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April 28, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 28, 2014, Monday, Hour #3
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Here is Leon Jenkins.
Leon Jenkins is the uh.
He is the again, he runs the LA chapter of the NAA LCP in Los Angeles.
By the way, I've had some email.
What do you mean NAA L C P new listeners?
National Association for the Advancement of Liberal Colored People.
NAALCP.
Because they don't care about the advancement of Clarence Thomas.
And they don't care about the uh advancement of uh any number of black conservatives, such as uh Dr. Sowell or any number of others.
It's a National Association of Advancement of Liberal or leftist colored people.
So Leon Jenkins, they had a press conference, they must have had 20 people at that podium.
And an unidentified reporter says, How much money did Donald Sterling give you guys?
It was not a significant amount of money.
I'm not gonna tell you the amount, but it because I just said it.
It's an insignificant amount of money, and we're gonna return it.
I'm not gonna tell you how much money he gave.
It doesn't amount to anything.
We're gonna give it back.
Well, wait a minute, though.
Weren't you gonna eat it?
It's the second lifetime achievement award he was gonna get.
You mean those don't cost anything?
You can't buy a lifetime achievement award.
Why else was he getting one?
Uh cough button time, hang on.
See, I hit it in time before rudely coughing in front of you.
So a reporter said, well, back in 2009, Mr. Sterling was honored with a lifetime achievement award from you, the NAALCP.
Do you have any plans to revoke that as well?
No, he was not.
I believe that was the humanitarian award, and that was an award or a uh um a decision that I inherit.
Uh the prior president had made that commitment, and I just honored him.
So don't look at me, pal.
I didn't do it.
Nothing to see here.
It's the old Bart Simpson defense here.
Nobody saw it, you can't prove anything.
I didn't do it, I had nothing to do with it.
My predecessor, George W. Bush, gave him that award, and I had nothing, all I did was honor it.
I'll tell you this, Leon Jenkins has got the sterling defense down pat.
Just a sterling defense of the actions of the NAALCP.
No, it was uh was not a lifetime achievement award, humanitarian award.
Well, that's even better.
Because the Reverend Jackson just said he paying all these guys with no dignity.
I always thought that the owner had one job.
I mean, the boss had one job, and that was to come off with the check.
And I always thought the check was the dignity.
Now, there are times I wanted to be treated nicely, times I wanted to be respected and so forth, but people are people.
If the check came, the check came.
Let's see.
Well, Grab 13 and 14.
We may as well get these out of the way here before we get to the homeless iPhone scandal.
Uh this is Chuck.
Chuck Barkley, former friend of mine, used to be a good friend until I don't know when.
I guess it was when Obama got elected.
And then Chuck started not liking me anymore.
Uh and this is Sunday to Saturday afternoon during TNT's coverage of the playoffs, which the Clippers are in for the first time in like the millennium.
It really is an unfortunate thing for these guys because they are in the playoffs.
They're also Rands.
The Lakers own LA.
And the Clippers are finally there.
You know, I wish I can't remember this guy's name, but Catherine and I, two trips to LA ago.
We went to the Grand Havana Club to have dinner.
Because you know why?
Because you can have a cigar.
If you can have a cigar while you are eating dinner at the Grand Havana Club.
You can have a cigar while you're having an adult beverage.
You can have a cigar while other people are eating, and nobody complains.
It's ventilated.
They open a sliding glass doors.
It's a great, great place.
And we decided to eat at the bar, and I sat next to a guy who was a former player for the Clippers.
I can't remember his name.
But we got to discussing cigars.
This guy loves cigars.
I ended up having a box of cigars delivered to his house the next day.
Because I gave him one of my favorite cigars.
And he liked it.
So I sent him a surprise box.
I got his address, and I had him, I had a messenger over there the next day.
And I can't remember his name.
It's slipping my.
I've been trying to remember it all day.
And I think it was former play, might be a current player with the Clippers, but somebody tells me he's a former player.
But we we had great conversation all night long.
Grand Havana Club.
It's great.
They got one in New York, too.
I just wanted to mention that because I got anytime I can put myself in the middle of a story, I'll take the chance.
Well, it does speak to the dignity of it.
I mean, he and I had dignity for each other.
Dign dignity extended to my sending him a box of cigars the next day.
In fact, it was more than a box, it was actually a sampler set.
And he sent me, he sent me a text.
I'll bet that's how I can find it.
I'll bet you I got I bet you I have right here.
I mean, no, it's in here.
I know I'll find a guy's name.
I don't know if I'll embarrass it.
I could ruin the guy's career.
But I I can I mean it's right in here.
That's it.
I'll find it.
Anyway, Chuck Barkley, Saturday TNT, during the Pacers Hawks playoff game, Ernie Johnson is the anchor talking to uh the analyst Chuck Barkley about Sterling and all this.
And then Ernie Johnson said, you you can read these statements over and over and you still can't believe what you're reading.
Ernie, everybody can believe it.
Everybody knew it.
And I'm getting blue in the face saying so.
Here's what Chuck said.
We cannot have an NBA owner discriminating against a league that we're a black league, Ernie.
We are a black lead.
I don't know the number, but I'd probably say 80% of our players are black.
Well, Chuck, I'm telling you, one of these guys that's known about Sterling for as long as you've been in the NBA.
Paul Westfall, the former coach of the Phoenix Suns, has said it.
Donald Sterling is the NBA's worst kept secret.
What?
What are you wagging your finger at me for?
What?
Did Chuck just discriminate here?
He's Chuck.
Chuck said we can't have an NBA order discriminating against the league that we're a black league, Ernie were a black league.
I don't know the well, that's a good point.
How's how's Sterling discriminating against the league?
I mean, he's not discriminating against his team, his team's in the playoffs.
He's paying free agents.
It's a good point.
By the way, what if the N the HL, what if the NHL called itself a white league?
What would happen?
We would have big big problems if somebody NHL was so undignified as to proclaim itself a white league, Ernie.
All right.
Uh now here's Irvin Magic Johnson.
Uh Sunday afternoon on ABC's NBA countdown.
And the question is Sage Steele is the info, babe.
She says, since your name was brought in by the man, believed to be Donald Sterling in his recordings.
What do you plan to do going forward, Magic?
I'm going to say what I've been saying all along.
He's got to give up the team.
You got the president of the United States saying that this is bad.
You got all the fans around the country, different races of people saying it's bad.
It's time for him to exit.
They'll find a way to make that happen, by the way.
Well, well, no, no.
They can't they can't make him sell it.
And they can't take it away from him.
But they can they can put pressure to leak and put pressure in the sponsors to not having to do with it until they can suspend him.
And they can fine him like a million bucks or whatever.
Or uh, you know, tell him he can't go to SPAGO and it might really ruin his day.
But there are things they can do.
But they can't take the team away from him.
They can't make him sell it, but they can force him by human public humiliation to not be associated with it anymore.
Well, he I don't know if he who's I think he's looking, he's if you let nature take it.
Is he what is he 81 or 88 years old?
And then one of the one of the defenses is going to be that he's demented.
He's suffering dementia.
Uh asking for this stuff to be recorded.
You wait.
Suffering dementia, they don't really know what he's saying.
He's gonna end up trying to make himself out to be a sympathetic figure before it's all said and done.
Apparently he did call Vestiviano, the sugar baby, and and ask her, what can we do to make this right on Sunday?
Or what can we do to make this go away?
That's that's again uh TMZ.
Now here's the homeless update.
It's a despicable iPhone tracking scheme that targets homeless people.
It's been uncovered in Denver by Channel 9 eyeball news.
It's nine wants to know is the name of the news.
Nine wants to know.
So do we.
Anyway.
Homeless people are desperate for cash.
And other people are desperate for cash.
And apparently some scammers have come along and have found a way to scam the homeless.
What they do, they approach homeless people, and I guess they can tell a homeless person when they see one.
They go up to the homeless person and they offer them money to go to an Apple store and buy on contract iPhones.
They give them the money to go in and buy the phones on contract, meaning with ATT with Verizon or whatever.
They give the homeless people enough money to go in and sign up, buying a bunch of iPhones.
Once the transaction is done, the homeless people come out of the Apple store and they are paid a couple of hundred dollars in exchange for the phones.
The con men then walk away with brand new iPhones.
And the homeless somehow unwittingly have signed up for two years with Verizon, two years with ATT.
They somehow are who I'm sorry for laughing here, but the homeless end up with bills of $6,000 because the home the the these the scammers then sell the phones and people start using.
They sell the phones contract-free.
They go out and they say, hey, they send a lot of them to China, whatever.
Hey, look, you want an iPhone, it's already got ATT, you got to pay nothing.
The homeless get the bill.
And it has been discovered, according to nine news wants to know in Denver, the scammers cruise around homeless shelters and plasma donation clinics to find people desperate for money.
They then drive them to the Apple store and convince him to sign multiple iPhone contracts, convincing them the contracts can be canceled within a few days.
But that's not the Case.
You can't do that.
And the unsuspecting homeless victims will not be able to actually cancel the new carrier contract free of charge.
A 19-year-old Denver woman said, I thought it was amazing money.
I had rent due the next day, and I was looking to pay it.
Next thing I knew, I got I got bills totally $6,000.
Now, there's some obvious questions here.
That I can't I I've got to take a break.
But there's some obvious questions work.
But we'll ask them when we get back.
And welcome back.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh the EIB network.
By the way, in Denver, apparently the police have been contacted about the homeless scam, but they're not going to do anything about it.
The cops are not going to investigate.
They're deemed it to be an unfounded civil issue.
Whatever that is.
Now the uh the carriers, like ATT of Horizon, is supposedly aware of the problems, but not all of them have provided a comment.
Sprint said that once it started selling the iPhone, it saw rampant credit mulling all over the country, which is, I guess, what this is.
Um, I how if you're an Apple store and here comes a homeless person and the shopping cart and everything or whatever, and wants to buy multiple number of iPhones.
I I I uh I guess it's kind of like if they walked in during the home subprime mortgaging and wanted a house, you gave them one.
It must be the same kind of thinking.
And they had the ability to sign, but don't you have to have your homeless.
You gotta have an address, credit card, sign up.
Somehow the scammers take care of all that.
Here's Sue in St. Charles, Illinois.
It's great to have you.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program.
Hi.
Hi.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
I really appreciate that.
Okay, so you were talking about the immigration reform and how it's gonna fall on the Republicans.
Um, I think it's gonna be bad.
Because imagine this.
You're here illegally.
You're working for not a lot, but you're working for cash.
And once you get the opportunity to become legal, guess what?
You gotta pay taxes.
You gotta buy Obamacare.
You won't be able to afford your job anymore, or your employer won't be able to afford to hire you anymore.
And we're not just talking about people from south of the border.
How about all those Oriental restaurants?
Who have a lot of illegal people doing the serving there.
Well, they're made to order.
This is all made to order for the Democrat Party, is what you're saying.
Stay illegal.
Well, they're all made to order for the Democrat Party.
I mean, if they can't afford Obamacare, fine.
Here it is.
We'll give it to you.
We'll subsidize you or what have you.
Yeah, I suppose.
But what about the taxes?
You mean yeah.
And and what about what about uh they'll be subject to uh a minimum wage and everybody's trying to get minimum wage to be higher?
Well, it's there are a lot of companies who whose main employees.
I'm I'm I'm glad you called.
I have to I tell I'm still trying to figure out what Sue's point was.
As I understand it, Sue thinks from Illinois, and by the way, got Illinois news here in a minute, hang on.
But uh She was making it sound like that in her opinion, once the illegals become legal, they're gonna find out how much being a citizen sucks.
And they're not gonna like it.
They're gonna have to pay taxes, they're gonna have to all of a sudden we come out of shadows.
I mean, everything's on to books, and then it is subject to the law, and they have to have Obamacare or pay a penalty, and they have to do this, and they have to do that, and they're not gonna like it.
And that there's gonna be a backlash, but I didn't get from her who she thinks is going to suffer the backlash.
Uh Republicans or or Democrats.
The problem with that thinking is that people who make low income don't pay taxes.
They get money back.
They have the earned income tax credit.
They are net tax users, not taxpayers.
They get money back from the tax system.
They don't pay into it.
The earned income tax credit is one way.
There are other redistribution schemes that the Democrats have enacted.
The newly legalized illegals will be eligible for Medicaid, heavily subsidized Obamacare, Section 8 housing.
I mean, they're made to order wards of the state.
They're made to order Democrat voters.
And besides that, do you know about the red carpet being rolled out?
If this ever really happens, if the amnesty happens, they're going to be for a while the most privileged citizens that we've got.
The Democrats are going to be celebrating them.
Republicans are going to be competing with Democrats to celebrate them.
There are going to be telephones for them, prizes, any number of things.
Free homes to win here, free car to have their welcome to America, this kind of thing.
Aren't we great?
Look what we've made possible for you.
Big contest between the Republicans and Democrats to welcome these people into the system.
Think about the day after amnesty.
Think about where the Democrats are going to be.
They're going to be wherever they think the shadows are to welcome people walking out of it.
Greeting them with handshakes and checks and who knows whatever else.
Welcome to America, they're going to say.
We made it possible.
And right next to Harry Reid's going to be John Boehner.
And right next to Boehner is going to be Jeb Bush.
I mean, there's going to be a mad dash here, wherever the shadows are, for these people to be greeted.
So that proper credit can be given for having made it possible.
Am I wrong?
And as long as we're thinking about this, both parties are going to vie for it.
The credit is going to go to the Democrats.
The credit is going to go to the Democrats.
Because you're asking me, who's the media going to give credit?
The media is going to give credit to the Democrats.
The Republicans are always going to be portrayed as they didn't really want to do it, but they saw it was the only way they would ever, ever have a chance of winning the White House again.
They begrudgingly met with the new arrivals out of the shadows with the Democrats, but they really didn't want to be there, this kind of thing.
You know it, and I know it.
No matter what the Republicans do, the Republicans get into being single-handedly responsible for making it happen.
And it's going to be reported they did it with clenched teeth, with their hands tied or fingers crossed behind their backs.
You name it.
By the way, 25%, speaking of how do the homeless get phones, 25% of Obamacare subsidy recipients don't have bank accounts.
Now, how is that possible?
Millions of people without health insurance do not have bank accounts to pay for their plans, including one quarter of those who qualify for Obamacare subsidies, reports the Washington Post.
The startling statistics, the Breitbart story, by the way, Startling statistic comes from Jackson Hewitt and raises growing concerns over whether those who applied for Obamacare will make their premium payments.
Now, isn't this disgraceful that 25% of people signed up don't even have bank accounts?
There's no way to get their money.
I'm sorry.
Hang on.
I had to hit the cough button again.
I'm sorry, folks.
I appreciate I'm sorry, all these common cold virus noises I'm making.
Twenty-five percent don't have bank accounts.
I know get the money from Donald Sterling.
That's what to do.
Yeah, here it is.
One in four Illinois residents say the state is the worst place to live.
Our last caller was from Illinois.
Residents of Illinois apparently are pretty miserable.
According to New Gallup poll, twenty-five percent of people live there say it's the worst state to live.
That's easily the highest rate in the country.
In fact, only seven states uh rated in double digits for the worst place to live.
Rhode Island was second worst place to live at 17%.
Here's the thing that's happening.
And this is a problem.
Liberals destroy their natural habitat.
They're like cockroaches or bull weevils.
They destroy wherever they are, and then they migrate and they destroy wherever they move to.
Like they're in the process of trying to destroy North Carolina now.
They've been in the process trying to destroy Florida for the longest time.
They destroyed New York, they destroyed Long Island, they vote for high taxes, they vote for liberal politicians.
They get people like De Blasio and all these other people to go just crazy with liberal policies and drive everybody out of state, and these same liberals wherever they go, they repeat the process.
That's the problem.
That's what's happening.
Liberals ought to be made to have to stay wherever they destroy.
Like they should not be allowed to leave Detroit.
For example, you break it, you own it.
Colin Powell.
Quote, unquote, right?
Yeah, that's it.
Catino Mobley, the uh former Clippers player I had dinner with at the bar at uh the Grand Navanna Club was back last October.
Last October.
Anyway, greetings, folks, and uh and and welcome back.
More Illinois News.
Chicago public screwels are now phoning home to make sure that kids are signed up for welfare.
I kid you not.
Parents of children enrolled in Chicago Chicago public schools received a recorded phone message encouraging them to sign up for low-cost health insurance and food stamps.
So the public schools are totally pushing socialism, at least the ones in Illinois are.
And uh the state of Illinois already can't afford its current obligations, but no one cares.
They're adding more to the financial burden, and this is why it's the highest rated worst state to live in the country by people that live there.
Just amazing.
Laurie in uh Indianapolis, hi.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
I just wanted to call and let you know that my husband and I attended the Cincinnati Homeschool Convention, and we went to go hear Dr. Carson speak, and we were surprised and delighted at the graciousness of you and your wife have given us the Rush Revere book.
Oh, yeah, that's you know, I uh we kind of did this under the radar.
Um but the uh there was a big homeschool convention in Cincinnati over the weekend, and uh we got in touch with with uh the people there, and they graciously let us.
We we wanted to give the Saturday night uh parents of Dr. Carson, and we wanted to put a copy of the book on on every seat.
Um it's just something to do.
And the the homeschool people were just great.
And so I'm glad you got yours.
Oh, we were everybody there was just excited and excited about the message that you gave us, and I it just was wonderful.
It just topped off like the cherry on the top of the evening.
It was that's because it was a total surprise.
You had no idea.
No, no.
It was just a two-minute video.
She's just uh just a little two-minute video that before Dr. Carson was he's not great, by the way.
Oh, he was fabulous.
Yes.
I was so impressed with him.
Yes.
That's uh you all have a great organization, by the way.
And oh, well, thank you.
well, you all are doing the Lord's work.
Um you really are, which is why, you know, we uh uh we've had a lot of homeschool people have told us that they like they love the Rush Revere books.
Well, see, my oldest son is a history nut.
And my husband's been wanting to buy the book and just haven't had the money, and it was kind of just such a wonderful surprise to get the book then.
Well, how about that?
Yeah.
Well, then it worked out even.
He got home yesterday and he started reading it immediately.
Well, it was the uh no, but you know what, Deb, you you got the second one?
You probably don't have the second one.
No.
Well.
Well, let me take care of that.
Uh yeah, yeah.
No, you've got to hit the beginning.
Yeah, you gotta I know, I know.
I am that way.
Um but keep it secret.
Okay, we will just between us.
But yeah, you've got to have both.
And and then you've got to get any others that might happen.
But oh, yeah, I plan on because actually my husband and I both got one, so I was planning on giving it around to my homeschool group for all their kids to read, too.
Cool.
Yeah, absolutely.
We're excited too, because I really haven't heard you talk much about homeschoolers.
And so my friends and I told them that you did this, they were very excited about that.
Well uh you know, th there's some things that we like to do under the radar.
Um, Mr. Snerdley snuck your phone call in, in fact.
Oh, okay.
If you must if you must not.
It was it was just we were really grateful that the homeschool people um were receptive to the idea.
And you're just you're you're you're really so kind and nice to call about it.
Uh so I look, I've got to run because I'm out of time, but if you would hang on, Mr. Snerd, you'll get your address and we'll get you a copy of the um of the second book, Rush Revere and the First Patriots.
Second and the audio versions of both.
Laurie, so thank you.
Uh thanks very much.
Right here, business week, four minutes ago.
The racism of Donald Sterling was well known in the NBA before this weekend.
Right there it is, business week.
Everybody knew this.
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