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March 5, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 5, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #3
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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?
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 stonewalling.
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 Isa wouldn't let poor Elijah talk.
That's the news from the Lois Lerner IRS corruption hearing.
Issa wouldn't let poor little Elijah talk.
It wasn't fair.
You 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-bys 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.
Greta Van Susteren 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 Issa, he asked her some serious questions about, let me get that list of questions that he, 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 the subject of her email.
What do you think she meant?
Tea Party Matter, very dangerous.
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, 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.
Do 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 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 orbit.
And that's the memo that she wrote, talk about the dangers involved here.
That was the memo that Issa 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 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.
Cincy should probably not have these cases.
What did you mean by that?
She was asked.
Lawyers had told me not to tell you.
ISA's 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, 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 honors 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 judges.
And I want to ask you a question.
I'm going to, I'll get back to this teenager still, your parents in a minute, because I brought this up yesterday, and I owe it to you to close the loop on this.
My belief is, when Jon Stewart originally said this about what goes on in Crossfire, I kind of disagreed with him.
But my thinking on this has changed not because of Stewart, but because of the formula that has become news.
The formula that it's not even news anymore.
Everything on cable TV has a left and a right to it, and they never solve anything.
It's not even about that.
It's bad show business as well.
It's the same stuff.
It's just recycled over and over again.
And what happens during all this is that everything talked about begins to diminish.
The subject, the things being discussed lose their integrity, lose their dignity, and they just 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 got to, whatever you're programming, you've got to make sure that you hold the audience.
And they've dumbed it down so much that they've 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 Juiams 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 is a right-wing, stupid idiot, doesn't know what he's talking about.
He's biased.
And they'd get 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 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 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 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 TV.
The judges won't do it.
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 going to 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 claptrap 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're going to stop it.
You can't put the genie back in the bottle.
This just hit me one day.
I don't even know it came to my mind.
But 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 that's why I don't watch it.
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 end to it.
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 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 and tell you, the TV show after TV show, 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'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're doing.
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 will show up, but they are lawyers.
But you don't see a lot of judges, even retired judges, show up on TV justifying some decision or verdict of theirs from their past or their career.
And I just, you know, I just did just sort of an awakening realization that I had whenever this hit me.
This is a six-month-old revelation.
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 got to 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 Daryl Isa wouldn't let poor little Elijah Cummings speak.
And this is what cable news is doing to everything.
Trivializing it, turning into a low-information soap opera type fare.
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 sewing her parents' story.
Don't sweat it.
I got an email.
I am not saying judges are better than anybody or above anybody and shouldn't deign to submit themselves.
I'm talking about respect, rule of law, the institutions and traditions that some people might disagree profoundly with me.
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 have that point of view.
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 can keep going on this 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.
I'm calling because I am concerned that the mainstream media, they do not cover and they will not cover issues that could possibly be, you know, I guess not good for the administration.
And I'm concerned that conservative media or talk shows like yours don't cover those same topics either.
The black pastors that called for Eric Holder's for his impeachment or want the signatures for that, we heard about it once on 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 situation in Ukraine and the takeover of that region, Crimea, those are important issues.
But the people who are going to the polls to vote in November, 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 Obama hasn't created an environment for economic growth, but rather an environment to undermine marriage between one man and one woman.
You also have Democrat men's 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 war on women by the Democrats.
Now, you don't expect the media to cover that.
No, I don't expect for the mainstream media to cover it, but I would like to hear more about that to call some type from talk shows like yours and even.
Okay, well, I got two things I can run by you here.
I just happen to have them here, and they were in today's stack.
But I do want to mention, I did make a big deal of the black minister's petition effort to impeach Eric Holder.
But what happened with it?
I mean, 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 fared in the 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.
Angela, hang on just a second.
What makes you think covering that is going to change?
And let me give you two stories here.
First one, there's a poll out.
This is the Washington Examiner, Paul Bedard, an accredited journalist.
President Obama is going to have to do a whole lot more than promise to make things better for young blacks under his new My Brother's Keeper initiative because, wait for it, in a new poll, 71% 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 11% think life has gotten better for African-American youths since Obama was inaugurated.
It's Erasmus and report.
Now, where are these people, Angela?
I want to know because 93% of black people vote the Democrat candidate every year.
Now, here I got a poll.
71% of blacks are disappointed, mad, frustrated by the first black president.
Where are they on election day?
Okay, well, I understand that.
But again, the mainstream media, they're not going to cover this.
They're not going to constantly beat that drum and constantly keep a black.
Why should we need a poll?
We got 71% of the people expressing they don't like Obama.
Young black youth don't like the guy.
We don't need a media on this.
They're saying it already.
Here's another one.
This breaks my heart.
This is the third such story here, Angela.
Okay.
NAALCP joins planned parenthood abortion for the Morrow Monday March.
This happened on March 3rd.
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.
63% of babies aborted in Texas are black or Hispanics.
And the annual total of aborted minority babies in Texas is greater than the population at Galveston.
So would you tell me, why is the NAACP marching with Planned Parenthood?
Again, it's politics, it's strategy, and they're making sure that those type of numbers that you called out, a lot of people in the black community are 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.
They don't pay attention to 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 getting more people to consider switching, if not switching altogether.
And let me say something about President Obama's My Brother's Keeper.
I find it just kind of, I don't know, it's a low blow considering that the person who said, am I 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.
So he used a murderer and a person that mocked God or disrespected God and was also cursed by God.
And he doesn't keep his own brother.
His own brother's still in the hut.
And his own brother is 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, I think it needs to be more focused of the discontent among black voters and just what's happening with those pastors.
Angela.
What's going on?
When Obama announced the My Brother's Keeper program, the African-American reporter at CNN, Don Lemon, said today Obama became the black president.
This gay is focusing on his people.
It's what Don Lemon said.
Now, my point to you is, 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 21,560 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 71% of blacks disappointed.
They're going to vote for him.
They're certainly not going to vote for the Republican when they get a chance.
The black population is being aborted into further minority status with the assistance of Planned Parenthood.
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 why I think it's just constantly deception.
But we have to do more than just talk about how.
Well, what are you doing?
I'm doing a lot of rush.
I just don't want to say it all right now.
But one thing that I'm doing right now, as far as the war on women, I have in the county that I live in, I'm doing the Prince Worm County Woman on the Street video.
And I tell you, Alan West was someone who challenged me because you gave me an iPad.
And I was at a 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 large audience and you're doing it.
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 are you about to Ukraine for?
I mean, Obama's not running it.
You know, okay, so what?
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 the 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'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 New Orleans or whatever.
This is what happens when they are in charge unchecked.
The focus on Ukraine, I mean, because you mentioned, well, you talk about Ukraine, it doesn't matter.
We're going 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 I think if more people were equipped and able to see the ideology behind Obama, he never got elected.
Instead, they were able to craft this messianic storybook persona that was not rooted one shred in reality.
And the Republican Party was afraid to attack it because of Obama's race.
And that doesn't matter to me.
What he believes is what matters to me.
His ideology, 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 irreverent, serious, sarcastic, you know, humor.
Just combine them all into one presentation.
And that's the objective.
So, but 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, 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 11 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, gee, here we go.
How about two more, Joseph?
How about if we did two more?
That would be phenomenal.
Maybe 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 new one is out on Tuesday, March the 11th.
And the first one was good.
You liked 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 is the second time you do something.
You hope it gets better.
This is as good, maybe better in some places.
I think you're going to really like the next one, Rush Revere and the First Patriots.
Really?
Oh, yeah.
You're going to love it.
It's available for pre-order now.
It comes out next Tuesday.
And it's got same cast of characters.
But there's a whole bunch of really neat twists in this one.
If you like the first one, I guarantee you're going to love this one.
In fact, I'll tell you what, Joseph, have you heard the audio version of the first book?
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, Joseph, look, seriously, 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 this night.
You like Liberty the Horse?
Yes.
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.
It's going to 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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