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Through the feverishly fast talents of cookie up there digging everywhere necessary and possible to find audio soundbites requested by me on the fly.
We have it.
Had just enough time to squeeze it in in the closing moments of the previous hour, but I didn't have enough time to put it in context for people that might have just tuned in.
We had a caller in the last hour who reminded us, this all has to do with Boko Harem.
In a sense, it all springs from that.
In January of this year, Nigeria established anti-gay marriage policies.
Three months later, Uganda did it.
And in both cases, the Secretary of State John Kerry, who, by the way, served in Vietnam, rejected it and told the leaders of both Uganda and Nigeria, and Nigeria's good look, Jonathan, basically get their minds right.
And Kerry said, we're going to send experts over there to teach these leaders, instruct them, show them how they're wrong, how they're bigoted, they're racist, sexist, and all this other stuff, homophobes.
And the point being that now a few short months later, all of a sudden now we've got the kidnapped girls, and guess who's to blame?
The Nigerian government.
It's not Boko Haram.
No, no.
They're an oppressed minority.
They're jihadists.
They're linked to al-Qaeda.
They're militant Islamists.
They kidnapped the girls.
But it's only because the Nigerian government's oppressive and made them do it.
And that's the official position of the United States government diplomatically.
You may not see that in the media, although if you read the Washington Post today, you will see that point of view expressed.
It's not Hillary's fault.
It's not Kerry's fault.
No, no, no.
It's this backward government.
So we got a call from a guy who remembered, you know, last year I was listening to your program, and Obama was in Kenya, and he got slapped down by the leaders at Kenya because he tried the same thing with them.
He was over there ostensibly to give Kenya some money to help them shore up their electricity, even though they're an oil-producing nation.
No, that's Nigeria.
Nigeria is why they don't have to listen to Obama because they've got their own source of money, oil.
Kenya needed some money from us for their generation of electricity.
So Obama went over there with an aid check, and while there, he read them the Riot Act for anti-gay bigotry, and they slapped him down.
And the caller called in and remembered this.
So we went back to transcript.
It was July 1st of 2013 that we talked about it on the program.
We didn't have any audio.
But we do now.
This is William Ruto.
This is July 1st in Malikumi, Kenya.
St. Gabriel's Catholic Church.
Deputy President William Ruto spoke about Obama demanding that they get their minds right over there and embrace gay marriage.
And William Ruto rejecting Obama.
And this was a huge slapdown.
This is the first time we've heard audio of this.
Those who believe in other things, that is their business.
We believe in God.
This country, the nation of Kenya, is a God-fearing nation.
We believe in God.
We believe in God, not Obama, is essentially the message.
Now, if this had been George W. Bush or Mitt Romney, you imagine us the stories about the slam down U.S. President God while on foreign soil.
But that didn't happen here.
So three African nations in the last nine months have taken official positions opposing gay marriage, and every one of them has encountered problems with the United States afterwards.
The latest incarnation is the Boko Haram kidnapping of the 300 girls, which has led to the all-powerful hashtag.
And that has led once again to the government of Nigeria, which is a Christian government, by the way, being blamed for the kidnapping.
So that closes the loop and brings us up to speed there.
Secretary of State John Kerry, who, by the way, may not know this, served in Vietnam, welcomed the French foreign minister Laurent Fabi to the State Department in Washington yesterday to discuss a wide range of issues from Iran to Syria to, of course, climate change.
Or in the words of the French foreign minister, climate chaos.
That's the new term.
Climate, global warming doesn't work.
Climate change, that kind of climate chaos is what they're now calling it.
John Kerry, Secretary of State, who once served in Vietnam and Laurent Fabi made a joint appearance before their meeting, and the foreign minister warned that there are only 500 days left to avoid climate chaos.
Laurent Fabi said, well, I'm very happy to be with John.
He didn't say the Secretary of State.
He didn't say the man who once served in Vietnam.
He didn't say John Kerry.
He didn't say Mr. Secretary.
I'm happy to be with John.
There is no week without a phone call or a visit between John and myself.
John, by the way, who once served in Vietnam, actually thought that he was qualified to be Secretary of State because he speaks French.
That makes him sophisticated and erudite and refined.
And so Laurent Favieu said there's no week without a phone call or a visit between John and myself.
And we have on the agenda many items, many issues, Iran, Syria.
And we'll meet next Thursday in London together.
Ukraine as well, very important issues, issues of climate change, climate chaos.
We have, as I said, we have 500 days to avoid climate chaos.
That's not even two years, folks.
Not even two years.
Climate chaos before the 2016 elections.
And he said, I know that President Obama and John Kerry, who at one time in the past served in Vietnam, are committed on this subject.
And I'm sure that with them, with a lot of other friends, we shall be able to reach success on this very important matter.
Nobody knows why he chose 500 days.
But France is scheduled to host the 21st conference on the parties on climate change in December 2015, which is 565 days from now.
So climate chaos, this is the stuff they're famous for.
500 days to avoid climate chaos.
I talked to official climatologist this program about the melting of Antarctic.
He said it's silly.
No melting.
It's just, it's embarrassingly silly to listen to the reporting of this.
It's everything that we thought.
Back to the audio soundbites this morning on the CBS morning show.
They were talking about Carl Rove suggesting that Mrs. Clinton may have brain damage because of her fall.
Nora O'Donnell, Charlie Rose, Gail King.
John Dickerson, our political director, has a piece out this morning saying Democrats bragged about how maligning Mitt Romney early on was good.
And as Dickerson points out, that raising issues about health and age, it's a standard operating procedure in campaigns.
And in modern history, it's been used chiefly by the Democrats.
Here's what Russian Inbaugh said.
So anyway, the left is fit to be tired of what Roe said about Mrs. Clinton.
He is walking back brain damage, but he thinks she suffered some kind of catastrophic but very serious injury when she fell.
And we know that she fell.
We'll see.
So they're quoting me on the CBS Morning Show.
Hey, Tryer, when's the last time they asked me to appear on that?
Do they ever ask, is it always Good Morning America in the Today Show?
Yeah, yeah, so we haven't been asked.
They just read the transcript of the program.
I don't know what was specifically controversial about that, but they must have thought there's something that's going to.
Moving up to soundbites 12 and 13, Magic Johnson.
After being raked over the calls by Donald Sterling on CNN, Anderson Cooper went out and got Magic to appear last night.
And Anderson Cooper said, are you interested in the Clippers?
There's a lot of reports that you would be interested in being an owner, part owner of the Clippers.
We have to wait.
That's going to be eight months to a year to see if it ever hits the market.
But for me, if it comes out and it's for sale and my Guggenheim partners, I say, okay, we want to take a look at it and we want to buy it.
Of course, we'll make a run for it.
We'll make a run for it.
It's going to be eight months to a year to see if it ever hits.
That's not going to sit well with LeBron James.
LeBron James wants this done tomorrow.
Rick Berry wants the Sterlings to give up the team tomorrow.
We had the soundbites.
They don't want eight months to a year to adjudicate this.
He's got the timeline all worked out.
Magic is going to be eight months to a year before anybody can make a run at it.
It is.
It's the first time I've heard a timeline at all on the team being available.
Well, it would appear that Magic Johnson's got...
I haven't heard the commissioner talk about how quickly this is going to...
I haven't heard Sterling announce when he's going to give up the fight.
Well, his wife said she wants the team.
Everybody else said, well, you better realize nobody wants you.
So you just should go away.
You, your husband, sell a team, buy an island, and leave everybody alone.
Why do you want to be around people that don't like you?
That was Rick Berry yesterday.
But Magic on CNN last night, it's going to be eight to 12 months.
Somebody, I wonder if LeBron James has heard this because they're expecting this to happen like by Friday.
Well, they want it to happen by Friday.
So after revealing that it'll be 8 to 12 months before the team even hits the market, Magic then continued.
We have to wait and see.
But this notion that I want his team, if I was going to trick somebody, deceive somebody, be dishonest to somebody, steal somebody's franchise, it's going to be the Los Angeles Lakers.
Let's make that clear right now.
You're putting that on the record.
It won't be the L.A. Clippers.
Look, I'm a respectable guy.
I'm a guy who has worked hard to put myself in this position.
I am not going to do anything bad to ruin that.
I can't look my kids in the face and say, hey, I'm a thief.
I'm a guy who backstaffs people to get to where they want to get to.
I don't do that.
He was just kidding about stealing the Lakers.
I want everybody to know he was only kidding.
He didn't really mean it.
He was bouncing off the allegations that he was going to steal the Clippers.
Well, because he's not going to talk openly seriously about stealing a team.
And that's not, I just don't want anybody to think he was joking about stealing it.
If he gets one of these dudes, he's going to buy it.
He's not going to steal it.
He was just making a joke.
There's some people that take it seriously.
I just wanted to step in and make sure everybody understood.
I don't want anybody.
They did ask if he knows V Dutt.
Let's see.
Grab somebody 15.
He said he never met her.
Anderson Cooper, Donald Sterling claimed this interview that I did with him the other day that you knew V Dut and that you knew her really well.
I've never met this young lady.
I took a picture with her.
I looked like at a Dodger game.
That's it.
That's all I know of her.
You know, and then he says, I'm trying to set him up.
How am I trying to set you up?
Well, he thinks that you're behind her getting the tape.
He thinks that you want his team and that you're using V Dot to sweet talk him into saying things to get him thrown out of the league.
But he didn't know V Dut.
Did not know V Dut.
So then, okay, back up to Soundbite 14, Anderson Cooper.
One of the things that Sterling said to me was that you called him up.
I was sitting in my office.
I get a call from Donald Sterling.
This is what happened.
He asked me to go on the Barbara Walters show with him.
I told him I wouldn't do it.
I said, the number one thing you need to do, which you haven't done, is apologize to everybody and myself.
I'll get to that.
I'll get to that.
So he wanted you to go on with Barbara Walters sitting next to him.
Sitting next to him.
To kind of give him cover?
Exactly.
So I said no.
Then I told him, I said, Donald, you should consult with your attorneys.
I said, this thing is a big thing, and you should deal with your attorneys and let them advise you on what to do.
But I said, you need to go public and apologize to everybody.
And he did.
And then he stepped in two more buckets of excrement in the process.
He did.
He went out and apologized.
And he tried the Clinton route.
It was just sex.
And I just, you know what he said was?
He said, look, you're with a woman, and everybody knows this.
You say whatever you have to say.
I mean, you don't think anybody's recording it.
And if you just thought somebody was recording, you never say it, but you say whatever in order to get the woman to have sex with you.
That's what they tried that.
Shortly after the Lewinsky thing had resurfaced, there's no question what he was trying.
If it worked for Bill Clinton, it could work for me, Donald Sterling.
We'll be right back, folks.
Don't go away.
Look, Lynn's got one thing straight.
It's not crazy for Sterling to ask Magic to appear on Barbara Walters with him.
It's not crazy.
I mean, it's crazy that he might think Magic would do it, but it's not crazy to ask.
I mean, it would be like Bill Clinton asking Hillary to sit next to him in an interview about his bimbo allegations, which she did to give him cover.
It was 60 Minutes, 1992, and it was Steve Croft doing the interview.
What she didn't show up the second time?
Well, no, they didn't, but they walked out of the White House together hand in hand, and then she goes on today's show and blamed a right-wing conspiracy for it.
But she did sit next to she did give Clinton cover 60 Minutes in 1992, so it's not unusual.
I mean, if Sterling is trying to channel Clinton and do what Clinton did, I mean, Clinton did that.
Well, it's true.
It's interesting to me, though, that wherever you look in this story, I mean, we're just playing soundbites of what's on television, and all roads lead to Magic Johnson in this thing.
Wherever you, I mean, whatever angle is discussed, it all ends up back with Magic being the go-to guy for the real story about what happened here.
And I mean, I know Magic is Mr. L.A., but Kobe is there too, and they're not going to Kobe about it.
You know, I've been thinking about something, folks, this gay marriage business in these three African countries.
You've got Nigeria, good luck, Jonathan, and Boko Hrom.
You've got Uganda, and you have Kenya.
And in two of those three, and maybe Nigeria, I think what's happening in Nigeria is because of Nigeria's position on gay marriage.
They oppose it.
In all three cases, this regime has reached out and slapped down the presidents and leadership of these three countries.
And the State Department, when it comes to Nigeria, the State Department was telling the Nigerian government to learn to deal with Boko Haram, to be more open to negotiations with the Muslim population in the north.
Remember, Nigeria is a Christian country.
The State Department, you don't know about this because this has not been widely covered until this all happened with the kidnapping.
Nobody knew about Boko Haram, what was going on, unless you're a devotee of State Department news.
Now, Muslim populations support Sharia law, under which, can you say Sultanate Brunei?
The penalty for homosexuality is death by stoning or other means.
So this is where I'm a little confused.
The Christian Nigerian government puts in an anti-gay law, which is exactly what Boko Haram would want as a militant Islamic group that believes in Sharia.
So the State Department told it, reach out to Boko Haram, reach out to the Muslim population.
So they come out with an anti-gay marriage law.
They must think they're doing exactly what Obama and Kerry told them to do, Islamic outreach, and yet Obama slaps them down anyway.
Good luck, Jonathan, must be citizens.
There's no way to win with these guys.
I do what they say.
I reach out.
I get an anti-gay, what the Muslims want, and I get slapped down for it.
I'm blamed.
Garland, Texas, Ruth.
Glad you called.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Ruth!
Hey!
Hey!
Ruth, are you there?
She must not be there.
I mean, because I'm shouting.
You may not be able to hear, but I'm shouting.
Okay.
Mark in Richmond, Virginia.
You're next.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
I'm a longtime listener, and I've listened to you over the years.
And one time you said something about trying to elect the most conservative candidate that was electable.
Now, correct me on some of the details, but in light of the Tea Party candidates that are trying to get elected, running against the establishment machine, I thought this would be relevant to go over what you exactly said and the details of that.
I quoted William F. Buckley Jr., who said that you want to support and elect the most conservative candidate who is viable.
Not electable, because who knows?
I mean, who gets to say who's electable and who isn't?
You don't know that till after it happens.
Viability, I think, is the word that Buckley used.
And I have to agree with it.
Why would you, if you've got a viable conservative option in a primary, why not take it?
Now, I don't get involved in endorsing in primaries or any of that.
It's too volatile.
And just as a puzzle, I've always stayed away from it.
Have you heard about what's going on in the 7th District in Virginia against Eric Cantor?
Well, yeah.
What is it about it that you are interested in?
Well, you have a candidate named Dave Bratt that is more conservative than Cantor and is running on the Republican creed in Virginia, and we're just trying to, you know, get the information out there, and people just don't know about it.
But he is a viable candidate.
That is the term.
He is a viable candidate.
And so that's what I wanted to call in.
I remember what you had said, not exactly, but the general gist of it.
And I just wanted to go over that to clear that up for me, per se, but for others as well across the country so that they know how to make an informed decision.
Well, what was it that are you thinking that obviously, so you've got somebody running a post-canner that you want to support, you think he can win, and so you think supporting him is worth it?
Yes, I do, because in this case, there's no Democratic opponent.
So whoever wins this race on the Republican primary becomes the next representative of the next 7th district.
Well, you know, Cantor has a bunch of built-in advantages beyond incumbency.
And one of them is he's next in line to lead the place.
He's got a lot of power, which means he can do a lot for the district.
And that's going to enable him in the campaign to point that out versus the rookie.
Yeah, but my question is, is what good does Speaker of the House really do for the district when he's running all over the country doing other things?
Well, I know.
Look, look, this is, you know, I try not to get involved in primaries.
It's a policy thing that governed just by my instincts way back in 1988 when I started this.
And there are a whole host of reasons for it.
But I'll tell you the main reason.
I'll just go ahead and be, I'm going to be blindly honest with you.
What are you shaking your head for?
What do you think I'm going to say?
It's very simple.
You've heard me say this before.
They're all panicked on the other side of the glass whenever I say, okay, let me really throw back the layers of the onion here.
Politicians come and go.
I'm not going to tie myself to somebody I don't really know.
Why go down with it?
I plan on being here long after who my success is not defined by who wins or loses elections.
I've always said it.
Nothing's changed.
And I never want that to be the case.
I have never wanted my success to be determined by, you know, yeah, well, this guy is pushed over the top by limbos support.
That doesn't interest me.
I don't control these guys.
Okay, let's say I support somebody, don't even know that, what wins and then does a 180 in office and becomes a big commie SOB.
And I got people calling me, I voted for this guy because he.
I'm not going there.
They're in a completely different business than I'm in.
Now, you might think this is a comp-out, Mark.
It isn't.
It's a recognition here of what this program is and what it isn't.
And I don't, it's a radio show.
I have my preferences.
I have policy preferences.
I have ideological policy preferences.
And when I become confident that somebody is worth getting behind, I do.
But boy, it takes a lot.
Because look at what quote is misunderstood.
Oh, no.
No, no.
Snurdley is saying the Buckley quote's misunderstood because he thinks people sometimes it means throwing your vote away.
No, it means the exact opposite of throwing your vote away.
Buckley was a conservative.
Conservatism first, Republicanism second.
But it doesn't do any good.
We're running against liberals.
It doesn't do any good to commit suicide by supporting somebody who doesn't have a prayer of winning for single issue purity.
That's what Buckley was saying.
And, well, yeah, there was one of the most glaring examples of this.
I'll give you an example.
Alan Cranston was opposed by a Senator California way back.
I mean, he already looked like a cadaver, but he's running for re-election.
And it's 1986.
It has to be 86 because I left there in 88.
So it has to be 86.
And he's opposed by a moderate Republican by the name of Ed Schao.
Ed Schao, San Francisco.
There was no way the guy's conservative, but he was a Republican.
But he didn't get a lot of Republican support outside San Francisco, outside of moderate GOP circles, because he wasn't sufficiently conservative.
So Cranston wins.
And if Shao had been in the Senate, it's not automatic, but it's possible Bork would have been confirmed.
It would have been so big to get rid of Alan Cranston.
It would have been huge.
And that's the kind of thing that Buckley was talking about.
We're all, there are two things you want to do in an election.
You want to elect your people, but you want to stop them too.
Now, if you get to do both at the same time, you're really in fat city.
Sometimes you only get a chance to choose one of those things.
But that's aside from the fact that nothing against elected officials, but especially if I don't know them and talk to them every day, and they can go off the reservation one day after getting my support.
What's that?
This is not useful, as they say, and it isn't helpful.
And back in 88, I told myself I'm going to be around longer than most of them, and I think that's been proven true.
Not all, but some.
And it was a recognition of what this is and what it isn't in terms of a radio show versus a political operation.
But, Mark, back to your dilemma here.
I know that there are a lot of conservatives that are not happy with Eric Cantor and so forth.
If you like this guy, if you like his opponent, if you're looking for me to endorse, I'm not going to do that, but I'm not going to tell you not to.
Whole point of this show is to create as large and informed, educated, participating citizenry as possible.
Then you go do what you think your best shot is.
We'll be back after this.
Half of my outsized brain tied behind my back to be fair and equal.
Hey, I just changed my party to Democrat because I wanted to make some investments this year and not get audited.
I can't be the only one that's thinking of this.
You're kidding.
You change your party registration to Democrat just so you won't get audited.
Well, that too.
And the silver lining is I can vote in the primaries for their weakest candidate.
Well, this is true.
And I can't be the only one that's thought of this.
I mean, there's a lot of us out there that are conservatives that have businesses, that want to start businesses.
Let me tell you, I know there are a lot of citizens that are living in real fear of their government.
Absolutely.
Particularly after what you've seen the IRS do with the Tea Party.
Oh, yeah.
So I can understand it.
I don't know how commonplace it might be.
That would just be a wild guess.
But being a registered Democrat with this regime is almost the equivalent of a get-out-of-jail free card.
That's what I was thinking.
So you could, as long as you're not restricted for having to vote Democrat in a general election, then you're cool.
Well, my husband wanted me to tell you because I can't be the only one that spotted this, and it might really skew the results on the pollsters.
So you're basically doing this for self-protection, not sabotage.
I'm sorry, I didn't hear that.
You're doing this for self-protection as opposed to sabotage.
Oh, absolutely.
The government scares me.
That scares a lot of people.
You know, it's amazing when you see support for people being thrown out of whatever they do because of what they say.
And I don't mean sterling.
I'm just talking about average ordinary people are afraid to tell people what they really think about anything.
They're afraid somebody's going to overhear it and report them to somebody or confront them, not report, just confront them and get in their face about it.
It really is a phenomenon to me that I'm seeing more and more.
And the easiest way to deal with just shut up.
Don't try to provoke anybody.
Don't call attention to yourself.
And you might even want to send a $5 donation to the DNC just to get your name on the list.
Just for the five bucks.
Whoopee do.
Or if you're doing it for protection.
Snurdlers look at me like I'm a traitor.
I'm just following her line of thought here.
You know, a lot of people join the Communist Party for the same reason.