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March 21, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 21, 2014, Friday, Hour #2
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You know, people ask me, Rush, what's it like to be you?
I've even had people, Russia, everybody wants to be you.
I said, well, be careful what you wish for.
But the people say, let me just answer.
I can't tell you the thrill and the delight, the literal fun it is to know that just by waking up, I have ruined the day for millions of liberals.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's open line Friday.
That's all I have to do is wake up and millions of liberals day is ruined.
All I have to do is show up here, write a book, appear on TV, and they literally go bed crazy.
Ha, how are you?
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh and the biggest media army in the country.
That would be you.
And it's Friday, which means it's Open Line Friday, which means that when we go to the phones, whenever you want to talk about, fair game.
We try to take more calls on Friday than normal.
I said, we try.
Oftentimes we succeed.
Phone number, 800-282-2882, email address, lrushpo, EIBnet.com.
I promised the Cheryl Atkins audio, and I just, I didn't get to it.
So here it is.
She appeared on our affiliate in Philadelphia this morning, 1210 WPHT with Chris Stagel.
And they were talking about this controversy with the Phoenix Info Babe, who really let the cat out of the bag by admitting that White House correspondents submit their questions in advance to Jay Carney.
And then they made her walk the plank last night when she got back home to Phoenix.
Oh, I mean, it was a hostage video like I haven't seen in a long time.
They made this woman walk the plank at home.
They might have waterboarded her.
They might have tortured her somehow before she did this in order to secure.
Because she basically said, you know what?
I suck.
I'm the worst reporter that ever happened.
I did things that no qualified reporter would ever.
That's essentially what they made her say.
And so Cheryl Atkins, who has been called the Wright's favorite reporter at CBS, because she's a real journalist there, no longer there, by the way.
She was on Philadelphia Radio this morning, was asked about this whole notion of what reporters pre-submit their questions to Jay Carney.
I wouldn't be surprised if sometimes there is that sort of level of cooperation with some questions that want to be asked.
We will tell them if I need something answered from the White House and they won't tell me, I'll call our White House correspondent.
And they're friendlier with the White House correspondents in general.
So the White House correspondent may ask Jay Carney or one of his folks about an issue and they will be told, ask that at the briefing and we'll answer it.
They want to answer it in front of everybody.
They do know it's coming and they'll call on you.
I mean, there's that kind of a coordination sometimes.
And she went on to say that she thinks it happens a lot more than people know, a lot more than people realize.
And not just at the White House, but with other politicians and their press conferences too.
And of course, we here have no doubt that the Phoenix Info Babe, I'm not going to play her again.
We played twice, but she was so bubbly and so enthusiastic.
She was telling the truth.
She was so happy.
She was so happy to be there.
It was such a great career opportunity to hang around the people at the pinnacle of her business, and it ended up so poorly for her.
I actually feel very sorry for her for the way this went down.
All she did was report what happens.
And they have, they made her basically go on TV in Phoenix and say that she's the sorriest excuse for a journalist that's been in a while.
They made her basically say she doesn't know how to do it and she did it really bad and that she apologized for it.
And I feel sorry for her because she was just reporting what she had been told.
Now, it may have been told to her off the record.
The point is, this collaboration takes place.
We know it does.
And Cheryl Atkisson is simply making the point that, okay, she's a reporter.
She's got a question for the White House, but she's not the White House correspondent.
She calls the press office.
It's Cheryl Atkinson.
They tell her to go pound sand.
Let's say she calls, has a question about Benghazi.
Well, they're not answering questions about Benghazi.
So she said what she would do is call their White House correspondent.
Will you ask Carney or one of his people this question?
And the White House correspondent has a better relationship with Carney than Cheryl Atkinson does than says, hey, what do you think about this?
And Carney, you know what?
Ask that at the briefing.
You know, ask that, and I'll answer that.
And so the White House correspondent, CBS, has just been told that if he will ask that question, he will be called on.
A Ergo collaboration.
Sticking with the audio sound bites.
Geraldo Rivera has been brought in on Fox to talk about the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370.
That means, bring in the Grim Reaper.
That means somebody somewhere thinks that we're going to be talking about factual death.
Because that's when Geraldo shows up.
But somebody's died or been in a bad accident and will die or something.
So it was on Fox and Friends today with Brian Kilmead who said, Reaper, are you surprised that we walked away without anything against it?
Because yesterday everybody got all excited about the debris.
Those two pieces of debris found four hours outside of Perth, Australia, found a satellite.
Everybody, ah, we've got wreckage.
We may have the answer.
Then they got out there and they didn't find it.
And again, I'm told, I've never thought of this, wreckage sinks.
I hadn't thought of that.
So I'm happy to have the news people inform us that the wreckage may not be there because it sank.
Imagine that.
Anyway, here was Geraldo's answer to the question.
You surprised that we walked away without anything.
There was breaking news all day yesterday.
What do you mean there's nothing?
I mean, every network, you look, breaking news, breaking news.
I mean, but there was nothing.
As F. Chuck Todd says, when did nothing happening become breaking news?
Yeah, that is actually a good question.
And the answer sums up what's become of the news.
Here's Geraldo's answer.
My favorite theory, the 5% theory, is that because of some secret passenger or some secret cargo, the aircraft was hijacked and landed someplace.
Not to take off again to be used as a weapon, but just to get it someplace so they could get to the secret passenger with a secret cargo.
Now, This sounds strangely, vaguely similar to what I am holding in my nicotine-stained fingers, formerly nicotine-stained fingers, and the CHICOMS had prepared a summary, and this is what the Kremlin has.
And it is that the Navy.
Let me just read the first two paragraphs to you.
I mean, why not?
I mean, it's as worthwhile as anything else, the networks are saying.
Decrypting the puzzle over Malaysia Airlines' capture and disappearance by U.S. Navy.
It's actually dated a week ago, folks.
A new report circulating in the Kremlin prepared by the GRU.
This is the sister relationship or organization of the KGB states that Aerospace Defense Forces experts remain puzzled as to why the United States Navy captured and then diverted a Malaysia Airlines civilian aircraft from its intended flight path to their vast and highly secretive Indian Ocean base located Diego Garcia.
According to this report circulating in the Kremlin, Malaysia Flight 370 was a scheduled passenger flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when on 8 March this year, it disappeared and blah, blah, blah.
But interesting to note, the report says, was that Flight 70 was already under Russian and Chinese military surveillance after it received a highly suspicious cargo load.
Aha, Geraldo.
He thinks it was the cargo.
Highly suspicious cargo load that had been traced to the Indian Ocean nation Republic of Seychelles or Seychelles.
I don't know how you pronounce it.
It's the French word.
S-E-Y-C-H-E-L-L-E-S.
And where cargo had previously been aboard the U.S. container ship Maersk, Alabama.
So an American cargo ship, the Maersk, Alabama, had cargo that was offloaded on the Republic of Seyche and then put on the Malaysian airliner.
Now, what first aroused Russia and CHICOM suspicions regarding the Maersk was that within 24 hours of offloading the highly suspicious cargo bound for airline flight 370, two U.S. Navy SEALs assigned to protect it were found dead under suspicious circumstances.
Now, I have not watched any of the TV coverage, so I don't know if this, have you seen this on TV?
But you haven't been watching, so you don't know.
So you've not heard of the Maersk being involved.
You've not heard that two Navy SEALs guarding the cargo from the Maersk that ended up on a jet were found dead.
You've not heard that.
Both the Navy SEALs were employed by the Trident Group, a Virginia-based maritime security firm, which was founded by Navy Special Operations personnel and senior U.S. Naval Service warfare officers, long been known by the Russians and the CHICOMs to protect vital transfers of atomic and biological materials.
So what we are to conclude is that aboard the Maersk, Alabama, there was biological atomic cargo intended for this Malaysian airliner.
It was transferred from the Maersk to the airliner.
Two SEALs assigned to guard it have been found dead.
The jet takes off, diverted by the Navy to Diego Garcia, where it supposedly remains hidden.
No word on the passengers.
Heraldo's theory is that it has been taken because of the cargo and a secret passenger.
I happen to know, by the way, some of the cargo on board the airplane.
There was a huge stash of lithium-ion batteries.
The kind of batteries that are used in your cell phone, your iPad.
I mean, a bunch of them.
A major cargo load of lithium-ion batteries.
Now, interesting about that is in a dormant state, those have been known to explode.
It's very rare, but you've seen stories of some guy walking around with his iPhone in a back pocket and all of a sudden he's on fire.
The phone explodes.
Nobody can explain it.
These things, it just happens.
So somebody, well, what if maybe one of them blew up in there and started a chain reaction?
Smoke in the cockpit, which goes back to one of the original theories by a former pilot named Goodfellow that the tire front tire caught fire smoke and so forth and so on.
So that's Geraldo's theory, and this is what the Kremlin has.
We now skip number eight.
Come back to that.
Let's go to soundbites 9 and 10.
Headline news.
CNN.
what?
A little truth to what story?
Okay, drugs near two ex-seals found dead on Captain Phillips' ship.
Okay, what's the date here?
Well, this is February 21st.
But the, by the way, the Maersk, Alabama is the Captain Phillips ship.
That's true.
And I have a story here.
This is AP story about drugs were in the room where two former Navy SEALs were found dead aboard the Maersk, Alabama.
Focus of the Captain Phillips movie, police from the African island nation of Seychelle have given no cause of death.
So the report circulating in the Kremlin contains this data.
That the cargo from the Maersk, Alabama was transferred to the jet.
Two Navy SEALs guarding it were dead.
That's true.
But the deaths of the SEALs goes back to February 21st.
That's when this story ran.
So it gets murkier and murkier.
We're going to have to turn to CNN to clear this up, folks.
It's the only way we can do this.
Actually, CNN headline news.
We'll take a brief time out.
We'll come back and, well, headline news, talk to a psychic about this.
I'm not kidding you.
Thanks to everybody with their pronunciation and guidance.
Seychelles is how the nation is pronounced.
Jay Carney, White House Press Sergeant, says there's no way that the jet landed at our base at Diego Garcia.
So we've ruled that out.
Of course, I don't think Jay Carney would admit it if the jet had landed there, but he's ruled it out.
So the Chikom Kremlin theory is all wet.
Last night, headline news, Dr. Drew on call.
He wasn't there.
He was on call.
Phil in host Lynn Berry spoke with psychic Lisa Williams about the missing jet.
CNN, headline news.
Your theory is the plane landed somewhere.
The passengers are still alive, but the co-pilots involved.
But there are people at home that'll shake their head at that, that'll be disappointed you would take that leap when you don't have any evidence.
What would you say to people criticizing you because you don't have any evidence of this?
Naturally, I don't actually have hard concrete evidence.
Any psychic who has hard concrete evidence can't do their job correctly because they get misinformed, they get interpreted.
They'll just work on what they know.
So I tend to work off what I don't know.
Perfect guest for CNN.
Absolutely perfect guest.
Go out and get somebody who works off what they don't know.
In fact, let's make it even better.
Go out and get a guest who says any psychic who has hard concrete evidence can't do their job.
Oh, yeah, perfect guest.
Sorry to get somebody.
No evidence, because if you have evidence as a psychic, you're not a psychic.
And therefore, you can't be trusted as a psychic.
So the only, if you're going to trust a psychic, you have to trust and believe that they don't know anything.
So the host when Barry says, wait a minute, you believe the plane was hijacked.
Some of the pastors are still alive.
Do you have any evidence passengers are being held if this is true?
This is actually an interesting question because I do believe that it actually crashed and I see a lot of trees.
I saw them landing in a lot of overhang of trees.
I kept feeling as though, yes, there are some people that have passed away because it's only natural after these amounts of days, someone is going to cross with no food, no water.
But I also believe there was a hijacking.
And I think there is also a larger organization behind all of this that is leading us off track with this debris.
I think they're leading us off track.
So therefore, it's all kept hush-hush.
Man, folks, I'll tell you, CNN, they find the most amazing people.
Do you realize only a psychic could see the plane landing in the jungle?
Wow, we never thought of that, did we?
A crash land in the jungle.
That's right.
Lots of trees.
A lot of overhang of trees.
It takes psychics.
And in a plane crash, some people might have passed away.
Hard to believe, I know, but the psychic saw it.
Now, if I were the host and the psychic said, look, I'm seeing a lot of trees, I would have said, what kind?
Pine trees?
Palm trees?
Coconut palm trees?
Fig trees?
What kind of trees?
That could have been a big lead.
But the anchor just kind of let it flitter away.
This is what it's come to, folks.
Breaking news, psychic.
If I know something, don't believe me.
You know, if I'd have been an anchor on headline news, sitting in for Dr. Drew on call, and I had that psychic in there, I'd have said, where was President Obama during Benghazi?
And what happened there?
What actually happened?
But it's a blown opportunity.
Here's Siobhan in Columbia, Mississippi.
Hi, it's great to have you.
It's Open Line Friday, and you're next.
Hi, I'm so happy to finally get through to you.
I have one major problem, and that's Barack Obama himself.
And my problem being that as a black woman, I am embarrassed to be a black American.
My grandmother is 94 years old, and I imagine that her and all of my ancestors that died and fought for what we're supposed to call freedom, this is not what they imagine.
That's the first black president.
I mean, Congress is not doing their job.
They don't want to say anything.
Wait, wait, hey, you know, Siobhan, hang on, hang on.
You're, you're.
You're very provocative here, and I need to pick your brain.
So, because you've said a number of things about which I have questions.
Your first thing, you said that you are embarrassed to be a black woman.
You know, I just happened to see the other day, I happened to see the other day, some white feminist female professor of feminist studies somewhere, and she was, I wish I had it in front of me, I don't have it here, but she was how guilty she felt at being white, that she just wanted to rip her skin off and turn herself inside out because of she just can't stand living the life of luxury she has,
given that it came on the backs of people of a different color.
She's so guilty, she's so ashamed.
That's what they're feeding off of.
That's what they want for people to feel guilty because of the fact that they're white.
I mean, being white has nothing to do with it.
It's a matter of being educated.
I don't care whether you're black, white, purple, green, blue.
I don't care.
This man can't even spell respect.
Okay, I agree with you, but I need to go back and ask you the second question.
You said that to you and a lot of people that this is not what you imagined the first black president to be.
What do you mean?
Meaning that as a conjurer overall, when you look at where we were and how far we've come and you want, and you got somebody in this position of power that is of African-American descent, you don't expect Obama.
This is not what you expect.
You expect somebody who can actually use their brain without somebody else telling them what to say, that knows how to articulate, that knows how to do what needs to be done without looking like an idiot.
So what you're saying, I don't want to put words in your mouth, so let me ask you.
Let me put it this way.
When I think of a black man or black woman as president of the United States of America, Barack Obama is the last at the bottom of the totem pole.
You need somebody for a while in that position.
It sounds to me like you think that Obama has let's say the first black president could have been a huge deal, a great opportunity for the country and for everybody that you think Obama has blown it because he's actually harmed the perception.
Yes, he's done more harm than good.
And the biggest problem that I have is that when he ran for the first time, nobody voted on him based on the character.
And that's one problem I have with politics in general.
People vote based on what they see.
Everybody saw a black man that could be that could be president.
Woo-hoo, that's gone-ho.
Let's get behind this man.
But nobody bothered to vote on the character of the man.
Nobody bothered to vote and honestly look into what this man represents.
What is he trying to do?
How is he going to advance this country?
This is supposed to be America land of the free.
But hey, if you say anything that goes against what he's saying, you're racist.
Right.
That's racist in itself.
Right, it is.
Again, you're speaking very rapidly, and I'm having trouble hearing you, so I've got to ask you again, did you say that when people voted for Obama the first time in 2008, they were voting for him based on his character or not?
They voted for him based on the color of his skin.
Yeah, okay.
All right.
Well, but I think there were a lot of people.
There's no question you're right.
But Siobhan, I have to tell you, I think a lot of people did buy the idea that he was messianic, that he was something like we'd never had in politics before.
Oh, he is.
They media did, and he helped create this impression that he was a unique character, a special human being, finally come to be among us who was going to heal all of our divisions and bring about world peace.
And that is character.
People, they were investing in what they thought was his character.
The racial component, there's no question that was a big factor, too.
But I think in the second, in 2012, the racial aspect was, of course, number one then.
Yes.
And see, the problem, people don't stop and look at, okay, what good has he done?
Forget about, you know, yes, he's black.
We can't deny that.
But what good has he done overall in this country?
You sound like a person who is more concerned about a president's impact on the country rather than just one group of people.
Yes.
But there are a lot of African Americans who thought that Obama's election would mean that he would do things specifically for them.
And that hasn't happened.
Black unemployment, skyrocketing.
Black teenage unemployment is skyrocketing.
None of the grievances that black leaders cite have even been addressed by Obama.
And as such, in fact, Don Lemon, the anchor at CNN who thought that maybe a black hole had swallowed the Malaysian airline flight, Don Lemon, I forget what Obama did just two weeks ago, but Don Lemon said, this is when he became the best.
10.
Okay, he announced a program for black men after he got the white.
But Don Lemon said, now he's finally become the first black president, as though finally Obama's doing something for us.
But you don't look at president's responsibility that way, it seems like to me.
No, I do not, because you don't just represent African Americans.
You don't just represent one person, one color.
You represent this country.
And your job as a president, whether you're a man or whoever you are, your job is to advance this country.
Now, personally, if I had my way, we would do away with affirmative action.
That's done more harm than good for this country.
There are a lot of things that a lot of black people say that we should do, we should have, you know, that I don't agree with because I don't believe for one second that the circumstances of one's birth or the circumstances of one's upbringing dictates the outcome of one's life.
If you want something.
You're here.
You are absolutely right.
You are absolutely right about that.
It's up to everybody to make their own way and to carve their own life.
And we all have obstacles.
Everybody, some people, it's their skin color, other it's their weight.
Some have everybody's got something in their way that either the society puts there or that they put there in their own way themselves.
Nobody has smooth sailing.
Hell, even the Kennedys don't have smooth sailing.
Look at that.
I mean, even the way is paved, but they still screw it up.
It's never, it's never smooth sailing for somebody.
Everybody has to overcome something.
And sometimes having that last name in itself can be an obstacle because nobody, they out and ask you, you just do whatever.
Nobody listens because of your last name.
What does your last name have to do with it?
Do most of your friends.
I am.
Do most of your friends agree with you, think the same way you do?
No.
A lot of people completely disagree with me because I don't, I've grown up, the way I was raised, I was exposed to a bunch of different things.
And one big pet peeve that I have with the African-American community is the women in particular who teach their children that based on the color of your skin, society owe you something.
Society don't owe me anything.
Yeah, I see that in the black community.
Nobody talks about the racism among blacks, how people who are fair complex as opposed to people who are dark complexed.
Nobody talks about the race complexity.
No, you're not allowed to.
You're not allowed to talk about it.
How can you not be allowed when, okay, I look at it.
Well, it's the same thing.
I mean, African Americans can say the N-word all they want, but nobody else can.
But see, that's wrong because if I'm saying it, but yet I'm saying other people, they can't say it, they're looking like, well, if I can't say it, why can't you?
Okay, if you don't want other people to use it, then you therefore should not be using it.
That would be like me telling, I have a son that's 16 years old, intelligent, intelligent young man.
Okay?
That would be like me telling my son, don't drink, and telling him, I don't want you to drink, not explaining to him why I don't want you to drink, but sitting in front of him and I'm guzzling the filth every day.
That's going to go against, that's a contradiction.
And he's going to look at me and say, why can't you drink and I can't?
It's got to be.
Why can't you smoke and I can't?
It's got to be frustrating for you to have so many of your friends disagree with you all the time on this.
Yeah, especially, it's not just friends, it's people who don't even know you.
They automatically assume because they look at me and say, oh, that's a black woman.
They expect things from me.
And when I don't act that way and I don't talk that way, they look like, oh, you're very articulate.
You're this, you're that.
What?
Because I'm black, I'm supposed to sound ignorant and not supposed to sound like Obama.
Yeah, they tell you, you're not down for the struggle, Siobhan.
No, because everybody has struggles.
No matter what, when you wake up in the morning, you should be thankful that you woke up no matter what happens that day.
If things don't go the way you want it to go, then you look back at what happened and be like, hey, what can I do to make to differ me to change the circumstances?
Well, I appreciate your call.
I'm upping it on.
That's Siobhan from Columbia, Mississippi.
You know, I didn't get into it too deep, but I'm going to tell you, I know exactly what she means.
When she says that this is not what everybody was hoping for with the first black boy, I think I know what she means.
Based on what she said here, I think I know exactly what she means.
But I got to grunt.
Run.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back open line Friday.
Picks up and resumes when we get back.
All right, that feministy that I was thinking of is somebody supposedly named Robin Morgan.
Now, the website for this is something called the IndependentFilmNewsandmedia.com.
Graphic quotes Robin Morgan.
Here's the problem.
I never heard of Robin Morgan, and the internet is famous for putting just some of the most ridiculous wacko stuff up there and attributing it to people.
But on the other side of it, I can totally hear a liberal feminist professor saying this.
Here is the exact quote.
And again, Robin Morgan, a key radical feminist member of the American women's movement, and that is capitalized.
So if this turns out to be something totally made up, I just want it acknowledged that I acknowledge that possibility.
My white skin disgusts me.
My passport disgusts me.
They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of others' agony.
If I could peel myself inside out, I would be glad.
If I could become part of the oppressed, I would be free.
This, folks, may be a bit exaggerated.
This is the kind of thinking being taught young people in schools today about the founding of the country, about the arrival of Western Europeans, white Europeans, and the enslavement of the Native Americans and later the African Americans.
This is the exact kind.
This is the guilt that is taught in schools today, which is why I have endeavored, undertaken this mission and project with my history books for children.
This is the exact kind of thinking, this paralyzing guilt that everybody ought to feel, that we are unjust and we are immoral and we don't deserve any of the goodness and good things that have happened to us.
Here's Christine in Naples, Florida.
Hi, Christine.
I'm glad you called.
Open Line Friday.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you so much.
Listen, my husband and I listen to your show just about every day.
We're self-employed, so we keep a radio going.
Yesterday, he had to run into the hardware store, and you played a song from Putin about Obama, and he wanted Barry to grow a set.
And I was in hysterics waiting for him to come out of the store, and I couldn't get through yesterday to ask you to play it again.
Gladly play it again.
But I have to make an observation.
I just want to point out, I've always maintained that this program increases productivity.
And you just admitted it.
You and your husband, self-employed, you have the radio on all day.
It makes your work better.
It makes your work happier and smarter.
And we stay informed, but we try to keep it lighthearted.
So when humor can be injected, we are all about it.
Okay, folks, Open Line Riding will continue.
We have a very long commercial time.
I have lots of obscene profit to be made.
Back in a while.
Welcome back, my friends.
I was only fibbing when I said we had a very long commercial break.
Whoever tells you they had a long commercial break, and it will be back in a while.
Nobody does.
So I just thought I would have fun with it.
We have an exciting, busy broadcast hour remaining.
An Open Line Friday.
More of your phone calls coming up.
And a lot of fun stuff on tap.
So sit tight.
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