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April 30, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 30, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
One tenth of one percent.
One tenth of one percent.
Let me say it again.
One tenth of one percent.
That's first quarter economic growth.
And the regime is blaming the cold weather.
I thought I thought it was supposed to be global warming.
That was the reason for the cold weather.
Now the cold weather, which is because the global warming is what the regime is using to explain economic groups.
One tenth of one percent.
Ladies and gentlemen, the ChICOMs have overtaken us.
The Chicoms in the world's biggest economy in a communist country.
And I warned everybody about this uh when was it?
March the 4th of last year.
Because Adam McKinsey study report that um chronicled the ChICOM population purchase of luxury cars outpacing the sale of luxury cars in America even a year ago.
One-tenth of one percent.
And you want to hear something else.
This is a real clincher.
If it weren't for the government spending on Obamacare, economic growth would have been negative.
Meaning there isn't any private sector economic activity.
And I guess we can understand that.
Of course the American economy has stopped growing because all of our citizens are busy online barking about who said what, who can say what, who can't say what, and applauding the hammer being dropped by the NBA commissioner on Sterling.
One of the stories I had from yesterday that I didn't get to, 20% of American families don't have anybody in them employed.
Twenty percent.
You add to that the 93 million Americans not working.
I'm going to make a prediction to you.
It was Brendan Eich, Mozilla, gay marriage.
We get this Sterling thing.
This is all the Democrats have to get vote turnout in November.
Every policy initiative, every idea of theirs is crashing, including their president.
The New York Times, Maureen Dowd has even now written a piece on the lack of manliness of Barack Obama.
Maureen, you're six years too late.
This is the kind of stuff you should have ferreted out in 2007 and 2008.
It's no big deal for you to figure this out six years into this mess.
Everything that the Democrat Party has touched is falling apart.
The only thing they've got that can give them any hope of winning an election is war on women, racism, gay rights, gay marriage.
So you wait every two, three weeks, there's gonna be a story like this, and guess what?
The New York Times find has a story, why I mean let me give the headline here for you.
I uh after 33 years of Sterling a boiling point, why did it take a tape recording aired on a gossip website to ignite nationwide ire against Donald Sterling?
This is the point I made on Monday while everybody else was in a race.
Everybody in the media was in a race to see who could prove to be the most sensitive, the most hurt, the most outraged, the most angry, who could be the most eloquent in expressing all of that.
I came to the golden EIB microphone, so which is anybody not know that this guy has been who he is for 30 plus years?
And if you'll recall, I recounted stories, visits to LA.
Subject came up every time I went out there.
And one of the reasons why it was overlooked was that when I first heard about it, was in a golf course in Los Angeles, somehow the guy's name came up, but the Clippers came up, and I said, Who owns this team?
The Clippers.
I don't know the NBA much.
And they said Donald Sterling.
I said, I never heard of him.
And that's when I started hearing about the reprobate the guy is.
And I said, How in the world does this guy survive?
I mean, I heard, I heard song and verse.
I heard all of the racist stuff, the uh slum lord stuff.
I first heard about it.
Had to be 1997, maybe a little bit earlier than that.
And everybody I ask in LA, how's the guy survived?
Well, you know, the Lakers own this town.
The Clippers are an all so ran.
They never win anything.
The guy's a joke, Rush.
Nobody takes him seriously.
He's an A-list wannabe hopeful.
It's never gonna get there.
He's just uh just uh just a joke.
Well, that you know what that tells me a lot of this outrage that we have witnessed since Saturday has got to be fake.
It has to be because the same people have known about this for 30 years.
Uh well, I was just asked a question, a pointed question, an interruptive question on the IFB.
Is it okay to be a racist if you're not successful?
I guess you mean, since his team was never taken seriously, since his team was an also rancus.
The Lakers, is that does that mean just go okay to be a rate?
He was successful in what he did.
The guy's a billionaire.
He just one of these guys wanted to be in the in-crowd.
He wanted to do Mr. Cool, Mr. Hip.
He's never gonna be.
He was never, he was always joke.
But yesterday, Adam Silver, and I gotta tell you, I was a little chilled.
I must have went, I mean, not whatever what he did.
The reaction, this guy drops the hammer and the media, my folks.
Do you realize the happiness over one guy dropping the hammer and sending this guy packing?
No.
I've got a montage of it to uh to play for you.
But he said Adam Silver said yesterday, this has nothing to do with anything in the past.
It says only to do with what we learned on that tape starting Saturday.
Well, that led a lot of people off the hook.
All the other owners, the former commissioners.
There's a lot of people that knew this.
And a lot of people who knew it, you know, ginning up their outrage and anger uh over the weekend as though they're just learning of it for the for the first time.
Anyway, uh yeah, by the way, Rush Limbaugh.
Uh great to have you here, folks.
I forgot to intro the show, but you know who I am.
Uh you're my voice.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program's 800 28282.
And the uh email address El Rushbow at EIB net.com.
Viviano.
Grab some button number four.
Did you see?
Did you see?
I'm wondering if I should repeat the story that I told you, snurdly.
Well, it might have been told to me in private.
I don't know.
I'll have to think about it.
Anyway, did you see this babe walk out of whatever she walked out of yet with this this this hood, this this reflector uh helmet on her face to hide her face?
You didn't see that.
It wasn't TMZ, it was everywhere.
This the V V.Steviana walks out of somewhere and there's a media horde waiting for her, and she's got this contraption on her head that goes all the way down to her neck, uh covers her neck, and it's a reflector.
A welder's helmet.
It looks at Welder's helmet.
It was the strangest thing.
Trying to hide her face.
And when they caught up with her, um, she did, she took time, was outside a restaurant.
She's wearing this sun visor thing, but I mean, it's more sunvisor.
It does look like a welder's helmet.
And she stopped to take questions from the media.
This is nine seconds, but here she is.
One day I will become president of the United States of America.
And I would change the registration in our modern-day history, civil rights movement.
So, uh, she said that one day she's gonna become president and will change the legislation and laws, modern day history, and the civil rights movement.
She's going to change it all.
That, yeah.
That's, I'll tell you what, if I were a political candidate, had eyes on the White House, I would be scared right now.
This babe could win.
That's exactly why she could win.
One tenth of one percent economic growth.
One tenth of one percent.
And if it weren't for the government spending on Obamacare, it would have been negative growth.
Folks.
This is I've run out of words.
Disaster doesn't cover it.
I've got read my tech blogs.
Get this.
This is Venezuela turning thousands of abandoned cars into houses.
It's a tech blog.
They think it's brilliant.
Think it's a brilliant use of worn out cars to turn them into houses.
While many people think countries like Norway are leading the way with recycling programs, an ambitious new idea in Venezuela takes things to a whole new level.
A country just announced it'll start recycling abandoned cars.
Recycling.
See, that's what makes it cool.
It's green, it's econom it's it's environmental wacko approved.
Venezuela just announced they're going to start recycling abandoned cars, motorcycles, and bikes in order to build houses from their raw materials.
And later on in the story, it says, Venezuela's plan is especially elegant because of how directly it turns cumbersome trash into useful housing for people.
some American kid on a tech blog thinking this is a brilliant idea.
*Click*
This babe, this V.S. She could beat Hillary.
She's got Hillary covered on every important issue.
She's half black, she's half Hispanic, and she doesn't have to, you know, Hillary has I no way tired.
This babe can pull it off naturally.
I ain't no ways tired.
One tenth of one percent.
Economic growth.
One tenth of one percent.
After the stimulus, after the recovery, after all of the jobs programs, after all of the magic that Obama has thrown into the mix here.
One tenth of one percent.
And if it weren't for the spending of Obamacare, we would be negative economic growth.
Let's take a brief time out and regroup.
Ladies and gentlemen, by the way, Rachel Nichols, formerly of ESPN, and now of CNN has told us who the next target is.
The next NBA owner, who is the target, is the owner of the Orlando Magic, Rich DeVos.
Yes.
And you know why he's a target?
Because he doesn't agree with gay marriage.
He's the next target of whoever it is that's going to clean up the NBA.
A brief timeout, and we will continue in moments.
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I want to take you back.
Grab a soundbite number one.
I just want to go back and refresh your memory.
This is March the 4th, 2013 on this program, uh, your host issuing a warningslash prediction.
McKinsey and Company says that the ChICOMs, folks, this is a communist country now.
The ChICOMs are going to become the world's largest luxury car market.
That's troublesome because that says more about the direction we're headed than it does about the direction the Chicoms are headed.
In many cases, the price, the average price of a new car now, exceeds the annual income of a significant percentage of the population.
Well, now I'm getting snarky comments in the IFB.
People say, no, no, that's horrible.
It's terrible.
Folks, it's emblematic of the direction our economy is headed.
It isn't good.
There's a lot of truth wrapped up in that statistic.
And the update of the statistic is China's economy expected to have grown 24% between 2011 and 2013, the American economy grew 7.6% in the same period of time.
And don't forget, I I forget the details, but the regime has changed the way they calculated GDP, which I think it uh heritage or somebody forget.
Somebody that I trust credibly analyzed in the new way they're calculating GDP said adds a phony 3% on the positive side to it.
And I do remember that, that there was an announcement that there's a new way of calculating GDP.
It's not just the old standard way of measuring economic growth.
And it's designed to make the regime look better.
And of course, one-tenth of one percent.
The ChICOM economy, 24% growth, 211, 2014, 7.6%.
Uh do you know that the United States, you know, when we became the world's economic leader?
If you like it, take it just a wild guess.
I mean, there's no wrong answer here.
Oh.
Well, you're close.
It was 1872.
The U.S. has been the global leader, the world's number one economy since 1872.
That means we have held the record for 142 years, and in less than five years, Barack Obama is causing the United States to lose the top slot.
And there's no excuse for this.
Particularly losing to a to a communist country where the average wage is a dollar and a half or two dollars a day.
All throughout the country.
This is just and I think about these millennials.
We had this guy on the phone the other day who didn't hang on who wanted to say, no, we're not blaming, we're just blaming ourselves.
We have no confidence.
We're blaming us.
We look at ourselves not being able to succeed, we look at ourselves as failures.
And you think of people who are 17, 18, 25, you know, this kind of stuff matters.
They don't have in their short lives any memory of a robust American economy.
Stop and think what somebody 25 today has heard since they were 12, 13, 14.
They've heard all that garbage about the Iraq War.
They've heard all that garbage about America and torture and America's horrible and America's unjust and America's immoral.
And then they hear Obama's campaign 2008, and they see Obama running around apologizing for the country.
And a they uh who knows, but 25-year-olds may think they have no memory in their lives of a robust economy of a winning United States in a military conflict.
They don't have any positive memories whatsoever in the time of their lives.
And if they're not taught, which we know they're not, if they're not taught anything about the greatness of America in our history, can you imagine what their attitudes might be?
It would make perfect sense that they would be down on America, down on themselves.
I mean, they've heard about the American dream, and they know in a general sense about America's greatness, but to them, it's all a mirage.
It's all in the past.
None of it's for them.
In their lives, they haven't stop and think of the media onslaught.
I mean, George Bush elected in 2000.
You think of just the last 14 years of what mainstream media has been.
And then you add all the social media that they have begun to access.
And you clearly understand that they probably end up they've been taught and they believe and they've seen that racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobic country, that can't produce any jobs.
Best days are behind us.
Why would they blame Obama?
Obama's just the latest guy in a long line.
Because they have no historical perspective of anything positive.
Not unless they come from a family where there's been something positive going on.
But it's a it's it's kind of a self-repeating cycle of doom.
I have to find a way to overcome this.
Which we will, by the way.
By the way, folks, I forgot to mention, I meant to mention this top of the program.
We have another huge two if my tea sweepstakes to announce today.
It's a three-day sweepstakes begins today.
And I'll have a details coming up later on in the program.
I got a fascinating email here from some.
I'm not going to mention the name of the person that sent this because I'm not going to get this person into trouble.
This is not the first time I have heard this opinion.
I have, I've had everybody's talking about this NBA thing and the Sterling situation and the fallout from it.
And everybody's got an opinion on it.
And there's a lot, there's a lot of outrage about this that's silent.
People afraid to speak up about it.
Which is, I mean, when you see the uh the glee and the happiness with which the media is reacting to what's happened here.
I mean, you it it'll silence you.
But this email I have here, this is a great object lesson.
Dear Rush, such selective indignation.
Do what I did.
Go online.
You know what you can find, Rush?
It doesn't take very long at all.
You can find eight NBA players and one coach, a total of nine men who have hooked up with 55 women and produced 72 children over the past few years with no marriages involved.
This is also the NBA.
The NBA is so concerned about one longtime racist idiot in a private conversation with his 50-year younger girlfriend.
I'm sure glad they, the media and the NBA are so happy to have cleaned up the league.
Now you let somebody actually go on the air on a television show tonight or somebody on the radio today and actually make that point.
You know what's going to happen?
Whoever says that is going to be set up as the next target once the right quote unquote people hear about it.
And you know what the explanation for this is going To be.
You know what the reaction to this would be?
If you if you make this point, it'll be blamed on the white dominant culture in this country.
It'll be blamed on socioeconomic the same reasons we are told why rap music's lyrics are what they are.
Well, it's just our culture.
That's just that it's what you've been forcing us into.
It is, it's one of those places you do not dare go.
There are there's a certain, I don't know, call them truths or facts or what you just don't go there.
Particularly in the heat of the moment.
Yeah, where we are right now.
Because that's not it's not at all what people want to hear.
That's not at all where we're intending to go here.
But a lot of people are pointing things like this out.
But silently and quietly.
And they're speaking to themselves, hoping they're not overheard.
Because they don't want to be ranted out.
They don't want to be tattled on.
It's the old, you know, hypocrisy business that people are focused on here, and it's an amazing period in our culture.
It's an amazing period in our history to watch.
Uh all of this transpire.
Let's listen to this.
Uh grab soundbite number three, put together a media montage, the drive-by media.
In love with the authoritarian nature of the commissioner of the NBA, Adam Silver.
And I I think make no mistake about authoritarianism.
Um totalitarianism.
Um fascism, whatever.
I mean, it's all the rage on the left right now.
It's cool.
They love it.
No judge, no jury, no trial.
Just one guy who's able to drop the hammer on somebody else.
Be done with it all.
Listen to the thrill and the delight.
The NBA drops the hammer on its racist owner.
Today was a great day.
Adam Silver put the hammer down.
Bring the hammer down.
The hammer comes down.
He really threw the hammer down.
Dropped the hammer with such force and conviction and the whole hammer down.
He dropped the hammer, Commissioner Adam Silver laying down the hammer.
A gigantic hammer that came down.
Adam Silver dropped the hammer.
Drop the hammer on Sterling.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver dropped the hammer on Donald Sterling.
Now again, I just want to point out that every one of these people, all excited and happy, have known about Donald Sterling for 33 years or 34.
He the longest tenured owner in the NBA.
Let me grab this New York Times story.
Well, it only took the Times well, how many days to catch up with me on this?
We've been saying this since Monday.
This is Wednesday.
Took the Times three days.
But you who listened to this program knew on Monday that whatever you heard in that tape of Donald Sterling's on Saturday, nothing new, and everybody, not just in the sports scene in LA, everybody in the LA media knew who Donald Sterling is.
Didn't say a thing, didn't do a thing, look the other way.
Team was losing, was never threatening to win anything.
Lakers owned the town.
Clippers couldn't even buy a headline.
So what did it matter?
Now the fake faux outrage from people who've known about this, and the New York Times is caught up with it.
Why did it take a tape recording aired on TMZ to ignite nationwide ire against Donald Sterling?
Suddenly, as if it were breaking news.
A recorded conversation said to be between Sterling and a girlfriend's made the Clippers' owner The most hated outlaw in the sports world, a man considered such a vile bigot that even Obama felt the need to weigh it.
What do you mean even Obama?
He'd be the first in line.
This is made to order for Obama, the Democrat Party.
This is all they've got.
When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything.
Just let them talk, Obama said.
Well, Sterling's been talking for 30 years.
I still have to chuckle.
My joke on Monday still has the left and the media outrage that if Sterling had given more money to Obama, he wouldn't be in any trouble today.
It's still livid over that.
They have no sense of humor.
Sorry, Mr. President says the New York Times.
Sorry, Mr. President.
Not this time.
It looks as if the NBA and its team owners have finally had enough of Sterling, and the overdue moment for dealing with him is finally here.
It only took them 33 years.
When the Clippers were losing, which they did for 27 of Sterling's years there, the league tacitly accepted Sterling's well documented racism and other flaws.
And so the Times, Times didn't report on any of it last 30 years.
Nobody did.
For decades, it was perfectly acceptable to let Sterling run his team like a Southern plantation structure, as the former Clippers general manager Elgin Baylor once charged in a lawsuit.
Sterling routinely operated below the radar, so what was there to worry about?
Well, he didn't want to be below the radar.
He was trying to get noticed.
He did everything he could to get noticed.
Buying LA NAA LCP awards and all sorts of stuff.
He was doing everything he could to get noticed.
Problem was the Lakers.
But again, doesn't this raise the question, ladies and gentlemen, if this was so well known to all.
Why did the Clippers players accept Sterling's donations?
Why did they accept his paycheck?
I mean, a lot of free agents signed with the Clippers over the years, and they all knew who Sterling was.
Everybody has known who he was.
Why did the NAA LCP LA chapter and the many other black organizations take Sterling's money?
Even Elgin Baylor.
I'm reading from the New York Times here.
Elgin Baylor worked for the Clippers for 23 years before complaining about it.
New York The New York Times points this out.
Elgin, you know Elgin Baylor, he sued, he was the general manager.
For 23, he sued Sterling, but he worked there for 23 years before suing him.
Well, I'm just pointing it out.
The New York Times even mentions that.
One of the most distressing parts of the revelations might have been that they did not come as a complete surprise.
Again, yeah, folks, I I don't know.
I that's my point.
The Times was everybody has known of it.
Here's the Times writing this story about how everybody knew for 33 years.
What about the Times?
Everybody knew.
I'm telling you.
Every sports writer at the at the New York Times knew at the LA Times, at the LA Daily News, at the LA the sh the supermarket shopper weekly.
They knew.
I hate it.
Everybody knew.
I know what you think.
So what, Rush?
So what?
I know.
So what?
I just it just means all this outrage is a little kind of uh.
Faux.
Serious question?
No.
I I I I w I want a joking question.
They are there are gonna give it back.
Because he's so bad, they don't want to be tainted by it.
UCLA, this guy pledged.
Let me find it here.
I want to make it with it.
Yep, here we go.
CBS Eyeball NewsLA.com.
Researchers at UCLA will return a portion of a $3 million pledge that Clippers owner Donald Sterling made to support kidney research.
Screw all officials announced on Tuesday.
UCLA returning the initial 425,000 payment from the Donald T. Sterling Foundation made earlier this month.
And they will not accept the balance of the money, calling the comments that he made in the recorded conversation divisive and hurtful, according to spokesperson Phil Hampton.
Dr. Ira Kurtz, professor of medicine, UCLA's division of nephrology was awarded the gift earlier this month to fund research on the structural properties of key proteins in the kidney that affect its function and health and disease.
So your point is this isn't this kind of cutting off your nose spite your face.
I mean, so why the guy's given the money and it's for kidney research.
If the money is doing because it's sterling money, and nobody wants to be tainted.
Can you imagine the hell it would descend on these people if they kept the money, knowing what they know now?
Yes, they would.
You think you are you keep snurdling thinks that if these guys didn't give back the money and it was learned they were going to keep the money that nobody would say anything about it.
Are you not paying attention?
Somebody wants the money, but it's going back sterling from so I guess whoever was going to benefit from kidney research at UCLA now is not going to benefit from it.
The doctor's not going to get to do his research.
Whatever he might learn to help people isn't going to happen.
Because the money's no good.
Because the money comes from Sterling.
So if what if Donald Sterling money created or found a cure for cancer?
What would we do?
Ah, now this is fascinating.
Okay, so I checked the email during the break, and I've got a lot of people thinking, Rush, don't buy this.
UCLA's not giving back a dime.
They're just going to say they're giving the money back.
They're not going to give the money back.
Who's going to ever prove it?
Is Sterling going to go up and say, hey, I never got the money back.
They're not going to give the money.
This is just a PR move.
Don't fall for this rush.
Nobody's given the money back.
Not even the NAALCP.
I I disagree.
I think what's going to happen is that it's going to be a badge of honor to give the money back.
Remember, everything is about image and PR.
It's not about what's real.
So they're going to make a big show of giving the money back, but don't forget.
Sterling has been fined two and a half million dollars.
And that's where the people that give the money back are going to go to get it replenished.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Reverend Jackson makes a move on some of that money.
There's going to be a lot of people go to the league and say, this guy Sterling has hurt us.
And we deserve some of that money.
This is no way anywhere close to being over, folks.
We're talking about a billionaire here.
Okay.
They're just waiting to be plucked clean dry.
Before V Steviano gets it.
Here is Connie in Monroe, Louisiana, as we head to the phones quickly.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Thank you so much, Russ.
Rush, I just don't know what to do.
I'm I'm listening to all of this drama overload.
I thought the Sterling guy was gonna say the N-word and go on and on.
But I I I it's so much drama.
And all the low, I heard more with the Melissa Harris Perry uh take on uh Romney's grandchild when they said what thing does not belong.
I was more upset over that than this private conversation.
Connie.
Can I help you?
I uh I I just don't know what to say, Rush.
I really think what it's all about is they want Chris Paul to be there with Toby.
That's probably what the whole thing is about.
But when you see Charles Barkley and different one just going on and on, and even better.
They they're talking about this guy as a racist, and it should be put.
Maybe maybe he is.
We don't know his heart.
But this was a private conversation.
Yes, in this case, we do.
In this case, we do.
But you're talking about Melissa Harris Perry.
This is all this racism about Romney and grandkids and stuff at MSNBC.
What Connie, look, it isn't right, but you here's the answer is they can say whatever they want.
They can do whatever they want.
They're minorities, they're oppressed, they have been victimized by this country since the earliest days, since the founding.
Their outrage is understandable, and we've got to do what we can to understand it.
And there are two sets of speech codes, and you'd better figure out which one applies to you, otherwise the same thing is going to happen to you that happened to Sterling.
And I've got a media guy saying that on tape.
Now, if you want to know who's enabling all this, I mean, where is the home of all of this?
Folks, it's a Democrat Party.
The Democrat Party makes all this possible.
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