of corruption?
Talking here about Lois Lerner.
You got a CNN banner headline, by the way.
Clash at IRS targeting hearing instead of highlighting her stone walling.
That and that's the whole point of what Elijah Cummings did.
The media is focusing on Elijah Cummings, making it look like Daryl Issa was mean to him.
Daryl Issa would have let poor Elijah talk.
That's the news from the Lois Learner, IRS corruption hearing.
Isa would have let poor little Elijah talk.
It wasn't fair.
Should have seen it.
It was really mean.
That's the story.
What haven't they stonewalled at this regime?
Fast and Furious, Benghazi, you name it.
And Elijah Cumming is always there with the stones to build the wall.
That's his express purpose.
You imagine the drive-by's letting a Republican regime get away with stonewalling at every turn?
When Mrs. Clinton was asked about the death of the ambassador.
Come on, what difference does it make now?
I'll tell you there's something else here that Stonewall Cummings wanted to distract from.
It was a it was an Greta Van Susterin just tweeted about this.
There's an email from Lois Lerner that was the subject line of her email was Tea Party Matter very dangerous.
And Isa he asked her some uh some serious questions about let me get the list of questions that he uh what do you mean by Cincinnati should not have these cases?
Why would you say Tea Party cases were very dangerous?
That's the email.
Tea Party Matter, very dangerous.
Why would you say that?
That was subject to her email.
What do you think she meant, Tea Party Matter very dear?
What would be dangerous to what they did with the Tea Party unless they had violated something.
So she was sending emails to her colleagues saying, well, hey, what we're doing here with this bunch is really dangerous.
And what it is, it goes on to talk about how this could be a vehicle to overturn Citizens United, which we all know.
That is the top priority of Obama and Lois Lerner and every Democrat.
That Citizens United case has them bugged like you can't believe you even remember what it is.
Citizens United?
You know what that case was?
This is the case that said corporations are people too, and they can donate to political campaigns and causes.
And the left is just they haven't gotten over it.
Obama sat there and insulted the Supreme Court during a State of the Union show.
And Alito is sitting there shaking his no as Obama is giving his fraudulent analysis of the of the ruling.
Unions have the same protection, but yet corporations are not people, they're evil.
They're evil.
They shouldn't be allowed to buy their way.
In our system.
And this targeting of the Tea Party by the IRS was just as...
Well, I think it would have happened without Citizens United, but the fact that Citizens United had happened just sent them into...
into orbit.
And that's the memo that she wrote, talking about the dangers involved here.
That was the memo that ISA was talking about when he asked Lerner, Ms. Lerner, what did you mean by Tea Party Matter?
Very dangerous.
Then she pled the fifth.
Here's the text of the email.
I'm going to read it to you.
Dated February 20th or February 2011 to Lerner's colleagues in the IRS.
Tea Party Matter very dangerous.
This could be the vehicle to go to court on the issue of whether Citizens United overturning the ban on corporate spending applies to tax-exempt rules.
Counsel and Judy Kendall need to be in on this one, please.
Since he should probably not have these cases.
What did you mean by that?
She was asked, lawyers had told me not to tell you.
ISIS committee has also uncovered that Lois Lerner gave a speech at Duke University where she talked about her frustrations with the Supreme Court's ruling on Citizens United, saying it had dealt a huge blow on.
Overturning a 100-year-old precedent that basically corporations couldn't give directly to political campaigns.
This is none of her business.
She doesn't get to impose her own political views while administering the IRS.
But these people are all activists, and they're just assigned to various jobs in the regime.
Something is harmless.
See allowing corporations to donate levels the playing field.
Democrats don't want fairness.
They don't want equality.
They want a constant advantage.
That's why all this BS about equality and equitable and fairness is just a bunch of crap, if I might be blunt.
Anyway, it's great to have you back here, folks.
The EIB Network.
The story I mentioned at the top of the program, a New Jersey honor student suing her parents.
No, no, I have not forgotten.
I mentioned something yesterday in the form of a question.
I said, can you think of one group of people that never go on TV to discuss their work?
They never participate in analysis of their work after the fact.
They don't defend what they do.
They don't attack other people who do it.
There's one group.
And it's it's it's I it's judges.
And I want to ask you a question.
I'm gonna I'll get back to this teenager steward or parent in a minute, because I brought this up yesterday, and I owe it to you to close the loop on this.
My belief is, and when John Stewart originally said this about what goes on in Crossfire, I kind of I kind of disagreed with him.
Um but I've uh uh my thinking on this has changed, not because of Stuart, but because of the formula that has become news.
And the formula that it's not even news anymore.
Everything on cable TV has a left and a right uh to it, and and they never solve anything.
It's it's not even about that.
It's it's bad show business as well.
It's the same stuff is just recycled over and over again.
And the and what happens during all this is that everything talked about diminish.
The subject, the the the things being discussed lose their integrity, lose their dignity, and they they just they they cease to have any weight to them or about them.
And as such, everything gets trivialized, and everything gets positioned for the lowest common denominator in the audience, which is the stupidest people.
I mean, you've you've got to, whatever your programming, you've got to make sure that you hold the audience, and they've dumbed it down so much that it just trivialized everything.
Things that really matter are now just argumentative points.
But if you look at judicial decisions, the best way for me to illustrate this, can you imagine say after Citizens United, after that decision, can you imagine, say,
Justice Scalia showing up on Fox or anywhere and sitting with Juliams or Bob Beckle or take your pick while they accuse him of racism, bigotry, or whatever else, demand that he justify himself.
Who do you think you are?
And then Scalia, can you imagine Scalia answering it and justifying and explaining and trying to tell these local weeds why the ruling was what it was and why he thought of it the way he did.
And then he would leave and they'd bring in another pack of people to talk about it.
And it would be with the usual bromides and the usual assaults, that Scalia's a right-wing stupid idiot, doesn't know what he's talking about, he's biased, um, and they know the usual insults associated with Bush or Reagan or whatever they would do.
And then it wouldn't take very long, and everything the Supreme Court does would become trivial.
It would lose its stature.
And I submit to you that this is what's happened to so much in this country that used to have weight and dignity and seriousness to it.
It's all now just fodder.
And there's a you know, they don't allow cameras in the Supreme Court for a reason.
They kept TV cameras out of courtrooms for the longest time for a reason.
They kept TV cameras out of the Senate longer than they put them in the house.
You put a camera somewhere and you artificially change what otherwise would happen.
Yeah, but it's partially that.
It's when you're on TV, it's it's what you look like that people remember, not what you say.
But it's more importantly, it's people become self-conscious.
I mean, you can't help it.
There's a camera there.
And you cease behaving as you would because you become self-conscious.
You start thinking, how do I look?
How am I sounding?
And you go, oh, there's a camera.
I want to be seen.
Oh, and you maneuver to try to be seen, and you do things you otherwise wouldn't do, say things you otherwise wouldn't do.
And so they the the the smart people say, you know, we're not going to trivialize the court system by introducing cameras to it.
But the same token, they have not trivialized it by bringing these judges on to you.
The judges won't do it.
They can't, they refuse to do it.
They will not debate or discuss what they do, any aspect of their ruling with anybody.
They may go out and make a speech, and they may explain their opinion on a particular case to some law students or what have you, but they're not gonna go on crossfire and let what's his name, what's the guy, the communist, Van Jones, sit there and start spewing a bunch of ignorant BS, liberal clap trap in response to it.
Now, if you look at what's happened to every other institution that has given Itself over to cable.
I'm not saying we can stop it.
You can't put the genie back in the bottle.
I'm it just this just hit me one day.
I don't know even how it came to my mind.
But it what hit my mind was I was watching one of these shows.
It doesn't matter which one.
They're all the same no matter where you go.
It's the same formula, and it's it you can so I don't watch anywhere.
You can predict what's going to happen.
You know who's going to say what?
You know nothing's going to get solved.
You know, nobody's going to be persuaded.
There isn't going to be any.
Nobody is going to change their mind about anything.
But what does happen is that whatever it is being discussed just loses its stature and its dignity, and it becomes a vehicle for all of these people on TV to demonstrate their own smarts or however they use their appearances on TV.
But judges.
And I don't, by the way, I'm not holding out any special reverence for judges.
I'm just pointing out they're the only group that does not do this.
Folks, I'm going to tell you, this is why I stopped going on TV explaining what I do.
I do it right here.
Anybody who wants to find out what I do, how I do it, and what I think can tune in.
I don't need to go on TV and have somebody make me justify what I do.
And neither does a judge.
Antonin Scalia, or take your pick, Breyer on the left, Ruth Buzzy Ginsburg.
They don't need to go on TV to justify to those people what they've done.
They don't have to justify their decisions.
they don't have to justify their thinking on this.
The media gets hold of you and you're an automatic suspect, particularly if you're on the right.
And HR will sit there tell you.
They call every week.
They use different enticements.
Hey, whatever he wants to talk about, it doesn't matter.
And I always say no, because I know what it's going to end up being.
Whatever I most recently said that they read about on Media Matters, they're going to ask me how dare you.
That's always what it's going to be.
And I don't have to justify myself to these people.
I I'm not I'm not going to go on these places and be put on the defensive and explain.
I'll be glad to go on and analyze things that are happening.
But I am not going to go justify myself.
And that's because then you just you diminish yourself.
You automatically, by agreeing to do that, accept the premise that you have to justify what you do.
And I don't accept that premise.
If you want to find out what I do, listen here.
If you want to find out how I do it, listen here.
If you want to find out what I think, tune in.
And I just it just hit me one day that the legal system judges.
Now, former clerks are all over the place, and you will have some retired judges, but even not very many of them.
You'll have some former attorneys general that'll show up, but they are lawyers, but you don't see a lot of judges, even retired judges, show up on TV, uh justifying some decision or verdict of theirs from their past or their career.
And I just did just sort of an awakening realization that I had whenever this hit me.
I've been waiting for the right opportunity to explain it, you know, having something happen out there as a bounce offers or transition.
And this Lois Lerner thing is as good an illustration as any.
I mean, here we have serious constitutional violations.
Serious.
This woman got together with her friends to sabotage, I gotta take a break.
As I was saying, you have Lois Lerner and her friends, her liberal Democrat leftist friends at the IRS sabotaging the constitutional rights of American citizens using one of the most feared branches or agencies of the government, the IRS.
And it has been trivialized and dumbed down now.
To Darrell Issa wouldn't let poor little Elijah Cummings speak.
And this is what cable news is doing to everything.
Trivializing it turning into uh low information soap opera type fair.
And just as I say, can't put the genie back in the bottle, not advocating that, not just making an observation.
Can you imagine how little respect people and I don't know how much they have now, but can you imagine how little respect people would have for judges if every night there was a judge on TV having to answer to some so-called media personality and justify his ruling in whatever case, not just Supreme Court justice, any judge.
There's a reason they don't do it.
There are many reasons why they don't do it.
But imagine if they did.
Imagine how much of the veneer-the aura of respect for all of that would diminish over time as well, as it became just another set of talking points, argumentative talking points or what have you.
Brief time out.
We come back.
Phone calls are next, and I got this teenager suing her parent story.
Don't sweat it.
I got an email.
I mean, I am not saying judges are better than anybody or above anybody and shouldn't deign to submit themselves.
Not at all.
I'm talking about respect, rule of law, the institutions and traditions that uh some people might disagree profoundly with me.
Some I wish we could have at some of these leftist judges and expose them.
I understand the people that think that.
I wish we could get Ruth Ginsburg on the Hannity show and let them have that you might you might have that point of view.
I don't if you do, I understand it.
I just think about what's happened, everything else and how trivialized and AB everything has become because of it.
Let me get back to the phones here, because I could keep going on this um you know, diarrhea of the mouth for the rest of the show.
Angela Northern Virginia, great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Thank you for taking my call, Rush.
Um, I'm calling because I am concerned that the uh mainstream media, they do not cover and they will not cover issues that could possibly be um, you know, I I guess not good for uh uh the administration.
And I'm concerned that um that conservative media or talk shows like yours don't cover those same topics either.
The um the uh black pastors that called for Eric Holder's um for his impeachment or want the signatures for that.
We heard about it once from February the 25th, whenever it came out.
We don't even know the name of these pastors.
No one's talking about it.
And I think that now the the situation in Ukraine and uh the takeover of that region, Crimea, um, those are important issues.
But the people who are going to the polls to vote in November, they they don't even care about that.
Now you have a lot of black Christians, a lot of black voters that are in the valley of decision because uh Obama hasn't created an environment for uh economic growth, but rather an environment to undermine one marriage between one man and one woman.
You also have Democrat men's dis social their desire for social order of fatherless children and husbandless women and Democrat men Run free of responsibility to women and children.
It's majority Democrat women who don't have fathers for their children because of Democrat men, which is a definite uh war on women by the Democratic media.
Now you don't expect the media to cover that.
No, I don't expect the the for the mainstream media to cover it, but I would like to hear more about that just cause some type from talk shows like yours and easy.
Okay, well let me let I got I got two things I can run by you here.
I just happen to have them here and they were in today's stack.
And but I do want to mention I did make a big deal of the black ministers' petition effort to impeach Eric Holder.
But what happened with it?
I mean they I haven't heard anything else about it, just heard the one thing.
I don't even know the name of the pastors.
I mean, I don't know anything about it.
They're being ignored.
Well, I don't think that you should ignore it.
I don't think that other talk shows should ignore it.
I think from time to time if there was an update to find out what's going on with them and how they're being um fared in the in the uh black community, if you will, to just find out what's going on with that, even if it's just to create a buzz in the communities because people are there is a there is a uh uh Angela, hang on just a second.
What what makes you think covering that is gonna change and let me give you two stories here.
First one, there's a poll out this the Washington examiner, Paul Bedard, an accredited journalist.
President Obama is gonna have to do a whole lot more than promise to make things better for young blacks under his new My Brothers Keeper initiative because wait for it in a new poll, seventy-one percent of voters say that life for the group, young blacks is the same or worse than before Obama came into office among black people, they say the results are worse.
Only eleven percent think life has gotten better for African American youths since Obama was inaugurated.
Now, where are these people?
Angela, I want to know, because ninety-three percent of black people vote the Democrat candidate every year.
Now here I got a poll.
Seventy-one percent of blacks are disappointed, mad, frustrated by the first black president.
Where are they on election day?
Okay, well, I understand that, but again, uh the mainstream media, they're not going to cover this, they're not going to to constantly beat that drum and and constantly keep a why should we need a poll?
We got seventy-one percent of the people expressing they don't like Obama.
Black, young black youth don't like the guy.
We don't need a media on this.
They're saying it already.
Here's an here's another one.
This this breaks my heart.
This this is the third such story here, Angela.
Okay.
NAALCP joins planned parenthood abortion for the Morrow Monday March.
Uh this happened on on March third.
Now let me give you some statistics.
In Georgia, 53.6% of the babies aborted are black.
In Mississippi, 72% of the babies aborted are black.
In New York City, 2012, 65,000 African American pregnancies, 24,000 births.
The others aborted.
Sixty-three percent of babies aborted in Texas are black or Hispanics, and the annual total of aborted minority babies in Texas is greater than the population of Galveston.
So would you tell me why is the NAACP marching with Planned Parenthood?
And it's uh they they're making sure that those type of numbers that you called out.
The lot of people in the black community or black voters, I refuse to think it's just a community, but black voters don't know.
It's not just black voters don't know, people don't know.
A lot of people just don't pay attention to politics or don't pay attention to to um things like Lois Lerner or the Ukraine situation.
But if we talked more about these things that they will go to the polls and vote about, I think that we could have a better chance of um getting more people to to consider switching if not switching altogether.
And let me say something about President Obama's um uh my brother's keeper.
I find It just kind of uh I don't know, it's a low blow considering that the person who said and my my brother's keeper murdered his brother, and it was also a disrespectful remark that he made to God.
That's where the whole situation of my brother's keeper even came from.
Right.
So he used a murderer and a person that mocked God or disrespected God.
I know.
And also cursed by God.
So he doesn't keep his own brother.
His own brother's still in the hut.
And his own brother's still in the hut, and he used a man who murdered his brother to name his initiative after.
The man is a disgrace, and I think that there needs to be more um I think it needs to be more focused of the discontent among um black voters and just um just what's happening with those pastors.
Angela what's going on?
I just when Obama announced the My Brothers Keeper program, yeah, the African American reporter at CNN, Don Lemon said today Obama became the black president.
This is the same thing.
He should be doing.
He should be focusing on his people.
That's what Don Lemon said.
Mm-hmm.
Now my point to you is I could th by the way, the preacher group you're talking about, I know what they are the coalition of African American pastors, and they've got twenty-one thousand five hundred and sixty signatures so far, and they're trying to get Eric Holder impeached because of various things that he's done and said rulings, whatever, the way he's running the Department of Justice and so forth.
But when e 71% of blacks disappointment, they're gonna vote for him.
They're they're certainly not gonna vote for the Republic when they get a chance.
Um the the black population is being aborted into further minority status with the assistance of Planned Parenthood, which Well, the black population is constantly being deceived about who and what the Democrat Party are, who they are, and who the Democrat Party is.
That's my point.
I think it's just constantly deception.
But how do we have to do more than just talk about how— Well, what are you doing?
I I'm doing a lot of Rush.
I just don't want to say it all right now, but I'm one thing that I'm doing right now as far as the war on women.
I have um in the county that I live in, I'm doing uh the Prince Worm County Woman on the street video, and I tell you Alan West was uh someone who challenged me because you gave me an iPad and I was at a uh fundraiser, and Alan West said, Well, why don't you use your fancy Rush Limbaugh iPad to help do some other things because we can't just keep talking about it, and he was right.
I thought I recognized your voice and your name.
Yes.
And so there are a lot of things that and that's just one of the things that I'm doing.
But I'm just saying that you all have a a large audience, and uh you're doing a I just wish you could do more follow up on some of the things Let me tell you what I'm trying to do here.
You may say, Rush, what do you have about Ukraine for?
I mean, Obama's not running it.
You know, okay, so what?
If if if I had to tell you that there's a theme here, I mean I've got many.
Education informed I believe that an informed public is a solution.
And like Hillsdale believes more people know the Constitution the better.
I believe in an informed, educated, participating public in all these matters.
Now, why talk about Ukraine?
I I've said this countless times.
If I could wave my magic wand and have people understand what liberalism is and what one is, they'd be finished.
My object that's why I talk about Ukraine.
Here's an example.
This is what will happen with these people in charge.
It's why you point to Detroit.
It's why you point to uh New Orleans or whatever.
This is what happens when they are in charge unchecked.
I've uh th it's it's the focus on Ukraine.
I mean, I because you mentioned well, you talk about Ukraine, it doesn't matter.
We got to look at trying to get rid of Holder Black pastors and so forth.
I did mention that.
But at the same time, the overall theme here is uh I think if more people were equipped and able to see the ideology behind the Obama, he never got elected.
Instead, they were able to craft this messianic story book persona that was not rooted one shred in reality.
And the Republican Party was a s afray to attack it because of Obama's race.
Um and that doesn't matter to me.
What he believes is what matters to me.
What is the fact he's a liberal slash socialist?
That's all I need to know to hope he fails.
So I think everything that I choose to discuss here is rooted in trying to inform as many people with the techniques of being uh irreverent, serious, uh sarcastic, you know, humor.
Just combine them all into one presentation.
Uh and that's the objective.
So, but uh in terms of the you know, very everybody's got their pet issues, and everybody thinks that one issue could turn the table, but I don't I I this must be the third or fourth poll I've seen of how a majority of black people feel let down or unhappy, and it doesn't matter when it comes time to vote.
It just doesn't matter.
Joseph in Gainesville, Florida is next.
He's eleven years old.
Hi, Joseph.
I'm glad you called.
How are you?
I'm good, Rush.
I just want to talk about your new book.
Okay, I'll talk about that anytime you want.
I think it's going to be a smash hit, and I hope you make a third.
Well, uh, gee, here we go.
Um, how about how about two more, Joseph?
How about if we did two more?
That would be phenomenal.
Maybe great.
Three more.
He wants three more.
Well, you never know, Joseph.
I'm just glad you like the one that's out, and I can't tell you how much.
And the uh the new one is out on Tuesday, March the 11th.
And the first one was good.
You like the first one, right?
Yeah, I loved it.
Well, you know, it's tough to say books are like your kids.
You can't say you like one more than the other.
But this one, I mean the second time you do something, you hope it gets better.
This is as good, maybe better in in some places.
I think you're going to really like the next one, Rush Revere and the uh and the first Patriots.
Really?
Oh, yeah.
You're gonna love it.
It's uh it's available for pre-order.
Now it comes out next Tuesday, and it's um it's got the same cast of characters, and and but there's a whole bunch of really neat twists in this one.
If you if you were if if if you like the first one, I guarantee you're gonna love this one.
Mm-hmm.
In fact, I'll tell you what, Joseph, have you heard the audio version of the first book?
Uh no.
Well, I want to send you the CDs.
I want to say the audio version of the first book.
And since you are so well spoken and so polite and so nice, I want to send you an autographed copy of the next book.
Oh my gosh, really?
As long as your mommy or daddy will promise to go buy one.
That would be fine.
I'm kidding about that, folks.
I'm just kidding.
No, if you'll if you Joseph, look, seriously, hey, you're you're in Gainesville, Florida, is that right?
Yes.
Okay.
Well, I can't thank you enough.
It's great.
You are incredibly well spoken, and I am extremely complimented and flattered that you like the book.
And I want to send you the next one that I will I'll sign.
Maybe, maybe get liberty to sign.
You like Liberty, the horse?
Yes.
I love that.
Hang on, and a nice man will get the address that we need to get that to you next week, along with the audio version.
Uh, it's gonna be big next week, folks.
That's it, folks.
We're out of here.
Been fun, it always is.
And tomorrow will be Thursday.
Fastest week in media.
Really appreciate you being here every day, and see you tomorrow.
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