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March 27, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 27, 2014, Thursday, Hour #3
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Can you imagine how many years I would get if I went out to the beach and started moving turtle eggs?
You know, I've got these environmentalist wackos out there on the beach just spying on people.
If I went out there and I found a turtle nest and moved it, you know, so I could turn on my wife or something.
Can you imagine how many years I would get?
So here we are.
Folks, there's a point to be made here.
We are told by the environmentalist wackos that the only thing threatening the existence of the planet is humanity.
Now, we are not part of nature.
Everything else from a blade of grass to the ugliest insect that you can find is perfectly normal and is exactly as whoever intended it to be.
But then we came along somehow.
We evolved out of something and we've become the biggest enemy of the planet Earth.
We're destroying it.
We're destroying the climate.
We're destroying the North Poles.
We're destroying everything.
And I'm not making this up.
Over the course of the many years I've done this program, I've chronicled what these people think.
And there are some that really believe this.
And they're not kooks.
They are mainstream, if you can say such a thing, environmentalist nutcases.
So here we are.
All of a sudden, because of the drought, the baby salmon can't get to where they're supposed to be.
So now, I don't accept the idea that the drought's because we caused it, but that's what they think.
So we have a duty to move the salmon.
But then why are we moving the salmon?
Why?
We're not doing it to protect the salmon because we're going to kill them.
Because we're going to eat them.
Because they taste good.
That is why we are intruding on nature.
We are taking advantage of something beautiful in nature, a salmon, and moving it so that we can kill it to eat it.
What a bunch of creeps we are.
Well, Rush people have to eat.
I know.
I'm just putting everything in context here for you according to what they tell us from the environmentalist wackos and all of their 501c3s like the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense League and all that.
We're the problem.
We got no business moving the salmon, especially if we're doing it for us.
But somehow it doesn't seem to matter when it's something that liberals like to eat.
Not just liberals, but salmon is approved.
It isn't beef and it's, you know, it's got a bunch of stuff in it that doesn't matter that they think does, like omega fish oil and all that stuff.
It's been proven to be bogus.
We just had a caller from a guy who wanted to add to my undeniable truths of life.
I've often warned people, don't try this at home.
Leave it to the professionals, highly trained specialists like me.
But nevertheless, this guy had a unique observation.
These guys, they're often found guilty of doing exactly what they accuse us of doing.
And in many cases, they're found guilty of doing the opposite of what they publicly stand for.
Like Leland Yee, San Francisco Democrat senator, indicted for running M16s, weapons tracking.
In his political life, he's trying to get rid of guns.
Second Amendment, you shouldn't have them.
He's going after people that legally own their guns.
They're somehow rotten to the core people.
We've got to get their guns away from them.
Otherwise, they're going to kill people.
Meanwhile, he's out there profiting, selling $2 million or wants to worth of M16s.
Here's another example: Keith Farnum, Illinois Democrat.
FBI raided his place.
He's one of these raids.
Here's the headline: A tireless advocate for children raided for child pornography.
You won't find this in the drive-by media.
You will find it in conservative blogs, and Chicago Tribune did a couple of stories on it.
But here are the details: Keith Farnum, who looks like Jack Kvorkian with a little more weight.
You know, Kvorkian was this cadaverous-looking little guy.
This guy looks just like Kevorkian.
White hair, dark, deep, inset eyes, but a little heavier.
He resigned last week from the state legislature in Illinois, citing health reasons.
This week, the FBI raided his house because they have probable cause to merit a search warrant based on the evidence that there may be child pornography on one of his computers.
In fact, the Chicago Tribune had this to say about the apparent non-story because nobody's reporting it except conservative news sites.
Federal agents sought evidence of child pornography last week when they seized computers from the Elgin District Office of former state representative Keith Farnum, who resigned Wednesday according to a search warrant released Friday.
In addition, a federal agent on Thursday took a laptop computer that Farnum used in the Illinois House chamber.
And last week, agents removed a computer from a legislative orifice building next to the Capitol, asked about the child pornography matter.
Farnum, 66, said, I can't comment about any of it.
A tireless advocate for children.
Of course!
Every Democrat's a tireless advocate for the children.
And in this case, old Keith Farnum apparently was using his advocacy for children to cover up the fact that he really likes child porn.
And that was the point that our previous caller was making.
These people are such, you know, it goes beyond hypocrisy, but they are that.
But most of their political life is a cover.
What they're actually doing.
Now, Trafficant, by the way, I looked up what happened to James Trafficant, and I had to refresh my memory on it.
James Trafficant was indicted on federal corruption charges for taking campaign funds for personal use back in 2002.
Really?
So what in the world is Harry Reid doing walking around a free man?
This is exactly what Harry Reid did.
Harry Reid took $16,000 from his campaign stash, and he spent it on buying presents for people.
He spent the money with the company owned by his daughter.
So the money stayed in the family.
He was asked about it.
No, no, no.
I'm glad I got this straightened out.
I'm very fortunate I could write the check.
I was able to write a check for that amount.
You can't, I can't.
I'm better than you are.
Shut up.
Don't ask me any more about it.
Just read my statement.
Go to hell.
And that was his basic press conference.
Trafficant did the same thing.
Traffic Hant was convicted of 10 felony counts, including bribery, racketeering, tax evasion.
He was sentenced to a federal prison where he served seven years.
Now, just try to imagine that happening to a real Democrat.
Trafficant was not a real Democrat because he was not marching the party line each and every day.
He had problems with what Democrats were doing.
He lived in a conservative district in ways.
And so, I mean, imagine if Charlie Wrangell, look at all of these guys.
Charlie Wrangell, multiple offices being paid for by the taxpayers, and nothing happens, and we know why.
And by the way, that reminds me.
That reminds me.
There's a story here by Chris Salizza in the Washington Post.
President Obama got elected on competence.
Now people are starting to wonder.
You see, ladies and gentlemen, the drive-bys are beginning to get worried.
The very low approval number is around 40.
I don't know how it's that high, frankly.
But the disapproval number is almost at 60%.
Six out of 10 disapprove of the way Obama's doing the job.
That is really bad.
Really worrisome.
Because remember, these people back in 2007 and 2008 promoted Barack Obama as the single greatest living human being to get into politics.
And we had never, ever seen anybody with this kind of talent, with these credentials, with this unique ability to unite people and to steer us away from politics as usual.
Barack Obama was going to erase all of the negative aspects of the Bush years.
He's going to make the world love us again.
And he's going to restore the economy.
And he was going to close down Club Gitmo and all of these magical, wonderful things because he was the smartest guy to come along.
And he's also the first African-American president, therefore historical.
And now the bloom is off the road.
The bloom is way off the road.
The drive-bys are very worried about it.
In fact, here's how Salizza.
Now, remember the headline, because I think he starts with a flawed premise, which I will explain here in a minute.
A new CNN orc national poll reveals the problem.
Asked whether Obama can manage the government effectively, nearly six in ten say that statement did not apply to the president.
And here's why that number, especially in light of the Secret Service and Obamacare stories over the last 24 hours, should scare President Obama and the Democrat Party, because it goes directly to the heart of why he was elected.
Obama was elected as an anti-George W. Bush, a person who, above all else, was the competent candidate, competent at handling the basic affairs of government.
Here's how we, meaning Saliza, here's how we put it way back in December 2008 in a post.
This is Saliza quoting himself.
Barack Obama and the cult of competency.
Barack Obama won the White House last month in large part by running against George W. Bush, tapping into the public perception that his administration has been ineffectual in handling important policy questions.
So it's not a surprise that in the first month of his transition to the presidency, the president-elect is putting a premium on competence above all else.
You heard about the Secret Service.
This is the second time we know of.
A bunch of Secret Service agents got plastered overnight at a party while they were in town on the presidential detail while the president was at The Hague in the Netherlands.
The last time they was in Mexico, some Secret Service agents got plastered in Mexico, and that's happened a second time.
Now, this is amazingly troubling to the left.
I don't know why, of all things, to bother them about Obama's competence, but that does.
The Secret Service getting drunk while on the job to them sends a signal, Obama's not competent.
And they're not worried he's not protecting them.
That's not it.
They're worried that I don't know whether they don't respect him.
They don't think it's a serious enough task to protect.
I don't know what it is, but they're really bothered by it because Soliza mentions it here.
That and Obamacare.
And Obamacare is people have no idea.
I just, because of these waivers and delays, I'm telling you, people have no idea.
If you have benefited from a delay or a waiver, you don't have the slightest idea what's going to happen to you when those waivers are lifted.
You have no idea what your policy is going to cost you.
It's going to be through the roof.
You have no idea.
You're going to go buy a policy, then you're going to find out that the hospital of your choice is not in the network.
So then you're going to ask, well, what kind of policy do I buy to get that hospital?
Sorry, it's not, the hospitals have opted out.
Wait till this happens to me.
Wait till this starts happening.
Wait till people find out that the catastrophic part of their insurance is worthless because none of the hospitals near where they live are part of the Obamacare network.
The vast majority of Americans still haven't learned that yet.
Now, they have learned that they can't sign up.
I don't know whether they've paid.
What has happened to people so far is bad enough.
But all of these waivers and delays and extensions, like the you can keep your illegal plan if you like it.
Well, the day is going to come where you're going to have to give that up.
And I shudder when I think about what people are going to realize.
And it's going to be too late.
It's going to be after all the elections by design.
But anyway, back to Liz's piece.
Obamacare's got him ticked off in the Secret Service thing.
But I think his premise is wrong.
Obama got elected on competence.
That's not why he got elected.
There were people that voted for Obama just because he was different.
The media was touting him as something almost superhuman, messianic.
And it wasn't that people thought he was competent.
The drive-bys portrayed him as that way.
The media did all this PR managing and imaging of Obama.
He didn't do any of it himself.
He just accepted it all.
He was whatever people wanted him to be.
Remember?
It was a blank slate, like a blank canvas.
You can paint him whatever you wanted to be, but there was no evidence of any competence.
He'd served 160 days in the Senate, most of it running for office.
He'd been a state senator voting present more times than he voted yes or no.
There was no track record to prove competence.
It's just something the drive-by is assigned to him because he was a young, vibrant Democrat.
He wasn't Hillary.
But let's come on.
What's the elephant in the room here?
The people voted for Barack Obama because they're so desperate to end the racial strife in this country that they thought if they elected, if we elected an African-American president, we would once and for all end all of these silly arguments throughout our society that we are a slave or racist country.
There were people that voted for Obama because they were afraid if people found out they hadn't voted for the first African-American president, they would be called racist.
Come on, how do you not mention that as one of the reasons?
That's what has the Republican Party paralyzed against any criticism of Obama.
It was one of the primary attractions for the media, the historical aspect.
But I don't know what, where was there any evidence of this competence?
There wasn't any.
I've got to take a break.
And we're back.
El Rushbo serving humanity.
Folks, I've got even more from the indictment of San Francisco Democrat, State Senator Leland Ye.
Get this.
This is from the Wall Street Journal.
Mr. Yee, San Francisco Democrat, state senator, allegedly sought to acquire up to $2.5 million of munitions, bullets, from a Muslim separatist group in the Philippines and accepted more than $40,000 in cash or campaign contributions from the undercover FBI agent.
25 others, including San Francisco's former screw board president Keith Jackson, were also charged.
So $2 million in M16's gun running and $2.5 million bullets, munitions, from a Muslim separatist group in the Philippines.
This guy's out ripping on the tea party every day.
They're not separatist groups.
Exactly.
They were separate from what?
Maybe the Philippine governor, terrorist groups.
Al-Qaeda is a terrorist group.
Muslim separatist groups.
Al-Qaeda's got a big presence over there.
Dan in Bakersfield, California, where Senator Elon Lee is from.
How are you, sir?
I'm doing great, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
Been a longtime listener since day one.
Appreciate it.
Anyway, FBI stuff is exciting, but I don't know how they do it in the rest of the country.
But in California, we had one of our high-ranking senators busted back in, I believe it was in August or September, and it was for using campaign funds for personal use.
It is about $250,000 worth.
He got a $60,000 fine in no time.
So I don't know if they're trying to bust everybody now while they can.
Was this guy a Democrat?
Of course.
I take it back.
He's in this, you know, there's no Republicans elected out there.
That's right.
Yeah, okay.
And so $250,000 worth of illegal campaign use, and he got a $60,000 fine and is walking free, like Harry Reid.
Yeah, that's correct.
Yeah.
Well, I don't know.
Depends on please.
And what kind of evidence they actually had or didn't have.
But it's just another Democrat.
I mean, they are trying to clear the decks for something.
There's no question about that.
All right.
I imagine you might be getting tired of hearing about San Francisco Democrat State Senator Leland Yee.
But I just keep learning things.
I mean, the information is free-flowing, and our tentacles to absorb it are everywhere.
And there's now a huge story in the Wall Street Journal.
And this story contains reaction from San Francisco Democrat Leland Yee's colleagues.
Well, I don't know that they threw him into the bus.
We don't know who threw him.
Remember, he got caught in a sting here by FBI undercover agents.
Had the senator, San Francisco Democrat Leland Yee, been elected Secretary of State, which was not a long shot, it says here, he would have overseen California's campaign finance apparatus.
And look at what he's doing here.
The incident, sorry, the indictment is a major embarrassment for the state's Fair Political Practices Commission.
Really?
It's a major embarrassment for California's Fair Political Practices Commission, which has been targeting dark money from undisclosed conservator donors.
But somehow the California Fair Political Practice Commission missed San Francisco Democrat Leland Ye's shady operation.
Wonder how that happened.
The Oversight Committee just happened to miss $2 million of gun running, $2.5 million of munitions running, trading in illegal campaign contributors.
They just missed it.
Democrat senators expressed shock at the charges.
Jim Beale of San Jose, describing San Francisco Democrat Leland Yee as just the senator next door, said he'd been a leader on human services, foster care, juvenile justice issues.
For me to see this happen to somebody with that record, I just can't understand it.
But voters, here's the journal now writing, voters may be starting to conclude that San Francisco Democrat Leland Yee's transactional brand of politics is business as usual in Sacramento.
Hey, it's all Democrats.
There's nothing stopping them other than the FBI.
But then here's this is the real reason I wanted to share this story with you.
The next short paragraph.
Remember, San Francisco Democrat Leland Ye was in the Senate, the state Senate, and he was running for Secretary of State.
State Senate President Darrell Steinberg is also frustrated because he's lost another member of his caucus.
And he's lost a working supermajority, which is necessary to pass tax increases and place constitutional amendments on the bill.
Oh, let's all have a good cry.
So Leland Yee may be sent up the river for who knows how many years, and this guy's all worried because he's lost his supermajority.
This guy's all worried because he can't raise your taxes in California.
That's what bums him about it, according to the Wall Street Journal.
State Senate President Darrell Steinberg is also frustrated because he's lost another member of his caucus, a working supermajority, which he needs to raise taxes.
If I am San Francisco Democrat Leland Yee, and I read this, is that all I'm good enough for you for?
It's raising taxes in my time of need.
That's all you're concerned about, bud?
Probably so.
Chuck in Potts Town, Pennsylvania.
We head back to the phones.
Thank you for calling.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Thank you for taking my call, Rush.
My wife and I have enjoyed you for the last 20-plus years.
Thank you very much.
I really appreciate that, sir.
I had a comment and then a question.
Something you said yesterday about Obama maybe wanting to get rid of the NSA so he could put the Republicans into a predicament.
I don't think that's going to happen.
And if he suggests it, they should go along with it because how else is he going to listen to Europe and spy on them and spy on us?
He can't do it through the FBI because my question is, didn't he step on the FBI back several years ago and kind of demean them?
What are you talking about?
This could be important.
What are you talking about that I may have forgotten?
What did he do to the FBI?
I can't remember what it was, but I thought at some point he kind of downgraded the FBI for something that had taken place, and I can't remember.
I thought maybe you could remember that.
Well, I get the highly overrated research team here on the staff looking into that.
Is that nothing pops into my mind about Obama downgrading or ripping into the FBI or de-emphasizing them?
Now, you could be right.
If there's something out there, we'll find it.
Let me go back to your original point.
I don't think Obama wants to get rid of the NSA.
I think he wants to end up having the Republicans blamed for stopping it.
He doesn't want to get rid of the.
He doesn't want to get rid of the collection of metadata.
He does not want to curtail this at all.
My God, the guy is a huge statist.
That's why they should call his bluff.
If he proposes that, they should just say, yeah, we're going along with that because it isn't going to happen.
Well, they have in a way.
I mean, I have a vague memory of something that I saw yesterday, a story that the Republicans had their own version of a plan to actually do this.
See, the working theory is that Obama's young voters, this is the only thing, this and Obamacare, but this, the spying on them, that bothers them more than anything about this president.
His young voters, the Zuckerbergs and the little millennials, they just, they thought Obama never did things like that to them.
This guy's a new kind of president.
We're going to be spying.
We're going to be doing that kind of stuff.
And now he's doing it more than any president ever has, and they're fit to be tied.
So Obama senses that.
He needs these people on his side.
He needs them thinking he's cool and hip.
He needs them voting for Democrats.
So he comes out and announces he's going to just totally eliminate this program.
And they go, yay, maybe all right.
That's what we're talking about.
And his buddies in the Senate go along with it.
And then the Republicans in the House, the adults, put the brakes on it, say, sorry, we are not going to weaken our national security by doing this.
So Obama then gets to run around.
Hey, I'm trying to protect your privacy.
I am trying to stop the spying on you.
But those Republicans, they want to keep buying on you, I guess.
That's what he was set up.
Now, I don't know that.
That's just the modus operandi.
That's how Obama does things.
That's how the Democrat Party does things.
He has tried to blame it all on the Republicans, and it's rooted in the belief that the Republicans will stand on principle now and then, such as instance like this of protecting the country, national security, and all that.
It would be fascy if they did kind of call his bluff and go along with it, because there'd be hell to pay.
His national security team would not put up with this.
Because I'll tell you something.
Chuck here is right.
The last thing Obama's going to do is end this program.
He doesn't want it stopped.
He just wants the Republicans blamed for keeping it around.
So, Chuck, I'm glad you called.
I really appreciate it.
Thanks for your nice compliments as well.
I've got it.
What?
Yes, when Obama ran the first time, so hostile to Bush, spying, right?
Of course it was.
Obama hostile.
Of course.
Snurdy, you mean to tell me when Obama was running against Bush and ripping Bush and all that for all these warrantless wiretapes?
It's totally made up.
It was totally pandering to people.
Look at what's happened.
Is Gitmo closed or is it open?
Have renditions stopped or not?
They haven't.
Are we still spying on people?
Are we still collecting all this phone?
Yes, we are at record levels.
It hasn't been cut back any.
He just said that.
But it's like the Limbaugh theorem, Mr. Snerdley.
It's always somebody else that's preventing him from accomplishing what he promises to do.
He's going to create jobs, but damn it, these Republicans won't raise the minimum wage.
Damn, Koch brothers.
He wants to get people back to work, but the small business people are so greedy that they won't pay anybody.
Well, the next question was, so it's not like they're campaigning and all that.
Then they get there and find out how different it really is and how much power they have.
Given that Obama is in Alinskyite, I think he's had designs on what he was going to do long before he got there and long before he found whatever he discovered there.
And I think to him being president means unlimited power.
I don't think it's something he discovered that he had access to.
I think that's one of the reasons he ran.
I don't think he's discovered anything he didn't know, but except the economy.
He did find out that Bush didn't tell him the truth about how bad the economy was.
Remember that?
They didn't tell us how bad it was.
And that's why my stimulus plan hasn't really worked yet.
Because it turns out it wasn't enough.
Because they didn't tell me.
They kept a secret how bad it really was.
We've heard that three or four times, too.
Sit tight, my friends.
There's always more.
Your patience rewarded.
Greetings and welcome back.
El Rushbaugh, what?
Yeah.
Yeah, you know, that's another thing.
Lorenz got his long, well, relationship.
See, when she committed suicide and they said, ah, she's in debt, $6 million.
Business gone to hell.
You got nothing left.
Jagger wouldn't marry her.
And she took her own life.
It turns out she had an estate word $9 million.
The original reporting on the circumstances of her life are dead wrong.
It was all wrong.
Nobody knows.
She didn't leave a note, but her business was not.
She was not facing bankruptcy.
It was just all wrong.
$6 million in debt, so forth.
She was 6'3.
That's why she had to start her own design for him to make clothes for herself.
Nobody else did.
I guarantee you, Michael Philip Jagger, if he's inning, is 5'7 ⁇ , you know, it's a good day.
Anyway, Snerdley, I think, was it Snerdley or somebody else had the point that all of these FBI stings, rounding up corrupt Democrats and indicting them, could be the regime simply clearing the decks of the bad apples and getting rid of them for the election.
Well, I'll tell you how we'll know is if the FBI starts indicting Republicans real close to the election.
Does anybody think this is only a Democrat scandal?
I mean, it would be nice, but let's, I mean, these things usually cross the aisle in John McCain's terms.
And Republicans run a lot of state houses.
If they're running sting operations, they think they might be including some Republicans in this.
And you might maybe announce and hand up the indictment, say, in September, October.
We'll know.
Keep a sharp eye on this.
Evansville, Indiana, I want to get a quick call in before we have to vomitos.
It's Don.
Welcome, sir.
Great to have you.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
I just, when you were talking about the people carrying the salmon from one place to another, the thought struck me, how will they know how to get back?
I thought that they had to know the route back to the spawning ground.
Good point.
They learn, yeah, and they're going to be eaten.
They're going to be dead before they have a chance to pass off the information to their children.
That's a sad but good point.
Are we screwing up the salmon breeding grounds and ecosystem forever by doing this?
I guess we'll just, there's going to be some entrepreneurs, salmon moving companies.
Might be something a lot of people would think about getting into now.
Because once you do it once, how can you stop?
I'll tell you what's going to happen with the salmon.
They're going to be breaking into trucks to spawn.
They learn.
They learn and they're going to see trucks and they're going to start trying to break into them.
This is going to be interesting to watch.
We'll be back tomorrow, folks, Open Line Friday.
I'm assuming everything's going to be cool here with the ravages of the common cold.
And even if it's not, I'll work through it.
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