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April 28, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 28, 2014, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Here we are, folks, ready to go.
Got a full week of broadcast excellence for you.
Rush Limbaugh, we are back on the right coast.
And I finally have the bandages all off after cochlear implant surgery on the 17th.
So this is the 28th, since 11 days ago.
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I still can't check this cold, however, folks.
The magic of the audio compression may not make this cold as evident to you, but it's still here.
I think I'm on the tail end of it based on evidence I don't have to bother you with, but a little experience with these things.
So just be patient.
Maybe a hacking cough here and there if I missed the cough button.
But other than that, everything's cool.
Great to have you back.
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Look, I just, this Donald Sterling business, I have to tell you something, folks.
This is not news to anybody who has known of this guy.
I mean, I'm telling Mr. Snerdley this morning that this guy's a big Democrat.
The only reason he's in trouble right now is he did not give enough money to Obama.
This guy was going to get a leadership award from the NAA LCP LA chapter.
The second one.
This guy is a typical Hollywood Democrat.
He's sort of a pretend A-lister.
But who he is, his racialist tendencies, everything on these tapes, it's been so widely known by everybody in the NBA, everybody in the sports media for 10 to 15 years, forever, however long he's owned this team.
And all of this shock and outrage, I'm going to tell you something, it is as phony as you can believe.
Everybody in the media from L.A. to New York who's acting shocked about this, I'm telling you, they've known who this guy is for the longest time.
They've known he's a slumlord.
They know that he's a racist.
They know that he's basically a despicable human being.
And now he may be demented in addition to whatever else he is.
I mean, I can remember when I first started going out to Los Angeles and started meeting people out there, something happened.
I mean, 10, 15 years ago, the name Donald Sterling came up.
And I'm asking my friends, who is this guy?
And I heard everything 10 to 15 years ago that I'm hearing about the guy over the weekend.
And all during this period, I'm like, well, how does this guy hang on?
Well, the Clippers never win.
The second rate team in L.A.
The Lakers own it out here.
And it's just an afterthought team and any big deal.
It doesn't get in anybody's way.
And he pays these guys decent NBA salaries.
But it's been known.
The guy gave money to Gray Davis.
The guy gave money to Bill Bradley.
He's been donating to Democrat causes, doing what you do in Beverly Hills in L.A. to be in the A-list crowd.
This guy's been doing it, other than the slumlord business.
And that may even be some of what you have to do.
You talk, if you get anybody in the NBA, anybody in the media world, LA, to be honest with you, they'll tell you that none of this is news.
Even the fact that he's had these girlfriends, that he's a sugar daddy.
That's not new.
His wife has known about it.
What happened here is, best I can tell, he was getting older.
He thinks that what he says is profound, and he wants it, he wants it maintained for posterity.
So he asked this V. Stiviano, the latest sugar baby, yeah, the little honey.
She's telling people that he asked her to record him because what he says is brilliant, but he doesn't have the ability to remember everything he says now because he's 81 years old and he wanted it kept for posterity.
He wanted to have a record of what he had said in case there were any disputes with anybody about what he had said.
So that's her story, and of course she is going to stick to it.
There are over 100 hours of recordings of Donald Sterling.
So the real question now is why does it matter now?
The guys that, folks, you know what I've always said, excuse me.
Remember when we had a discussion about when they threw the guy from Mozilla overboard?
And I had a monologue at that point in time about how the left always seems to get away with things because their intentions are good.
We're never supposed to judge the results of what they believe in.
We're never supposed to judge the results of their actions or of their policies because they're good people and they're trying to do the right thing.
They have honorable good intentions.
And at the same time, they assign ill intention to us.
And one of the things that the left says about people on the right is that when the Koch brothers, when David Koch gave $100 million to the hospital, they said that he didn't really mean that.
He's just doing that to cover up the fact he really doesn't like poor people.
He's just doing that to cover up the fact that he really hates people.
He's just doing that to keep people from finding out who the real David Coke is.
That's what they say.
Well, hello.
This is exactly what this, that's Donald Sterling.
Donald Sterling has been giving all his philanthropy and all these awards to cover up who he is.
They actually do what they accuse us of doing.
But I mean, I, you know, the Mozilla guy is Brendan Icke, and he's long gone, of course.
And what did he do?
He gave $1,000 to a campaign that believed marriage between a man and a woman.
Can you believe the bigotry?
Can you believe the hatred?
A guy like Brendan Ike.
Now, they're trying to figure out what to do about Sterling.
They can't take away the team.
Legally, they can't take it away.
If they try to take away the team, then Sterling will sue them and tie them up in court.
So what they can do, the Reverend Sharpton, by the way, on the case, the Reverend Sharpton, who was going to be awarded at the same bank which Sterling was going to be awarded, the NAA LCP LA branch is going to give the Reverend Sharpton award.
The Justice Brothers are on the case.
The Reverend Jackson is now comparing picking cotton to picking basketballs if you have to play for the Clippers.
I'm sorry, folks.
Cannot shake this.
It's been a month now, and I'm doing everything.
It's very rude to cough at you like that.
I'm sorry.
But when I start laughing, it upsets the breathing pattern that keeps the coughing in check.
No, no, no, no, no.
Sharpton's, snitch away.
I don't know what he's getting an award for.
I don't care.
But Sharpton is now on the case.
The Justice Brothers on the case.
They're going to go after the Clippers advertisers, and they're going to boycott this and boycott that.
They're going to shame, what's his name, Sterling, out of the picture?
It really, she's got this sugar baby named V Dot Stiviano.
Hell, it could be what she calls it in the internet age.
And she got three or four aliases.
And she's a groupie.
You know, one day she's hanging around with a guy from the Dodgers.
The next night she's hanging around with a guy from the Lakers.
And here she is being kept by Sterling.
And he bought her a house and a new car and gave her, I think, a million and a half dollars in cash.
At that point, the ex-wife, who still runs the team, said, okay, wait, this is getting too far because that, now we're getting into what's going to eventually be my money.
So the ex-wife has played a role.
V. Stiviano has released the tape because she's trying to write a book about all this.
And her theory is, her story is that Sterling asked her to make these recordings.
Private thoughts.
They are indeed private thoughts.
Let this start thinking about if the NSA was taping your private thoughts and somebody got mad at you and decided to release them to TMZ.
I mean, where would you be if anybody cared?
No, they can't.
They can't take the team away.
There's nothing in the bylaws.
I mean, in baseball, the Cincinnati Reds are shot.
That took Major League Baseball years to convince her to sell the Reds.
So there's nothing in the bylaws that take the team away from him.
And there's nothing in the bylaws to make him sell it.
All they can do is put financial pressure, advertise her, get all the sponsors out of there.
If Obama gets it, or he did get involved.
I mean, Obama's involved.
He was over in Malaysia.
What Obama, I mean, Obama's ripping America left and right across the sea.
Grab himself by 16.
I mean, look at this.
This is early Sunday morning in Malaysia.
I guess Obama went over to try to find the jet, help him out.
No word on whether that's been successful.
Anyway, Obama's meeting with the Malaysian Prime Minister, Najib Razak, on a joint presser.
And during the QA, have you some of the questions Obama's gotting?
Mr. President, are you getting sleep?
Have you adjusted to jet lag?
Mr. President, do you like your ice cream dessert that was served to you in the shape of Mount Fuji?
These are press questions.
These are questions that Obama is getting.
According to pool reports, Julie Pace at the AP asked Obama if he slept well.
Obama said, I'm still on 4 a.m. time, and the press collectively thought, wow, what a brave guy, our dear leader.
Then Obama was asked about ice cream.
Another reporter asked Obama if he liked the ice cream dessert in the shape of Mount Fuji served at the state dinner.
Obama nodded, saying, Yeah, they have the green tea at the bottom that I've spoken of having when I was six, and I was very pleased.
By the way, is it just Obama talked about how being back in Malaysia reminds him of when he was six years old and all that?
I thought, didn't Obama once tell us that his family took bus vacations up and down the coast of California staying in Howard Johnson's because that's all they could afford?
And all he needed was a pool and a soft drink, and he was in there as a little kid.
The Greyhound bus tour, that was the extent of Obama's summer vacations.
He told us this when he's running for office.
Now we find out as a kid, I guess they have Howard Johnson's in Malaysia because he spent time there.
Anyway, I have not lost my place.
Major Garrett, the joint presser today with Obama and Najib Razak.
Human rights, racial tolerance, political accountability, and free speech are up for grabs in Malaysia right now.
And they're probably best symbolized by the precarious legal position of Anwar Ibrahim.
The opposition political leader in this country, former Vice President Al Gore and Human Rights Watch have taken up his cause.
Can you explain, Mr. Obama, why you have said nothing about these issues here in Malaysia?
I think the Prime Minister is the first to acknowledge that Malaysia's still got some work to do, just like the United States, by the way, has some work to do on these issues.
Human Rights Watch probably has a list of things they think we should be doing as a government.
So I haven't commented on the human rights violations here in Malaysia because we got nothing to brag about at home either.
We're just as bad.
The United States is just, this is typical of what this guy does.
The United States is just as bad on human rights as Malaysia.
So I'm not going to embarrass Najee Razak by bringing it up here when Human Rights Watch says it's just as bad in the United States.
We got our own work to do.
And he weighed in on the, and I know he's just answering a question, but that's no excuse to me.
The media defending Obama said, hey, he didn't go out there and make a statement.
He was answering a question.
Well, he didn't have to answer it that way, whether he was making a statement or answering a question or not.
He said what he said.
He also said something about Sterling.
We've got a long way to go.
The Sterling situation proves it.
I'm going to tell you, folks, here's the bottom line.
The Sterling situation is made to order for the Democrats because racism is a political strategy to them.
It's not.
There isn't slavery in America.
We've got a black president.
We've got a black attorney general.
We've got the most popular, well-paid TV person in America's black opera.
We don't have a slave state anymore.
We don't have anywhere near it.
We're not anywhere near the kind of country these people of Democrats want to portray it as being.
So Sterling does this.
And the reason, it would be even worse if he were a Republican.
You'll note that in no story do you see him identified as a Democrat.
But he is.
But this whole racial thing, racist thing, is just a political strategy.
And that's why they're all salivating here.
I take a break.
We've got some audio soundbites coming up.
The left, as I told you last week, with orgasm after orgasm over Toma Picadee.
That's the actual pronunciation of Thomas Pikidi.
I was talking about last week.
The French pronoun tomah picadee or picadee or chickade, whatever his name is.
They got sound bites here where the left is going, absent bananas.
They're so excited about income inequality.
So you sit tight, hang in there, be tough.
We'll be back.
Continue right after this.
Don't go away.
Already having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
I'm no, I'm trying to, I can't, I don't want to mention any names of people who've told me about Sterling.
Folks, this last trip to LA when I played golf with Doc Rivers, who's the coach of the Clippers.
And I've never met him.
He's a former coach of the Celtics and so forth.
The subject came up then.
The real question here is why hasn't the NBA done anything about this before now?
You know that Donald Sterling is the longest tenured owner in the NBA.
He has owned this team since 1981.
Yeah.
And I'm just telling you, none of this is a surprise to anybody.
If you get them to be honest with you, it's just that now his voice is on tape and they can't sweep it under the rug.
They have been able to sweep this guy under the rug because the Clippers sucked, because the Clippers were constant losers.
But now the owner of the Lakers passed away and they're in trouble.
And then the Clippers happen to be the best team in L.A., right?
So there's a lot more attention on them than there usually is.
I mean, they were a cast-off type team.
The Lakers owned L.A. in many ways, not just in basketball.
And so the Clippers were an also ran out there in Disneyland.
And, you know, they played in the same place, but now they can't sweep it under the rug because there's actual tape of the guy.
It's not people talking about it.
It's his voice.
But the real question is, why didn't they do anything about this long ago?
Why didn't the previous commissioner, David Stern, do anything about this long ago?
And the fact of the matter is they had other more pressing problems in the NBA at the time than this madcap owner.
The guy is a slum lord.
He has been sued and settled lawsuits for discrimination and – well, no, I just – it's one of these situations where I'm not going to mention any names.
I'm not going to say X told me.
I'm not going to bring anybody, but I'm just telling you, every time I go to LA, I ask, okay, what's the latest thing Sterling's done?
Please, they've been fun, entertaining stories.
And everybody says mock outrage.
And I'm telling you, it's not a surprise to anybody.
Hi, how are you?
Welcome back, folks.
El Rushbo, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
So people, quite naturally in the email, what do you mean that Sterling is a Democrat and donates to left-wing cause?
Well, I'll give you a couple examples here in a second.
But folks, at some point, we have to move off of this.
This is a trap here, this racial strategy that plays right into the Democrats' hands.
Even though this guy is a Democrat, they get to point out, they get to say, as a strategy, we still have a racist country.
And what that does is keeps enforcing guilt on people and makes them think that they've got to do and say things such as to pollsters to show that they're not racist.
And it's almost a form of political blackmail in a sense, the way this issue is used.
I mean, this guy got an NAA LCP Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009.
And he had just been sued by Elgin Baylor, who is a well-known star from the past in the NBA.
He had just settled a housing lawsuit, the largest housing lawsuit in history.
He had just settled it.
He gave big money grants to the NAA LCP and other black groups, including the Black Business Association, 100 Black Men, the Special Olympics, the United Negro College Fund.
And it was a trade-off.
He's giving all this money to all of these black and left-wing causes.
And so he's able to say and do what he wants as long as the money rolls in.
It's exactly what they say about us, that we only donate to charity to cover up the bigotry and the hatred that we really feel.
That's what they say about it.
And look at these are the people that do it.
These are the phony baloney plastic banana good time rock and rollers.
It's a lot more important stuff out there.
For example, you've seen the latest polling data on Obama.
I'd say it is not good.
This is from the National Journal.
These are the people that do the hotline.
This is a left-wing, typical mainstream media organization.
Nothing really new here, except that it's all bad news for Obama.
And do you remember the 2012 exit polls?
I saw the first wave of exit polls at 5 o'clock.
You might remember I mentioned this to you.
And I saw a question and the answer that made me realize Romney had lost at 5 o'clock.
And it was, there were actually two questions.
One of them blame Bush for the economy like 60-40.
And the second question, the real one, was understands and is concerned about people like me.
89% Obama 11% Romney.
When I saw Bush being blamed for the economy four years after he left office and that 89-11 question, I said, okay, this is over.
And I watched the election returns, hoping that my instinct would be wrong.
Well, the polling data cited here by the National Journal, only one in four adults, this is an example of how bad it is for Obama.
25%, one in four adults say that his actions are increasing economic opportunity for people like them.
That's among his worst showing in the polls.
So he has gone from an exit poll question in 2012, not even two years ago, where he won 89 to 11.
The question understands and cares about people like me to now only 25% believe in Obama and his policies are increasing economic opportunity for people like them.
I mean, that is a huge, forget approval for everything.
That is a huge decline in just that exit poll question to this poll.
That is huge.
But there are other bits of damaging news.
His approval rating is at 41%.
So in the midst of this, in the midst of Obama literally in a free fall, and I, again, you're not seeing that reported because the media isn't going to report it.
They're going to do everything they can to make that not look like it's happening and to prop it up and make it look like something else.
But he is in free fall.
And Obamacare is an absolute utter disaster.
And so what do we get?
In the midst, whoa, a couple more stories before I answer the where do we get?
What do we get?
Recovery has created far more low-wage jobs than better paid ones.
This is the New York Times.
Now, before you think that the New York Times is turning on Obama, that's not what the point of this story is.
That's, again, I think a little bit about how out of touch the New York Times is.
What this actually is, a story by Annie Lowry, but it actually ends up being a PR piece sourced by an ultra-left group called the National Employment Law Project.
And they are making a big push for raising the minimum wage.
And so the New York Times also wants the minimum wage raised.
So they run a story: recovery has created far more low-wage jobs than better paid ones.
They're reprinting a press release, and they're calling it a news story.
But the point is, they don't see that the real message from the story is that Obama's policies are horrible.
Obama's own recovery, Obama's own policies are not creating high-paid jobs.
They're not creating well-paid jobs.
Now, you and I know that this is by design.
After six years of this kind of dismal economic performance, any rational person would say, you know what, what we're trying isn't working, and it's time to change direction, and let's do something else that might work.
But not this bunch.
They're doubling down on what isn't working, which means this is what they want to happen.
This is what they want to do.
They are trying to drive down wages.
All the while blaming capitalism for it, you see.
All the while blaming whatever happened before Obama got into office.
And taking the occasion of this new book by Toma Picadi to say that there's income inequality because the United States is fatally flawed because it is capitalistic and capitalism is fatally flawed.
And it all works together to say, you know what?
The government needs to come in and rescue these people with low-wage jobs by raising a minimum wage.
That's the purpose of the New York Times story, where the real story is that Obama's economic policies are a disaster.
And this makes me circle back to the precious and beloved millennials who bought hookline and sinker every utopian idea that the Obama campaign of 2008 put in their little heads.
And then they followed dutifully, they were obedient, and they went to college and they got their degrees and they thought just by doing that that success was theirs.
I mean, after all, that's what people tell you.
Go to college, instantly you have a house.
Go to college instantly.
You've got your gig.
Instantly you've got your car or bus pass, whatever is a big deal to you.
Whatever you want, you've got to go to college.
Well, they did.
They were obedient.
They went to college.
They come out with degrees that are now not much help in many cases.
And you know why?
Because there isn't a growing economy.
There is not an expanding economy.
And the New York Times has told us here.
In an effort to raise the minimum wage, the New York Times runs a story, recovery, not Bush, not Republicans, not GOP, not conservatives, not Rush Limbaugh, but recovery has created far more low-wage jobs than better trade ones.
Sorry, the recovery is all Obama's, and the recovery is all the Democrats.
And so the New York Times really have not much respect for their readers, because they really expect, if you read the whole story, you see it's a push for the minimum wage.
Well, let me give the first two paragraphs, show you what I mean.
The deep recession wiped out primarily high-wage and middle-wage jobs.
Yet, the strongest employment growth during the sluggish recovery has been in low-wage work at places like strip malls and fast food restaurants.
Ah, the old hamburger flipper thing here.
In essence, the poor economy has replaced good jobs with bad ones.
That is the conclusion of a new report from the National Employment Law Project, a research and advocacy group analyzing employment trends for years into the recovery.
This is an amazing admission by this bunch.
And it is, I'm still amazed that the Times would report it, but the only reason they're doing it is the agenda is to raise the minimum wage.
And they're simply rolling the dice that their own readers will not figure out that what they're really saying here is that Obama's economic recovery hasn't created diddly squat in terms of meaningful jobs.
Hi, welcome back, El Rushbo.
Great to have you.
In addition to all of this, Obama plummeting in the polls, only 25% of the American people think that Obama's policies are geared to help people like them.
There is this, in data from the Census Bureau.
The real median income of American women dropped a little more than 4% in the first three full years after the end of the recession.
So again, the Obama recovery has resulted in the income of American women dropping a little more than 4%.
Quite naturally, I, El Rushbo, am confused because, like you, I'm hearing that the GOP is supposed to be waging this war on women.
But under Obama, all women who work, and that's a big distinction, are making almost $2,000 less than they did before Obama, and they're now having to pay more for their health insurance than they did before Obama.
And yet, it's the Republicans waging war on them while Obama is actually ruining economic circumstances.
Essentially, women have been getting a shaft on income ever since Obama took office.
So in the midst of all this, what is the news we get?
That Kathy Morris McMichael, Michael McMahon, whatever that the Republican Party is saying, we're going to have immigration done by August, and we're not going to do anything about Obamacare.
Are you kidding me?
And I predicted this.
Grab audio soundbite number one.
This is May 14th on this program, March 14th on this program.
And this is after David Jolly's special election victory in the Florida 13th congressional district.
We have this massive electoral victory on Tuesday in Florida.
Florida 13.
And I'll be damned if the Republican establishment is not doing its best in high gear to tell everybody, hey, don't think that Obamacare was the main factor here.
It is becoming clear to me, not that it needs to be any more clear, the Republican establishment does not want to run against Obamacare.
The Republican establishment obviously has a campaign game plan involving Obamacare, and it is not include repealing it, folks.
The Republican establishment apparently doesn't want to campaign on repealing it.
They want to campaign on fixing it.
It is Kathy McMorris-Rogers, and I, you know, I liked her.
She gave the Republican response, I think, to the State of the Union show.
Well, this is cool.
And she's out there saying that the Affordable Care Act is likely to stay and that we're going to have an amnesty done by August.
And no less, with Obama in free fall.
And Obama in free fall, we're going to give him what he wants.
So it says here.
I warned you.
I warned everyone about this.
There's so much spite in the Republican establishment.
It's incredible.
And not only that, the Washington Post has a story today saying that if the Republicans do what they say they're going to do on immigration, it's going to result in more Democrat voters.
Well, duh, of course it will.
Why are the Democrats in favor of it?
And it goes on to say that if they do this, if the Republicans are the reason for amnesty, that all of a sudden it puts Texas in play as a Democrat state.
Now, if Texas ever goes Democrat, do you realize the Republicans never win the White House again?
Because they'll have the electoral votes of California and the wava orc.
You add Texas to it, and it becomes insurmountable.
Then you throw Illinois.
I mean, this is incomprehensible.
I mean, it'd be bad enough if this were happening in a vacuum, but it is happening while Obama and the Democrats are in quicksand.
Even Carl Rove, he must have had a heart attack when he heard of this.
Carl was flying, I think, from Washington to Texas or vice versa when he heard about Kathy McMorris-Rogers.
He didn't care about immigration, but when you tell Rove that the Affordable Care Act is here to stay, that's what he's not raising money on, is repealing it or getting rid of it, except for a couple things in it.
And you couple this with what Speaker of the House has said.
It is mind-boggling.
It really is mind-boggling.
I got to take a break, folks, but that's the table.
Just said it.
So we'll start getting your phone calls in the mix in the next hour.
A couple other things here after this.
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