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May 1, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 1, 2014, Thursday, Hour #3
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Here's expressed by the host of this program documented to me almost always right 99.7% of the time.
What am I doing here that's screwing up this television?
I clap my hands and the TV expects voice commands.
Weirdest damn thing.
No, it's not the clapper app.
It's some weird thing.
It's these smart TVs and I don't want a TV to be smart.
I want to be the smart guy operating a TV.
I don't want the TV to be acting like a phone does.
Anyway, welcome back, folks.
It's a thrill and a delight to have you with us.
Just one more thing on this Benghazi business.
I have an article here from BuzzFeed that was published the day before the Benghazi attack.
That would have been September the 10th, 2012.
Headline, Obama's plan to use national security to beat Romney.
And from this article that ran the day before the Benghazi attack, one of the most aggressive parts of the Obama acceptance speech last week included a series of jokes mocking Mitt Romney's foreign policy chops, indicating a breezy confidence rarely seen in Democrat candidates.
Okay, so there's BuzzFeed reporting, reminding people that Obama had been making fun of Romney at the Democrat Convention.
And if you remember what that was about, Romney had gone over to Europe and had taken a trip to Poland, and the media and the Democrats made fun of everything he said, and it portrayed him as unqualified and incompetent.
Then the next day, Benghazi happens.
And so the media is out there just applauding Obama and laughing and supporting Obama and this notion that Romney's a jerk on foreign policy, doesn't know what he's doing, and then Benghazi blows up.
You think they don't have something to cover up?
You don't think they have something to make it look like it's not terrorism that made that happen?
Because it couldn't.
Obama's the foreign policy expert.
Obama's the great vanquisher.
Obama is the eminently qualified president on the foreign policy stage now.
The very day before the Benghazi attack, the drive-bys are all over making fun of Romney and what a joke he would be in foreign policy.
So Benghazi happens and they had to start circling the wagons, which included blaming the video, finding the video that was done at the State Department somewhere.
And just to remind you again, this is so important in this.
The State Department memo, the last I'm going to say about this, State Department apologizes on September 11th, 2012.
State Department, well, the embassy in Cairo apologizes for a video before any violence had taken place, before any attacks anywhere, before any protests.
Jake Carney's lying through his teeth talking about protests in the region.
There weren't any.
Muslim Brotherhood owned everything.
So they send out this apology for this video before anything had happened.
This is a bunch of folks.
We're dealing here with just it says in this case, it's like the Clinton's all over sleep.
People, everything they do is a cover-up because they can't be honest about what their real intentions are, what their real policies are, what they really are doing and what they want to do.
They can't be honest about it.
So everything they do is a cover-up or a distraction.
Everything was the hallmark of the Clinton administration.
And here it is again.
Not coincidental that Mrs. Clinton's part of this bunch.
When something like this begins to happen, I mentioned this earlier.
Betsy McCoy, well-known healthcare expert, writing in the New York Post, GOP, foolish to think Obamacare is fixable.
Representative Kathy McMorris Rogers, Republican Washington, the number four House Republican, is walking back comments attributed to her that Obamacare can't be repealed.
But she's not the only one suggesting that Congress merely make changes within the framework of the new law.
Mitch McConnell says the goal is to get the law fixed.
It seems that many Republican lawmakers still haven't even read this thing or they know that the framework is corrupt.
Even Senator Rand Paula, Kentucky speculated Friday that repeal is unlikely because it'll be difficult to turn the clock back.
Nonsense!
Even by the most inflated regime claims, some 8 million people have signed up for exchange plans.
Folks, it's even worse than that.
You want to hear the real numbers?
Two-thirds of people who have signed up for private health insurance in the federal exchanges, only two-thirds have even paid their premiums by April 15th.
Never mind the premiums were to have been paid by January 1st, which was the beginning of the coverage year.
And it says here, without payment, consumers will not have coverage.
Don't bet on that.
This problem's been discussed before.
It was reported the insurance companies would provide coverage even for those who had not paid their premiums.
The regime will take care of this.
The point is, it's an I'm getting tired of saying it's a disaster, but it's what it is.
But Betsy McCoy's point here is, even by the most inflated regime claim, some 8 million people have signed up out of a nation of 318 million.
Obamacare is repealable and should be replaced with a plan to cover the uninsured and reduce costs, and then that's it.
Obamacare's authors paid lip service to these goals, but had an ulterior motive, forging a permanent Democrat majority.
The law creates a huge infrastructure for enrolling millions of people, not just in insurance, but food stamps, housing assistance, and other welfare programs, and registering them to vote.
This we've always covered.
And she's writing here of her frustration.
At least Republicans say, no, no, no, we can't repeal it.
We don't need to repeal it.
We just need to replace it.
Maybe we fix it.
Do they not know what they're dealing with here?
They're dealing with a piece of legislation that writes them out of existence.
And she's got a, it's a really good piece that they're foolish to think that this is fixable.
It's not just that.
It's not just that.
It's that we can all tell that aside from a few exceptions, there doesn't even seem to be any desire to get rid of this thing in the Republican side of things.
Folks, time is dwindling, but you still have some.
I mean, I don't want to sit here and tell you that you better act fast, but we've only got another day and a half.
I'm talking about the latest 2FBT.com sweepstakes.
We've got an annual sweepstakes here that kicks off tea season, summertime.
And it's real simple here.
All you do is go to 2fbytea.com, my little tea site.
Did you see, by the way, I had these soundbites and I didn't get to them from Monday.
Oprah has started a tea company.
Yes, she has.
She started teacon.
They made a big deal about it on CBS this morning on Monday.
As though, how brilliant and how courageous.
And oh, gee, you know, Oprah loves tea and it's just a natural thing.
And they're all just, they're on there just strumming the, yeah, Starbucks is a partner.
And they're all strumming a violin.
Oh, how wonderful it is.
Oh, how unique it is.
Oh, Obama, Oprah starting a tea company.
Well, been there, done that.
And I'm here to tell you, if you haven't tried it, 2F by Tea is the best tasting iced tea you've ever tasted.
I'll stack it up against anything.
We've got regular, we've got unsweetened, we got regularly sweetened, we got diet, we got blueberry, we got not blueberry, raspberry, we've got just peach.
I'm telling you, it's the best iced tea ever, and we ship it to you free.
And during this big sweepstakes, we've reduced the price of the tea.
You really can't afford not to get some.
You can't afford not to try it.
And here's the deal.
All you do, you go to 2fbytea.com and sign up by shopping.
And what are you signing up for?
You are signing up to be one of four winners.
Come here and watch this program.
Three days, two nights in really nice digs here in South Florida.
And one of the days you spend here, we'll have lunch for you.
You'll sit here.
You'll watch the program.
You'll get sit behind a golden EIB microphone, have your picture taken with or without me, whichever you want.
You'll sit in there on the other side of the glass and watch the program take place.
You'll hear snurgly screen calls, which many people find entertaining and fun.
You'll see how it all happens, but you'll be here in the middle of all of it.
And it's so simple.
To win, all you do is go to 2fbytea.com and shop.
You have to do that by 11.59 p.m. Pacific tomorrow.
So I say time is running out, but you still have some.
You don't have to do it today, but you do have to do it by 11.59 p.m. Pacific tomorrow.
And we've cut the price of the tea and the shipping is free.
And often arrived, we sit at FedEx UPS.
It comes overnight in some cases.
We don't guarantee that, but sometimes it just happens that way.
And it's just added bonus how good this stuff is.
And it ought to be.
Catherine and I do all the taste testing.
We pick the flavors.
We come up with the secret recipe for each flavor.
And it goes to the bottling factory and it gets made and bottled.
Got the best looking bottle in the business.
And it's not one of these crinkly little bottles that basically falls apart when you pick it up.
It's a really good bottle.
Great label, great icon.
Rush Revere on each bottle.
Who now is a star of his own history book series?
So 2fbytea.com by 11.59 p.m. Pacific.
There's also some other prize winners, 100 superb prize winners.
Nothing is ever done chintzy here.
Everything top flight, everything top drawer.
Fly you in here, state-of-the-art luxury accommodation, spend a day at the EIB network, then whatever else you want to do while you're here.
And all you have to do for a shot at winning is go to 2fbit.com and shop.
Random drawing.
And if you happen to be, it's four winners.
Each can bring a guest, eight people.
You don't have to bring anybody.
Come alone if you want, or you can gift it to somebody.
Whatever.
You're one of the winners.
We call you.
That's also a big moment.
You can hear some of the other winners who have been called at the 2fbit.com website.
I just want to remind you that we are a proud sponsor of the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
Phenomenal organization directly gives financial aid to the children of fallen heroes killed in action, Marines, provides college scholarships.
So we do this every year in honor of the military and the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
And it's how we kick off tea season, also known as the summer.
Our favorite sweepstakes, an annual tradition.
So again, now through 11:59 p.m. Pacific, two if by tea, TWO, two if by tea, one if by land, two if by tea.
Rush Revere, Paul Reeve.
All works out.
And no, you know, none of this, this, this, this, this new age, gobbledygook kind of flavors that Oprah's going to do.
This is real tea.
It's real iced tea.
It's the best damned iced tea you've tasted.
I'm stacking up against anything.
We're even working on a new flavor.
We're going to do our version of the Arnold Palmer, which is half iced tea, half lemonade.
Yeah, that's it.
Well, we not have that ready yet.
I probably shouldn't say anything.
I'm probably going to get in trouble.
Yes, I can get in trouble as a CEO of my own company.
I know it's not too late.
We still bleep it, but I'm not going to bleep it.
We're working on it.
But here's the thing.
If we can't get it right, we will not release it.
That's the point.
If we can't get the flavor the exact way we want it, we won't release it.
That's the difference.
We only put out what we love in every one of these flavors.
So, 11:59 p.m. Pacific tomorrow night, your last chance.
Think about it.
Shop 2fbytea.com.
Tea is got to reduce price.
Shipping is free.
You can't lose.
Well, I mean, you can lose, but you really can't.
When I say you can lose, not everybody's going to win.
But four people are.
Quick timeout.
Back after it is.
By the way, folks, I screwed up.
It's three winners that get to pick a guest and come here.
Not four.
I have to walk that back.
It's three winners.
I said everybody doesn't win, but I got it wrong.
I mean, it's three grand prize winners that will, because there's six people total that come here.
It's not eight.
It's not four winners.
And I just, I had to straighten that out.
Because, well, no, we can't make it four because, see, we have the official rules get published registered with the state.
And then we have to put an amount of money in a new bank account to make sure that we have the money to award the prizes before we can do it.
So it's three, it's not four.
It's just an innocent mistake.
I mean, it'd be a big difference if I waited until the contest was over to tell you.
But it was just an honest, genuine mistake, one of the few that I make.
So it's three winners, not four.
Everything's the same.
And you can, you can, you know, the winners have become friends of the program here.
You can hear a caller that is coming to the studio next week at one of the previous winners or something like this at the website near the official rules.
Okay.
Yeah, glad I got that fixed.
That could have been, that could have been, but it's not, so it doesn't matter.
Here's Dimitri in Burlington, Kentucky.
Dimitri, how does a guy named Dimitri end up in Burlington, Kentucky?
Hi, Rush.
Great to talk to you.
Thank you.
I do actually want to give a testimony for your books and tea, but if I could, I'd like to start with a story of growing up in Soviet Moscow.
Oh, by all means, do.
My parents, particularly my mother, taught me the truth about growing up in the Soviet Union.
My mother actually used to know and help out Soljanitsyn with distributing his books and such.
And so growing up, my childhood was quite a bit different in that regard as a lot of the kids around me.
And when I was in school in second grade, I was probably around seven, we were reading a book about World War II.
And there was a scene in there where soldiers are carrying a banner that said, for Mother Russia, for Father Stalin.
And I, you know, as a seven-year-old, raised my hand, and I said, Dimitri, Dimitri, where were you when you were this old?
I was in school in Moscow.
You were in school in Moscow?
Okay.
Okay.
Yes.
And I raised my hand and I said, but isn't Stalin bad?
And at first, if you could find pins on sale in Moscow at that time, you would hear a pin drop.
But then all hell broke loose.
My teacher started chewing me out.
All the kids in the class kind of turned on me.
And I didn't know what the problem was.
And my mother told me later that she actually got a call from the school, which was lucky that it didn't go much worse.
I actually had a son of a KGB agent in my class.
And this was right at the beginning of Perestroika.
It was about 1985.
And of course, a year or two later, everybody in my class agreed with me.
But the reason I bring this up is you talk a lot about how in this country, when you kind of step over the line, when you step out of the party line, whether it's something politically incorrect or something that makes Democrats look bad, it's not good enough just to disagree with you.
They have to destroy you.
They have to get you fired.
They have to, you know, if they could, you know, it would be even worse than that.
They have to ruin you.
They have to ruin you.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
They have to ruin you personally, destroy you, and then gloat over you.
And, you know, there's nothing new to that, obviously.
Those of us who grew up in places like the Soviet Union saw that kind of stuff all the time.
My great-grandfather was a village priest, and the communists took him in the middle of the night, and he was never seen again.
And we didn't find out until the 80s or 90s as to what actually happened to him.
He was shot with many others.
And thank God this country is not communist Russia, but those of us that came from those kind of backgrounds, we, you know, we're just terrified when we see these kinds of patterns and these kinds of thought processes emerging here where, you know, the country is just headed in the wrong direction.
We just want to scream, stop.
You mentioned Soljenitsyn, so you will know it is true that even people in the gulags cried when Stalin died.
The guy that put them there, Solzhenitsyn wrote of this.
And here you have, look what happened to Sterling.
Okay, so the guy's a reprobate.
There's a lot of reprobates out there.
There's a lot of low-rent scum out there.
He may be one.
Look at the glee and the happiness with which the authoritarian method of dealing with him went down.
Look at the glee and the happiness.
This is what's frightening to some of us.
I mean, the left does what they do, but so many people are applauding it scares a lot of, just like it scares you.
You grew up in it.
We're trying to stop it from taking over here.
Absolutely.
And Rush, before I go, I am an airline pilot now.
Well, before you get into that, I've only got 10 seconds, and that's not enough time.
Can you hold on to the break?
Sure.
Good, because he's been on hold for three hours.
I figured it wasn't 10 minutes.
And it won't be 10, three, I meant three minutes.
We'll be right back.
Magnata Dimitri in Burlington, Kentucky.
Thank you for holding on to the break.
I appreciate that.
It's my pleasure, Rush.
I'm an airline pilot now, and one of the tough things about being away from home, I got three little girls at home soon, soon, is not communicating, not have, you know, sometimes you'll call and it's just a quick conversation.
And it's been such a blessing to have your books to read to them.
I'm both educating them and bonding with them.
And they'll all sit around the computer on Skype or around the phone on FaceTime, and they'll listen to me read.
And I tried to do the voices, so it's a lot of fun.
My wife is usually in the background listening as well, and she's actually, I was very pleasantly surprised.
She's really enjoyed listening to the books as well.
How's your wife from Moscow as well?
She actually is from Russia as well.
We met in college here, but she also came from Russia.
Okay.
That's amazing.
My daughter's birthday was yesterday, so I actually gave her the audio CD version as well.
So she was very excited.
That's the first thing she saw in the morning.
How old?
She just turned 11.
Just turned 11.
Right smack dab in the middle of the target age range.
Well, this is the other, you know, her younger sister is eight.
She has also really enjoyed it.
She's actually drawn some nice pictures of Liberty that I'm going to send in through the website.
And then, of course, I honestly have a three-year-old, and she's always hanging around listening as well.
So it's been fun for everybody.
They like Liberty?
Oh, yeah, they love Liberty.
Well, I'll tell you what, I want you to hold on to it.
Liberty autographs books.
Oh.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I'm going to have Liberty sign one copy of each and send them to you.
Since you've supplied them, they've already got the books and they've got the audio, but at least they don't have a Liberty autographs version.
Well, that's just absolutely incredible, Rush.
And I also wanted to mention that, like many Russians who grew up on hot tea all their lives, when I came to this country, I really didn't care for iced tea.
I stayed away from it from years.
But when you made your tea, I thought, well, you know what?
I'll order some and I'll give it a try.
And actually, I've been becoming, I've been starting to like Iced T.
So I want to say, you know, whatever you put your mind to, you seem to do it real well, and don't worry about Oprah.
I think you've just the highest form of flattery.
I am more appreciative here than I have a way of expressing.
Your call has just been a highlight.
Everything in it, everything in your call has just been top-drawer great.
And I can't thank you enough.
I have just profound appreciation for it.
In fact, people like you are in the audience and out there listening every day.
I just pinch myself at my good fortune.
So I thank you and hold on so Mr. Snerdley can find out where it is we send Liberty autographed.
It's not really Liberty, doesn't it?
It's just kind of a horse hoof stamp that Liberty uses.
The name is, it's got the name there too, but it gets it done.
It's cool.
Appreciate it, Demetrius.
Thanks very much.
Segai just asked me, hey, Rush, if Donald Sterling had ripped into homosexuals, would the same thing have happened?
You have to ask.
You have to ask.
So he tells V.Stiviano, look, I don't like you hanging around with those gays.
I mean, I don't care what you, but don't bring them to my games.
I don't want you.
The first guy they would have found was Jay, what the player that came out, Collins, what's his name?
Jason Collins.
Jason, what do you think of this?
Jason would have weighed in on it, and then it would have been the same thing, folks.
The sensitivity classes, like who did with the 400?
Oh, yeah.
Well, he was just a player.
He was just an owner, not an owner.
Owner's a different thing.
Owners got to go.
Chris Culler was an African-American player.
He said, I don't want no gay people in our locker room.
That ain't happening here.
And they sent him to re-education camp.
He ain't just a player.
Nobody ever heard of him before he made the comment.
He's not worth.
And of course, it didn't represent the view of the Fortuner ownership.
All right, Dingy Harry.
Dingy Harry says, Look, okay, so we got Sterling.
What about Dan Snyder?
When are we going to get Dan Snyder?
Redskins, Redskins.
Why don't we do something about that?
The leadership of the National Football League, the NFL, that money-making machine.
What if they've taken notice of the NBA's decisive action?
How long will the NFL continue to do nothing, zero, as one of its team bears a name that inflicts so much pain on Native Americans?
It is untoward of Daniel Snyder to try and hide behind tradition.
Tradition?
That's what he says in refusing to change the name of a team.
Tradition?
What tradition?
A tradition of racism?
Is all that name leaves in his wake?
You notice the NFL is that money-making machine.
That's its crime.
That money-making machine.
You can also tell Dingy Harry out there: if you've ever wondered, Daniel Snyder obviously is not a Democrat donor.
In case you've wondered, but he has Democrat guests in his suite every game.
I mean, they're all over.
You know who featured guests are in that suite?
Jay Carney and Claire Shipman.
You know who else has featured guests?
Andrea Mitchell, and what's Greenspan?
Featured guests.
Leslie Stahl, featured guest every Sunday in Snyder's suite.
I don't know if Dingy Harry's been invited.
And here's more.
This is what Dingy Harry now says.
He's appealing to Roger Goodell to drop the hammer on Snyder.
Since Snyder fails to show any leadership, the National Football League should take an assist from the NBA and pick up the slack.
It would be a slam dunk.
I say to Commissioner Roger Goodell, it's time for this good man to act.
Remove this hateful term from your league's vocabulary.
Follow the NBA's example and rid the league of bigotry and racism.
Your fans will support it.
Forgot hatred, Dingy Harry.
It's hatred, bigotry, and racism.
Not just racism, bigotry.
Hatred.
You've got to put the hatred in there.
You're not going to make the point.
Obviously, Goodell donates to Democrats.
He's a good man.
We learned that in the soundbite.
The Reverend Jackson on the NAA LCP honoring Sterling.
That was a mistake.
But often you end up tolerating rascals trying to survive.
NAA is very honorable, very strong, and the national NAA will not go along on him now that we know what we know.
12 years a slave, 12 years a clipper.
It was unacceptable.
Jeez.
12 years a slave, 12 years a clipper.
Many years of the Reverend Jackson have we uh put up do I have time?
I do.
He also announced he, the Reverend Jackson, announced the next shakedown, and if you are at Google and Facebook, you had better pay attention has been historic, race-based negative action, 246 years of legal slavery, 100 years of legal Jim Crow and today you can measure the absence of blacks and women and people of color and every dimension of American life.
They can find black athletes.
They can find them to to stimulate the image and and to raise their money.
Uh, because they want to.
I look at HP and Google and Facebook and Twitter have no blacks on the board of directors, for example.
Well, not for long.
Not for long, folks.
The Reverend Jackson just identified the next targets, HP, Google and Facebook and Twitter.
Who, and like Rachel Nichols said yesterday, the next target is Rich DeVos.
So they're lining up their targets out there.
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