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April 10, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 10, 2014, Thursday, Hour #2
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The views expressed by the host on this program documented to be almost always right, 99.7% of the time, Rush Limbaugh, doing what I was born to do.
The all-knowing, all caring, all sensing, all aware, all feeling maha rushy.
Telebone number if you want to be on the program 800-282-2882.
The House Oversight Committee just voted to hold Lois Lerner in contempt.
Twenty-one racists, sorry, sexists.
I get them confused sometimes.
Twenty-one sexists voted to hold her in contempt.
And twelve reasonable nice non-judgmental Democrats voted no.
This means, ladies and gentlemen, that she can be arrested if Darrell Issa chooses to do this.
Not only can she be arrested, she can be detained by the House of Representatives, having been voted in contempt.
That is not insignificant.
Some people may think that's just the latest political maneuver, and who knows, might well be, but it is not insignificant to uh to be held in contempt of Congress.
This whole Lois Lerner thing, everything that we suspected has turned out to be true.
She was in league with the administration to harm the Tea Party, using the power of the IRS to deny them tax exempt status and therefore political free speech.
And she was working in conjunction with Elijah Cummings, who's the ranking Democrat from the Congressional Black Caucasians.
He's the ranking Democrat on the committee.
She was working with him to sabotage an organization called True the Vote.
That's the organization run by Catherine Inglebrecht, I believe out of Texas.
That was an anti-voter fraud effort she was engaged in.
And the Democrats did not want that shut down, and they did not grant her her tax exempt status, so she couldn't get into gear, couldn't raise money and uh and get to work.
It turns out that Lois Lerner was sharing details of TrueThe Vote with Elijah Cummings, because he was asking for it and back and forth.
And so now we know why Elijah Cummings was uh supposedly erupting spontaneously all those times during committee hearings, it was simply to make sure that whenever anything was headed his way that it got deflected.
And of course, he threw down the race card as well at one point.
And we've got audio sound bites uh backing this up.
She can be arrested now.
And there's even uh there's an email that's been uncovered that she sent that if things broke down, she could always go work for uh that what's that thing Podesta runs?
I there's so many of these Obama slash Clinton I don't think it might have been Center for American Progress or uh it's one of those things that John Podesta runs.
She could have gone over there and just furthered her political activism.
Uh, and the reason why that was important is because she was revealing the fact that she was a strident partisan Democrat using that in her job at the IRS.
Oh no, no, no, they say she just joking about going to work for that group.
She she was just she was just joking.
It was organized for action is what she was organizing for action, which used to be organizing for Obama.
No, no, it was organizing for action that she made that she was gonna go work for, which is the offshoot during the campaign that was organizing for Obama.
When he got elected, they changed the name to Organizing for America, but it remained his agitate his community uh organizer group.
And she made a joke in an email back and forth with Elijah Cummings.
Well, maybe I go work over there.
And uh the all the slate.com and Mother Jones and all these uh oh, she was just kidding.
It's Not clear that she was uh being truthful, because if she was being truthful, she was revealing to those didn't know it just how partisan she was.
We'll get into the details.
I am being uh I am being I was gonna say pressured, encouraged by the staff to not drop this attorney general business only because of an opportunity to talk about Janet Reno.
And it is kind of an interesting story.
Many of you who are lifers here are familiar with this.
You'll not be forgotten it, it'll jog your memory.
Others of you may not know of this.
Janet Reno launched the Waco invasion as the attorney general for Bill Clinton, and she was not their first choice.
Remember, they chose somebody to be attorney general, and whoever it was had not paid the nanny or had not filed uh payroll taxes for the nanny.
Whoever that was got sent packing, and it was always thought that it was Hillary that decided on Janet Reno, and that was easily believable, both on the surface and after an in-depth analysis.
So Janet Reno becomes the attorney general, and not long after, it's the it's the early heady days of the Clinton administration, and David Corresh of the Branch Davidian sect was ensconced in some dilapidated buildings outside Waco, Texas.
Now, Janet Reno had the reputation of being devoted to children, even though she had none of her own.
And there were children in the Branch Davidian compound, as it was called.
And to make this story really short, one day Janet Reno was told that the children, some of the children in the Branch Davidian compound, a religious sect, were being abused.
And she then launched the Waco invasion.
She sent tanks and other military vehicles, and they launched an all-out assault on this thing, and they burned it to the ground.
It happened while this program was on the air.
I'm sitting here watching the Branch Davidian compound literally be torched by the United States government and Janet Reno.
And all the while, I'm not believing that Reno acted on her own.
She's too new.
This is this is too big an action for Reno.
By the way, it was this incident that was one of two that reputedly caused Timothy McVeigh to go over the edge when he saw what was happening with the full force of the federal government being used in this way to attack religious people.
Under the guys they were cooks and freaks, and there was child abuse going on in there.
So Janet Reno burned the place down, and lots of people died, including the children.
Well, this required oversight.
It required a congressional investigation of Janet Reno, appeared.
And during the investigation, which I naively believed was, because I mean John Conyers, Democrats ran everything back then, so I figured what was going to happen was an effort to cover up for Janet Reno.
Because they circled the wagons.
They protect each other.
So I thought it was just basically going to be a circus act thing, but nothing really of any consequence is going to happen.
Well, lo and behold, John Conyers went in there and he just launched on her, and he did everything he could to destroy this woman, and I thought in the process that he was being disrespectful and rude.
Not what he was learning, not what she was saying, but just his treatment of it, but it was unproductive, but this is not how.
If you really want to find out why she did what she did and when it all started, this is not the way to go about it.
He was just preaching.
He wasn't seeking information.
He would just on his high horse.
I happen to mention that.
I happened to mention that I Thought Conyers was being rude and unproductive, even though it was well known that I was not a supporter of Janet Reno, obviously, or the Clinton administration.
Well, not long after that came the White House correspondence dinner, the last one I've ever attended.
And during the White House Correspondence Dinner, President Clinton told a joke.
I was the guest of uh Washington Times.
I forget the name of the reporterette who had invited me, but I was not far from the C-span table.
Brian Lamb was there with Susan Swain.
Remember them.
And even then I had not lost my hearing, but it was in the big ballroom at the Washington Hilton, 1,200 people in there.
And I was uh I for some reason having trouble hearing keeping up.
So I didn't catch it the moment it was said, but I saw everybody turn and look at me.
And I only later learned what Clinton had said.
And after it was over, this is where Dee Dee Myers gave me a kiss.
Remember that.
After it was over, Chris Matthews, back when he was still sane, came up to me at the end of the event and said, you can't let that pay.
You cannot let the President United States call you a racist.
You cannot let that stand.
And the Russian boy know is not going to sit here and take this.
And he was livid that it had happened.
And here is what Clinton said.
It's audio soundbite number six.
It goes by fast.
It's eight seconds.
She liked the way Rush took up for Janet Reno the other night on his program.
He only did it because she was attacked by a black guy.
And there was a little bit of uncomfortable laughter and then silence, and everybody turned and stared at me.
Because the president of the United States had just called me a racist.
And he said that what I was, you know, defending Janet Reno was insincere.
It was simply that she's being attacked by Conyers.
Who's a black guy?
See the way Rush took over Janet.
Folks, by the way, if I may go back to my program on Monday, talking about them assigning to us our intentions and their attempt to make everybody believe that we are at heart mean, extreme, racist, sexist bigots, and all that.
And that whenever we behave in ways that are not racist, sexist bigot, we're just trying to camouflage who we really are, so that when David Koch gives a hundred million dollars to a hospital, he's not really doing it because he cares about patients and sick people and kids in hospitals.
He's trying to cover up the fact that he's a mean spirited, racist, bigot, and hateful person.
And that's why he was protested.
Or whenever I or any conservative engage in charitable act, we don't really mean it.
We're just trying to fool people.
We're trying to convince people that we're not who we really are.
That's how they deal with it.
That's what that's what this is.
You like the way Rush took over Janet Reno the other night's program.
He only did it because he's attacked by a black guy.
Now what he was saying, Limbaugh couldn't care less about Janet Reno.
He couldn't care less the way she was treated.
He probably hates her guts, blah, blah, blah, blah.
But because he's a racist, he had couldn't stand that a black guy was attacking.
That's that's what he was saying.
And this is how all this stuff gets cemented in the minds of low information voters.
So anyway, I did call the White House, and I demanded a retraction from this, and I think it was somebody at USA Today thought it was all funny.
Talk to me about it, thought it was all funny.
Later in the week, a White House spokesman did not apologize, but got really close to it.
Clinton never did, but somebody speaking for him.
They got us close to apologizing That's not what the president meant, blah, blah, blah, as they could without apologizing.
But ever since then, I haven't been back to this thing, and there's nothing that would ever get me to attend one.
That's just gotten worse.
And so that's why I don't go to these things anymore.
In the in the in the midst of all this, uh Janet Reno continued to be attorney general, the Yvonne Gonzalez thing that the kid stolen from um home down in Florida, taken back to Cuba and so forth.
And that's right, it was Kimba Wood and Zoe Baird.
That were the first two Clinton attempts at attorney general, and one of them had a judge problem, the other had a nanny problem and not paying their FICA taxes.
And one of them had illegal immigrants, what it was.
El Reno.
Yo.
Oh, oh, oh.
And it was Judy Keene who invited me to the White House Correspondents Center.
She was at USA Today at the time.
The first time I went to the White House Correspondents Center, it was uh as a guest of uh Washington Times and I ended up.
I didn't have a car driver.
I just caught a cab from the hotel was over, shared a ride with Patricia, whatever was her name from the Nags.
Patricia Ireland.
That's right.
I was in the front seat, she was in the back.
Oh my God, you talk about ice.
Back to the phones.
This is Vern in St. Paul, Minnesota, and I'm glad you called, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Hello.
Uh hello, Rush.
Diddows.
Thank you.
Uh Snurdy told me to get right to it, and was what Holder said to uh to the committee when he said, Don't go there, buddy.
I've I would take that as a threat.
Sure sounded like one, didn't it?
Yep.
Uh anybody tells me something like that, then to me that they're make they're doing a threat.
Don't go there, buddy.
And and it's typical.
Somebody in this position who thinks they're untouchable, unassailable.
You can't look at me unless I grant you position uh permission, and you dare not question what I do.
How dare you?
Don't go there, buddy.
Don't go there.
And the reason another reason why it could be considered a threat is this guy's got the power to Justice Department for Recriminations if he wants to.
Or they can simply call up whoever's running the IRS if they want to.
We know that that's how this regime operates.
We know that now.
Not that anybody cares, obviously.
But uh, we know it.
Don in Syracuse.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello.
How are you, Rush?
Megadiddos.
Thank you.
Very much, sir.
Uh, first time caller.
Uh I got your book for Christmas, uh Rush Revere.
Yeah.
And uh my five-year-old.
I wanted to, you know, start reading them basically like a novel.
Something that we could read continuously every night.
Yeah.
I started reading them the Rush Revere book.
He loved it.
I mean, he asked for it every night.
Uh we had some family come up, and uh there was some nights that we couldn't read it.
He asked me every single night.
Well, lo and behold, they started talking about he's in kindergarten.
Uh, they started talking about the pilgrims and everything, and apparently he was answering questions and talking about the book in school.
Uh the teacher told him that he could bring the book in, and he brought the book in this morning.
He was so excited to bring the book.
This is incredibly five years old.
Five years old.
And at the end of the book, when you have that question, not the test.
Um, just the the quick question right at the end about who taught Tommy how to sword fight, he immediately answered it.
Immediately.
As a parent, I thank you so much for that part.
You know, hang on a minute.
We just hit the break time, but don't hang up.
You know, I'm watching Obama.
He's at the LBJ library.
And he's uh the speech here marking the 50 years since the enactment of the Civil Rights Act.
And you know what he said?
He said, as we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, we honor the men and women who made it possible.
Which is a big switch because normally he attacks Republicans.
What?
No, the Democrats didn't make the you know, this one of the big myths of recent American history.
The Democrats were the segregationists.
Do you know that a greater percentage of Republican senators voted for the Civil Rights Act than Democrats?
I mean, I saw Doris Kearns Kearns, whatever Goodwin uh uh.
She said on TV the other day, you know, she got very close to LBJ.
I mean really close uh doing research.
You know what I mean by really close.
And she they loved LBJ because he was a bully.
He was a bully, and he was working the phones.
The story was that he was pounding the payment.
He was calling Democrats night and day trying to convince them to vote for this.
Because they were the segregationists, the Democrats were the KKK, the Democrats bull Connor, the dogs and the fire hose.
It's it's one of the most amazing historical reversals ever.
Okay, back now to Don and Syracuse.
Don, you know, I uh I'm I'm so grateful first that you got through.
Getting through, calling this program is really a tough thing to do because so many millions of people are trying.
And your story is I I you know, I uh uh can't tell you I can't adequately describe the good feeling I get from hearing this.
A five-year-old who loves the book who wants to hear from it every night, and then and then wanted to take it to kindergarten, and the teacher let him bring it, and he was able to answer questions nobody else was able to answer because he'd read it or had it read to him, and then was able to answer that question.
Of course, the answer to the little question was Miles Standish, but uh just want to prove people that I know the answer to my own books question.
And I just I'm I'm so gratified I can't I can't I wish this is one of these things, I wish this book were in every parent's hands.
I I think it should be.
I mean it I couldn't I honestly didn't know how he was going to do it because we were doing, you know, books that took about five minutes to read.
Well, yeah, for five-year-old, that makes sense.
But this is a novel.
Right, and and when I told when I explained it to him that this was gonna be a long book and everything, he just kind of looked at me after the first night.
I mean, you could he was so like into that book.
It was I couldn't believe it.
Like I've heard people on here say stuff, and I I kind of thought to myself, eh, I don't know.
I know what you thought.
Can I tell you what you thought?
Uh you probably said, come on, Rush, enough of the kids.
Okay, we get it, you got a book out there, but stick to the issues, something like that.
Now your child has encountered the book and can't get enough of it.
Can't get enough.
When we finished the book, he immediately picked up on that you had a second book.
And I'm like, it it just asked if they were gonna go somewhere else.
You know, where are they going with next like the kids in the book?
Well, let me take the occasion of your call here to learn something.
What is it do you think?
Are you able to ask what he likes best about it?
Liberty.
Well, uh that's that's that's cool because we've got big things planned for liberty.
That's all I'm gonna say.
And he just like I said, when we got when we picked up on it the next night, I would ask him, do you remember what happened?
And he immediately would say whatever Liberty had said, you know, and then I would kind of coax him a little bit as to remembering, and then he would remember, I mean, we may not have read the book for three nights, and he would remember When we talked about a little bit more what we had talked about on the previous line, I am just so thankful.
It's a great connection for him and I to have, you know, have father and son time together.
I love reading.
I'm so happy that he's into it.
The most important part is that he took what he learned and went to school with it.
Yeah, it sounds like he wanted to take it to school.
He I I'm pretty sure he convinced the teacher to let him bring it in.
Five years old we're talking about here.
I don't uh you gotta forgive me here, you stick to the issues, people.
This is just this is just too amazing.
I think that what you what you're doing for for our kids is is awesome, Russian.
And as a parent, I so much appreciate it.
Thank you.
I'm I've just it's so unfortunate what's what they're being taught.
You know, he's gonna be taught the exact opposite of what he's learning in this book in these books.
It is, I mean as a parent, you can you there's ways to counter it.
I I don't want to start any arguments with anybody, but it's gonna be interesting because he's as he gets older, he's gonna go to school, they're gonna get into pilgrims, they're gonna tell him a bunch of garbage about it, and he's gonna have this book as his first uh learning experience, and he's gonna I'm sure you'll prep him for it, but he's still gonna be a little confused, and he's gonna say, Well, wait a minute, no, no, no, because I read that, and then they may wherever you go may trash the book.
Well, you can't believe what that author writes, little Timmy, blah, blah, blah.
So it's it's a good thing.
Well, I did show him in the back where you got all your information from.
And I did explain it to him that you didn't just yes, there is there is no such thing as a talking horse.
Sorry to break it to everybody.
But a lot of the information that you did put in the book happened.
And you gave where he could find that.
I mean, to me t when you say something to somebody, when you can back it up with proof, that's really what I think hits home.
Well, that's uh there's nothing in it for any of us to lie about this.
There's nothing in it.
The left has to do that because they are trying to spread things that aren't true.
Well, we don't have to lie.
I there's nothing in it from on this program or anything.
There's nothing I gained nothing by lying.
I gained nothing by building an audience built on lies.
I gained nothing by just in fact the exact opposite.
I tell you what, you've you've got both books, right?
Did I hear you?
Uh no, we've got the one book, the Rush Revere.
The Oh, okay, cool.
Well, here, I tell you what.
Um uh what is your son's first name?
Hunter.
Hunter.
Okay, I am gonna send you the audio versions read by me on a bridge of both.
And I'm gonna send Hunter the second book autographed by Liberty.
Oh my gosh.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Well, I've got a fairly Liberty's starting to get a little bighead and and and and protested all these autographs he has to sign, but I get his mind right.
Uh we had a photo session with him the other day, and he demanded to put on a suit and tie.
I'm telling you we're losing control with the guy.
But but anyway, if you'll give Mr. Snerdley an address, then we will we'll get all that stuff out, and we'll make sure Liberty signs the second book to Hunter.
Rush, I appreciate it so much.
Thank you from my family to you.
Thank you so much.
You can tell Hunter that there's gonna be a third book, too.
But don't tell anybody else.
I'll wait till I get on the second book to let him know.
Keep that between us.
Right.
Okay, thanks.
Thanks, Don.
I really appreciate it.
Don't hang up, snerdily pick up the phone next, and we will take a brief time out and come back and continue right after this.
Don't go.
I think teaching the truth about our country's history is the issue.
And actually, I guess teaching the truth about everything is the issue.
But I'm t teaching the truth about our country's history is the issue.
That's where we first went off the tracks when we allowed the multiculturalists to come in with their curriculum.
You remember you remember the uh Reverend Dax way back in the late 70s and early 80s we coinciding with his presidential run, which was 1984, I think.
Yeah.
Ho ho ho, Western sieve has got to go.
Remember that?
And they're marching out at Stanford and a number of other places across the fruited plain.
Ho ho ho, Western sieve has got to go.
Western civilization.
And the multiculturalists began to take over the public school system and began teaching literal rot gut.
They began teaching literal lies, all oriented around the fact that this country was founded in an unjust and immoral way.
And the country was as such illegitimate.
And we now have a president who came from that mode of education.
And we have an administration populated with people who also believe that, because they were chosen by this president.
And that is what we are up against.
We are up against people who are teaching anti-American history.
The blame America first crowd is taking over the curriculum, particularly not all the way back to kindergarten, but mainly elementary and in a high school, of course, into the institutions of so-called higher learning.
I think it is the issue.
And it's it's crucially important.
Here's Mark in Las Vegas.
We go back to the phones.
Thank you, sir, for calling.
Hi.
Pittsburgh Steelers did us from the greatest city on earth, Rush.
You know what?
I gotta tell you something.
The Steelers preseason schedule was announced yesterday.
Every team's was.
And for the first time in I don't know how many years, not one Steelers preseason game will be televised nationally.
Well, we're opening up with the Giants, so no one's gonna be watching anyways.
Uh opening up with the Giants, and then uh the giant at Buffalo at Hines Field, and then uh play the Eagles in Philadelphia to close against the Panthers, which they do every year.
But it's the first time they've been coming up two eight and eight seasons, and the national networks are saying, you know, nobody wants to watch mediocre teams, and you are one.
So the Steelers.
Now, when this generally happens, this is when teams rebound, when the leagues predict that they're gonna suck, uh, is when teams rebound.
So Steelers fans can hold out hope because that one decision made by the networks.
Well, you know, you and I have spoken about the Steelers before.
Uh, it was my phone call that you introduced the world to the foreign honors.
And that was our phone call back in Pittsburgh years ago, you asked.
Is that right?
I remember it was a Monday night.
We were talking about Monday night football.
This is like the eighth time I've got through to your show.
Uh well, I'm glad you made how how many years?
Oh, over the years, you and I have spoken since uh the Clinton, the early Clinton administration.
Wow, since 1992.
And I also got to speak with Walter Williams on your show, Sean Hannity, and then the late the great Tony Snow.
When they were subbing in for you.
Well, do you do anything else?
Uh yeah, I do Elvis, and I'm a reverend I do Elvis as an Elvis Entertainer out here in Las Vegas.
Oh, you're one of the flying L vi.
I could be.
I love to jump out of airplanes, but I always have a headphone with at least uh, you know, one headphone in my ear listening to Rush, no matter what else is going on.
Well, I appreciate that.
I really do.
Couldn't go without it.
Um the reason for my call is um I'm the one person who watches MSNBC, and I watch it religiously just because it makes me laugh when I'm making tea in the morning.
This morning, they were talking about the powerful women of the Democrats and who could be the next president.
Bill Crystal asked the panel, why is Hillary Clinton qualified?
There was not one answer.
Now wait, wait, wait, hold a minute.
Did you say Bill Crystal was on MSNBC?
This morning.
Really?
He was on that uh morning show.
That won't have to be a good one.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, but I thought we had a contract with Fox.
I didn't, I didn't, I didn't know that.
That's interesting.
No, it's not a big deal.
I just you know I don't watch MSNBC.
Not used to hearing about people like Bill Crystal appearing on it.
Anyway, nobody could provide any qualifications for her.
Not one person answered.
They all sat there.
It was almost like somebody hit a mute button, and towards the end of that little break, one of the other panelists, one of the men says, Well, we have a book coming out in August, and you'll have all the answers to those questions.
And Crystal just sat there like to captivate the canary because he was right.
He had them all nailed, dead to rights, and he had them all just up against the wall, not one had an answer.
None of them.
Look, you know, everybody knows that I like Bill Crystal.
But I have to tell you, when he when he goes public with predictions, count on the opposite thing happening.
I'm just, I say it with love and affection.
It happens.
And I got real scared the other day because he said there is no way Jeb Bush is going to get the nomination.
There is no way.
And I said, Bill, please don't say that.
Let somebody else say it.
Well, in this case, he did not predict.
All he did was ask the question, which I've learned from you over the years.
The best way to win the argument is ask the question and let the person make their own judgment, and that's how the people learn.
He did the exact thing.
He asked them, why is Hillary qualified?
He asked it again.
Not one answer on that panel.
Not from Liberal Joe, not from LeBlanc, not from anybody.
Well, that they have an answer.
They just don't have the guts to tell you what it is.
Exactly.
You can't tell the truth.
Not about Hillary.
I mean, she's not qualified in the sense that you think of qualifications for president, but that's not why she is in the top tier.
They're not going to answer that question.
I'm not I'm surprised that they didn't fake it.
But it does, if what you said happened, then I have no reason to doubt you.
You're an eight-time caller.
You've talked to all the guest hosts.
There's no reason to doubt you.
If I I can't believe they couldn't come up with some fake answer to answer, explain why she is qualified.
Well, she spent so many years in the White House, she guided Bill Clinton.
Remember, he's still popular with Democrats, so that could be a plus.
She helped guide Bill Clinton through uh whatever it is, she's uh expert on health care, she's Secretary of State, any number of things they could say, but they didn't say anything, which I mean her primary achievement is that she was a doormat.
And it is for that that she is being rewarded.
Why are you laughing?
Well, they probably will go nuts.
Uh um, well, uh I'm gonna see, you know, I've got this ban on MSNBC.
And by the way, concomitantly, with our ban, their ratings are in the literal toilet.
You can't see them.
Yeah, that's the but Crystal didn't make that prediction uh about Jeb on MSNBC.
He did that wherever else.
Uh he works.
But I could probably find the bite, and we could listen to the sound of silence.
Uh, as Crystal says name her qualifications.
He could probably do that.
But there's see their reason for thinking Hillary should be president has nothing to do with qualifications.
It has to do with they think she can't lose, number one.
Uh B, she's owed it.
C, they took it away from her in 08 when it was literally promised to her.
There's all kinds of things like that.
You know, she gave up half of her life to live in Arkansas.
That's probably the top of the list.
No, no, no, I've forgotten we got we got Lois Lerner and uh Elijah Cummings, Congressional Black Caucasians.
I've still got that stuff.
We'll still get into it.
Just had other things come up.
Sit tight.
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