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May 5, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 5, 2014, Monday, Hour #1
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Yeah, well, this is going to be a hoot.
Look at that.
Coffee all over this, too.
I need a new cloth rag.
I just spilled a whole tumbler full of coffee in there trying to find a stupid piece of paper I had printed.
It was under a stack.
I mean, literally three minutes ago.
We just had the most amazing two-minute mop-up group, and everything in the stack of stuff is sopping wet with coffee.
So in the past three minutes, I have been trying to reprint certain things, dry out certain things.
Greetings, my friends.
How are you doing?
We're here at the EIB network, El Rushbo, and Broadcast Excellence, all yours.
Telephone numbers 800-282-2882, the email address, El Rushbo at EIBnet.com.
So yeah, now I got these pages stuck together.
It reeks.
You know what coffee smells like when it spills on stuff.
It literally reeks.
It was regular, but what does that matter?
Fortunately, one of the primary stacks, only the upper edge of each page got wet.
So it now looks like parchment.
So I'll be able to get through some of this stuff.
But now I had it all in an order.
Now that's all out of whack.
So I'm sorry, but I'm going to throw a blank piece of paper here, blank bit of paper there.
Okay, let me get some audio soundbites out of the way.
Number two and three.
Just randomly selected soundbites.
And every Monday, Cookie goes through the, well, whatever she uses to find.
She can't watch all this stuff.
Well, I guess she still does watch this stuff now.
Anyway, the weekend, I'm always mentioned on various programs.
And on Monday, the vast majority of the audio soundbites are about me.
Actually, it's not the case today, but there are two here.
Two or three.
Let's see.
Just the first gram number two and three.
This is the kind of thing I've, I don't know how many times I have explained 25 years I've been doing this program.
You who listen to it know exactly what the purpose of the program is, why I do it, who I do it for, what goes into it.
It's why you listen.
It's why you're hearing it.
25 years, and still people on the left or in the media, which is maybe the same thing, either refuse to get it, have never understood it, or are purposely misstating it.
And I think probably it is the former.
I think they're just plain ignorant and associating this program and me with various prejudiced stereotypes that they've got.
Saturday morning, PBS one-on-one.
The host is, oh, well, this guy.
I mean, he wouldn't get it right.
His life depended on it.
The host, I'm not even going to mention this clown's name.
He's been around, but he's talking to Brian Lehrer, who's been on New York City public radio and all that for a long time.
And the host asked this guy, how would you describe the differences between what you do in talk radio and what most other commercial talk radio is?
What is the big difference, Brian, between what you do?
Of course, he's highbrow, PBS, no ratings, smart, soft, spoken, reasonable, inoffensive, thoughtful, boring.
And so he's, what's the difference in what you do and what these clowns on commercial radio do.
I'll tell you it this way.
Rush Limbaugh has a line that he uses sometimes.
He has this line that he uses sometimes.
This show is not about what you think.
It's about what I think.
And it's sort of a laugh line.
But then again, it is absolutely true.
He didn't care what you think.
My show really is about what everybody thinks because we are really an open forum.
And the misunderstanding continues.
You know, this all started early on in the program's history.
The left, one of the initial criticisms of this program was of you, the audience, that you were a bunch of my numbrobots.
That you didn't know diddly squat about anything until I told you.
You were brainless.
You were brain dead.
And you didn't know or do anything until I commanded you.
And after not too long a time, the left doing that, I started tweaking them, as you know well that we do here.
I love tweaking these people in the media and these highbrows and these effete elites who think they're better than everybody else.
So on a Friday, for example, I will say, and for those of you who don't want to worry about what happens over, don't worry about it.
Don't have to worry about a thing.
I'll do it for you.
And as an added bonus, I will tell you what to think just to tweak them.
And they fall for it.
After 25 years, they continue to fall for it.
They haven't the slightest idea.
And I'll tell you, this is crucial.
They haven't the slightest idea why this program is successful.
They have not the slightest idea and therefore can in no way replicate the process for themselves.
They have no idea about actually connecting and bonding with the audience or an audience.
No idea.
They have this condescending, everybody talks down to people.
They think they're open-minded and they listen to all points of view and so forth and so on.
And they have no clue what they're doing.
And it also is one of the reasons why they have no audience.
So on CNN on Saturday morning, another discussion similar to this.
Michael Smirkonish is speaking with Brian Stelter.
This is a different, not Brian Larry.
This is a different Brian.
This is a guy who used to be the New York Times.
Now he's at CNN doing media analysis.
And Brian, they swapped seats and the media guy started interviewing Smirkonish about him and his new book called Talk.
And during the discussion, they had this little exchange.
I have heard you say in the past, people like Rush Limbaugh, you wonder if they believe everything they're saying on the radio.
How could you?
You're skeptical.
Yeah, how could you, come on, a broken clock is right twice a day.
Isn't that the old adage?
How can everything that Barack Obama does be wrong?
How can he be the Antichrist in every single situation?
Whoever said he's an Antichrist.
But he is wrong.
What's he been right about?
He's a liberal.
But the point is, they don't believe that I actually believe what I say.
That's where they went on to, you know, Lee doesn't.
He just, Limbaugh is saying this for his audience.
He doesn't really believe half the stuff he says.
He just, he just.
And they don't get it.
They don't get that I believe everything I say.
Other than, of course, when we're doing the sarcasm or the parodies or what have you.
So those are the two soundbites featuring me.
Political correctness is just going nuts, going crazy.
Minnesota Senate today has approved Democrat John Hoffman's bill to change the name Asian carp, so-called because the species originated from Asia to invasive carp.
Since Asian carp were introduced in the U.S. in the 1970s, the fish have spread to dozens of states, causing destruction in the delicate ecosystems of the waterways.
Wait a minute, how can this be?
I thought everything animals did in nature was natural.
Everything animals did was, I thought the old, what do you, oh, oh, oh, sorry, we screwed it up by introducing this fish.
That's right.
We messed up nature.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have been fighting off the most invasive species, the black carp from China, the silver carp from Vietnam, and the grass carp from China.
It's a chikom fish.
They have been fighting those species from spreading into the Great Lakes where the fish could do massive damage to the region's fishing industry.
Arguing his case on the Senate floor, Minnesota Democrat John Hoffman said that referring to the fish as Asian was hurtful to some people.
So they're going to change the name of the Asian carp to the invasive carp because it offended some people.
I didn't even know what is invasion carp.
That's going to be, isn't that going to be insulting to illegal aliens once they hear about it?
We've gone from Asian carp.
Who was offended?
I'll bet you nobody was.
Nobody even knew.
This guy is just trying to be politically correct, standing up, score some points.
Somebody needs to stand up when this kind of stuff happens.
Say stop.
No, go to hell.
We're not going to mess with this.
But nobody does.
This political correctness just continues to spread.
It's like a disease.
It's like an incurable disease.
It's just spreading and it's irrational.
The Asian carp, the name was offensive to some people.
Condoleezza Rice agreed to step down as the commencement speaker at Rutgers University.
Condoleezza Rice said, commencement should be a time of joyous celebration for the graduates and their families.
Rutgers' invitation to me to speak has become a distraction for the university community at this very special time.
In her statement, she went on to say, I am very honored to have served my country.
I've defended America's belief in free speech.
No, they got rid of her because she supported the Iraq war.
They didn't want her because she's a warmonger.
And don't blame it all on the students.
It's the professors that start this, get them all ginned up.
And I'm not trying to excuse the students in this, but the professors are the ones that light the fire on this.
Strike the match.
Anyway, former Secretary Rice said, I'm honored to have served my country.
I've defended America's belief in free speech, exchange of ideas.
These values are essential to the health of our democracy.
But that is not what is at issue here.
As a professor for 30 years at Stanford and its former provost and chief academic officer, I understand I embrace the purpose of the commencement ceremony.
And I'm simply unwilling to distract from it in any way.
Good luck to the graduates and congratulations to the families, friends, and loved ones who will gather to honor them.
Why are we always the ones concerned about distractions caused by other people?
Why do we just always accept the blame for being a distraction?
This is how we've lost the campus.
This is how we've lost academe.
We let the loudmouths and the bullies have their way.
By withdrawing, former Secretary Rice sends a message to other campaign that the tactic works.
The president of Rutgers, I mean, everybody comes in for some blame on this.
From National Review Online talking about this, protesting students had occupied the orifice of the president the other day with signs reading no honors for war criminals and war criminals out.
Condoleezza Rice, war criminal, Iraq war.
We have Barack Obama as president today because there was no pushback during the Iraq war for five years as the media and the Democratic Party continued to slime it, to mischaracterize it, to misrepresent it.
It's just a, we don't have any warriors.
Nobody's left to fight anything.
You know what really bothers me about this?
And I look, I know that Condoleezza Rice, I'm one who's disappointed that she bowed out.
Now, she thinks, and I understand this, she thinks she's using grace, being graceful.
And I'm sure that she believes that grace is a defining characteristic.
And I know that Condoleezza Rice probably isn't the person, she's not a political warrior.
She's not going to draw a line in the sand and stand up for herself.
She's going to do what she do what she did.
But they would have welcomed Hillary, and Hillary is every bit the Iraq war supporter Condoleezza Rice was.
Every Democrat was.
Every Democrat demanded a second vote so they could get on the record as being in favor of the invasion of Iraq.
It wasn't until the second term of the Bush administration that they turned it into a political issue.
And by that I mean the Democrats and the media.
But here's my real problem with this, folks.
Somehow they think they're scoring points.
I don't know about Dr. Rice.
I don't know how even political she really is.
But this is the kind of thinking that leads the Republican Party to believe that supporting amnesty is a way to prove that they're open-minded and not mean-spirited and not racist.
The Republican Party seems to be today on a mission to prove what it isn't, which is an impossible thing to do.
And it's responding to all these allegations.
So, okay, I don't want to disrupt.
I'll bow out.
We think somehow we're scoring points doing this with the left by showing how reasonable we are and understanding and unoffensive and force ourselves on people and all this stuff.
And I think it's a shame.
As I've heard her speak, any students would be blessed to hear her commencement speech.
But Far better than whoever else they're going to get.
I don't know who.
And I know Muchel Obama bowed out the other day when there were protests.
So you might be yelling at him, hey, Rush is a bipartisan thing.
Michelle Obama is the first time I can recall.
And there has to be more to that than we know.
Got to take a quick time out.
No, I've not been stalling for the coffee to dry out.
What do you mean?
You just, the staff on the other side of the glass just has insulted the first 20 minutes of the program.
Now, one of the small differences is that Muchel Obama bowed out, ostensibly because of the disruption that her presence would be.
Condoleezza Rice was gotten rid of at Rutgers because of policy.
Big difference there, folks.
Huge difference.
And there was a massive vote with the students, and it was all policy-based.
And I don't know.
There's no pushback on this stuff.
There's just acquiescence to it.
And I really think it has gotten down to the point where the Republican Party has just sort of been reduced to trying to prove what it isn't.
It's out there just even when it does that.
Everything it does, policy-wise, it seems lately, is designed to demonstrate that it isn't what its opponents accuse it of being racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, what have you.
From the AP, U.S. teachers are nowhere near as diverse as their students.
Almost half the students attending public schools are minorities.
Yet fewer than one in five of their teachers is non-white.
New studies from the Center for American Progress, the National Education Association, calling attention to this diversity gap at elementary and secondary schools in the United States.
Wow, what unbiased groups to do this in a Democrat front group and a union that's one of the Democrat Party's heaviest donors pushing for racial quotas for teachers now from the article.
It becomes easier for students to believe when they can look and see someone who looks just like them that they can relate to, said a member of the NEA's executive committee.
It's a great idea.
And while we're at it, let's go back to segregated schools as well as all boys and all girls' schools.
Why don't we?
If that's what they're saying, if only blacks can learn from other blacks, and if only women can learn from other women, only men can learn from male teachers, only whites can learn from whites, then why don't we let's just segregate.
Let's just go back to the way it was.
Let's just go segregate, people.
Back before the Civil Rights Act.
That's what they're saying here.
It's just incredible.
Back after this.
By the way, this Michelle Obama business, she had to reschedule her speech.
She didn't cancel it.
They were worried she would be so popular that there would not be enough seats for the parents.
They reschedule it and so forth.
It's not at all what happened with Condoleezza Rice, who has been punked by political correctness and discrimination and lack of diversity and lack of tolerance and fascism.
Oh, by the way, let me predict something.
In the last segment, I said something that I guarantee you they are now fitfully working their fingers on the keyboards as fast as they can on the left.
I said in this story, let me read it to you again, new studies from the Center for American Progress, the National Education Association, calling attention to this diversity gap in elementary and secondary schools in the U.S.
And I read from the article, it becomes easier for students to believe when they can look and see someone who looks just like them that they can relate to, said a member of the National Education Association's executive committee.
Okay, so what we're hearing here is that blacks should teach blacks, whites should teach whites, females should teach girls, girls, males should teach boys.
So segregation seems to be the solution to these lack of diversity problems.
And then I said, well, let's just take it back to the way it was.
And that little line will be taken out of context all over leftist websites.
Wait later this afternoon, tonight, and tomorrow.
You wait.
Let's just take it back to the way it was.
They'll leave it all out of context.
But this has been something going on also for a long time.
Remember in the year of the woman, which was in the 90s.
You may have forgotten that, but it was another Democrat slash media concoction designed to elect women.
And it played off the Clinton years, in fact.
It happened during them.
Year of the woman.
And all it meant was we need more women in the Senate because women are underrepresented.
There were only one or two women senators at the time.
Maybe two or three more, but even the Republican women went along with it.
The whole idea that only that women are not fairly represented if there are only five women in the Senate.
And they were running, it's not fair.
We need to do something about it.
I said, well, it's called winning elections.
It's called running for office.
What are we going to do?
Start appointing the Senate.
And what are they going to do?
50% of the Senate's going to be female, 50% male?
But again, it wasn't the end result.
It was just, it was the strategy.
It's the same premise.
America's unfair.
America is racist.
America is biased.
America is prejudiced.
America is unfair.
America is intolerant.
And this is how they do it.
You know, go back to Rutgers here for just a second.
Those students who protested Condoleezza Rice at Rutgers were all between six and ten years old on September 11th.
What have they grown up believing?
What have they grown up hearing?
They're between six and ten on September 11th.
So they've been taught through pop culture and through elementary school, high school, that America and George W. Bush were the bad guys.
And anybody with Bush was part of the bad guys.
The liberal indoctrination starts early.
I mean, these are now, you have to put them in the millennial group.
And I was talking about it last week.
They don't have any memory of an America doing good things.
Look at what they've grown up with.
America is destroying the world with global warming and climate change.
America, unjust, evil, immoral, Iraq war kills people and tortures people.
This is what they've grown up believing.
It's what they've been taught.
It's what they believe.
This is why, by the way, folk, this is exactly why writing history books for children ultimately became so appealing to me.
There's got to be some pushback.
There has to be some place parents can go so that their kids can learn the truth of this country, of the goodness, of the decency, of the greatness, of the great blessing it is to be an American.
None of this is taught anymore.
Kids today that are college age have grown up thinking that this is one of the worst places on earth.
Torture, evil, mean to the poor, racist, goes to war and kills people indiscriminately.
Does it care about losing its own soldiers and so forth?
I mean, just stop and think of the news since 2003.
I mean, even after Bush, even after Florida, actually all eight years, starting in 2001, Florida Aftermath, just think of the daily barrage your average college kid has heard today.
And now expand it to social media where they start chatting amongst themselves about all of this.
It's amazing we have any conservative young people out there.
Well, no, my point is: okay, so somehow Condoleezza Rice, in the midst of all this, gets invited to do the commencement speech at Rutgers, and all hell breaks loose.
What a golden opportunity.
I know, I know she's not a political warrior.
I understand only.
She's a moderate Republican.
But man, what an opportunity.
I don't know who they're going to get to replace her, but it's, I mean, the sad thing is, like I said, any Democrat they ask agreed with Condoleezza Rice for three years.
These Democrats couldn't wait to sign on to the use of force resolution authorizing Bush to go into Iraq.
They couldn't wait when they saw public opinion on it.
Public opinion after 9-11, even going into Iraq to get Saddam Hussein, was overwhelmingly positive.
It took them six years to drive George W. Bush's approval numbers down to the 30s, and they spent every day doing it.
Every element of the media, every element of television from pop culture to late-night comedians to the New York Times to cable news, every day.
The body count in Iraq making up lies about the status of the American economy.
And all the while this was going on, there was no pushback from the White House because the White House said, you know what, we're not going to get down in the political gutter with these people.
Well, my only point is it's no wonder that 18, 19, 20-year-olds believe what they believe today.
It's a sad thing.
It's a sad thing that people of that age group don't have any institutional memory of their country being great.
They've never heard that from anybody, unless it's been their parents or some faraway distant family member.
Or maybe if they've listened to this program, or maybe if they've skirted through Fox News or something, they haven't heard about America's greatness.
They've been lied to about the founding, racist, sexist, big and homophobe founders.
They've been lied to about everything, and now there has to be some pushback on this at some point.
Now, I know some of Rush, they get older and they'll grow up and they'll learn more and they understand.
Yeah, but that's like waiting for things to happen.
And some of the patience is called for in some instances.
And I just think it's an opportunity that is being missed.
And I don't know if anybody's even thinking about it this way.
But I can remember back, I don't know how long ago it was.
I remember lamenting on this program.
I think it was the election of Clinton.
It was 92, Clinton Bush 41.
I said, we're on the verge of having the pool of candidates running for president not containing a single person who remembers America victorious in war.
I thought that was important.
And we've now gotten there.
No matter who we run, I mean, it's because of demographics and for the last, you know, the original invasion of Iraq doesn't count.
It didn't take but two days.
So you got Vietnam and the Bush-Iraq war.
You don't have anybody running for office with a not even a memory, but the ability to relate to an America victorious at war.
So it boils down to positive and negative.
And you know how easy it is to be negative.
Doesn't take any effort at all.
It takes effort to be positive.
People write books about it, become millionaires, telling you how to be positive, how to think positive, how to be proactive.
Failing, we all know what to do.
Don't need a book.
Being pessimistic, easy.
Don't need a book.
But being optimistic becomes all the harder when there isn't any active memory justifying it.
Quick timeout, my friend.
Well, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I heard 41 got the Kennedy Award, Courage, for raising taxes.
That's another thing.
That is a classic, classic example.
I've got to take a break.
Be right back.
Your guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, chaos.
Republican president receives JFK Award for raising taxes.
Former President George H.W. Bush, popularly known as 41, received the Profile in Courage Award yesterday from the Kennedy Center for Raising Taxes.
The decision that broke his Read My Lips pledge that rankled conservatives and may have contributed to his loss to Bill Clinton in 1992.
This is from the Washington Post, which I'm reading.
More on this.
That kind of speaks for itself.
I mean, that's just classic.
And they're all, I guarantee you, Guarantee are going to be very careful.
They're very honored by this in a lot of ways.
I mean, very, very good to Kennedy Award.
Oh, profile and courage.
Oh, very honored.
Here's, let me go to the phones.
Jim in Egan, Minnesota.
You're up first today.
Great to have you.
Hello, sir.
Rush, thank you very much.
It's a great honor to be on your program.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
When you started off the program, you mentioned the Asian carp and how the people here in Minnesota, there are very liberal legislators, have changed the name to make it somehow less offensive.
I thought you might be interested in the background of that.
Did correctly say that they were imported in the 1970s.
It was actually under Jimmy Carter.
And I was a federal law enforcement officer back then, charged with running one of the ports and keeping out those kind of animals.
Well, why?
Why did they bring in the Asian carp?
They brought them in.
They should have never brought them in according to the law.
But the catfish farmers wanted them brought in to clean out the catfish ponds so they wouldn't have to flush them as often.
If you put them in the carpet of them, the carp are like slums, right?
I mean, they're the worst dregs.
I mean, they eat the scum and they eat the algae and that and keep the water clean enough that you can keep rotating water.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
They're just there.
But where those catfish ponds are are all in low places along streams and creeks and rivers, and they flood.
The first time they flooded, boom, they were in the Mississippi River, up the Arkansas River.
They've killed the Illinois River.
Oh, hold on a minute.
Wait a minute.
Wait, wait a minute.
So what?
What happened?
See, I don't know this stuff.
What's the big deal about the Asian carp and the Mississippi Richard goldfish?
They go in there and they crowd out all the other fish.
They eat their eggs.
They make the muddy, the water muddy.
Right now, 95% of all the fish in the U.S. are these carp.
Wiley coyote that succeeds.
Yeah, and they jump out of the water.
They get up to 30, 40 pounds.
They jump out of the water four or five feet in the air when you go along with a boat, and they can kill you if they hit you.
Now they're up the Mississippi River and they're going to spend all kinds of dollars in Minnesota to keep it.
These are flying fish.
If they jump out of the water, they can kill you when they hit you.
You bet.
Think about a 30-pound fish going four or five feet up in the air.
They jump up that high, they get scared.
Fish.
Yeah, and if you hit them going 20 miles an hour with your outboard motor because it happened to jump up in front of you, bingo, your history.
But that was an example of something the federal government said that they would take care of, and for 80 years they had a law to do that.
Okay.
All right.
Now, let's cut to the chase here.
Are there actually Asian people in Minnesota who are offensive that this thing is called the Asian carp?
That's all the imaginings of these very liberal Minnesotans up here.
They go nuts over anything.
All you've got to do is mention that at some wine and cheese party here, and everybody's got hearts fluttering until the government passes a law to take care of it.
Okay, so that's the way it is here.
So no Asians have protested and demanded they change the name of the fish like they're protesting rider Redskins in Washington.
No, we're all supposed to be thankful because they're trying to keep them out of here that our government's doing something, I guess.
Well, good luck.
You know, good luck.
That's going to just make the fish even matter.
I mean, they are what they are.
They're Asian carp.
And are you going to tell them they're not what they are?
And they're going to go nuts.
They're going to get even meaner.
You can see, by the way, I'm told that you can see on YouTube, there is YouTube video of these Asian carp jumping out of the water and hitting people.
Some of them get up to 100 pounds.
And they really are the dregs of fish society.
I mean, they really are.
I mean, I'm not going to compare them to any particular group.
Nothing to gain there, but I'm telling you they are.
They're just like, you know, the whoa, how am I making it worse?
No, no, no.
No, carp, carp, any kind of carp.
There's the silver carp, there's the Asian carp.
There's a whole bunch of different kinds of carp.
No, that's not me.
I'm not.
I'm not.
I know.
I've already given them two pieces of dynamite today.
And we're not even finished with the first hour.
I was going to say, apparently there was YouTube video of these carp, Asian, silver, French, Hispanic, jumping out of the water and aiming and hitting people.
But now they're going to change the honest folks.
We're not making this up.
They changed the name in Minnesota proposed from Asian carp to invasive carp because the Hoffman, the Democrat, claims that some people's feelings are hurt, feel very bad about this.
And you start, you change the name from Asian carp to invasive carp, and you might hear from La Raza.
They might not like that name.
Yeah, I just saw some video of the Asian carp.
It was kind of, well, funny to look at them.
I mean, you got these guys in a speedboat, and they're speeding along, and they've got rifles or shotguns, and they're actually shooting at the carp as the carp launch themselves at the fishermen and hit them.
They're shooting them with guns.
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