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April 10, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 10, 2014, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, sir, Rebob.
Here we are, ladies and gentlemen.
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You know, I'm going to miss CNN's coverage of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 if it ever ends.
This morning, I kid you not, they have been running a breaking news banner.
It happened many times.
Happened once when Snerdley was in here, and I pointed to the screen, the TV display monitor.
I said, look at that breaking news.
Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 may have lost altitude.
Really?
I thought it was still up there at what?
35,000 feet.
They have just discovered at CNN that the plane lost altitude, which usually happens when a plane lands.
Either a control crash or an uncontrolled crash, but usually there is a loss of altitude involved.
That's why I'm going to miss CNN's never-ending coverage of Malaysian Airlines flight 370.
I don't mean to be laughing about, but breaking news, airplane may have lost altitude.
What would be their first clue and why did it take them a month to learn this?
Come on, Rush, you know what they're talking about.
They just got some news of plane dumped down to 4,000 feet.
Yeah, and at some point it was at 3,000 feet and then it was 2,000 feet and now it's probably 10,000 feet under the ocean.
Based on the latest ping, the stabbing in a suburban screw outside Pittsburgh yesterday.
Have the story here from the New York Post.
A bullied 16-year-old boy went on a stabbing and slashing spree at his half scruel in an affluent Pittsburgh suburb Wednesday, leaving 21 teens and a security guard stabbed.
At least five students were critically injured, including a boy who was on a ventilator after a knife pierced his liver, missing his heart and aorta by just millimeters.
Bullying was rampant at the scruple, according to the New York Post.
And that actually is not according to the New York Post.
It's according to previous postings by parents and students in online reviews.
It is definitely a rich white school culture.
One parent posted last year on a website called greatscruels.org.
The only way to fit in at that school is if you live in a huge house and make over $250,000 a year posted a student.
Don't let your kids deal with the rich kids that will harass them till they can't take it no more.
And so there you go.
It was rich white kids attending this school and one of them got bullied by the rich white kids and struck out.
Now, folks, this, of all the things to say about this story, the only thing they haven't yet done is link this kid to the Tea Party somehow.
Nor have they yet linked whoever the kids that were bullying this kid to the Tea Party.
But they're still trying, I guarantee you.
And they think they're on the way since they're categorizing the school as a rich white bully school.
This is how it's just out there.
This is going to be all over the place now.
And it's just, it's not, it's going to be a subconscious thing that people accept.
And it won't even consciously.
Oh, yeah, Richward.
It just entered their bloodstream, if you will.
And this will be what every school is there.
No, no, of course, is there a school that doesn't have?
Well, we never hear about bullies at Harvard.
We never hear about bullies at Yale.
You know who got bullied yesterday was Eric Holder.
Eric Holder, yes, he got bullied by a racist, Louis Goemert.
That's the spin on that story from none other than Holder.
Holder showed up.
I mean, here you've got a guy, Al Sharpton, which has this group called the National Action Network, which exists because of racist shakedowns of businesses, racial shakedowns.
And here's the Reverend Sharpton, who may or may not have, the latest we have here is that he was caught by the FBI dealing or using cocaine seven months before any mob ties developed, and that he was flipped into a mob informant because he faced the cocaine business.
So anyway, he has an undeniable criminal past and criminal linkage.
And they asked President Obama, well, what are you doing going there?
Oh, no, no, we don't pay attention to what happened in the past.
That's irrelevant.
The history, this is a wonderful event.
Now, we respect Reverend Sharpton immediately and totally.
And what happened in the past, it doesn't matter.
What Bush did in his eight years doesn't matter, did.
Well, no, not exactly.
What Bush did is all that matters.
But what the Reverend Sharpton did.
No, no, that's of no concern, right?
It's the Washington Examiner.
Obama unconcerned by Al Sharpton's history with the FBI and the mafia.
I'm going to tell you, it's a fitting place for Holder to make his remarks about Louis Gohmert.
Wherever this was, whatever hotel Sharpton's meeting is held at, it's the house that racial shakedowns made.
The National Action Network, the house that racial shakedowns built.
And it was happening at the same time.
The Reverend Docs was conducting similar business for the monochrome coalition.
Now, for the record, according to media reports, the National Action Network has been allowed to listen to this list of things here.
The National Action Network, the House that Racial Shakedowns made, has been allowed to skirt paying $1.9 million in back taxes.
Sharpton's network owes nearly $2 million in back taxes, and they have for years.
Taxes and penalties.
Since 2006.
Eight years they have floated on this.
Can you?
Can you float eight years owing the IRS $2 million?
Yeah.
I'll ask Lois Lerner about it.
Well, she's coming up.
So, I mean, at this point, I don't even think it would do any good for Sharpton to call tax defense partners.
Nobody has any expense here in dealing with somebody who had been floated by the IRS for eight years owing $2 million.
Maybe they can help.
I don't know.
But I don't know anybody else who's been allowed to float like this.
But that's not it.
After it was found to have improperly reported the taxes that the National Action Network owned, or owed, I should say.
And according to other reports, Sharpton still owes more than $800,000 in personal debts related to his failed 2004 presidential campaign.
Massive hotel bills that remain unpaid, that kind of thing.
In addition, there is more than $100,000 in related debts to the federal government.
So there's a lot of debt that the National Action Network and Al Sharpton personally seem not to have to be worried about.
And these minor details are not going to keep Obama from speaking once again at the annual confab.
And right here it is.
Obama unconcerned by Sharpton's histoi with the FBI and the mafia.
President Obama not worried about the Reverend Sharpton's history as an FBI informant with ties to the mafia, his spokesman said.
He doesn't think that the news makes his impending visit to Sharpton's National Action Network awkward.
Reverend Sharpton and the National Action Network have made significant contributions to civil rights efforts.
And the president looks forward to appearing at the conference, said the press spokeskid, Jay Carney.
The New York Daily News says that Sharpton allegedly became an FBI informant after he was caught on tape with a drug kingpin discussing cocaine deals.
That takes us back up to Eric Holder, who appeared at Sharpton's House that racial shakedowns built, the National Action Network.
Holder went over there after being grilled by the House Committee, the Judiciary Committee, and we played for you the soundbites of how that went yesterday.
So here's Holder.
No need to read.
Holder said to Goemert after Gomert asked the question, I know you don't care about contempt, but and Holder said, I wouldn't go there, buddy.
I wouldn't go there.
And Gomert said, well, I shouldn't go there.
No, no, I don't think you should assume it's not a big deal to me.
It's a very, very big deal to me.
And Gomert said, well, I don't see any evidence it's a big deal.
You haven't come forth with any documents.
I haven't answered any questions.
Hasn't been any ground covered.
No progress made.
So it was not a pretty sight.
So Holder goes over to the National Action Network, and here's a portion of what he said.
The last five years have been defined by significant strides and by lasting reforms, even in the face, even in the face of unprecedented, unwarranted, ugly, and divisive adversity.
You look at the way the Attorney General of the United States was treated yesterday by a House committee.
Had nothing to do with me.
Forget that.
What Attorney General has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment?
What president has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment?
You know, this is fascinating to me.
Janet Reno had to deal with this, for one, but all kinds of attorney generals, attorneys general had to deal with this.
But see, what this proves, what this indicates, these people think they're invincible.
They're untouchable.
How dare anybody even speak to them, much less be critical?
How dare anybody challenge them?
So here's Holder saying, did you see the way the Attorney General of the United States treated yesterday?
Nothing to do with me.
Nothing to do with me.
Forget about that.
The disrespect they had for the attorneys.
It was all about you.
You just happened to be Attorney General, which is why you were treated that way.
And how were you treated?
Here's a guy, name for me any other attorney general who ran guns into Mexico so that they would end up in the hands of drug cartels, fast and furious.
What?
Now, I know I'm being disrespectful for even bringing this up.
See, you're not supposed to bring this stuff up.
Not with this regime.
Oh, no.
Don't go there, buddy.
You don't want to go there, buddy.
Exactly right.
What other attorney general has closed down investigations of voter fraud in the midst of overwhelming evidence that could convict the fraudsters, i.e. the new Black Panther Party in Philadelphia?
That's right.
How many other attorney generals, attorneys general, I'm sorry, I'm slipping into my Rio Linda speech pattern.
How many other attorneys general have said, we are not going to prosecute my people?
We're not going to do that.
We're not going to prosecute black people.
Witness now, how many other attorneys general have said that?
And if they had, how many other of those attorneys general would have survived?
Name for me any other attorney general who has so politicized the Department of Justice.
Okay.
Robert F. Kennedy and Janet El Rino and Webb Hubble.
You keep talking about Janet El Rino.
See, I know.
Well, I don't think Janet Reno can hold a candle to Holder, frankly.
I mean, I have no disagreement here that Janet Reno was what she was, but I mean, she was a literal, thorough puppet.
Now, she didn't need to be.
Her instincts would have taken her where she went anyway, but she was a thorough, literal, manipulated marionette.
Holder doesn't have to talk to Obama to find out what to do.
They don't have to meet.
They don't have to be any memos between the two.
Holder doesn't need any guidance.
Holder is just like Obama, angry, chip on his shoulder.
You know what I remember too?
And it counts for nothing.
This is another teachable moment.
When Holder was named Attorney General by Obama in 2009 or whenever it happened, maybe late 2008, but whenever it happened, you remember this?
All of these inside the beltway, Republican and even some conservative judicial intellectuals Race to the microphones to announce their full support for Holder, that it was a good nomination, that it was a good guy, that Holder was the right guy, and this was a pleasing surprise.
And we all knew what it was from the get-go.
It was suck-up.
Because there was, if anybody being intellectual, this is the guy who engineered the pardon for Mark Rich.
This is the guy that was intimately involved with others in the Puerto Rican terrorist group.
Anybody who really thought that Eric Holder was one of the best choices anybody could have ever made was simply sucking up and trying to get the word out, hey, hey, I'm not a racist.
Hey, hey, I'm a cool guy.
Hey, hey, don't hate me.
I know you don't like Republicans, but I'm not your enemy.
That's all that.
And look what it got them.
It never gets them anything.
Republicans try to practice tolerance and forgiveness and openness and acceptance, and it gets them nothing.
I was, I can't tell you how shocked I was at the Republican judicial, inside-the-beltway intellectual approval of Holder as the choice.
And that was one of the early signs that I knew we were in for a long winter.
That was one of the first indications I had there wasn't going to be any principled opposition to Obama anywhere at any time.
Got to take a break.
Be right back.
Let's go back and listen to some flashbacks of Democrats and the way they've treated former Attorneys General.
Here is Patrick Leahy, Senator DePenz, Senator Luigi Leahy.
This January 18, 2007.
It's a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, and the Attorney General's Alberto Gonzalez.
He testified, and just listen to this.
This is what will we call this?
Respect for the Attorney General.
We knew damn well if he went to Canada, he wouldn't be tortured.
He'd be held and he'd be investigated.
We also knew damn well if he went to Syria, he'd be tortured.
And it's beneath the dignity of this country, a country that has always been a beacon of human rights, to send somebody to another country to be tortured.
Before you get more upset, perhaps you should wait to receive the briefing.
How long?
I'm hoping that we can get to the information next week.
So, Leahy cursing at Gonzalez over supposed torture.
He hadn't even seen a report yet on it.
But the Democrats had decided that Gonzalez and the United States and Bush were guilty of torture.
So it didn't matter what the report said.
It was time to launch.
Alberto Gonzalez was harmless.
He didn't politicize anything.
He was practically invisible.
But they had to destroy him, and they did everything they could to try.
Back on Larry King Alive in 2007, there was a presidential candidate that appeared.
His name was Barack Obama.
And he attacked the Attorney General at the time, Alberto Gonzalez, called on him to resign for carrying out the president's political vendettas.
That would be George W. Bush.
Political vendettas.
The Democrat Party was accusing, and it wasn't just Gonzalez.
There was another Hispanic, I never can remember this guy's name, but it's one of the Hispanic Attorneys General candidates that the Republicans really wanted.
What was this guy's?
Can never remember it.
It'll come to me or somebody will remind me.
But this guy, this poor guy, he was either a U.S. attorney or a federal judge or something, just destroyed this guy all because he was an Hispanic conservative.
And they did the same thing to Alberto Gonzalez.
And Larry King said to Barack Obama, the major issue at hand these days, Alberto Gonzalez, the firing of eight U.S. attorneys.
What's your read?
Well, I voted against Gonzalez's confirmation, Obama said, for precisely the reason that we're seeing now.
He seemed to conceive his role as being the president's attorney instead of being the people's attorney.
What do we have now?
Mike, look, folks, the fact that there's partisanship in the country is not new, and I don't want you to misunderstand.
I'm not crying over spilt milk or anything here.
What I am trying to point out is that Eric Holder is a coward.
And Eric Holder is perhaps even worse than that, has this air of invincibility and untouchability.
Like Miguel Estrada is who I'm thinking of, another Hispanic conservative that the Democrats set out to destroy, precisely because he was qualified and eminently capable.
But these guys fashion themselves as untouchable royalty.
You don't even look at them without permission.
But you don't do what Louis Goemert did.
You never challenge these.
Whatever they say is unassailable.
Whatever they say, you can't question it.
And Gohmert did.
And he was insolent.
How dare he?
And so there goes Holder over to Sharpton's little confab crying about it.
You see the way they treated the Attorney General?
And not about me.
It's not about me.
The way they treated the Attorney General.
Let me tell you something.
It's an oversight committee.
Louis Gohmert was one of the few Republicans actually doing his job.
There hasn't been nearly enough oversight of this regime.
The legislative branch is basically shrunken to invisibility into paralysis.
There has been no check or balance on the gobbling up of power of this administration.
And there's no humility among this crowd, folks, at all.
And so that's why Holder, when he goes over to friendly territory, and you believe the way he treated the Attorney General, why there never been an attorney general treated?
And I'm sure he believes that.
I think he believes probably he's never, ever has there been an attorney general so disrespected.
And he's the kind of guy that would demand respect not because he's earned it, not because he's actually respected, but because of the office he holds.
And because you're supposed to be afraid of him.
We're supposed to fear the powerful in this regime.
That's how we're kept in line.
We're supposed to be afraid to speak up.
We're supposed to be afraid to oppose.
We are really supposed to be afraid to challenge them.
And Louis Gomert was, y'all, shucks, you know, I know you don't care about contempt, but I'm going to ask you, don't go there, buddy.
What?
Don't go to the contempt?
That's right.
Oh, Well, I haven't seen any evidence that you care like you say you did.
You're just not supposed to do that at all.
Here's Dingy Harry in 2007, March.
There was an all-out effort by the Democrat Party to get rid of Alberto Gonzalez.
It's unethical.
It's immoral.
I believe it's illegal.
And Gonzalez should be fired or he should resign.
Should be fired.
Should resign.
I think it's fascinating to watch this stuff to me.
It's so eye-opening for people.
All of this, to me, serves as a series of teachable moments.
I know it's hard to let people know what kind of people they've elected and who they've elected have appointed.
But, you know, here's another thing, folks.
And I don't say this, just throwing it off.
How is a parent supposed to teach child responsibility when the leaders of our nation don't accept any responsibility for anything they do?
How is a young child to learn when the leaders of our nation blame everything on racism?
Holder went there yesterday.
Obama does it.
I don't know how often it's too much to count.
The media, the Democrat Party, virtually every word uttered about Obama, if it's not in high praise, is labeled racism.
It's labeled bigotry.
If the leaders of the nation are going to reduce themselves to that kind of childishness, what kind of example does it set?
And it does set an example.
There is no doubt in my mind, and I knew it was going to happen.
I was one of the early warning signs, if you will, or early warning signals.
Racial relations have deteriorated in the last five years.
They have not gotten better.
And I'm convinced that a sizable percentage of the people that voted for Obama in 2008 thought they were voting to end racism.
Or at least they hoped they were.
They thought by voting for a black man, the first African-American president, that that would sweep away all the detreats and the vestiges of slavery from all of those years, and we could finally put it behind us and unite.
That's what I'm convinced millions of people that voted for Obama thought they were helping happen.
And instead, racial strife in this country has gotten worse.
A whole new generation of people is being taught that every white person doesn't like black people because of race.
And that's horrible.
Look at Hank Aaron.
I mentioned this yesterday.
I cannot tell you how seriously depressing that was.
I grew up loving Hank Aaron.
I'm like every other kid.
I wanted to play Major League Baseball.
I hoped I was good enough.
When I was a kid, I played baseball every chance I get.
When I tried out for the high school baseball team and didn't make it, that blew my world up for a while.
It just destroyed me.
I had to deal with the fact maybe I'm not as good as I think.
I'd been in all the youth leagues and I'd gotten by.
But man, Henry Aaron and that home run quest to going to St. Louis when the Braves were in town to play the Cardinals.
And then I lived in Pittsburgh and the Braves had come to town.
I'd go watch Pirates and Braves when Aaron was playing.
And then Henry Aaron yesterday comes on and says, well, the only difference to KKK of then and today is that they're wearing starched white shirts and suit ties and so forth.
That sends a message to all kinds of people who, like me, respected and idolized Hank Aaron.
So now you have the Attorney General.
Oh, yeah, there's big racism yesterday.
Louis Gormer, there's all kinds of racism.
And you believe the Attorney General had to face that.
And Obama resides to it, falls to it all the time.
And the media does as well.
And it's not helping anything.
It's making it worse.
Any criticism of Obama is immediately labeled racism.
And so the racial divide's growing.
The exact opposite of what millions of people who voted for Obama hoped would happen.
Nobody will ever convince me.
Let me put a different way.
I am certain that millions of people voted for Obama for one reason only, and they couldn't have cared less about policy.
They hoped that they were making a statement that would heal the country.
And look what's happened.
And so now the number one law enforcement person in the country, the Attorney General of the United States, in a hearing by the Oversight Committee, he was not attacked.
He was not approached racially in any way, shape, manner, or form.
Chalks it all up to racism.
It's unnecessary.
It's a shame.
And in truth, you know what all this really is?
This is five years of a lost opportunity.
Barack Obama had a singular opportunity after he was elected.
And I made this point when I made my CPAC speech, my first ever nationally televised address to the nation.
Barack Obama, as the first black president of this country, had an opportunity to heal this country like no other president before him ever had.
Barack Obama could have, in these past five years, done more to promote racial harmony than any other president.
And he has done just the exact opposite.
Because as an Alinskyite, that's all he knows.
He is not a unifier, and he is not a leader in that sense.
So the first African-American president has, sadly, resorted to exacerbating racial tensions.
And he's got an attorney general who is helping him.
And not the first day, first time was not yesterday, blowing off a new Black Panther case and then openly saying the Justice Department is not going to be used anymore to prosecute my people or our people or whatever it was.
He said everybody understood what he meant.
So we've been set back.
It's going to take even more time now just to make up the ground that we've lost in the last five years.
I take a break.
Sit tight.
Back with more after this.
Okay, going to go back to the phone.
Get back.
They're going to get two phones.
Yeah, I saw that.
Do you really care what I think about that?
You care what I think of Colbert getting Letterman's gig?
You really care what I think about that?
Well, I'll give you the short version.
CBS has just declared war on the heartland of America.
There is a – no longer is comedy going to be a covert assault on traditional American values conservatives.
Now it's just wide out in the open.
What this hire means is a redefinition of what is funny and a redefinition of what is comedy.
And they're blowing up the 1130 format under the guise that the world's changing.
And people don't want the kind of comedy that Carson gave us or even Letterman.
They don't want that anymore.
It's media planting a flag here.
I think maybe it was the media's last stand, but it's a declaration.
There's no unity in this hire.
They've hired a partisan so-called comedian to run a comedy show.
So that's what I think.
Cool?
Fine.
Satisfied?
Good.
Johnny in Baltimore, Maryland, as we go to the phones.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush Mega Blue Crab Dittos from Baltimore.
Mega Blue Crab.
I thought you said crap for a minute.
I'm trying to figure out what did I know about Baltimore.
We've got a new crab.
We love crabs here.
Yeah, I knew that.
I didn't know you were known for blue crap, so that's why I got, I know you're not now.
Right.
Go ahead.
So I was a fat kid in 1977, and I was about as tall as a fireplug, and I weighed about 115 pounds in the fourth grade.
And the bullies called me Earthquake.
And you know what I did?
I lost weight.
Today I'm a slim 140 pounds, and I'm a law enforcement officer.
And you know what?
The bullies saved my life.
I'd probably be dead of a heart attack by now.
I'm 45.
And I have one thing to say.
When did you lose the weight?
Johnny, when did you lose the weight?
They were bullying you in the fourth grade.
When did you do that?
Fourth grade?
What?
I lost 30 pounds, fourth, fifth grade.
Did the bullying stop?
It did.
It did.
Yep.
It was a magic bullet.
Really?
I will openly admit that I'm surprised.
You lost 30 pounds.
You didn't look like a fireplug and the bullying stopped?
It did.
It was awesome.
Best thing I ever did.
Normally, the bully would continue to harass you on the base.
See, look at you.
You can't even take any criticism.
So I called you whatever, earthquake.
So you go out and lose a little weight.
What are you, a coward?
You got to stand up for who you really were.
That's what I thought a bully would do, but instead, they start picking you for the softball team.
I wanted to be like everybody else.
So I guess I conformed.
Oh, now the bullies want you to be like everybody else.
That's true.
That's the rule of the playground.
When I was growing up, bullying, we used to call it peer pressure.
Social pressure.
And like you say, sometimes it can be a good thing.
It has its place.
And you've obviously kept the weight off now, 140.
Law enforcement.
What are you, uniform cop?
Corrections.
Wow.
I mean, you're handling even.
We bell the cat every day.
I like that.
Well, look, congratulations, just on the weight loss alone.
So few people lose significant amounts of weight and keep it off.
That's real, rare.
Congratulations to you.
Thanks for the call, Johnny.
Appreciate it.
We'll be back.
From one House committee to another, we're going to move over to Errol Isis committee next, where emails show that Lois Lerner was feeding tax information about Catherine Engelbrecht's group through the vote to Elijah Cummings.
We have now had his erratic behavior totally explained.
He's caught.
Lerner is caught.
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