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March 19, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 19, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Greetings, my friends, and welcome, Rush Libaug, the EIB network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, where I each day meet and surpass all the expectations the audience have of this show.
People who tune in here every day expect better than the best.
That's why the stick to the issues crowd gets so irritated now and then.
If I deviate.
Like I got, I got calls, I got emails that they stick to the issue.
I'm getting tired of hearing all these kids.
You're just putting these kids on so you can brag about your book.
Stick to the issues.
I listen here for politics.
I don't care to hear kids, and it's anything about golf.
Or I even got it about the Asian Air.
I don't care about the Malaysian airline.
If you want to have a Mazal Airline, go work for CNN.
Stick to the issue.
And half of them are just trying to irritate me now, because they know that if they put stick to the issues in the email, I'll probably read it or talk about it.
But it's all fun.
Because we're all one big happy family.
Now, telephone number here if you want to be on the programs 800-282-2882 in the email address, El Rushpo at EIBNet.com.
Now, I did get an email, couple of them.
This this snark is always out there.
You people should know that there are people that join Rushlimbaugh.com who are not fans, who are not supporters.
They just want the email access.
Or they want to keep up with what they think the enemy is doing.
And so my recent dissertations on the problems in Venezuela.
Since I said, while all that's going on, while Putin is expanding the Soviet empire, Obama's filling out his brackets.
So they send these emails.
Well, what would you do?
What would you do?
You've got all the answers.
What would you do?
What do you think?
What should Obama be doing?
Let me first take you back.
This is uh uh story from the date didn't hang on just a second.
You know this there's one thing that Apple has that's really great on on Safari, the website.
It's called reader, and it strips out everything but the text.
And then you print it, but it doesn't print the link.
So I don't have the website on this damn thing, and it doesn't print who wrote it.
So I hang on here.
Let me find this.
It's uh it's the Wall Street Journal.
It's a blog from the Wall Street Journal.
And it is from the date is uh November 18th of last year.
Carey makes it official.
Era of Monroe Doctrine is over.
The Monroe Doctrine, you may not have even, depending on your age, have been taught the Monroe Doctrine.
Because I guarantee you, the leftists in charge of education today hate it.
They thought it was arrogant and that we were we don't even write to Monroe Doctrine.
Who are we?
We have your right to tell people that.
Say don't even teach it, or if they do teach it, they teach it as an element of what's wrong with America.
Our arrogance and our superiority.
The Monroe Doctrine was meant to keep Europeans out of Latin America in the wake of regional independence movements from Spain, and it was later amplified by Teddy Roosevelt with an eye toward making the U.S. the dominant player in the whole region in this hemisphere.
And it essentially was a doctrine which said you just can't come in here and colonize without dealing with us.
Because anything you do in this hemisphere threatens us, and you don't have Carte Blanc to do that.
Well, the left says, Who the hell do we think we are?
We can't tell people that screw you.
I mean, we go all over the world and we conquer and we take what we this is what's taught.
So they have no concept that we're the good guys.
We have no concept that we are liberators, not conquerors.
They have no concept that we spread freedom and self-dependence, self-reliance, self-determination.
We liberate people from tyranny.
They don't see that.
So at a time when the, this is last November now, at a time when the Middle East, Afghanistan, and the ChICOMs monopolize U.S. foreign policy, Latin America hasn't received much attention until today, that is, when Secretary of State John Kerry declared the expiration of the nearly 200 year old Monroe Doctrine.
Kerry said in a speech at the Organization of American States in Washington, the era of the Monroe Doctrine is over.
Well, that is powerful.
When you have the Secretary of State, you essentially have the president saying the Monroe Doctrine defunct, it's not applicable any longer, which means, ladies and gentlemen, in the real world that our hemisphere is wide open to anybody who wants to move in.
And the CHICOMs are, do you recall all during the debate on the Keystone Pipeline, and not long after Obama was immaculated, that the stories how he wouldn't allow any domestic oil exploration, he wouldn't permit it, he was making more and more off-limits, that we were nevertheless helping and paying Brazil to find oil?
That we were helping the Chicoms drill for oil with the Mexicans.
That there was even a report that the Chicoms were going to get in bed with the Cubans and drill for oil 90 miles away from the Keys.
All the while we are shutting ours down.
So even before Kerry made it official, this administration had sent the signal that this hemisphere is wide open.
You want to come in, come on in.
And you don't need to go to the Roman Empire to find out what happens and why societies dissipate.
You just need to look at Cuba.
You just need to look at Venezuela.
You don't need to go back and understand what happened to the Roman Empire.
Now, one of the reasons, besides the Malaysian airliner, one of the reasons the drive-bys are ignoring what's going on in Venezuela is because it is students who are leading the protests against the regime there.
And that the drive-bys do not want students here or any of the rest of us to see college kids preaching the virtues of the free market over socialism or freedom over one-party rule.
We might get some crazy ideas.
In this country, the students are the precious ones.
The SDS, the students of Democrat Society, students that blow up bank buildings, students in the old days that protested the Vietnam War, the students.
Oh, we love the students, the students.
Contrary to being rebellious, Middector once said, she's the wife of Norman Bedorts.
She once said of the SDS and the rabble rousing protesters of the 60s, which she said this by the way, I it didn't compute with me.
She said they were obedient.
They weren't ragtag protests.
They were obedient.
I said, obedient.
I was obedient.
I didn't protest against my parents.
I wasn't out blowing up bank buildings.
I wasn't destroying things.
I wasn't marching here and setting things on fire.
But they were, and they were doing their parents' bidding.
They were being, they were obedient.
They were being, they were doing what their professors told them to do.
They were, in other words, they were not original thinkers.
They were not individuals who were really outraged personally over all that was happening.
They were, they were cajoled.
They were manipulated into that by professors and in some cases their parents, but it was the machinery of the left that inspired them.
And that's what she meant by obedient, that they were they were not independent and free thinkers and everything that they were characterized as being.
Well, it in Venezuela, there's a protest movement that you don't see, the drive-by don't want you to see because it's the students.
Students here are gold.
Students there, I mean, the students protesting the government, Republicans, conservatives, like Occupy, gold.
Like if students ever rose up in opposition to Obama, you'd never see that either.
And you might even see open criticism of them.
Which leads me to answer the question when we knew.
Well, it's real simple.
This is what used to happen when we had responsible people concerned about our national security and our sovereignty.
When we had adults, in both parties, by the way, this happened.
When we had adults, and to include the Democrats in this, you've got to go back at least 30 years.
The Democrats of 30 years ago to the present do not fit this.
They are they are part of the blame America crowd.
They always blame America first.
Gene Kirkpatrick popularized that.
The San Francisco Democrats 84 convention, Eric Erickson at redstate.com has a great piece today reviewing and recapturing what Gene Kirkpatrick said about the San Francisco Democrats.
And they are now running the show.
John Kerry, San Francisco Democrat, Monroe Doctrine, hell with it.
Kick it out.
Gone.
Our hemisphere's wide open.
We're no better than anybody else.
Nobody's going to attack us.
They love us.
We're one of them.
They are one of us.
That's kind of convoluted thinking.
They blame America.
We agree with them.
America is to blame San Francisco Democrats.
They always blame America first.
But in the old days, back in the days of Robert Strauss, remember him, Snerdley, the last maybe adult Jack Valenti, the lat motion picture guy, these these are the last adults.
And even Strauss was his partisan guy.
But if we had a legitimate adult run foreign policy, what we would be doing right now, we would have the CIA all over Caracas.
We would have the CIA and other agents, if you will, propping up that revolution in Venezuela, encouraging them, funding them, protecting them, infiltrating the enemy and the opposition.
We would be essentially cultivating Venezuela as an ally in this moment of unrest.
It wouldn't have made sense for a concentrated effort when Hugo Chavez was alive.
He ruled the country with an iron fist, and the protesters were killed, so they didn't protest.
But now same thing could have happened in Iran.
The protesters in Venezuela, in large part, are people that used to support Hugo Chavez.
And they are much like people who have called here today who used to think Obama was the end of the world, and now they realize he's not.
The same thing has happened in Venezuela.
We would also, in addition to supporting the revolution down there, aiding it however we could and attempting to make that country an ally in this hemisphere, and thereby keep the Russians out of it and the ChICOMs, because it is a lot of oil.
They are a top 10 producer, it matters.
Free flow of oil at market prices matters to your freedom and liberty and the cost of things in this country.
It matters.
You don't want the Chicoms and the Russians in charge of it.
We would be, consequently, we would be increasing our gas and oil production so that we can help Cuba.
If we were serious, we would think seriously about doing something with this embargo.
We've got Cuba and Venezuela, they're both on the ropes economically.
We would be Doing things designed to capture the minds and hearts of the people of those countries so that they would accept us as allies.
Now you've got a lot of people in this country who think that it's it's it's passe to have this embargo with Cuba.
That it's it's a JFK policy from way back, and nobody wants to touch it because it's his and he's martyred and he was assassinated and it's his policy, and so we can't.
But you know, the Cuban exile community, which which long opposed any normalization of relations with Cuba, is itself transforming now because the children of that group are growing up.
They're not nearly as strident.
They are, but not nearly as.
The point is, in the old days, the United States was would attempt to forge building relationships with these malcontent protesters who want freedom.
Demonstrate we're the good guys.
We would help them however we could.
We would kick up our oil and gas production so that we could help others with it.
And by the same token, we would shore up our European allies so they didn't have to totally depend on Putin for their natural gas.
These are the kind of things that administrations in the past used to be oriented toward without having to think about it.
It was called U.S. national security.
It was called spreading freedom.
This is what we did.
And even during these periods, you had leftists who mischaracterized what we were doing and accused us of toppling regimes and installing our own puppets.
I mean, it was it was not smooth sailing, don't misunderstand.
Because we always have had the leftist opposition to the existence of this country.
They've always been the blame America first crowd.
But we don't even stand for any of that anymore, is the point.
We're not even trying to forge relationships with these countries that could be hemispherical allies.
Not even trying to.
We're filling out our NCAA brackets.
And we're sending vans streets of Miami promising free Obamacare and all that stuff.
This is how America used to spread freedom, essentially, but that's not a mission that resonates with this leadership because they don't think that was ever legitimate.
They don't think that's what we did.
They think we went out and conquered people and stole their resources and made them poor, made them slaves to our foreign aid, all that stuff.
I'm actually getting a little sad thinking about how it used to be in that regard in terms of foreign policy.
Anyway, I've got to take a break.
We will be right back.
Don't go away.
John Kerry's a San Francisco Democrat.
He got elected to the Senate after that convention.
The first thing he did was go down and visit the Sandinistas in Nicaragua.
Now, John Kerry and the Monroe Doctor.
Okay, so you happen to be part of a regime that thinks America is the problem in the world.
And so you're going to make a big deal out of canceling the Monroe Doctor.
Why advertise it?
Okay, get rid of it if you don't want to defend it anymore.
But why go out and advertise?
It's an engraved invitation to people to swarm into this hemisphere.
You know, Mrs. Clinton, I thought for a moment for a while she might have been on the Malaysian airliner, because we hadn't heard from her in ten days.
But I was wrong.
She surfaced in Canada.
You know what she said?
I kid you not, Mrs. Clinton and all of her learned existence.
She said, we have to keep an eye on Putin because he might do it again.
How can that happen?
You did the reset button.
And what she meant was, hey, they may not stop with Crimea in Ukraine.
They may go to Estonia next.
We got to keep an eye on Putin.
She's really worried that we might be restarting the Cold War.
Well, what the hell have you been doing as Secretary of State?
That's one of the things you're supposed to.
We are so screwed, folks.
Here's uh Scott Manhattan Beach, California.
Hi, Scott.
Glad you called.
Great to have you.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
All right.
I want to try to tie three things together here.
Um Michelle Obama is taking off today for China with mother and children, and they're not allowing any reporters to go.
Just recently Russia has shut down several of their websites, which are I guess anti Putin's government.
And the other thing that Obama has done is taken our control over our internet and given it to the globalists.
And all of this ties into the First Amendment, freedom of the press speech, in not allowing reporters to go with Michelle Obama.
She's not there to give interviews or anything else.
So this sounds like it's a completely personal trip, yet they're sending Secret Service and planes and we're paying for it.
Let me throw another one into your mix here.
Have you noticed, Scott and the rest of you, that there is no more investigative journalism taking place?
I mean, the reason reporters want to get into the news business.
Sixty minutes all that there is no investigative journalism other than if Republicans, but even that, there isn't any taking place at all.
The primary reason most journalists go into the business isn't happening.
Scott, uh hang on.
I want to continue talking to you after the break.
As we add that little bit to the mix.
Back to the phones.
We uh rejoin Scott in Manhattan Beach, California.
Before before I expand on my addition to your scenario, what's the point that you're making?
Okay, no media going with Michelle to the Chicons.
Well, the point that I'm making is that we're losing the First Amendment and in applying the Rush um the theorem, right?
The Rush Levin theorem here on Barack Obama.
If he can't shut the internet down and he gives the Internet control to the world government people, yeah, they can shut it down and rush can say, I didn't have or or I'm sorry, Obama could say I didn't have anything to do with it.
It would be the same thing, you know, you know, you'd shut down the Drudge Report and Breitbart and all the good websites.
But further, if Obama decided to give the FCC control to the world government people, he could shut down talk radio.
And now you're looking at him finding ways to just get around this First Amendment.
If the first lady goes on our dime to China and she's there on vacation, why are we sending Secret Service?
Why are we sending our planes over there and not sending press?
Well, no, no, no, no, no.
That would happen, whether w just because you don't send press doesn't mean you don't send uh security for the first family.
Yeah, I do understand that.
But I'm just saying, like there's no there's nothing that they do that's not on our dime.
Oh, there's no question.
I mean, these people living lavishly like nobody's business on our dime.
But you know, the the media concern, the media's strangely enough, is um is like you.
They are they're irritated that they can't go with Michelle.
And some of them are saying that it's it's an access thing.
Once you lose access, you don't get it back.
Once they establish the president that they can go and shut you out, then how do you get back in?
Well, remember now these people want to get in kiss butt.
They they don't want to cause trouble for them, and even if that the Obamas are keeping them out.
Right.
Well, they they did recently um the Obama administration reduce or completely eliminate any photography done by press, and the Obama administration will be releasing only their version of photos that they wanted.
That's right.
And that went quietly underneath the rug, too, and now we're we're seeing this, and now you're not sending the press with Michelle Obama.
That's right.
And now we're giving up the control of our internet, and I think the F. You know, uh about that, um I I'm s I'm still not sure what actually has happened.
I'm I'm not sure exactly how much quote unquote control we have given up in this internet thing.
I don't know if it's if we just gave up the uh the power to determine uh domain addresses, or if it's actually bigger than that.
I haven't been able to uh find out.
But I mean, a lot of people agree with you that we're giving away control of the whole thing.
Let me tie this in with something you just said.
Once you give up control, you never get it back.
You never get it back.
Exactly.
And I don't see here's the thing that people you can't make them believe it, Scott, no matter what.
Now, they have to live it and experience it in their own way to believe it.
And that is you we cannot, no matter how good we are, persuade low information people that we are being governed by people who really don't think this is the greatest place on earth and wouldn't be unhappy if they could undermine it.
You just can't convince people of that.
They have to experience it themselves, be it with Obamacare or whatever else.
Now, let me add my other ingredient observation.
It's a it's a drudge observation.
It hit him the other day that there is no investigative journalism going on.
Absolutely none.
And it used to be the reason that journalists became journalists.
Investigate people, find powerful people and hold them accountable, uh, destroy them if you can.
Well, whatever.
It it you know, sixty minutes.
Uh Woodward and Bernstein investigative journalism.
You walk down the hall of any J School, ask them why they're there, and they'll say, I want to make the world a better place, or I want to spread equality, or I want to do investigative journalism, but that's it.
There isn't any.
Why?
The reason why is because the Department of Justice, Eric Holder, has made it clear that they will prosecute both the journalists and their sources.
This is how this regime is now you might say, well, nothing new.
They did that to Judith Miller.
Judith Miller was at least doing investigative journalism on what was going on Iraq and weapons of mass destruction.
There isn't any, and it's not it's not just that the media is treating Obama with kid gloves.
They're not the Snowden thing.
Look at that.
There's no investigative journalism at all because they're scared to death.
The media scared to death of the DOJ going after and their sources.
So add that to everything else you mentioned, and and Obama is really succeeding at intimidating and distancing the media so that there really is no legitimate coverage of him.
Okay, so so you had Eric Holder recently took the FBI off of Harry Reid.
So not only investigative journalism, we had the FBI starting to probe Harry Reid, and the Department of Justice came in and pulled the FBI off of Harry Reid.
Yeah, and somebody else.
I forget who else was.
Well it was Mike Lee, too, is what there was the other one in the story there.
Right, that's right.
The Republicans.
Yep, but not just investigative journalism, and then you got Diane Feinstein, don't spy on me.
Yeah, well, she found they were droning her.
Yes, something like that.
Yeah, and she didn't care if anybody else gets droned.
Once they start droning members of Congress, hey, hey, now it's serious, and we got to shut it down.
Exactly.
Scary stuff.
It is.
It is.
I'm looking, I'm glad you called, and I appreciate your uh your patience in uh in hanging on.
Let's move on a little lighter thing here, just for a second, folks.
From the uh from the hill dot com.
It's actually not lighter.
This is this is actually it's actually pathetic, if you must know.
And you're gonna hear about it somewhere, so you may as well hear about it from me.
House Republicans plan to vote later this year on legislation promoting the construction of Wait for it.
A national women's history museum.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.
His office is the source of this.
The move lends enormous momentum to the years-long push to establish a memorial to women's history near the National Mall, a proposal that has lingered in lingered in Congress for nearly two decades without ever reaching the president's desk.
There isn't going to be a national men's museum.
See, what you don't, all those war museums and memorials, those are museums to men.
We've left the women out.
That's right.
Museum supporters wasted no time praising the announcement.
Representative Carolyn Maloney, a New York Democrat who's been working on this since 1998, said she was thrilled by Cantor's move, with the top House Democrats already behind the proposal, including Pelosi and Stanley Hoyer.
Carolyn Maloney predicted it'll sail through the House easily this year.
We already have, ladies and gentlemen, I don't know how many museums for women all over the country.
They're called malls.
I told you we had to get lighter.
See, this is what Rush, you were doing so good, and you have to go do that.
And now every my friends were listening, and you said that, and everything you've said about foreign policy, you just ruined it by having to say that a mall is no different than a woman's museum.
I was I have my friends, there you go.
You just had to ruin the whole show that you did today by doing that.
Satire parody one.
Um what this is, if I may veer back to pandering, it's this war on women business.
Hey, I could have I could have said brothel, but I didn't.
It's pandering, it's this war on women business.
It's the Republicans try this is how many votes is this gonna get?
You've got let's take the quintessential prototype single woman the Democrats aim for, like in that Julia commercial, who is born thinking she's gonna get nothing without the government giving her an apartment, uh, giving her an appointment at the at the at the uh the sperm cell place, uh a little garden and her health care and all that, and so here come the rey we're gonna build a museum to women.
Oh wow, I'm voting for you.
Do they really think that this obviously do think that this is going to uh nullify some of the negatives attached to this baseless claim the Republicans are conducting a war on women by saying, what do you mean war on women?
We're the ones making it possible for your museum to be built.
Okay, I gotta take a brief time out, my friends.
You sit tight.
We'll be back with much more after this.
Okay, I just answered some emails.
I just splained what in the old days a responsible U.S. foreign policy would be and what would be happening in the midst of these revolutions in Venezuela and the continued dilapidation of Cuba.
So what is happening?
Well, we got John Kerry, who last November announced publicly worldwide that the Monroe Doctrine is and extended an open invitation to a bad guy, come on into our hemisphere.
Take whatever you want.
We're not gonna stop you.
What are we doing?
Aside from promoting gay marriage and bakery shops and whatever the hell else we're doing, and opening up our borders to anybody who wants to show up and call it amnesty.
What else are we doing?
Well, yesterday afternoon at the State Department, the Secretary of State, John, no more Monroe Doctrine Kerry held a town meeting with university students from around a fruited plain.
During the QA, the moderator, the foreign editor, uh BuzzFeed foreign editor, Miriam Elder, had a question for Kerry.
Can you outline some of the principles that the administration is ready to apply to aid to countries like Uganda that have passed anti-LGBT legislation?
Uganda, uh, I talked personally to President Museveni just a few weeks ago, and uh he committed to meet with uh some of our experts so that we could engage him in a dialogue as to why what he did could not be based on any kind of science or fact, which is what he was alleging.
And he welcomed that and said, I'm happy to receive them, and we can engage in that conversation, and that's what we're gonna do.
That's a sort of tailored approach to that particular place, and maybe we can reach a point of reconsideration.
Reconsider what the you know what this is about, folks?
The the this president of Uganda went out and said that homosexuality is a sin or whatever it was he said about it.
And so this this this editor at Buzzfeed, when are you gonna do about this guy, Mr. Kenny?
What do you can't do about this president of Uganda?
Well, we're gonna send our experts over there to teach this guy about homosexuality.
And we're gonna show him that his science is not right.
And this is how we do a tailored message in foreign policy.
This is exactly how we do it.
We're gonna have a tailored approach to that particular place, and we're gonna send some experts over to tell this guy he's a racist, bigot, sexist homophobe.
That's what we have become.
That's that's what we've been reduced to.
Mr. Limbaugh, you saying that's not important.
No, no, don't play that game with me.
But but this that is not foreign policy.
That's pandering.
That's pure pandering, that's fundraising, is what the Secretary of State's doing with that answer.
Pure fundraising foreign policy.
It's incompetence is what it's dangerous incompetence from a horse faced these people are dangerous, folks.
You know, Uganda's the only Christian country that has its homosexuality laws, that there are ten Muslim countries that are worse.
Why doesn't John Kerry send his experts on homosexuality to any of the Muslim countries and get uh reversals or get their minds right?
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